As phone calls go, there was no shortage of hype. On Tuesday, as the King marked his 75th birthday with an engagement highlighting a food waste project, the headlines were instead dominated with news that Prince Harry planned to call his father later that day from California.
The Sussexes may have been absent from Charles’s birthday party at Clarence House for his extended family and close friends that night, but they were still keen to be part of the day’s narrative.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly less than impressed with the recent “Family Guy” episode that mocked the runaway royals.
Sources close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex claim that the pair have labeled the “savage” episode as an “outrageous slur,” according to Closer magazine.
The couple found themselves the butt of the joke in a recent episode of the series, in which their money-hungry ways were mercilessly mocked by the animated show.
The jet-setting Sussexes have some nerve lecturing us plebs about our carbon footprints.
Another day, another private jet taken by some scaremongering celeb who never stops ‘reminding’ us that the planet will probably be burnt to a crisp by Christmas if we don’t go everywhere by bike. No, it’s not Emma Thompson this time – she’s the one who took a 5,400‑mile transatlantic first-class flight between Los Angeles and London to join Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists back in 2019, as they yet again brought grief to people attempting to get to work. XR announced grandly that her jaunt was ‘an unfortunate cost in our bigger battle to save the planet’.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, aka climate worriers Harry and Meghan, departed on a private jet to enjoy some Caribbean solitude after attending a conference that claimed “climate change” is damaging children’s mental health.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that a divisive, high-handed former actress with a failed record of public service in Britain and no legislative experience would be an unlikely candidate to serve in the highly respected US Senate. Not to mention the fact that the actress has earned the just opprobrium of America’s strongest ally for having vilified one of its most deeply respected institutions. But in Joe Biden’s America, where virtue signaling and identity characteristics are the chief selection qualities for office – and competence is an afterthought – Meghan Markle seems a likely candidate for high office.
As if Prince Harry was not insufferable enough.
Prince William is apparently in a snit. His Royal-Whatever-He-Is is miffed. According to Fox News, the heir (not the spare) is pouting because the peasants of the world are taking too long to get on board with whatever climate change policy he favors.
Caribbean nations are to formally demand slavery reparations from the Royal family, The Telegraph can reveal.
Lloyds of London and the Church of England are also set to be approached with demands for reparative justice for their role in the slave trade and plantation system.
National reparations commissions in the Caribbean want to bypass the British Government and pursue financial payments directly from British institutions with historical links to slavery.
Might things be looking rosier for Prince Harry if he were a princess? According to audio tapes unheard until recently, the duke of Sussex’s mother, Princess Diana, said that at Harry’s christening in 1984, the prince of Wales at the time, King Charles, said, “We thought it would be a girl.”
That was not to be — nor, apparently, was Hollywood success a guarantee for the renegade royal despite his marriage to a former actress, Meghan Markle. Now, Harry’s “Heart of Invictus” documentary has failed to crack Netflix’s top 10 in both Britain and America since it was released last week.
Patrick Christys has mocked claims that King Charles and Prince William are planning “peace talks” with Prince Harry, telling Sky News Australia the only time that the Prince of Wales should meet with his estranged brother is to “batter him.”
An insider told OK! Magazine that Charles has rescheduled an official visit to France because he and William are planning a reconciliation meeting with Harry to take place when the Duke of Sussex is in Europe next month for the Invictus Games.
However, the veteran British journalist claims the Sussexes have likely “planted” that rumour in the tabloids, because the duo knows the “only currency” they have is their ties to the royal family.
King Charles does not want Prince Andrew to ‘come out of the freezer’, sources have said – amid fears from royal aides that there are still ‘unexploded bombs’ over his links to the Epstein scandal.
Royal sources are concerned the Duke of York is ‘more of a long-term problem’ than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
It comes as plans to move Andrew out of the £30million Royal Lodge at the Windsor estate into Frogmore Cottage appear to have been shelved, sources claimed.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the most talked about royals on TikTok “but the conversation tends quite negative” while “the overall consensus is that they seem to favor Kate” over Meghan, research conducted on behalf of Newsweek shows.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have consistently targeted younger audiences, including via a recent project on AI and technology, so some might assume they are more popular in the places Gen Z spends its time.
Three years after stepping down as working royals, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have this week seen their HRH titles quietly erased from the British monarchy’s website.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to shave a few years off your age. Sportsmen do it all the time for example. Cockburn did it in a bar last week.
But if you’re in the public eye, are known for not being particularly popular and are estranged from your fame-hungry family, it’s possible that you’d raise suspicions if doing so. Meghan Markle has recently been accused of lying about her age as she celebrated her forty-second birthday on August 4.
Are the Duchess of Sussex’s political ambitions looking up?
From the palace to the White House? Joe Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, endorsed Meghan Markle as a woman she would back to be president, the Daily Mail reports. The former actress is topping a poll after Democrats asked which woman they would vote for. She is tied with Vice President Kamala Harris and ahead of Hillary Clinton.
h/t Mauser
Since they dropped their cluster bomb of revelations, scarcely a month has gone by without talk of another cold-shouldering.
If there’s one thing every agent and PR tells their famous clients, it’s never to read the comments “below the line” in any online article. Generally, this is sound advice, but in rare cases – such as Meghan and Harry’s, where good advice has repeatedly been ignored and delusion reigns – I wonder whether it may actually be helpful. A reality check. The therapeutic equivalent of an ice bath.
