The British are coming
YOUNG ROYALS ENJOY A SUNNY DAY OUT Harry and Meghan Australia-bound in October
AUSTRALIANS will welcome Prince Harry and his new bride Meghan to Australia in October with great warmth and excitement, the prime minister says.
Kensington Palace has announced the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who married last month, will travel to Sydney for the 2018 Invictus Games — a Paralympics style event for defence veterans — of which Prince Harry is patron.
It hasn’t been revealed if they will travel elsewhere in Australia, but their overseas tour will also include New Zea- land, Fiji and Tonga.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Australians would be excited about the visit, and the couple could expect a very warm welcome.
“As the founder of the Invictus Games, The Duke of Sussex has become a champion for war veterans around the world, including in Australia,” he said in a statement.
“His attendance, alongside The Duchess of Sussex, will be a wonderful highlight for the more than 500 competitors and thousands of spectators.”
He said he and his wife Lucy looked forward to hosting the newlyweds and watching the games, which were founded by Prince Harry in 2014 after he served with the British military in Afghanistan.
The chair of the Australian Republic Movement welcomed news of the tour but said it should inspire reflection about the nation’s future.
“They will be most welcome,” Peter FitzSimons told AAP on Monday. “But the distinction must be made between their deserved popularity and our own sovereignty. They will go on, and PRINCE George and Princess Charlotte had fun in the sun with their mother other as their father played polo.
The Duke of Cambridge was s taking part in the Maserati Royal yal Charity Polo Trophy at Beaufort rt Polo Club in Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
But it was his children's antics that captured the attention of the world as the youngsters frolicked in the sunshine, enjoying a few laughs with mum Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge.
And while young George’s toy gun and knife turned a few heads, most were taken with young royals goofing around like ke everyday kids. good luck to them, long after we are a republic.”
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adern says the details of the NZ leg of the tour are still in the planning stage.
“I know Prince Harry really enjoyed his last visit here in 2015 and ... this is the Duchess’s second visit to our country,” she said in a statement.
Prince Harry has always drawn huge crowds on his visits to Australia, which he first visited as a 19-year-old when he worked on the Tooloombilla cattle station in southern Queensland for three months.
But the presence of his stylish wife, a former actor, is expected to spark a new level of frenzy among royal watchers.
Since the couple married at Windsor on May 19, with an estimated 1.9 billion people watching around the world, fashionistas have dissected each of her outfits, concluding that she rivals the late Princess Diana in the style stakes.
The Invictus Games will run from October 20 to 27.
Kensington Palace said more details about the tour will be released “in due course”.