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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2020 1:39:57 GMT
Prince Harry is “heartbroken” over quitting the royal family — but wife Meghan Markle pushed for Megxit because being a royal is “not working” for her, according to a report Monday. As senior royals are set to meet Monday for crisis talks at the Queen’s country estate, Sandringham, Duke of Sussex Harry, 35, is still tormented at the idea of a permanent break and hopes instead for a “halfway house” giving him some involvement, sources told The Times of London. Duchess of Sussex Meghan, 38, however, is still determined to leave, leaving her husband torn, a source close to them told the paper. “She wants to leave,” a source told the UK paper. “She thinks, ‘It’s not working for me.’ He is under intense pressure to choose. It is sad. “He loves the Queen. He loves this country. He loves all his military stuff. I think it will genuinely break his heart to leave.” The source stressed, “I don’t think that’s what he really wants. I think they want some halfway house.” The Times stressed that the fact Meghan only spent a few days in the UK before returning to Canada after their break there for the holidays showed her “determination to leave” her duties in the UK. Before the planned summit Monday, the Queen has made it clear that she wants the Sussexes’ future settled within days, not weeks, The Times said. Meghan is expected to join the discussion over the phone from Canada, where she is staying with baby Archie.
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Post by Admin on Jan 15, 2020 18:22:32 GMT
Many close to Prince Harry are concerned about the growing distance between him and the rest of the royal family — especially given that he has recently pulled away from many longtime friends. A well-connected source tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story that the Queen’s grandson, 35, “cut off” many of his close pals “about six months into” Meghan Markle‘s pregnancy with son Archie, born May 6. “Most no longer even have his cell number,” says the insider. “They totally understand that men often drift from their friends after marriage, but there’s still a lot of resentment because they had been so close for so long.” One exception is Charlie van Straubenzee. The pals met at Ludgrove Prep School and have remained close ever since — in fact, they were all smiles attending each other’s weddings just months apart in 2018. Van Staubenzee is also a godfather to Archie. RELATED: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Felt Their ‘Hand Was Forced’ to Leave Royal Family Amid ‘Bad Blood’
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Post by Admin on Apr 4, 2020 18:18:12 GMT
Looking for something to watch this weekend? Meghan Markle is the voice behind the documentary “Elephant,” which is available to watch on Disney+ this weekend.
HBO has unlocked 500 hours of content for free, including every episode of “The Sopranos.” The comedic duo Joel McHale and Ken Jeong are back together on Netflix, with their hit show “Community” landing on the streaming platform in its entirety.
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2020 5:31:55 GMT
Who is Rachel, Princess of the United Kingdom?
Royal family fanatics were left scratching their heads when baby Archie’s birth certificate was finally made public this week.
Among the revelations in the document, registered by Prince Harry, were Meghan‘s real name, Rachel, her job description, “Princess of the United Kingdom, and where Archie was born, the $25,000 a night Portland Hospital in Westminster, England.
Fans were confused. Most thought Markle’s title — bestowed upon her by the Queen when she married Harry — was Duchess and not many were aware of her birth name. The couple have been notoriously close mouthed about where Archie was born.
As for her title, “while she was given the title the Duchess of Sussex by the Queen on her wedding day, she is also technically a princess, just not in her own name,” the Mirror noted.
She is Her Royal Highness Princess Henry of Wales through her husband, Harry.”
Meanwhile, the couple is now living in Los Angeles and royal commentator Angela Mollard told the Star it must be hard for Harry.
“He is separated from his family at a time when the rest of the world is using Zoom or Whatsapp to chat to each other – I can hardly see that happening,” Mollard said. “You know, they must feel very separate. He doesn’t have the friends in LA, she does. She has [her mother] Doria, she has her family, and while Meghan might have been feeling equally removed in the UK, for Harry, friends have been the people who have supported him, friends and his brother, through all of the years since his mother’s death — and to have that stripped away I think will be very discombobulating for him.”
Even more discombobulating is the fact that the press-hating couple moved to Los Angeles — the capital of the paparazzi. The irony of which was not lost on Sharon Osbourne who told the ladies of “The Talk,” “They actually moved to California…I don’t know why, it’s just so alien to me to think of the prince living here. If they were fed up with the press in the UK, they are really going to be fed up with the press living in LA.”
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2020 20:46:55 GMT
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry might be free of the chains formally known as the British monarchy, but that doesn’t mean royal fans everywhere aren’t dying to know all the juicy details that led up to Meghan and Harry’s decision to step back from their royal duties and fly the coop. While Americans fell in love with Meghan for being a celebrity who turned into a princess duchess literally overnight, the people who were working at the Buckingham Palace apparently weren’t thrilled by Meghan’s past. In fact, the staff was “less enamored of the very qualities that made her irresistible to the press: her showbiz lustre, self-confidence, and feminist habits of assertion,” The Telegraph‘s Camilla Tominey expressed to The New Yorker. Er, yikes. Apparently at first, the staff members at Buckingham Palace really loved Meghan because she looked amazing, had a history of advocating for women’s rights, and seemed to have a business-like way of thinking. But Tominey, who has covered the royal family for more than a decade before Meghan showed up, revealed that those positive feelings about Meghan quickly changed. Tominey said that staff members at Buckingham Palace changed their mind about Meghan because of the pace of life she was used to as a celebrity. “I’ve put it down to a clash of cultures, in the sense that she had come from the celebrity world, which is very fast-paced and quite demanding,” she shared. “The royal world is very different—it’s much slower-paced, and hugely hierarchical. In the royal world, it’s ‘What should we do next?’ ‘Well, what did we do last time?’” On top of that, Meghan allegedly didn’t have full comprehension of the “unwritten traditions” of the royal family. “It’s a bit like Downton Abbey—there’s a hierarchy of staff who have been at Buckingham Palace for years and years, to serve Queen and country,” Tominey added. “And, therefore, for Harry and Meghan to be making demands, there was a bit of below-stairs chatter, particularly with the Duchess, that was ‘Well, hang on a minute, who do you think you are?'”
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