If she’s pregnant can’t they just announce it and have her stay back during the tonga/Fiji part of the tour? I mean they announced kate early Bc she missed engagements, I don’t see why that quick trip is set in stone for her, Harry would still go so it’s not like all the prep work was wasted
Pffft, Harry barely gets coverage now. A solo trip to Fiji and Tonga will barely cause a publicity ripple. Heck, if Meghan stays in Australia because she’s pregnant, it may be that most of the press core stays in Sydney hoping to see her attend the Games. The coverage will be all about her pregnancy and Fiji and Tonga will be an afterthought.
Fiji and Tonga have spent tons of money in the hopes of a tourism boost, and it will all have been for naught. Sweden didn’t need the tourism press and they didn’t spend much (if anything) on Will and Kate’s Brexit visit, which, in any case, was only postponed until later (and Kate’s pregnancy gave it even more coverage then). Fiji and Tonga will have thrown a lot of money down the drain.
Actually, it’s even worse. If she skips the islands because of Zika, it will be worldwide news and it will actually HARM their tourism. Can you imagine the headlines? It will be wall-to-wall coverage in Australia, which is probably their main tourism market. The cancellation will cost them tons of tourism money and the effect could very well last years.
Puerto Rico lost $28 million in tourism money due to a Zika scare.
If Ms. “OMG, I love the Commonwealth and all of their pretty flowers and I’m now totes in charge of it” cancels her tour because of freaking Zika, it will have huge negative repercussions. No one thought “oh, I better cancel my fjords cruise because of Kate,” but tons of people will go “oh, I didn’t know Zika was still a problem I better go to Hawaii or Bali instead.” Sweden didn’t lose squat because Kate cancelled. These islands can potentially lose a ton of money.
So I don’t understand why people are being so blasé about this. If Meghan is pregnant, then Fiji and Tonga are royally (literally) screwed. Their choices are “Meghan braves Zika and risks her baby’s health for royal duty” headlines, or “Duchess is heartbroken about having to cancel due to the Zika warning but she can’t possibly put her baby’s health at risk.” Either way THEY ARE TOAST.
This isn’t a small matter. These are millions of dollars in tourism revenue.
If she’s pregnant, the only alternative is to continue the tour and claim that the risk is minimal and she’s dousing herself with bug spray, but then you have royals going around telling people that they can ignore government warnings because the government is a hysterical nanny.
It’s a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone. That’s why I don’t think she’s pregnant.
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