Soon after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their plans to visit Australia next month, royalists and royal reporters breathlessly announced that there is a Change.org petition about the visit, a petition with thousands of signatures. The petition is strangely worded, and the crux of the deranged temper tantrum is that thousands of Australians are demanding that… no Australian tax dollars be spent on Prince Harry and Meghan’s security or their “tour.” It’s not a tour, but don’t tell that to the British tabloids, who have been speaking of little else. The Daily Mail has run no fewer than a dozen major articles about the petition and how Harry and Meghan might be “forced” into canceling their trip (because that’s the actual objective here). Well, funny story. Harry and Meghan let the stupid f–king petition story fester for a week or so, and now their spokesperson has clapped back on the whole dumbass storyline. The Sussex spox is vexed by these people!!
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s team have hit out at claims Australian taxpayers will be paying for their upcoming trip to the country. Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have dismissed a petition signed by more than 34,000 people calling for no public money to be spent on their forthcoming Australian visit.
A spokesman for the couple stated: “The trip is being funded privately, so I’m not sure what this petition hopes to achieve.”
Harry and Meghan’s spokesman also responded by contrasting the numbers signing the new petition with the overall Australian population.
He said: “Of course, if you wanted to dive into the ridiculousness of this petition as an agenda for spreading misinformation, then one could equally hypothesise that there are approximately 26.5 million Australians (99.98 per cent of the population) who haven’t signed it, who must therefore agree with the taxpayer picking up the tab for their visit. Of course, that is another equally stupid assertion to make.”
The Charge.org campaign, titled “No Taxpayer-Funding or Official Support for Harry & Meghan’s Private Visit to Australia,” was launched by advocacy group Beyond Australia ahead of the couple’s arrival next month. Beyond Australia, the group behind the petition has argued that the couple’s activities are commercial in nature and should therefore be handled as an entirely private matter.
[From GB News & The Daily Mail]
GB News was too peeved to publish the Sussex spox’s full statement, luckily the Daily Mail was happy to publish it though. I love the righteous bitchiness here, because the spokesperson is using deranger logic against the derangers. Oh, you mean 99.98% of the population hasn’t signed this dumb petition? That must mean that Australians are overwhelmingly in favor of Harry and Meghan’s visit and Aussies are also fine with paying for whatever security is needed! Incidentally, one of the latest things the derangers are mad about is the fact that Meghan’s girls-retreat weekend is already sold out, and that organizers were super-selective about who got the chance to buy tickets – meaning, no undercover press, no undercover derangers. Now those same people are f–king furious that Harry and Meghan are making fun of their emotional-support petition.
Speaking of, this GB News clip is making the rounds – this is why I’m 100% behind Harry and Meghan giving statements and responses to all of these bullsh-t smears. Because it infuriates the lunatics and derails the billion-dollar hate campaign. These people end up whining about “why did they respond??” BECAUSE YOU MAKE MONEY LYING ABOUT THEM.
‘Why do they have to comment on everything…it is so petty!’
Journalist and broadcaster Angela Mollard slams the Sussex’s response to complaints about their visit to Australia, as some Australians demand that the trip isn’t taxpayer funded. pic.twitter.com/Mje7MjY4RM
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 25, 2026
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