Prince Harry's body language was very telling, according to an expert. (Image: Getty)A surprisingly candid moment from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's four-day tour of Australia has caught the attention of those online. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex travelled Down Under at the start of the week to take part in a number of charitable and personal appearances.
At one point during an engagement at the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum, Harry can be heard discussing what appears to be the impact that veterans' military tours have on their families. While the audio is not clear enough to hear perfectly, his body language spoke volumes, according to expert Judi James.
Harry and Meghan's appearance at the museum came ahead of the announcement that the Duke will launch a new international adaptive sports competition for wounded, injured, and sick military personnel and veterans called The Invictus Australia Sports Festival. The inaugural event is set to take place in Perth in October.
Speaking about Harry's passionate comments during his appearance, body language expert Judi James was quick to point out their significance.
Ms James told the Daily Express: "Harry begins with his hands safely behind his back here, taking what sounds like a very authoritative tone as Meghan listens. He seems to have adopted the King's 'slur', i.e., a similar way of talking to his father's, with the lips kept almost closed to create a mumble and less defined enunciation.
"He appears to be referring to something like 'the sooner we can all get that in our minds, it becomes so much better', but the rest is unclear in terms of topic. Suddenly impassioned, though he brings his arms round to perform some of his signature, overkill gesticulation where he makes his points miming or acting out every word as though concerned his audience might not understand or realise the importance of them."
Ms James also points out the sudden shift in Meghan's reaction to Harry's comments. The expert said: "It tends to be practical only in a speech rather than a conversation, and in this intimate group, given the proximity, it looks risky.
"As Harry does his gesticulation, Meghan goes from micro-nodding to watching with her mouth partly open. This could be a concern about the subject, but it could also be a mild concern about the way her husband has launched into one of his gesticulatory 'rants'."
Harry and Meghan have travelled to Australia (Image: Getty)On the second day of their visit to Australia, Harry travelled alone to Melbourne alone to attend the event hosted by men’s mental health charity, Movember.
He said he knew he “had stuff from the past that I needed to deal with” before having children. While discussing going to therapy before his children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, were born, Harry said: “Certainly from a therapy standpoint, you want to be the best version of yourself for your kids.
“And I knew that I had stuff from the past that I needed to deal with, and therefore prepare myself to basically cleanse myself of the past.”
Then, while he made it clear that he was not judging his own father, King Charles, he spoke about the evolving roles of parents, telling those in the audience: “From my perspective, our kids are our upgrade. That’s not how I was taught, but that was my take on it – not to say I was an upgrade of my dad or that my kids are an upgrade of me.
“That’s the approach that I take, to know that with the world the way that it goes, the kids that we bring up in today’s world need to be an upgrade.”
Prince Harry spoke during the fatherhood chat (Image: Getty)As he spoke with Movember’s global director of men’s health research, Dr Zac Seidler, Harry went on to say that there were “conversations that are now happening in households between kids and parents that never existed between me and my parents”.
Looking back at his early days as a father when Prince Archie was born in 2019, Harry said there could be a “disconnection”, saying: “certainly I felt a disconnection because my wife was the one creating life, and I was there to witness it”.
Dressed casually in an open-necked shirt, Harry went on: “I think for many guys, you try to think about what service I can provide at this point, because my work here is done to some extent.
“And then when it comes back around again, I think the biggest tip that I was given, actually, from my therapist in the UK, was just be aware of how you feel once the baby is born.
“Every single time I went to work, and I came back, if I was stressed, the moment that I held Archie, he would start crying. Fatherhood is the most important and sort of transformational role that a guy can ever, can ever move into.”