The four-day visit to Australia with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle continues, with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex visiting Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
This 2026 trip marks their first return Down Under since their official royal tour in 2018.
With such a short visit, the pair are booked and busy with visits to shelters, hospitals and more. The Weekly has wrapped up Prince Harry and Meghan’s best photos while visiting Australia below.
Meghan and Harry’s first event was a very special visit to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. The hospital’s foyer was crowded with royal watchers, young patients and photographers.
The Duke and Duchess spared a moment to warmly greet dozens of people. A notable encounter was with 17-year-old Scarlett McGowan, who had made Harry’s late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth many years prior. It was a surreal moment given she only found out about the visit hours before.
“I was woken up and told I was going downstairs to meet Harry and Megan and I thought: ‘I think you’re joking, but OK’. I don’t get off the ward very much so it was very nice to come down and be human for a little bit,” she said.
“[Harry] asked me how my care was and I had to point out how beautiful and how lovely our nurses are, they take such good care of us.”
They then moved further into the hospital, entering different wards and meeting with patients who were still in there beds.
Walking outside into the hospital’s therapeutic garden spaces, the Duke and Duchess joined a session with young patients.
“The hospital can be a difficult space to be in — but our garden is a contrast to that. Time in nature has many benefits and has been found to improve mood, reduce stress and increase a person’s overall wellbeing — the impact it has on our young patients is incredible,” therapeutic garden coordinator Kayte Kitchen said.
After the hospital visit, Meghan partook in her second event of the day. Donning an apron, the Duchess served warm frittata to women experiencing homelessness and family violence for the McAuley Community Services for Women in Footscray.
Joining people at the table, Meghan confessed, “We landed here this morning, so my jet lag hasn’t quite hit yet.”
This was her first solo-event of the four-day visit.
Have we converted Prince Harry into an AFL fan? While that may be unknown, the Duke seemed to be enjoying himself while kicking the ball around at Whitten Oval in Footscray with members of the Western Bulldogs AFL team.
This was Harry’s first solo event while in Australia, as part of an event for Movember.
While inside the Bulldogs’ headquarters, Harry took part in a Q and A session and later met with children and the families of players. The club even presented Harry with Western Bulldog guernseys with his children’s names, Archie and Lilibet, printed on them.
The Duke and Duchess reunited shortly after the Movember event to visit the Australian National Veterans’ Art Museum. Here they met with families of the veterans, donning aprons to take part in a pottery class. Harry crafted a one-winged bird, while Meghan constructed a clay ostrich.
“There’s an ostrich farm, actually, not far from our home,” Meghan told the children.
After stepping back as senior royals in 2020, the pair moved to Montecito, California, have remained there ever since with their two children.
In a very poignant visit for the young prince, the Duke of Sussex laid a wreath at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Before Prince Harry paused for a sombre moment, he shook hands with several Indigenous veterans and attended an Indigenous smoking ceremony led by Ngunnawal Gomeroi man Michael Bell.
He later attended a Last Post ceremony on the edge of the Pool of Reflection. Addressing an Invictus Australia event, a number of wounded and injured personal attended.
“To the veterans here this evening, your courage does not end when the uniform comes off,” Prince Harry, who founded Invictus Games in 2014 said. “Your recovery journeys, often unseen, are acts of strength in their own right.”
“And to your families … They are very much central to this story too.”
The next activity on their third day in the country honoured our First Nations with an Aboriginal walking tour called the Scar Tree Walk, an cultural heritage site experienece.
Led by a local Indigenous guide, the Duke and Duchess walked along the Birrarung, otherwise known as Melbourne’s Yarra river. They handled a Marngrook, and discovered how the river and surrounding lands were used utilised by its traditional owners.
Tom Mosby, CEO of the Koorie Heritage Trust, told the BBC they were also very interested in Victoria’s Treaty process, in which the state passed Australia’s first formal treaty with First Nations in 2025.
The next destination was Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn for Batyr, a mental health youth programme which uses experienced storytelling to spark conversations in schools and workplace. During the event, the Duke and Duchess reflected on their own mental health journey.
Harry touched on the benefit of therapy, while Meghan highlighted the years of bullying.
“I waited until I was literally in the fetal position, much older, lying on the kitchen floor,” he said.“Until I was like, ok maybe this therapy thing – maybe I should try it.”
Meghan added, “Every day for 10 years, I have been bullied and attacked. And I was the most trolled person in the entire world.”
