“Woke Royals”

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.

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.

Years ago when she was an actress, Meghan Markle often wrote in her blog The Tig about the group she called her ‘closest friends’. Some were soulmates, others were celebrities she met at showbiz events and parties. Gradually, that circle of chums broadened to include clothes designers, socialites and charity campaigners.

Among them were David and Victoria Beckham, who were guests at her wedding to Prince Harry at Windsor in 2018. However, their friendship seems to have died. Reciprocally, Meghan and Harry were not guests at the wedding of the Beckhams’ son Brooklyn to US heiress Nicola Peltz in April last year.

I think the in thing is to be Markled.

Even the Hollywood elites are tired of the Sussexes’ tales of woe.

When Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, first appeared on the world stage, she felt to many of us like a bi-racial breath of fresh air, beloved by all but the most stuffy among us. That was until ‘Megxit’ in 2020, when she left the royal family at a trot, dragging the hapless Harry behind her, to spend the rest of her days in a gated community in California. Deals with Netflix, Spotify and book publishers flooded in soon after. Apparently, there was a huge, lucrative market for Harry and Meghan’s ‘insights’.

Snitches don’t make friends in Tinseltown, as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are finding out.

Celebrities, including their high-profile neighbors Steven Spielberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Rob Lowe, are staying away from the exiled royals in fear that they will spill their secrets — and alienate them from Prince William and Kate Middleton.

I bet Harry get’s knifed to death.

The Duke of York had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein at a time when Prince Andrew has suggested they were no longer in contact, according to an email the billionaire financier sent to a friend.

The Duke, 62, indicated during his 2019 Newsnight interview that he had only met the billionaire financier once following his June 2008 conviction for soliciting and procuring an underage girl for prostitution.

Prince Harry is said to be worried about his and Meghan Markle’s future in America.

The couple moved to California three years ago after stepping back from the Royal Family, but it seems they could be set to make their return to the UK.

A source has claimed Harry is “panicking” about their finances following the collapse of their $25million (£20million) partnership with Spotify. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also missed out on receiving an Emmy Award nomination for their Netflix docuseries.

I see Harry going back to GB, but solo.

The king’s confab with Joe Biden was an outrageous political intervention.

After chatting to British PM Rishi Sunak today, US president Joe Biden headed over to Windsor Castle for the main event of his UK visit – a chinwag with King Charles III.

The duchess craves fame but walked away from her perfect casting

Has anyone ever squandered more goodwill and more quickly than the Duchess of Sussex? It’s hard to remember — now that her UK popularity rating, according to YouGov, is minus 47, her and Prince Harry’s eight-figure deals with Netflix and Spotify are in the bin and she was publicly trashed last week by the chief executive of a Hollywood agency as “not a great audio talent, or necessarily any talent” — but not very long ago most people really, really, really liked Meghan. And it seems to be difficult for her to recall this, given her apparent antipathy to Britain, but people really, really, really liked her here.

You can’t pretend to be Cinderella when you’re really Morgan Le Fay.