“Woke Royals”

Australia becoming a republic and scrapping the monarchy is “inevitable” even though Australians are proud to have the King as their head of state, the country’s new high commissioner has said.

In his first interview since moving to London, Stephen Smith said most British people would be “indifferent” to Australia getting rid of the monarchy and said it would not damage the countries’ relationship.

Dementia Joe has declined an invite to the coronation.

I have heard it’s because Joe simply does not travel well any longer but might it also reveal a decline in the importance of the Royals?

A number of “name” acts have declined offers to perform. Perhaps Charles is seen as the transition until William and Kate can revitalize the family business.

… But now Archewell have released tax filings for 2021 and they show what we all knew to be true the whole time. Meghan and Harry have spent the last three years doing very little at all. The documents show that the couple worked a grand total of one hour each a week at the foundation, racking up a time sheet of 52 hours in a year. Those chickens aren’t going to look after themselves.

King Charles will this week become the first British monarch to lay a wreath to the German victims of allied air raids in the second world war.

The move is a departure from his mother’s handling of the historically sensitive subject on previous royal visits to the country.

At the end of his first state visit as monarch, Charles III is scheduled on Friday to visit Hamburg’s St Nikolai memorial, a 12th-century church severely damaged during Operation Gomorrah in July 1943 and since preserved in its ruined state to commemorate its victims.

The Royal Archives may help one deduce whether the Duke of Windsor helped the Nazis bomb Buckingham Palace but do not expect to find out anything about Prince Philip, a historian granted rare access to the treasure trove has said.

Alexander Larman, whose books on the royal family between the wars outline the duke’s wartime assistance to Germany and MI5’s alleged collusion with an assassination attempt, said he had been surprised at the amount of information available in the archive at Windsor Castle. He told the Oxford Literary Festival yesterday that a royal archivist had said: “We are not in the business of protecting the Duke of Windsor’s reputation.”

Prince Andrew is believed to be in talks with American authors to write an explosive tell-all autobiography.

The memoir is described by sources close to the Duke of York as Spare 2.0 after Prince Harry’s controversial book, Spare.

The disgraced Duke is said to believe that an autobiography might allow him to set the record straight in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The royal family’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest level in 12 months after the publication of Prince Harry’s book.

After a rise in popularity following Queen Elizabeth’s death, favourability among the public for the monarchy slumped to 46 per cent according to Ipsos UK’s poll, down from 54 per cent recorded in favour of the family in September, immediately after the state funeral.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are backing a campaign group working in UK schools that accuses parents of “gendering” their unborn children.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s podcast, Archetypes, has a partnership with the Global Boyhood Initiative, a group which aims to “promote gender equity by fostering positive masculinity in boys and men”.

The Global Boyhood Initiative has created a curriculum which is being piloted in London schools and encourages primary school children to question “gender norms”.

One day Harry will regret marrying that woman.

The monarchy’s popularity in Canada has fallen to its lowest level in 14 years, suggests a new poll released Wednesday by Research Co.

As King Charles’s May coronation draws closer, fewer than one in five Canadians, or 19 per cent of the 1,000 individuals surveyed, would like the monarch to remain Canada’s head of state.

While the King, personally, is viewed more favourably by Canadians, at 32 per cent, his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth, was exactly twice as popular in February 2022, based on another Research Co. poll conducted before her death.

New polling results suggest Canadians are largely indifferent to King Charles, and more than half believe his May 6 coronation is the right time for the country to reconsider its ties with the monarchy.

The web survey of 1,544 adults released Tuesday by market research firm Leger indicates many Canadians are greeting the ascension of Charles to the throne with a shrug.

I don’t think Charles gives a damn.

The Duchess is reportedly poised to relaunch her blog, The Tig. But it won’t trouble brands like Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop – for one big reason

Poor Gwyneth Paltrow must be quaking in her Isabel Marant boots. Meghan Markle – that esteemed public figure – has just been given preliminary approval to relaunch her lifestyle blog, The Tig.

According to reports, details filed with the US Trademark and Patent Office show that the website shut down by the 41-year-old in 2017 could make a comeback as early as next week – and go head-to-head with Paltrow’s £200 million lifestyle brand, Goop.

Meghan Markle has once again been mocked by a top US comedy show as Saturday Night Live has become the latest to take a swipe at the Duchess of Sussex. Comedian Michael Che joked that Meghan was being offered “$19 an hour” to attend the Coronation as a graphic of the Duchess dressed as a maid appeared behind him. The segment has so far been lapped up by viewers.

I know, it’s hard to believe SNL could be funny.

It is a relationship that dates back to 1904 when King Edward VII bestowed a royal title on Canada’s North West Mounted Police, the predecessors of today’s famous Mounties.

Now that long relationship has found its latest incarnation in the shape of Noble, a seven-year-old, 16.2-hands high black mare.

She has just been gifted to King Charles and is settling into her new home at the Royal Mews in Windsor where His Majesty met her for the first time last week.

Why are we giving Richie Rich a horsey? Prince Andrew is ‘bewildered’ and ‘in despair’ that the King has not shared the £650million inheritance from the Queen with his siblings after being the sole beneficiary of his mother’s fortune

Chris Rock’s comedy special on Netflix was no laughing matter for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, royal experts claimed.

On Saturday’s “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” the comedian unloaded several jokes aimed at Meghan Markle and her royal in-laws. At one point, the 58-year-old said the former “Suits” star was doing a lot of “complaining.”

During his new Netflix stand-up special, Selective Outrage, Chris Rock has said what we’ve all long been thinking. That Meghan Markle’s claims to be a victim of royal racism are a pile of the proverbial.

‘Like, who is this girl Meghan Markle?’, asks Rock, during a section on people who are desperate to play the victim. ‘Seems like a nice lady – just complaining… Like, didn’t she hit the light-skinned lottery?’