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Meghan Markle didn’t hide her apparent disdain for royal duties before “Megxit,” once even complaining out loud that she should have gotten paid for her 2018 tour of Australia, during which she treated staffers “horribly,” a new book claims. The Duchess of Sussex reveled in her reception Down Under as the newly minted “inspirational” bride of Prince Harry, but in private Markle sang a different tune, The Sun reported, citing the book “In Courtiers: the Hidden Power Behind the Crown” by Valentine Low. “Although she enjoyed the attention, Meghan failed to understand the point of all those walkabouts, shaking hands...

When Prince Harry first started dating Meghan Markle, it seemed that her relationship with her boyfriend's father was perfectly normal. Then, when Meghan's father backed out of coming to the huge wedding, King Charles stepped in and walked his future daughter-in-law down the aisle. Many assumed that the moment signified that the two were quite close. However, when Harry and Meghan decided to leave behind their roles as working members of the Royal Family and head back to Meghan's homeland, it became clear that their relationship was far from great. In recent months, Meghan has continued to solidify the tension...

It's no secret that Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, has a contentious relationship with certain members of her family, especially her half-sister, Samantha Markle. Their estrangement led to Samantha filing a defamation lawsuit against Meghan in March 2022, accusing the former actress of making numerous false claims during her Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. (snip) Samantha accused Meghan of making up a "rags to royalty" story about her upbringing, which Samantha claims is a complete lie. "The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister Part 1" author pointed out that Meghan falsely claimed she was an only child...

After a fresh humiliation by booing crowds at the Queen’s jubilee, here comes another blow to the Duke and Duchess of Woke. “Revenge,” the much-anticipated book by British investigative reporter Tom Bower, may not offer much new information, but it shines as a deep dive into their psyches. The folie á deux on display here is worthy of a Highsmith novel: Two very broken people stoking each other’s rage, grievances and delusions of grandeur, believing in their unstoppable rise even as they fall ever downward. What other modern-day couple would wear their expulsion from the British royal family so dementedly,...

Conservative pundit Meghan McCain blasted Fox News host Tucker Carlson for using the name of her father, the late Republican senator from Arizona, to insult Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas). “You know the more I think about it, it takes a lot of gall for eye-patch McCain to attack moms who are worried about baby formula as pro-Russia,” Carlson said on his nightly show Monday. Carlson was referring to Crenshaw’s recent criticism of lawmakers who do not support sending money and arms to Ukraine amid its ongoing war with Russia.

I knew that I was tempting fate when I reposted a meme on my Instagram Stories joking about dodging golf balls at a driving range. That’s how I felt – having gone nearly two years into the pandemic without catching Covid. But then several weeks ago, my husband felt lightheaded and developed a bad cough. We agreed to have him go downstairs to our guest room and isolate from me and our daughter until he could get a test. The fastest and easiest way to get a test in our area in Virginia is not to get an at-home rapid...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent more money on legal fees for their charities than they raised in 2020, filings reveal. The Sussexes' US charity Archewell told the IRS in December that it raised less than $50,000 in 2020 — only opening a bank account last January. And documents for their UK charity Sussex Royal, which changed its name to MWX Foundation in 2020 and is currently being dissolved, show that between June 2020 and June 2021 spent more than $55,000 on legal fees including attorneys' costs for wrapping up the nonprofit. Meghan and Harry's charities have been mired in...

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, personally called Sens Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to advocate for paid family leave, according to Politico. “I’m in my car. I’m driving. It says caller ID blocked. Honestly … I thought it was Sen. Manchin. His calls come in blocked. And she goes 'Sen. Capito?' I said, 'Yes.' She said, 'This is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex," Politico quoted Moore Capito as saying. "Much to my surprise, she called me on my private line and she introduced herself as the Duchess of Sussex, which is kind of ironic," Collins told Politico's...

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are getting into the investment business. They are joining Ethic, a fintech asset manager in the fast-growing environmental, social and governance space, as “impact partners” and investors. Ethic has $1.3 billion under management and creates separately managed accounts to invest in social responsibility themes. The couple could attract more attention to sustainable investing. Harry and Meghan can make E.S.G. investing part of pop culture in a way that, say, BlackRock’s Larry Fink can’t. “From the world I come from, you don’t talk about investing, right?” Meghan told DealBook in a joint interview...

PIERS Morgan has WON his Ofcom complaint against Meghan Markle in the row which led to him quitting Good Morning Britain. The media watchdog confirmed Piers, 56, was simply giving his opinions on the couple's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, before he stormed off set live on air following publicly criticism from a co-presenter. Meghan and Harry personally lodged a direct complaint against Piers to ITV and Ofcom against his outburst and Piers left the ITV show as a result. The rant also triggered the most public complaints to the regulator in a decade - with more than 57,000 lodged...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have said the Taliban's advance in Afghanistan has left them 'speechless' and 'heartbroken' in a wide-ranging statement that also addresses the Covid-19 crisis and the humanitarian disaster in Haiti. The lengthy statement, released via the couple's slick Archewell Foundation website, calls on followers to support organisations including the World Central Kitchen, but failed to say how much they would be personally donating or details of how they will help. But the couple have been slammed by a royal expert who called it 'another attempt to form an alternate woke royal family' and by social media...

MEGHAN Markle will be "furious" if her estranged father publicly humiliates her by taking her to court for the right to see his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet, a relationship expert has claimed. ...The Duchess' father, 77, is threatening to sue his daughter and son-in-law, whom he has yet to meet, for the right to meet his grandchildren. Speaking at his home in Rosarito, he told Fox News: “I will be petitioning the California courts for the right to see my grandchildren in the very near future." Reports have suggested such action could be the “final nail in the coffin” for...

The truth comes out. Prince Harry responded to rumors he’s releasing another book after the Queen’s death. The Duke of Sussex confirmed in July that he’s publishing a tell-all with Penguin Random House in late 2022. “I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become,” he said in a statement. “I’ve worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story — the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned — I can help show that no matter where we come from,...

Prince Harry has written an explosive memoir about his life in the royal family which will hit the shelves next year, it has been revealed. The Duke of Sussex, 36, has been secretly working on the book for nearly a year which he has since sold to Penguin Random House. Prince Harry has been working with Pulitzer-winning ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer in what is the first time a senior royal has ever written such a book. The first draft of the manuscript, currently untitled, is said to be almost completely written with the deadline in October. The proceeds of the...

Meghan Markle and the Firm's rift might soon be aggravating big time, as revealed by insiders. The Duchess of Sussex might soon end up amidst a “brutal showdown” over allegations about her bullying the staff members, said a source close to her. The Suits star has yet to be formally interviewed regarding the probe of her creating a toxic work environment for her staffers and bullying them, the source told Mirror Online. "The feeling is this is heading for a brutal showdown between the Duchess of Sussex who is understood to be disputing all allegations labelled against her,” said a...

Meghan McCain is bidding farewell to “The View,” according to a new report. The conservative co-host is set to announce her resignation on Thursday morning’s show, ending her four-season run at the end of July, according to the Daily Mail. “We have tried to keep her, but she is adamant that now is the right time for her to leave,” a Disney source told the Daily Mail. The 36-year-old still had two years left in her contract, according to the report.

...The Telegraph understands that the Queen was “told” about the name after the baby was born last Friday, rather than her permission being sought in advance. It suggests that if the Duke and Duchess chose the name to curry favour with the Queen and the wider Royal family, the tactic has backfired badly... Although there is little formal protocol around choosing baby names, particularly with great-grandchildren of the monarch, royal sources suggested there was a difference between the couple choosing to name their daughter Elizabeth, in tribute to the Queen, and using her pet name, which had only been used...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have welcomed their second child - a baby daughter named Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Prince Harry and Meghan announced that the infant, a first sibling for Archie, was born on Friday in California. Lili is named after her great-grandmother the Queen - who was affectionately nicknamed Lilibet by her family - and her grandmother, the late Princess Diana. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: "The Queen, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, and The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been informed and are delighted with the news of the birth of...

A Kinsley gaffe is when a public figure unintentionally mixes up private & public talk, letting the cat out of the bag about something that's not supposed to be talked about. What is it now? Freedom of expression in the U.S. is now considered treasonous, the same as it has been for long in the land of the Magna Carta. A long standing difference between the U.S. & Britain stems from the time in the 1800s, prior to railroads (usually it's expressed as "prior to the civil war") when most Americans were beyond the reach of central govt., Wall St....

'Race isn't a new construct in this world, for people of color,' Michelle Obama said. Michelle Obama says Meghan Markle's claims about Royal family's racism 'wasn't a complete surprise to hear' After the Joe Biden administration expressed support for Meghan Markle following her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey , Michelle Obama has taken the mic to share her sentiments, and shocking as Meghan's claims might be, it wasn't surprising to the former First Lady. Expressing hopes that the British royals could reconcile with the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the 57-year-old weighed in . "Race isn't a new construct...