The InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach is a five-star hotel and doubtless very nice indeed. But the moment I heard the name of the place where Meghan Markle planned to hold her ‘girls’ weekend like no other’ – ‘a very small event for 300 women… a fireside chat with Meghan’, hosted by the podcast, Her Best Life – one great and much-missed shero came to mind: Dame Edna Everage.
Poor Harry, should have listened to Grandma and Grandpa.
Ballooning costs, embarrassing disclosure of flirty messages with a journalist… perhaps the duke’s privacy case was a losing bet
It is Prince Harry’s last great gamble in his seven-year war with the tabloids. When the Duke of Sussex decided to take on Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday, he was fuelled by almost three decades of fury at how newspapers had treated his family.
What he perhaps did not envisage was the circus the claim would unleash in the High Court: the release of flirty text messages in which Harry was branded “Mr Mischief” by a journalist; revelations about a meeting on a London roundabout; and eccentric legal analogies involving donkeys. The big question now is, will it pay off?
Nearly six years into their multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, the streamer’s attitude toward the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is “We’re done.”
I think Harry and Meghan’s most significant contribution to the Monarchy’s end will be the banality of their lives as grasping “users”.
Once upon a time in British history, the title ‘Defender of the Faith’ was something a British monarch carried proudly. The title goes back centuries and, in one of those ironic twists of fate, was awarded to the very king who later split from the church and the faith he was lauded for defending from the door-hammering, paper-hanging threat posed by one Martin Luther.
King Charles III “expressed his concern” over the Alberta separatist movement while meeting Indigenous leaders at Buckingham Palace, according to a delegation of First Nations chiefs that travelled to London.
Grand Chief Joey Pete of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations said he and other leaders made the King aware of the “threat” the movement represented to agreements signed by First Nations and the Crown more than a century ago.
He added that the King was “very interested in what we had to say” and had “committed to learning more”.
A majority of Canadians say they want Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor removed from the line of succession to the British throne, a new poll shows.
The poll, released Monday by Angus Reid Institute, shows an overwhelming 84 per cent of Canadians say they are in support of the move.
The King ain’t so hot either
Former Prince Andrew charged the British public for the cost of massages while jetting around the world on trade missions, insiders now claim, a report states.
The British taxpayer footed the bill for massages for the former Prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, now long ostracised from the Royal Family and last week arrested by British police over allegations of misconduct in public office relating to his time as a trade envoy for the British government.
King Charles was warned as long ago as 2019 that the Royal Family’s name was being ‘abused’ by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s business associations, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
In a bombshell email, a whistleblower told the Palace that the former Duke had secret financial links to controversial millionaire financier David Rowland, who was abusing his royal links.
Messages seen by this newspaper also appear to show that Andrew – who was sensationally arrested on Thursday over suspicions of misconduct in public office – allowed Mr Rowland to effectively join in with his official duties.
Andrew and Charles may both kill the Monarchy.
Keir Starmer has had a pretty torrid couple of months but, as the curtain comes down on another turbulent week, not even Donald Trump attacking the Chagos Islands deal again, or the exposure of how the pressure group that got Starmer elected was smearing journalists, compares with the turmoil in the royal household.
The Prime Minister waits anxiously to see what further demons are released from the Pandora’s box of the Epstein files, but for now No. 10 has done what it can to cauterise the wound by disposing of Peter Mandelson. There remains frustration in Downing Street that the police have not moved more quickly to let them release the files, but many were grateful when the spotlight shifted elsewhere with the arrest yesterday of the prince formerly known as Andrew on his 66th birthday.
The government is considering introducing legislation to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of royal succession, the BBC understands.
The move, which would prevent Mountbatten-Windsor from ever becoming King, would come after the police investigation has concluded.
The King’s brother remains eighth in line to the throne despite being stripped of his titles, including “prince”, last October amid pressure over his ties to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre’s family has called Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest a “stain” on the royal family and said they hoped the moment would lead to a “cultural change” where powerful people are held to account.
Giuffre’s allegations of abuse by Andrew more than a decade ago paved the way for a substantial US civil lawsuit settlement, the loss of his royal titles and patronages and his removal from public life.
He left the police station under the cover of darkness. Slumped in the back seat of a car, wild-eyed and exhausted, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor looked like a man with the full weight of the past and the future on his shoulders.
A man born in a palace as Prince Andrew spent his 66th birthday at a police station on Thursday, becoming the first member of the Royal family in modern history to be arrested.
By nightfall, after nearly 12 hours in custody, he was released under caution with more questions to come. The magnitude of his fall from grace seemed etched on his face.
Epstein’s New Mexico Zorro Ranch was a 10,000-acre compound with its own mansion, runway, hangar, surrounded by wide-open desert that made escape impossible.
Multiple survivors say they were trafficked there, summoned to his bedroom and sexually assaulted. The ranch also hosted… https://t.co/afy9dAb0Wl pic.twitter.com/US9utMkqBY
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 15, 2026
h/t patthedog
LONDON — British police have arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — formerly known as Prince Andrew — on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Thames Valley Police confirmed Thursday morning.
The arrest, believed to set a historical precedent in Britain, came on his 66th birthday. Officers were seen at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the former prince has been living since being evicted from his sprawling royal residence. At least six unmarked police cars were photographed arriving at Wood Farm, his current residence on King Charles’s Sandringham estate, with around eight officers thought to be on site, the BBC reported. Searches were also conducted at an address in Berkshire, likely at the royal estate at Windsor where he previously lived.
Jeffrey Epstein revealed in an email that he had secretly bankrolled Sarah Ferguson for 15 years.
The paedophile said that he began ‘financially supporting’ the former Duchess of York in 1996 – the year she divorced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The email from the child sex predator to a friend has emerged in the latest cache of Epstein Files.
There seems to be a push for the Royal Family to ditch Sarah’s daughters as well.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Vehicles believed to be police cars arrived at the King’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the former prince has been staying, on Thursday morning.
The former prince has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing.
BBC Live Feed – Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office as King says ‘law must take its course’
King Charles statement – ‘the law must take its course’
