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Remember the royal bombshell of 2020?   Meghan Markle and Prince Harry upended tradition and stunned the world by announcing they would ‘step back’ as senior royals and start afresh abroad. Instead of royal duties, the Sussexes set their sights on a future full of, er, other opportunities and soon confirmed they …

By all accounts, Meghan’s life story so far could be considered a modern day fairy tale. Meghan had a Cinderella–esque rise, growing up as a young girl in Los Angeles before she arrived at the Palace and became the Duchess of Sussex.  However, while a fictional story will have many …

Almost exactly 85 years ago, German bombs struck Buckingham Palace. As the Queen Mother stood among the rubble and debris, she memorably remarked that she could finally ‘look the East End in the face’. It became a point of national pride that she and her husband, King George VI, refused …

‘Wow, Kate’s hot!’, Prince William said to his Eton classmate Fergus Boyd as he watched his future wife strut in a sheer dress and black underwear.  In April 2002, Kate Middleton took part in the DONT WALK charity gala at Fairmont St Andrews Hotel when she decided to wear what was originally a skirt …

In an effort to quash Thomas Markle’s public attacks on the Royal Family, the Queen suggested Meghan Markle should visit her father in Mexico.  But almost as quickly as the subject was broached, Meghan shut it down according to a royal author.   Tom Bower wrote about the relationship between the estranged …

As her first major event on behalf of the Royal Family, the spotlight was shining firmly on the former actress. Just a month before the royal wedding, Meghan Markle joined Prince Harry to meet youth delegates taking part in the high-profile Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London. It marked …

Many of us like to imagine we are distantly related to royalty and that like Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries we will be whisked away to live in a castle. Some celebrities are known to have a royal lineage, including actor Hugh Grant, who is the ninth cousin once removed of …

Meghan Markle took a starring role during her first overseas royal engagement as the Duchess of Sussex, according to a body language expert. In July 2018, Prince Harry and Meghan undertook a two-day visit to Dublin, shortly after their wedding at St George’s Chapel.  During their visit, they signed the visitor’s book at the …

Catching the Queen’s eye as she chatted to guests in the drawing room at Birkhall, the Prince of Wales’s summer retreat in Aberdeenshire, I let her know that dinner was served. ‘Oh, very good,’ she said and immediately started walking with me along the corridor leading to the dining room. …

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix deal is a ‘slap in the face’, a royal expert has claimed on Palace Confidential. The Sussexes signed a new ‘multi-year, first look deal for film and television projects’ with the streaming giant – understood to be worth less for the couple than their …