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Prince Harry may be following in his father's footsteps as he takes his new wife to Australia for their first major tour abroad, but it is unlikely that the royal newlyweds will face the same anguish as the prince Charles and Princess Diana.
Two years after their 1981 fairytale wedding, Charles and Diana landed in Australia to begin their first official international tour, accompanied by their nine-month-old son, Prince William.
But years later, in her complete book with Andrew Morton, Diana told how she had found huge crowds overwhelming throughout the six weeks of Down Under and wanted to run away to her home in London.
Diana felt it was "a milestone for me," while Charles was shocked to discover how much the thousands of blessed Australians who were lining up to see them were more interested in his new wife than in their future king.
"Everyone always said when we were in the car:" Oh, we're on the wrong side, we want to see it, we do not want to see it, "and that's all we could hear when we're went in the crowd and obviously he was not used to that and me either, "Diana told Moreton.
The interest of the media for the visit of Harry and Meghan in October will no doubt be as intense – if not more, with a 24-hour news coverage and social media – with thousands of Australians wanting to get a glimpse of the newlyweds.
But unlike Diana, the Duchess of Sussex is much more accustomed to dealing with the spotlight thanks to her acting career and her public appearances on the red carpet.
Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams expects "an avalanche of media coverage" during the tour of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, which will focus on the one-week Invictus Games, organized by Harry for the Wounded or sick defense veterans in Sydney.
"It will be one of the most publicized royal tours ever," he told APA.
"This will be their first tour of the Commonwealth, their first major tour abroad, so expect a fanatical interest in the press.
"With their first major tour abroad, every royal journalist will be fascinated by what is happening."
Although Diana has received little advice from royal courtiers to help her cope with the pressures of belonging to the new royal family, Meghan has received a lot of advice to help her take on her new role.
Less than a month after her marriage to Harry at Windsor Castle in May, Meghan impressed the audience on her first official engagement with the Queen in Cheshire.
The star of the Suits, born in the United States, made laugh the queen in front of the children of the area at the opening of a bridge.
Following this appearance, Meghan joined Harry and other members of the royal family on the occasion of the Trooping of the Color, which was held in London in June, and received an enthusiastic welcome a few days later alongside from the Queen to Royal Ascot.
The couple was mobilized in July during a two-day visit to Ireland and cheering broke out around Wimbledon when Meghan joined the Duchess of Cambridge's sister-in-law to see Serena Williams face off in the final of the ladies.
"Meghan has worked so well that the crowds," Fitzwilliams said.
"She obviously worked a lot as a coach.
"But while she already knows red carpets, she knows nothing of the sort."
The Australian tour of Harry and Meghan is considered a key step for the royal couple who, during a television interview celebrating their engagement last November, expressed their desire to promote humanitarian causes that are close to his heart in the Commonwealth member countries, including Australia.
"The intention is that they become a dynamic charity duo and that they marry certain causes in Britain and in the Commonwealth, as well as internationally", said Mr. Fitzwilliams.
"This tour will be absolutely crucial because it will be the springboard for other peoples of the Commonwealth and the United States."
The arrival of Harry and Meghan in Australia comes six months after the 16th official visit of Prince Charles to Australia, mainly to open the 21st Commonwealth Games on the Queensland Gold Coast.
Charles' week visit, to which his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, joined for five days, was deemed a success, in the performance of her royal duties at the Games, in northern Queensland and the Northern Territory.
However, the public interest for Australians for Charles seems much less important than that on Harry and Meghan, while the prince, aged 69, is the heir to the throne, while his son is in the sixth rank.
And it's the intensity of the examination of him and Meghan that apparently would have worried Harry.
According to Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair's journalist and royal reporter, Harry, 34, worries about the attention that Meghan, 37, has been attracting since their marriage.
"He fears that there is too much hysteria around Meghan and he wants to go back a bit," a source told Nicholl recently.
There is no doubt that Harry does not want the media to condemn his mother for many years before his death in 1997.
But from the moment Harry and Meghan land in Australia, it might be hard to find a break in the spotlight.
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