Royal correspondent recalls ‘spectacularly rude’ encounter with Prince Harry

Prince Harry is being slammed for upsetting a group of reporters with a ‘rude’ remark as he made his way home from a royal tour. The incident occurred just months after his marriage to Meghan Markle, with the Sussexes embarking on a tour of Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand for a visit that coincided with the Invictus Games. The games were being held in Sydney that year, with the tour having been deemed a whopping success for the young royals.

At the time, Meghan famously announced the couple’s first pregnancy as they touched down in Sydney. However, now it seems there were issues behind the scenes of the tour, with new information being brought to the surface years later. During an appearance on HELLO!’s podcast , royal correspondent and author Valentine Low recalled an encounter between the Duke Of Sussex and the travelling press corps.



‘We were flying from Tonga back to Sydney. And often on these tours, there comes a point towards the end, when the royal might come back to the back of the plane and have a chat with us off the record, you know, not for printing, but it’s a way of making bonds. It’s a way of keeping us sweet.

It’s a way of having informal contact. ‘And we were promised that he or they would come to the back of the plane, and it didn’t happen. It didn’t happen and this was a four or five-hour flight, “When’s this gonna happen?”‘ He continued: ‘Then we were buckling up for the descent and we landed.

And it hadn’t happened.’ ‘And only after we landed, they came back into the back of the plane. And Harry was slightly in front of Meghan, she was slightly behind him.

And she didn’t say much. She did make some strange remark about us wanting to get back for our Sunday lunch. And it was completely bizarre.

But it’s what he said that was memorable. He said, “Thanks very much for coming, even though you weren’t invited.” And we thought, “What?”‘ Speaking further on the incident in his book, Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown, Valentine added; ‘This was spectacularly rude — and incorrect.

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