PIERS Morgan has once again lashed out at Prince Harry, calling him a 'spoiled brat' for not attending Prince Philip's memorial yesterday.
EX GMB presenter Piers Morgan blasted Harry for his absence from the event in honour of the Duke of Edinburgh, as The Queen put on a determined display yesterday.
Piers tweeted: "Imagine missing your mentor grandfather’s memorial service because you’re such a spoiled brat you’d rather sulk in your Californian mansion than be there to support your grandmother? Shameful."
It comes following the Duke of Sussexes legal row with the Home Office over police protection for his family in the UK.
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- Milica Cosic
Piers Morgan hits out at Harry
PIERS Morgan has once again lashed out at Prince Harry, calling him a 'spoiled brat' for not attending Prince Philip's memorial yesterday.
EX GMB presenter Piers Morgan blasted Harry for his absence from the event in honour of the Duke of Edinburgh, as The Queen put on a determined display yesterday.
Piers tweeted: "Imagine missing your mentor grandfather’s memorial service because you’re such a spoiled brat you’d rather sulk in your Californian mansion than be there to support your grandmother? Shameful."
It comes following the Duke of Sussexes legal row with the Home Office over police protection for his family in the UK.
- Milica Cosic
Will Harry ever recognise his 'appalling behaviour'?
A royal author has also taken to slam Prince Harry for not attending Prince Philip's memorial yesterday.
Royal biographer Angela Levin questioned whether Harry will ever recognise his “appalling behaviour”.
She said: “He is such a changed person, it is difficult to know if he will even regret not attending. The Harry I interviewed was caring and kind and instinctive. Nowadays, he is so full of resentment and ‘me me me’.
“He doesn’t seem to have any broader range to care about things unless they are things impacting him and Meghan.
“Many royals from abroad made the effort, yet Harry’s pathetic excuse is that he didn’t feel safe. The police would have had it completely covered. The royal children were all there, the heirs to the throne, so it just doesn’t make any sense that the protection wouldn’t be there.”
- Milica Cosic
Prince Harry slammed for ‘cruel snub’ to Queen
PRINCE Harry was slammed last night for being the only senior member of the Royal Family to miss his grandfather’s memorial service.
The Duke of Sussex stayed at his £11million Californian mansion with wife Meghan, blaming his absence on a row over police protection — despite visiting the Netherlands in two weeks for the Invictus Games.
The Prince was criticised by royal watchers, while the public outside expressed their disgust at his “shameful” absence.
More than 1,800 people attended the service to honour the Duke of Edinburgh, including 27 members of international royalty who jetted in from around the globe.
Richard Griffin, who spent 14 years guarding for the late Duke, said Harry’s absence was “a big disappointment for everybody”.
He added: “People were talking about it. Certainly around where I was, people were saying that he should have been here.
“All this nonsense about how he couldn’t get protection, as far as I’m concerned, was a pathetic excuse. He should’ve been here to honour his grandfather.
“At the end of the day, if he was that worried about security, he could’ve stuck with his brother and father, who have got wonderful security, and he would have been more than safe.”
Harry and Meghan were the only senior royals to miss the serviceCredit: PA
- Milica Cosic
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- Joseph Gamp
Meghan Markle’s friend blasts palace ‘diversity’
Meghan Markle’s close friend Omid Scobie has tried to blame diversity in the Palace for pictures of the Cambridges greeting Jamaican fans in front of a fence.
Scobie lashed out at The Firm for not ‘avoiding certain imagery’, as pictures of Kate Middleton and Prince William emerged showing young Jamaicans watching a football match from behind a fence.
Meghan’s close friend took to Twitter to express his anger at the Cambridges’ staff, saying: “I do wonder what the hell palace organisers were thinking with some of yesterday’s photo moments.
“The planning and recon that goes into every step of these engagements is next level, so how did no one think to avoid certain imagery?”
The author, who co-wrote Finding Freedom, added on Twitter: “This is why diversity on a team matters.”
- Joseph Gamp
Parts of Harry legal claim documents to remain secret
A High Court Judge ruled on Thursday afternoon that parts of some documents in Prince Harry’s claim against the Home Office will remain secret.
At a preliminary hearing last month, the High Court in London heard an application by both Prince Harry and the Home Office for some parts of the court documents in the case to be kept private.
The court was told that the Duke and Home Office agreed on what should be redacted from witness evidence.
In a judgement on Thursday, Mr Justice Swift said the bid to redact documents was allowed.
- Joseph Gamp
‘The brothers gave comfort to each other’
Duncan Larcombe, Royal Author and former Royal Editor of The Sun, told Fabulous that little is known about how Harry marks the day now that he is a father and lives in the USA, where Mother’s Day takes place on the second Sunday of May.
He commented: “Sources say the Duke of Sussex has already followed William’s style of sharing his mother’s memories with his kids.
“At least by focusing on their own children this year, William and Harry have something to distract them from the elephant in the room.
“Mother’s Day was always an occasion when the brothers gave comfort to each other – sadly one ‘family’ tradition that seems to have all but disappeared.”
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan Markle will ‘pull in big guns’
Spotify have revealed Meghan Markle’s new podcast, Archetypes, earlier this week.
This series will explore how stereotypes were born and their impact on women around the world.
Speaking on Pod Save The Queen, Russell Myers the royal editor at the Daily Mirror said that the Duchess will “pull in the big guns” for her newest venture.
He said: “This is going to be huge because she will pull in the big guns.
“You would imagine that she will have lots of very powerful, famous women and women who have overcome adversity to rise up through the ranks in whatever industry and field that they have become successful in.
“I think it’s hugely exciting.”
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan Markle and Harry ‘gaining power’
Kate and Prince William changed their communications strategy after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex showed they were “gaining soft power” according to a commentator.
Eric Schiffer, a reputation management expert told Express.co.uk Meghan and Prince Harry are successfully connecting “at an emotional and value level” with young people across the world by championing causes close to their hearts – such as equality and the environment.
He added that they “are gaining soft power”.
He continued: “It has caused certainly William and Catherine to find new ways to connect, show more of their humanity, to be more active in ways that demonstrate their values aligning with young people – not just in Britain but also around the world.
“They are stealing a page back from Meghan and Harry’s playbook, and it is being successful in the UK.”
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan’s first podcast announced
Meghan Markle has unveiled her first Spotify podcast.
It will be about female stereotypes, and she vows to investigate “labels that try to hold women back”, where The Duchess will speak to historians, experts and women who have experienced being typecast.
The Spotify podcast will be called Archetypes and will launch this summer.
In a trailer of the Archewell Audio project, Meghan said: “This is how we talk about women: the words that raise our girls, and how the media reflects women back to us… but where do these stereotypes come from?
“And how do they keep showing up and defining our lives?”
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan’s dad calls Harry ‘a carrot’
Thomas Markle’s second YouTube episode, Remarkable Friendship, takes a look at Harry dressed in orange for a new video for the Invictus Games.
Karl Larsen started the topic, saying: “I saw this image on the news of Prince Harry all dressed in orange, what was that about?”
Thomas quipped in, “well that’s the carrot story,” as he continues to state why Harry donned the outfit.
Thomas also added, “it matches his hair, so it’s pretty good”.
“A lot of people were saying he looks like a carrot top, now he looks like a total carrot”.
- Joseph Gamp
Thomas Markle makes dig at Meghan in second YouTube episode
Thomas Markle’s second YouTube episode with Karl Larsen has come out, entitled ‘Remarkable Friendship’. The pair sit behind a picture of Her Majesty and the Union Jack.
Starting off the show, Meghan Markle’s dad and Karl Larsen discuss how their YouTube has really bloomed.
However, Thomas then makes a dig at Prince Harry and Meghan’s new Spotify deal saying that, “so far Meghan and Harry have not completed anything they’ve started to do.”
“I can’t think of anything”, he added, shaking his head.
- Joseph Gamp
‘My pal Prince Harry has DE-FRIENDED me for jokingly calling him Ginger Nuts’
JACK Whitehall says he is “banned” from seeing his old pal Prince Harry after making a cheeky gag about him.
The comedian, 33, claims a tongue-in-cheek joke at the Royal Variety Show in 2015 where he called Harry ”Ginger Nuts” is the reason he’s been blacklisted.
Jack revealed the news this week at The London Palladium as part of his How To Survive The Summer Holidays tour alongside his mum Hilary, 59, and dad Michael, 81.
Mocking the ex-royal and his wife Meghan Markle, Michael teased: “Jack I read a book recently and it changed my life and I put this book down and I thought I must become a writer myself. This book is called The Bench and it’s written by Meghan Markle.”
Upon its release in June last year, the book sold just 3,212 copies with the former Suits actress claiming the book “began as a love letter to my husband and son”.
In a dig at the Prince – who insiders say is attending the Oscars in Los Angeles this weekend after being asked to present the Best Picture Award – he added of the children’s book: “She presumably wrote it for Harry.”
Putting on a mock patronising voice, Michael continued: “Yes darling just read it OK. There are only three lines per page Harry… Harry it’s all right.”
Taking yet another swipe, Michael added: “That is your friend Harry. Except you are not allowed to see him anymore. You have banned… been ostracised from the Sussexes.”
Smirking, Jack replied: “I think I have been banned because I called him ‘Ginger Nuts’ at the Royal Variety”.
- Joseph Gamp
Jamaican PM on hosting Kate & William
On Wednesday before the couple left, Prince William and Kate Middleton met with Jamaican Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, and his wife, who said the country was “very happy” to host the couple on their royal tour.
However, Mr Holness added their trip was an “opportunity for issues to be addressed” as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge faced vocal protests in the country’s capital ahead of their arrival.
Mr Holness also added: “The people are very expressive and I’m certain that you will have seen the spectrum of expression yesterday, which as you would know is unresolved.
“Your presence gives an opportunity for those issues to be placed in context, put front and centre, and to be addressed as best as we can.”
- Joseph Gamp
Spotify drama
The Sussexes were given a bumper pay-out by the streaming giant back in late 2020.
But in January 2022, The Sun revealed Spotify was taking the project “into its own hands” as content from the couple failed to materialise.
Initially, a “full-scale” launch of shows was promised in 2021. However, the year came and went without any further update.
Bosses then stepped in and began recruiting in-house staff to help.
Harry and Meghan’s only podcast effort had been a 35-minute ‘holiday special’ in December 2020, featuring celebrity pals Elton John and James Corden.
It meant they’d been paid £500,000 for each minute of content.
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan’s treatment still ‘fresh wound’ in Jamaica
Jamaicans are ‘very torn up’ over the treatment of Meghan Markle in the Royal Family.
Bert Samuels, Jamaican attorney and reparations advocate, said Prince William needed to apologise “for the treatment of a black woman who had to run out of the place with her husband”.
Speaking to Newsweek Bert Samuels said: “Jamaicans were very torn up to hear about Harry and Meghan’s issue, and Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, and that has torn us. That’s William’s brother, that’s his nephew, and for Harry to have been treated the way he was, and worse yet Meghan.”
Mr Samuels said Jamaicans have a “strong wound” over the treatment which is still a “fresh wound”.
- Joseph Gamp
Thomas Markle blasts Prince Harry
Thomas markle has blasted Prince Harry’s choice not to return to the UK for Prince Philips memorial service.
In the most recent episode of Remarkable Friendship with Karl Larsen, Thomas has claimed that Harry’s decision is ‘the most hateful mean spirited, unforgivable thing anyone can do’.
He said: “I think it’s disrespectful for a man to abandon his country.
“Do I think it’s disrespectful for a man to abandon his grandmother and then refuse to attend his grandfather’s memorial ceremony and to also refuse to let the Queen see her grandchildren.
“It’s the most hateful, mean spirited unforgivable thing anyone can do.
“I send that right out to Harry, if you think you’re doing something good, You’re crazy.
“You’ll never be forgiven for what you’re doing.”
- Joseph Gamp
Harry ‘has backed himself into a corner’ with security row
Prince Harry has “backed himself into a corner” over his decision to take the British Government to court over his security when in the UK, argues a royal expert.
Royal expert Russel Myers told Today: “I mean he’s definitely on a bit of a sticky wicket.
“He has taken the British government to court about his security and he’s claiming that it’s too dangerous to come to the UK to bring his family back with him.
“But I mean it’s frankly a ludicrous argument because, I mean, he’s going over to Europe.
“He’ll be at the Invictus Games, which is a fantastic event that has been delayed for a couple of years and he won’t be able to come over and see his granny and the rest of the family.
“So he’s backed himself into a corner, unfortunately, and it’s not a good look.”
- Joseph Gamp
Charles hails importance of peace during trip to ‘majestic’ Ireland
The Prince of Wales last week paid tribute to the friendship between Ireland and Britain, telling of his joy at returning to the “majestic land”.
Charles restated his ambition to visit every county in Ireland, as he and the Duchess of Cornwall enjoyed their first official joint visit to County Waterford.
Using a few sentences spoken in the Irish language, he told a crowd gathered for a mayoral reception at Waterford City Hall that it was good to be with old friends again.
The couple enjoyed blue skies and bright sunshine as they were greeted at the start of their visit with a Viking re-enactment – a nod to the past of Ireland’s oldest city.
The pair smiled and looked intrigued as two actors embarked on a mock battle with swords and shields in front of a Viking longboat, something Charles later said will “certainly live long in our memories”.
While Waterford’s official foundation as a permanent settlement dates back to 914 AD, historians say there are a number of references to Viking encampments as early as 860 AD.
Charles and Camilla, who were given a tour of the city’s medieval museum, met members of the local community on a walkabout, as well as first responders who have helped throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan Markle compared to Wallis Simpson
Senior members of the British royal family have compared Meghan Markle to a a modern-day Wallis Simpson, according to reports.
Since Megxit, Meghan has been likened to as the American socialite, comparing Harry and Meghan’s relationship to that of Wallis and the Duke of Windsor.
Wallis and Edward VIII married in 1937 after he gave up the title of King over to his younger brother, Queen Elizabeth’s father.
The pair, like Harry and Meghan, relocated to the United States and stepped away from royal responsibilities.
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Charles blushes as panto dame calls him ‘absolutely marvellous’
The prince officially opened the Grand Opera House in Belfast last week following its restoration and met pretty-in-pink May McFettridge — real name John Linehan.
After watching May on stage, Charles told her: “You’re very funny.
“Well done, you’re absolutely marvellous.
“It is a hard thing always having to come up with new jokes.”
The prince and Camilla also saw a dance performance by teenagers before speaking to them and unveiling a plaque to commemorate the theatre’s restoration.
- Joseph Gamp
Harry & Meghan have only delivered 35mins of Spotify content so far
Harry and Meghan’s only podcast effort so far has been a 35-minute ‘holiday special’ in December 2020, featuring celebrity pals Elton John and James Corden.
It means that, so far, they’ve been paid £500,000 for each minute of content.
Matters looked as if they could be derailed again two months ago, when the pair came under pressure to ditch their mega-deal after Spotify was accused of hosting anti-jab content by US host Joe Rogan.
But they decided to stick with the company instead, telling fans they were committed “to ensure changes to its platform are made to help address this public health crisis”.
The move attracted criticism, with TV firebrand Piers Morgan blasting: “So a proven liar is now satisfied nobody else is lying? Beyond parody.”
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan’s series focusing on women is called ‘Archetypes’
In a trailer for Meghan’s series, which was released today, the mum-of-two said: “This is how we talk about women: the words that raise our girls, and how the media reflects women back to us… but where do these stereotypes come from?
“And how do they keep showing up and defining our lives?”
The duchess, previewing the type of guests who will feature, adds: “This is Archetypes – the podcast where we dissect, explore, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back.
“I’ll have conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape our narratives.
“And I’ll talk to historians to understand how we even got here in the first place.”
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan Markle to release solo podcast this summer
MEGHAN Markle’s first solo podcast will be released this summer, it has been announced – a year-and-a-half after she and Harry signed an £18million deal with Spotify.
The Duchess of Sussex revealed today she’ll be looking into labels and stereotypes “that try to hold women back” for the series.
She’ll host the show, Archetypes, and interview experts and historians during episodes.
The Sussexes were given a bumper pay-out by the streaming giant back in late 2020.
But in January 2022, The Sun revealed Spotify was taking the project “into its own hands” as content from the couple failed to materialise.
Initially, a “full-scale” launch of shows was promised in 2021. However, the year came and went without any further update.
- Joseph Gamp
Meghan and Harry blasted by ex-BBC journalist
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been blasted by ex-BBC journalist John Sergeant, when he appeared on GB News.
John Sergeant, a former chief political correspondent at the BBC, slammed the Sussexes as “just awful” and went on to argue “we should never hear” from the couple again.
He said: “I think we should never hear from them again.
“I would just like to wake up and for someone to say, who do you mean there.
“It’s just awful, the pointless damage they’ve done.
“It’s one thing to say they were treated unfairly, you know they weren’t.”
However, Twitter users were divided at Mr Sergeant’s statement.
One person wrote: “Spot on John Sergeant. Oh to never hear from them again.”
A second added: “All UK media should ban any interaction with them or their PR reps the end.”
While a third disagreed with what was said, saying: “You seem to care about them an awful lot for not wanting to hear about them.”
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