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Rarely can the acronym ‘RSVP’ have been attached to an invitation with greater dread. And the news that Harry and Meghan are both expected to attend King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday May 6 will be greeted with mixed feelings the length and breadth of the country. Their admirers will …

It was Meghan Markle herself who publicly proclaimed that her relationship with Prince Harry was like ‘salt and pepper’. ‘We always move together,’ she insisted. Well, not at the moment they don’t. That strategy has been torpedoed in 2023 as the Duchess of Sussex allows her husband to deal alone …

Ah, Christmas, a time for giving and receiving. Or perhaps not. The industrial action planned by Royal Mail workers over pay and working conditions does not just threaten to play havoc with Christmas card deliveries, it is also a big problem for the countless small enterprises whose trade depends so …

King Charles has already ‘read the riot act’ to his troublesome son Prince Harry, it is claimed, expressing in no uncertain terms that there will be ‘consequences’ if his autobiography Spare or his and Meghan’s reveal-all Netflix documentary harm the Royal Family. Royal biographer Tom Bower says his sources tell …

There comes a moment in every toxic relationship where friends and family of the wronged party must put their own grievances aside to save their loved one from a life of misery. That time has now come for Prince Harry’s relatives. An intervention should be staged, no matter the limited …

Lady Louise is pictured at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham earlier this month Encountering the smiling teenager working the tills or up to her elbows in compost potting plants, customers would have had no idea she was 16th in line to the throne. Yet the girl at the garden centre …

I’ve never forgotten a conversation I had with one of Meghan’s increasingly frustrated close aides in early 2019 as her relationships within the Royal Family turned ever more toxic. ‘I am now convinced there is something bigger going on here – an eventual plan that involves running for office in …

In her first major public speech, on her 21st birthday in 1947, the then Princess Elizabeth gave this solemn pledge. ‘I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to …

Watching Prince Harry gallop across a sunlit polo field in southern California it was tempting to wonder if it brought back any nostalgic memories for the very different kind of life he used to lead as a member of the Royal Family.  But of all the regrets he surely privately …

Within about five minutes of the first lockdown coming into force, councils all over Britain started closing roads with gay abandon and without warning. Anti-car fanatics hijacked the Covid crisis to further their own ‘green’ agenda. Residents woke up to find their streets had been turned into no-go areas overnight. …