Meghan Markle is looking forward to ‘real woman-to-woman chats’ at £1,400-a-head ‘girls weekend’ retreat in Australia next week, gushing organiser Gemma O’Neill says

The gushing organiser of a ‘girls weekend’ retreat in Australia which Meghan Markle is set to headline has said the Duchess of Sussex is looking forward to ‘real woman-to-woman chats’ at the £1,400-a-head event. 

Prince Harry and Meghan are set to embark on a tour of Australia next week with stops in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. 

It’s during their time in Sydney that Meghan will headline a women-only three-day retreat in Sydney organised by the Her Best Life podcast –  which is hosted by the Australian presenter Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and her manager Gemma O’Neill.

The event promises yoga, sound healing, meditation, a psychologist-led session, a disco evening and a ‘fireside chat’ Q&A with Meghan alongside a gala dinner which she will attend.

Guests are being charged around £1,400 for a standard ticket or up to £2,000 for premium packages offering more direct access to the Duchess.

Around 300 guests expected to attend the three-day event and the website states the ticket allocation has been ‘exhausted’. But there have been separate claims that not all tickets have been sold yet.

Ahead of the retreat – which kicks off on April 17 – organiser Gemma O’Neill released an update to her followers about her conversation with Meghan. 

She said: ‘I’ve literally just got off the phone with Meghan… It couldn’t have been any more real and she was just so divine and so beautiful.

‘I just immediately loved chatting to her she was just amazing and I just adore already and I’m so excited for those who are joining us in our community next weekend  to have the opportunity to experience how brilliant she is as well.

‘I know she is really looking forward to it and she can’t wait to be in a room with our community and great women and she was just like “let’s just have a real chat. Let’s just woman-to-woman let’s go for it”.’

In the gushing video Ms O’Neill adds that she already Meghan’s ‘biggest fan’.

The event is being held at the Inter Continental Sydney Coogee Beach, where rooms typically cost between £250 and £450 per night.

The relatively cheap hotel part of the fee is understood to be included in the ticket price, meaning that the remaining ticket cost is likely to line the pockets of Meghan and the event organisers.

It comes after more than 35,000 Aussies signed a petition in March demanding no taxpayers’ money be spent on their upcoming visit.

Despite Harry and Meghan no longer representing His Majesty the King after they stepped back from the British Royal Family and moved to California in 2020, their trip Down Under appears to resemble a royal tour in many ways.

In her video looking ahead to the event, Ms O’Neill also thanked her fans for all their support saying she ‘had a bit of retreating I guess I’d say while I’m processing a few personal things.’

This comes after Ms O-Neill wiped her Instagram page in March and went underground. 

The talent manager, who counts radio star Jackie ‘O’ Henderson as her main client, recently had her financial woes exposed after her Gemmie Agency was liquidated.

Her main Instagram account @gemmyjean has since been deleted. 

However, the account for Gemma’s Her Best Life podcast is still active, likely to promote the upcoming retreat in Sydney with the Duchess of Sussex.