EXCLUSIVE: Nobody Wants to Pay for Meghan Markle's Girls' Getaway — But Thanks to a Computer Glitch, Anyone Can Crash
Spots for the "Her Best Life" weekend on "Poo-gee" Beach are still available. And there's another computer glitch -- so now ANYONE can join in the fun, screening be damned (I have the password)!
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are probably in packing mode as I type.
In one week, the erstwhile royal couple will be landing in Melbourne, Australia, where Harry will pick up a check for $50,000 after delivering a keynote address at the InterEdge Psychosocial Safety Summit. The ginger-haired prince will, of course, give attendees who are paying up to $3500 a ticket some serious advice about mental health in the workplace, despite never having held a nine-to-five job.
[Harry was a last-minute replacement for Meghan’s former spiritual guru, Deepak Chopra, who had to bow out after Chopra’s bestie relationship with pedo-perv Jeffrey Epstein came to light in the last Epstein Files dump.]
Afterwards, the dynamic duo will fly north to Sydney so Meghan can be the headline guest speaker at the “Her Best Life” retreat, where she’ll host an “in-conversation event” and then attend a gala dinner at the new InterContinental Hotel at Coogee Beach.
As I noted in The Times of London:
For the price of AU$3100 (US$2,200, or £1,600), VIP guests can have a “table picture” taken with Meghan, ask a pre-vetted question of the duchess and receive a VIP “goody bag”. While the contents of the goody bags have not yet been announced, you can be sure they will contain at least one As Ever product after Meghan trademarked her collection in Australia.
But early signs show Australians aren’t all that excited about their visit. Though the girls’ getaway retreat was immediately billed as “sold out”, it wasn’t. As I reported, you could still register last week “just in case” tickets became available; two sources I know did so and were granted tickets within hours.
Meanwhile, Meghan’s co-host for the event, the podcaster Gemma O’Neill, is facing reputational damage after her company, Gemmie Agency Pty Ltd, went into voluntary liquidation last November. O’Neill, whose agency owes more than AU$550,000 in back taxes, has attributed the failure to “poor external financial advice, which led to the company being unable to service its substantial taxation obligations”.
As the Daily Mail reported on Monday, Meghan will scoop up $250,000 for her participation. For that kind of money, who cares how crappy the event may be, if anyone turns up, or that it’s being held at a hotel still under renovation (the pool is not ready yet) and on a beach locally derided as “POO-gee” beach due to the sewage smell and fecal matter that washes up on the regular.
[Side note: I do not believe Meghan is being paid that much. I think it’s likely to be $50,000 - $100,000, but, as the DM article was written by crack reporter, Alison Boshoff, I give it some credence.]
Meghan has been assured that she will be cooed over as all participants must undergo a rigorous social media screening. Except, as with As Ever last year, when it was revealed the Duchess had hundreds of thousands of products left unsold… there’s a glitch in the system.
Want to know the password to the website, so you too, regardless of whether or not you’ve criticized the Duchess on social media before, can go? Keep reading!
And don’t worry about spots being available. According to my spy, she was allowed to request almost $100,000 in reservations until she was told she was at her limit.
This is hilarious:
