It’s more than two years since the death of Queen Elizabeth II at her beloved Balmoral Castle, and, in May, it will be two years on from the coronation of her first son, Charles. The period of mourning that engulfed the House of Windsor has passed. The honeymoon period for the new monarch has come to an end.
Entirely possible Charles will be replaced by a Caliph.
Deporting the peevish princeling would only fuel the couple’s sense of victimhood.
‘The gaiety of nations’ is a lovely phrase, as nations are generally in the news when they are in a state of woe. Originally, it was Samuel Johnson’s tribute to actor and playwright David Garrick (‘I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure’), but I can’t help associating it with political leaders.
Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because President Donald Trump has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal.
Harry’s immigration status is the subject of litigation in Washington DC, with the Heritage Foundation alleging that he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a US visa.
But the president told The New York Post Friday that he isn’t interested in throwing Harry out of the country.
H/T Mauser
The first fortnight of Donald Trump’s second term has not been light on incident. Practically every day, the United States president has done something many would have thought undoable. He has sent the military to the Mexican border, began deporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay, started or threatened trade wars with China, Canada, Mexico and the EU, banned transgender women from female sports, frozen the $41 billion per year USAID programme, proposed annexing Greenland and suggested turning the ruins of Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East.”
Given this extraordinary catalogue, is it so fanciful to think he might deport a single British citizen resident in California: one Prince Harry?
The recent fires in California have had many tragic effects. Many have lost their homes, possessions and livelihoods, and it has been a stark reminder that even the wealthy and privileged are not immune from a truly awful, life-changing event. Regrettably, however, the disaster has attracted a small but vocal number of people who ostensibly have offered their time and resources to provide much-needed assistance – but in reality seem more interested in creating #content to share on their social media.
The Duke of York was viewed by the Chinese state as a “valuable communication channel”, according to newly released court papers.
They indicate MI5 questioned Prince Andrew’s most senior aide about their “clandestine” relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
Andrew, 64, first met the suspected agent, Yang Tengbo, in 2013 at a reception during the Shanghai Grand Prix, hosted by Sir Ron Dennis, the former head of McLaren. Yang, 50, became a confidant of the duke and helped to launch his Dragons’ Den-style Pitch@Palace business initiative in China.
Meghan Markle is reportedly “in a bad place” following the release of a damning Vanity Fair exposé last week.
The scathing piece, published Jan. 17, delves into the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s struggling business ventures, painting a tragic picture of their attempts at maintaining relevance after quitting royal life in 2020.
Numerous former colleagues and associates spoke to the publication for the article, many of whom have slammed the “Suits” alum’s character.
The Sussexes’ lack of self-awareness is at the root of their long list of failures. But how did the couple get it so wrong?
“The thing you’re escaping is the reason you’re compelling.” The killer line comes a third of the way through Vanity Fair’s 8,000-word Meghan and Harry annihilation. It’s the only line that matters, when all is said and done – and five years on, we must be nearing that moment.
The quote is attributed only to a “former Spotify employee”. Someone who was, presumably, working at the streaming platform when the couple first moved to LA in 2020 to enjoy the anonymity they would have basked in, had there been time in between all the frenzied deal-making, the celebrity shmoozing and the self-promotion.
Meghan Markle’s team floated the idea of a “post-Harry divorce book” to a publisher, a damning new Vanity Fair exposé claims.
The scathing piece, published Friday, delves into the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s struggling business ventures, painting a tragic picture of a desperate couple trying to find purpose and maintain relevance after stepping down from royal life.
If you want to know how far the Sussexes’ star has fallen in America, consider this. The other day, Harry and Meghan visited Pasadena in LA to offer hugs and sympathy to survivors of the wildfires. Surely even the couple’s sternest critics, you might have assumed, would give them credit for that.
Far from it. “Meghan Markle and Harry are no better than ambulance chasers,” fumed the Hollywood film-maker Justine Bateman, in a social media post that has been enthusiastically shared by thousands of other users. “What a repulsive ‘photo op’ they achieved. They are ‘touring the damage’? Are they politicians now? They don’t live [in Pasadena]; they are tourists. Disaster tourists.”
The Sussexes’ performative compassion is as unbearable as ever.
Haven’t the poor people of Los Angeles suffered enough? Imagine losing everything in the incomprehensibly devastating wildfires, only to find yourself in the background of the latest photo-op by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have lost favorability in the United States — and one royal expert believes she knows why.
“I give a lot of talks to Americans and they all dislike Harry and Meghan,” Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and author of the royal biography “My Mother & I,” recently told The Standard.
“They hate that they let the Queen down,” Seward added.
Prince Harry’s role at mental health firm BetterUp is to ‘advocate for mental fitness’ and ‘guide the company’s social mission’.
The Duke of Sussex is also a vocal champion for its app, described as ‘life coach Tinder for millennials’, revealing that he used it to find his own ‘truly awesome’ mental health trainer when he joined in 2021 post-Megxit.
But past and present employees suggest there is much work to be done after describing the US-based business as a ‘toxic train wreck’ and ‘psychologically unsafe place to work’ where ‘everyone is uncomfortable and living in fear’.
Watch the King deliver his Christmas message.
This year, King Charles thanks doctors and nurses who cared for him and his daughter-in-law the Princess of Wales through their cancer treatment.https://t.co/dGsmRONcXx pic.twitter.com/zKADNvyMHP
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 25, 2024
I have to say, viewers didn’t mince words after King Charles’ Christmas speech today.
Many accused His Majesty of being detached from the real concerns of everyday Brits. His claim that Britain is a diverse and multicultural success story as “an inspiring example of a community…
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) December 25, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Quite rightly, the entire population of Britain has been rolling its collective eyes at the fact that Harry and Meghan’s official Christmas card doesn’t say “Happy Christmas”. Instead, it says: “Happy Holiday Season”. For pity’s sake. A prince, an actual English prince, referring to Christmas as “the holidays”.
The use of such a phrase isn’t just toe-curling, however. In my view, it also provides a revealing insight into the Sussexes’ marriage.
