When Prince Harry and Meghan left our shores for a new life in America in 2020, they told us it was so they could ‘not just survive but thrive’. But even though they were no longer working royals, Harry was adamant about one thing: ‘The UK is my home and …
Read More »PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Is the royal show over for Meghan and Harry?
Devastating news for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that neither they nor their children Archie and Lilibet are reportedly invited by King Charles to commemorations marking the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death. Given that Harry and Meghan’s only currency is being members of the Royal Family, the snub …
Read More »ROBERT HARDMAN: Royal ‘Yotties’ return to cheer Charles’s emotional visit to the Yacht Britannia
The clocks on board still stand at 15.01. It was the precise moment when the late Queen, accompanied by most of the Royal Family, left the Royal Yacht Britannia for the last time, closing a remarkable chapter in our maritime history. That was back in December 1997, on a day …
Read More »DAN WOOTTON: Royal courtiers thought the Sussexes were ‘entitled, lazy and afraid of hard work’
Spotify executive Bill Simmons’ damning verdict of Harry and Meghan as ‘f***ing grifters’ as the streaming giant pulled the plug on the couple’s astronomically disastrous $20 million podcast deal has come as no surprise to anyone working within the British Royal Family. While the uniquely American term, meaning someone who engages …
Read More »Fire and ice: Remembering the night to remember | Opinion
One hundred and ten years ago on this date, objects were still bobbing to the surface of the North Atlantic from over two miles below, where the splintered wreck of the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, the most splendid—and since celebrated—ocean liner of its day rested on a gentle slope on …
Read More »Now there can be no doubt – Camilla WILL be Charles’s queen, says royal biographer HUGO VICKERS
The appointment of the Duchess of Cornwall to the prestigious Order of the Garter is, at its heart, a unifying gesture. It comes at the beginning of what will be the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year, binding together the inner circle of the Royal Family after 12 months of turbulence, controversy …
Read More »Balmoral’s off as Nicola Sturgeon warns Prince Charles and Camilla they’re not welcome
Although he’s Prince of Wales, it’s Scotland where the heir to the throne has always felt most at home. But he and Camilla will not be able to celebrate Hogmanay at their beloved home on the Balmoral estate, I hear, as Scotland’s scowling First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has made the …
Read More »Check your privilege, Harry, before lecturing us from your McMansion, writes JAN MOIR
With every new development from his Californian base camp, with each fresh initiative that finds him strapping on his trusty crampons of wrath to scale new-found peaks of pique, I worry about Harry. I really do. He’s just so furious all the time! Whatever next for our little lost prince, …
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