The pregnant Duchess Meghan gets more breaks on her Pacific voyage: Prince Harry and his wife decided after their "tight program" in Australia to "curtail" the Duchess' schedule for the next week and a half, Kensington Palace said Sunday With.

After the opening of the Invictus Games, where both were still present, Harry already took part in a medal ceremony on Sunday alone. Prince Harry (34) and his wife Meghan (37) are expecting their first baby this spring. During the 16-day journey through four countries more than 70 points are on their program.

Meghan and Harry had arrived in Australia on Monday and had since made several official appointments in Sydney, Melbourne and the small town Dubbo. On Friday, the two visited the famous beach Bondi Beach in Sydney barefoot and with flower necklaces, on Saturday night Harry opened as the patron of the Invictus Games, where wounded soldiers in sports such as wheelchair basketball compete against each other.

"She is resting at home"

After the opening ceremony had been delayed by several hours because of a heavy storm, Meghan renounced the medal ceremony on Sunday morning. Asked by spectators where he left his wife, Harry said, according to ABC broadcaster, "She's resting at home."

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At a lunch with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, however, Meghan's break was over. Then she and Harry got on a boat to see a sailing competition in the harbor of Sydney up close. On Sunday evening, a reception of the Invictus Games Foundation was on the program before the glamor couple wants to visit on Monday the world's largest sand island in the Australian state of Queensland, Fraser Island.

On the dates on the island Meghan will not attend on Monday, said the Kensington Palace. Harry will continue the visit program "as planned". In the coming one and a half weeks of Pacific travel are still visits to the Fiji Islands, in the Kingdom of Tonga, a return visit to Sydney at the conclusion of the Invictus Games and a trip to New Zealand on the plan.

On November 1, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex want to fly back to England.