Prince Harry and Meghan’s four-day visit to Australia did not win the Australian public over
A large majority of 82% of Australians aged 18+ knew Prince Harry and Megan visited Australia for four days last week – equivalent to 18.1 million Australians according to a special Channel Seven-Roy Morgan SMS Pulse Poll conducted with an Australia-wide cross-section of 1,767 Australians aged 18+ on Saturday April 18 – Sunday April 19, 2026.
Awareness of the trip was high at over three-quarters of Australians across almost all key demographics. Women (84%) were slightly more likely than men (81%) to know about the trip, and age was clearly correlated with awareness – 79% of 18-34 year olds knew about the trip, 80% of 35-49 year olds, 84% o 50-64 year olds, and 87% of people aged 65+.
For those who knew the couple were here, Roy Morgan asked a series of six questions about the impact of the visit.
Question 2: "Did Prince Harry and Meghan’s visit to Australia improve your opinion of them?”
Yes (19%) cf. No (81%).
Question 3: "Do you think this visit will help Prince Harry repair his relationship with the King?"
Yes (13%) cf. No (87%).
Question 4: "Has this trip shown you a more positive side of Meghan?” Yes (25%) cf. No (75%).
Question 5: "After this trip, would you welcome Prince Harry and Meghan moving to Australia?"
Yes (41%) cf. No (59%).
Question 6: "Do you think Harry and Meghan have been treated unfairly by the Royal Family?"
Yes (31%) cf. No (69%).
Question 7: "Do you think the Queen would have approved of this trip, given Harry stepped back as a working royal?" Yes (49%) cf. No (51%).
The Channel Seven Special – Harry and Meghan: Victory or Vanity – aired on the news network at 9pm Sunday April 19, 2026, and is available to view free of charge on YouTube here.
There was broad agreement across different demographics for many of the questions asked on this survey, but close analysis of the results did reveal some key differences.
Question 2: Your opinion of Prince Harry and Meghan
For at least 75% of Australians of both genders, all ages, in Capital Cities, Country Areas, and in all six States, Harry and Meghan’s visit to Australia did not improve their opinion on them. The biggest difference was made for ALP voters with 26% saying the visit did improve their opinion of the couple.
Question 3: Prince Harry’s relationship with his father, the King
Australians are almost universally skeptical this visit will do anything to repair Prince Harry’s relationship with his father the King with at least 80% of both genders, all ages, in Capital Cities, Country Areas, all five mainland States, and voters for all the major political parties saying that the visit won’t help repair the relationship. The most hopeful are Tasmanians with nearly a third, 31%, saying the visit can serve to help Harry fix the relationship with his father, the King.
Question 4: Attitudes towards Meghan
For at least 70% of Australians of both genders, all ages, in Capital Cities, Country Areas, in Australia’s three largest States, and voters for the L-NP Coalition, One Nation, Independents and Other Parties, the trip has not shown people a more positive side of Meghan.
Those most likely to say the trip has shown them a more positive side of Meghan include people in Western Australia (32%), and voters for the Greens (31%) and the ALP (35%).
Question 5: Prince Harry and Meghan moving to Australia
Australians are more evenly divided on whether they’d welcome Prince Harry and Meghan moving to Australia in the wake of this trip. Over two-thirds of Greens voters (58%), and a slim majority of ALP voters (51%) say they would welcome the couple moving to Australia.
Nearly half of men (45%) say they would welcome the couple moving to Australia compared to only 38% of women, and it is younger people aged 18-34 (63%) who are most adamant they would not welcome the couple moving to Australia.
Question 6: Treatment of Harry and Meghan by the Royal Family
There is one notable exception, but at least 60% of Australians of both genders, all ages, in Capital Cities and Country Areas, in all six Australian States, and voters for the ALP, L-NP Coalition, One Nation, and Independents/ Other Parties that say that Harry and Meghan have not been treated unfairly by the Royal Family.
The only exception across these different demographics is Greens voters with nearly two-thirds (62%) saying that the Royal Family has treated Harry and Meghan unfairly.
Question 7: The Queen’s view of this trip – were she still alive
Australians are most evenly divided on whether the Queen would have approved of this trip were she still alive with a slim majority of 51% saying ‘No’ compared to 49% saying ‘Yes’.
A majority of 57% of Women say the Queen would not have approved, while a majority of 55% of men say the Queen would have approved.
For Australians aged 18-34 the question is a toss-up with the group split 50:50, but narrow majorities of Australians aged 35-49 (52%), 50-64 (51%) and 65+ (52%) say the Queen would not have approved.
Roy Morgan Chief Executive Officer Michele Levine says:
“The special Channel Seven-Roy Morgan SMS Pulse Poll on the weekend has found that while a large majority of Australians (82%, 18.1 million) knew Prince Harry and Meghan were visiting the country last week, only a minority were impressed and won over by the couple.
“Fewer than one-in-five of those aware of the visit (19%) said the visit had improved their opinion of the couple and just 13% said the visit will help repair Prince Harry’s relationship with his father, King Charles.
“Interestingly, there was a political tinge to these results with ALP and Greens voters more likely to have improved their opinion of the couple and said the visit will help repair Harry’s relationship with his father than Liberal-National and One Nation voters.
“The visit has done little to improve Meghan’s image in Australia with a clear majority of 75% saying the trip has not shown them a more positive side of Meghan compared to only 25% that say it has shown them a more positive side of the Duchess of Sussex. ALP and Greens voters are more likely to have seen the positive side than Liberal-National and One Nation voters.
“Although a majority of respondents (59%) say they would not welcome Harry and Meghan moving to Australia after this trip, a sizeable minority of 41% say they would. Men (45%) are more likely to say they’d welcome Harry and Meghan to the country than women (38%).
“Importantly, over two-thirds of respondents (69%) think Harry and Meghan have not been treated unfairly by the Royal Family, and this view is held by a majority of all ages, both genders, in all States and in both the Capital Cities and Country Areas. The only exception to this is Greens voters – a majority of 62% say the Royal Family has treated the couple unfairly.
“Australians’ fondness for the late Queen Elizabeth II is well-known, and respondents were evenly split when considering whether the Queen would have approved of the trip, given Harry had stepped back as a working royal, with 51% saying ‘No’ compared to 49% for ‘Yes’.
“The general tenor of the responses from Australians to these questions is that Harry and Meghan still have a lot of work to do to repair their image in the minds of many Australians, and clearly have more work to do to repair their relationships with other members of the Royal Family.”
Australians surveyed were asked about their views of the visit of Prince Harry and Meghan:
- Question 1: "Did you know Prince Harry and Meghan visited Australia this week for four days?"
Yes (82%) cf. No (18%). - Question 2: "Did Prince Harry and Meghan’s visit to Australia improve your opinion of them?”
Yes (19%) cf. No (81%). - Question 3: "Do you think this visit will help Prince Harry repair his relationship with the King?"
Yes (13%) cf. No (87%). - Question 4: "Has this trip shown you a more positive side of Meghan?” Yes (25%) cf. No (75%).
- Question 5: "After this trip, would you welcome Prince Harry and Meghan moving to Australia?"
Yes (41%) cf. No (59%). - Question 6: "Do you think Harry and Meghan have been treated unfairly by the Royal Family?"
Yes (31%) cf. No (69%). - Question 7: "Do you think the Queen would have approved of this trip, given Harry stepped back as a working royal?" Yes (49%) cf. No (51%).
This special Roy Morgan Snap SMS survey was conducted with an Australia-wide cross-section of 1,767 Australians aged 18+ from Saturday April 18 – Sunday April 19, 2026.
For further comment or more information contact:
Michele Levine 0411 129 093 or Gary Morgan 0411 129 094 or email askroymorgan@roymorgan.com.
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Margin of Error
The margin of error to be allowed for in any estimate depends mainly on the number of interviews on which it is based. Margin of error gives indications of the likely range within which estimates would be 95% likely to fall, expressed as the number of percentage points above or below the actual estimate. Allowance for design effects (such as stratification and weighting) should be made as appropriate.
| Sample Size | Percentage Estimate |
| 40% – 60% | 25% or 75% | 10% or 90% | 5% or 95% | |
| 1,000 | ±3.0 | ±2.7 | ±1.9 | ±1.3 |
| 5,000 | ±1.4 | ±1.2 | ±0.8 | ±0.6 |
| 7,500 | ±1.1 | ±1.0 | ±0.7 | ±0.5 |
| 10,000 | ±1.0 | ±0.9 | ±0.6 | ±0.4 |
| 20,000 | ±0.7 | ±0.6 | ±0.4 | ±0.3 |
| 50,000 | ±0.4 | ±0.4 | ±0.3 | ±0.2 |
