Nation Debates Whether Visiting Sick Children Is a Hustle

AFR · William Ton, Holly Hales, Samantha Lock · Tuesday 14 April 2026

Nation Debates Whether Visiting Sick Children Is a Hustle

Harry and Meghan visited Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital amid media criticism of their tour as commercial. The children they met were reportedly delighted.

The press spent a week debating whether two ex-royals visiting sick kids was a grift or a grace, and the kids couldn't have cared less. Forty column inches of media hand-wringing over a hospital visit — the masthead energy that could've gone to the fuel crisis went to a bloke who used to be fifth in line for a throne we don't have.

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