Kate makes surprise appearance as Harry and Meghan ‘desperate’ for peace talks: Royal family news

Kate, 42, was photographed in the passenger seat as Prince William drove the couple to a church near the Aberdeenshire estate on Saturday (25 August).

The trip to Scotland has been described as a “positive” step in her recovery from an undisclosed form of cancer.

Royal author Phil Dampier told Fabulous magazine: “The fact that Kate is well enough to travel to Scotland and enjoy a holiday at Balmoral is a sure sign she is on the mend and a very positive step.”

The princess has been largely out of the public eye this year amid her health troubles.

Harry and Meghan’s relationship with the royal family has steadily deteriorated since they stepped down as working members in 2020.

An insider told the Daily Mail: “It seems quite clear that they are desperate to start healing the rift.”

However, it has been claimed that the royals are reluctant to engage with the couple because of the number of tell-all interviews they have given to the press.

A source told The Sunday Times: “The problem for the King and other members of the family is the worry that if they have a chat with Harry, it will appear in Spare volume two.”

Donald Trump has vigorously denied claims which emerged in a new biography of Queen Elizabeth II that she found him to be “rude”.

Upcoming biography ‘A Voyage Around the Queen,’ by Craig Brown alleged that she found him to be “very rude”.

But Trump has hit back, accusing the author of being a “sleazebag” and claiming that he “was her favorite president”, according to the Daily Mail.

The presidential hopeful sais the claims were “totally false”, adding: “I had a great relationship with the queen. She liked me and I liked her.”

In an extract from the biography published by the Daily Mail, Brown also claimed that the Queen believed Trump “must have some sort of arrangement” with Melania, as the only explicable reason for why she would marry him.

Former BBC Royal correspondent Michael Cole has said there will be “no softening” of William’s approach to Harry, who has done “the unthinkable”.

“What [men] cannot put up with are two things which they cannot abide with,” Mr Cole told GB News America.

“Their driving ability, and they certainly cannot allow their wife to be criticised. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have made no secret of their disdain for Princess Kate.

“Even when her cancer was diagnosed and she announced it herself. The message they sent was sort of a mealy-mouthed thing.”

When Kate’s illness was revealed to the public, the Sussexes released a message which read: “We wish health and healing for Kate and the family and hope they can do so privately and in peace.”

The now-king reportedly made the comment at the time of Harry’s birth in 1984, telling the late Princess Diana: “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an heir and a spare – my work is done.”

The Guardian claims that Harry’s upset at the title was reflected in his memoir of the same name.

The newspaper wrote in its review: “Harry’s resentment of being the ‘spare’ is the underlying theme of his book, through chapters on his childhood, his schooling, his career as a royal and in the British Army, his relationship with his parents and brother, and his life with Meghan through courtship, wedding and marriage, to their own experience of parenthood.”

The relationship with the brothers has allegedly now soured to the point where William does not want Harry to attend his coronation when the time comes.

An insider told The Sunday Times: “I always said the brothers would be there for each other at the end of the day, and that’s been proven wrong so far.”

Following the claim that Prince William does not want Prince Harry at his coronation, a friend has claimed that the estranged brothers will see each other one last time in the flesh.

Their relationship has progressively deteriorated since Harry stepped down as a working royal in 2020, and they were not photographed together at King Charles’s coronation.

In his 2023 memoir Spare, Harry sensationally claimed that he was physically attacked by his older brother.

A friend of the heir to the throne told The Daily Beast: “I suspect that William will see Harry one more time in his life in the flesh – at their father’s funeral.”

Five years after Prince Andrew sat down with Emily Maitlis in Buckingham Palace, a three-part drama on how the world-famous interview came about will drop next month.

Ahead of its release on Amazon Prime, former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has spoken out in the Times, on what she makes of Prince Andrew’s guilt.

Maitlis recalls speaking to Ruth Wilson, star of Luther and Jane Eyre, who asks her whether she thinks the royal is guilty.

“I tell her there is no way I or anyone else will ever know the full truth of what happened with or to Virginia Giuffre, the trafficked Jeffrey Epstein victim who claims she was also abused by the royal,” Maitlis writes.

“But he was clearly guilty of other things — his continued friendship with Epstein after his arrest, his flat-footed response to the victims of sex trafficking.”

The series will be released on September 19.