Mental health, cooking and a very much for-profit fashion sideline: the customary elements of a Harry and Meghan tour are evident in the current Not the Royal Visit to Australia. The amalgam of public persona (royal), money-making side-hustles (brand Meghan) and mental health awareness (brand Harry) is now the standard format for the pair’s activities, but it’s still weird.
This is a private visit, except it’s not; and it’s by non-royals, except the couple sport their titles, minus the HRH, though Meghan is now Call Me Meg. It sums up the hybrid that is Harry and Meghan: not-royal, but emphatically not not-royal; profit-making, but with enough philanthropy to channel the late Princess Diana.
