PRINCE Harry has been accused of publicly shaming Prince Philip just weeks after his grandfather passed away aged 99.
Speaking on the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard last week, Harry said he desperately wants to "break the cycle" of "genetic pain and suffering" caused by royal parenting.
The Duke of Sussex, who is expecting a daughter with wife Meghan, vowed not to “pass on” the pain others in his family experienced to his children.
While his comments were largely taken as an attack on his father, many on social media pointed out that his criticism also appeared to shame his late grandfather for the impact his parenting had on Prince Charles.
And a royal expert has now slammed Prince Harry as "shameless" for throwing multiple members of the Firm under the bus.
Royal expert Robert Jobson said on the Australian breakfast show Sunrise: "He believes this himself, and mental health is a big, big issue out there, but come on – really to keep harping on like this is getting embarrassing.
"To criticise his father for his parenting skills, but also the Queen and Prince Philip, who only just had his funeral – he's only just lost his grandfather. I think it smacks of pretty shameless behaviour."
Harry also compared his ultra-privileged royal life to the Truman Show and suggested growing up in palaces, being waited on hand and foot and attending the world's top schools was "like being an animal at the zoo".
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EDO AND BEATRICE 'SET TO RETURN £20,000-A-YEAR PALACE APARTMENT'
Unconfirmed gossip about Princess Beatrice and Edo Mapelli Mozzi searching for a new Cotswolds home could mean the couple are "set to hand back her £20,000-a-year four-bedroom apartment in St James's Palace," writes Charlotte Griffiths for the Mail on Sunday.
She adds that Beatrice shared it with sister Eugenie for several years, but her sibling is "said to have moved to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's old home, Windsor's Frogmore Cottage, with husband Jack Brooksbank."
A source said: "Edo is keen to give [son] Wolfie a brother or sister, and a sprawling manor house would be the perfect place to start a family."
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PRINCESS BEATRICE 'FEELING BROODY'
Princess Beatrice and Edo Mapelli Mozzi are "feeling broody", according to Charlotte Griffiths in the Mail on Sunday.
The couple wed about 10 months ago, and are apparently looking for a large family-sized home in the Cotswolds.
They've already reportedly visited an Oxfordshire property with a "party barn" and swimming pool, believed to have a £3million price tag.
Griffiths' source adds: "The owner was very excited Bea had been round, though she tried to keep it quiet."
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PM PRAISES QUEEN JUBILEE TREE PLANTING BID
A tree planting scheme to mark the Queen's 70th jubilee has been backed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
He said: "Our trees stand at the frontline of our fight against climate change and by sustaining our beautiful countryside for generations to come.
"The Queen's Green Canopy is a fitting tribute to her majesty's years of service to this country. I urge everyone to get involved and 'plant a tree for the jubilee'."
The Queen has herself planted more than 1,500 trees around the world during her reign.
Woodland Trust chief executive Darren Moorcroft said: "There is no more fitting way to celebrate Her Majesty's jubilee than through striving to increase and protect our native tree cover."
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TREE SCHEME FOR JUBILEE TO MARK QUEEN'S 70-YEAR REIGN
A tree planting scheme launched today in an initiative to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee is part of the Royal Horticultural Society's "virtual" Chelsea Flower Show, taking part online this week.
Taking part in the scheme, which is being hosted by climate charity Cool Earth, could range from individuals planting tees in their own garden to the creation of platinum jubilee copses on council land or avenues in cities or housing developments.
The pilot training programme for unemployed young people aged between 16 and 24 will be run through Capel Manor College, London's only specialist environmental college, of which the Queen Mother was patron.
Donations to the scheme will go to deprived areas and urban schools through one of the partner organisations of the Queen's Green Canopy, Trees for Cities.
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PRINCE CHARLES: 'TREES ARE A STATEMENT OF HOPE'
The Prince of Wales was joined by the Queen for the first jubilee tree-planting in the grounds of Windsor earlier this year, during the tree-planting season.
He said: "It is absolutely vital that more of the right species of trees are planted, in the right places, and that more woodlands, avenues, hedgerows and hedgerow trees and urban planting schemes are established, whilst ensuring that we also protect and sustain what we already have.
"Whether you are an individual hoping to plant a single sapling in your garden, a school or community group planting a tree, a council, charity or business intending to plant a whole avenue of trees or a farmer looking to create new hedgerows, everyone across the country can get involved."
Charles described planting a tree as a "statement of hope and faith in the future" and said planting trees and hedgerows and protecting existing woodlands and forests were simple, cost-effective ways to protect the planet.
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PEOPLE URGED TO PLANT A TREE TO MARK QUEEN'S 70-YEAR REIGN
Communities, schools, gardeners and companies are being encouraged to plant trees in an initiative to mark the Queen's platinum jubilee.
The Queen's Green Canopy scheme has been launched to encourage people to plant trees from the start of the tree-planting season in October 2021 through to the end of 2022, to mark her 70 years on the throne.
The scheme will also highlight 70 irreplaceable ancient woodlands across the UK and identify 70 ancient trees, and create a pilot training programme for unemployed young people to plant and manage trees.
Schools and community groups will be able to apply for three million free saplings from the Woodland Trust as part of the project.
In a video message to launch the initiative, Prince Charles urged people to join him to "plant a tree for the jubilee – in other words a 'tree-bilee'."
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PRINCE WILLIAM & KATE SHOW SUPPORT FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Prince William and Kate visited the Way Youth Zone in Wolverhampton, to mark Mental Health Awareness Week.
Kate played a game of ping pong, while Wills showed off his footie skills – managing five keepie uppies.
The Duchess also had a go at shooting a bow and arrow during an archery lesson alongside other youngsters.
Alongside a clip of their visit, the couple wrote on their Kensington Royal Twitter account: “Today's visit is all about understanding local organisations here in Wolverhampton.
“Organisations that are motivating and inspiring young people to transform their lives. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek.” Referencing his poor football skills, Wills added: “P.S blaming the shoes for football attempts.”
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PRINCE CHARLES DIGNIFIED OVER PRINCE HARRY COMPLAINTS
Prince Charles is understood to feel bewildered that he has been criticised yet again by Harry, who told Oprah Winfrey back in March that his dad had cut him off financially and refused to take his calls.
Harry had told the chat show queen he was “disappointed” in Charles, whom he described as “trapped” in his role.
The future king stayed silent on the matter while out and about recently in Wales, with aides making clear he would not answer any questions about the podcast.
One reporter from the BBC tried to quiz him anyway, and was heard asking: "Sir do you agree with prince Harry about the suffering and pain in the family? Have you heard his comments?"
Charles ignored the reporter and continued walking.
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PRINCE HARRY URGED TO 'GET ON WITH HIS LIFE'
Prince Harry "should be told" his "grievances should be aired in the privacy of your own home.
"Don’t do it publicly in a podcast. Get on with your life," a royal source told The Times.
Speaking recently on the Armchair Expert Podcast, Harry, 36, told host Dax Shephard his dad, 72, “suffered” due to his upbringing by the Queen and Philip, then “treated me the way he was treated”.
He said: “I verbalise it, which is, ‘Isn’t life about breaking the cycle’?
"There’s no blame, I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody."
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PRINCE HARRY SLAMMED FOR OVERSHADOWING WILLIAM AND KATE
Palace insiders were reportedly disappointed with Prince Harry for overshadowing William and Kate Middleton's official engagements with another attack on the Royal Family.
Media coverage for Wills' and Kate's day out in Wolverhampton was reduced last week after news broke of Harry's podcast interview in which he blasted Charles' parenting skills.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were trying to highlight Mental Health Awareness Week with their visit, but on the same day, Harry claimed he moved Archie and Meghan to America to "break the cycle" of "genetic pain" from his own childhood.
A royal source told The Times: “It was such a lovely day for the Cambridges. It is a shame that it got usurped by what Harry had to say.
“Nobody is shocked any more. It is more: ‘Here we go again'."
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QUEEN'S NOTE TO CARING FAN AFTER PRINCE PHILIP'S DEATH
A girl, seven, was delighted to receive a thank you card from the Queen for sending her a sympathy card following the death of Prince Philip.
Francesca Woodcock, of Darlington, felt sorry for the Queen after learning that the Duke of Edinburgh had passed away and was worried about her being on her own.
So she took pen to paper and wrote the monarch a letter which she posted to Buckingham Palace and was overjoyed when she got a reply.
Her mother Stefanie Woodcock, 40, said: "She made a card and she wanted to send it to the Queen to say sorry for the death of Prince Philip.
"Her love for the royal family started when she was about three, she's always loved the Queen and Buckingham Palace since then. I think she'll be sending more letters in the future because she's very caring."
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QUEEN REMOVED ELECTRIC FENCES TO SAVE HEDGEHOGS
The Queen's Sandringham Estate has torn down electric fences to save hedgehogs, reported the Sunday Telegraph.
Their lives were at risk because of 75-yard-long electrified netting installed as a temporary measure to stop rabbits and deer chomping on newly planted shrubs.
But the fencing was removed after a plea from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
The group said that hedgehogs end up curling into a protective ball when electrocuted, rather than moving away, so end up receiving multiple shocks, killing them.
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BROADCAST OF PROBE INTO BASHIR’S DIANA INTERVIEW DELAYED
The BBC has delayed the broadcast of a Panorama investigation into Martin Bashir’s 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.
The programme was expected to air on BBC One on Monday but has been postponed due to a “significant duty of care issue”, according to the broadcaster. A new broadcast date has not yet been confirmed.
Bashir, who was the BBC News religion editor, left the corporation earlier this week on health grounds.
He has been seriously unwell with Covid-19 related complications.
It comes shortly after Lord Dyson’s investigation concluded into how Bashir landed his 1995 interview, with a BBC spokesman saying the report would be published “very soon”.
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SUSSEXES ARE ‘CASHING IN ON TITLES’
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been accused of “cashing in on their royal titles.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had to give up their ‘Royal Highness’ titles, but were allowed to remain a duke and duchess.
A source told BestLife: “Many people don’t understand why, if Meghan and Harry were so determined to leave royal life, they insist on using their titles in all their projects.
“That doesn’t sit right with many people in the UK who see it as profiting from an institution they no longer contribute to, but in America, royal titles or not, they are the most famous couple in the world and that translates into huge stardom.”
Most recently, Meghan announced she was releasing a children’s book called The Bench – using the author name Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex.]
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HARRY WANTED PRIVACY BUT HAS ANYTHING BUT, SAYS COMMENTATOR
A royal commentator has raised questions over why Prince Harry left royal duties and the UK behind for a more private life and then “generated anything but privacy”.
Dickie Arbiter said: “Prince Harry opted out of Royal life a little over a year ago on the pretext of wanting privacy since when he has generated anything but privacy.
“Time now for him to stop the blame game and look in the mirror.”
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JODIE TURNER-SMITH SAYS MEGHAN ‘COULD HAVE MODERNISED THE ROYAL FAMILY’
Actress Jodie Turner-Smith has described the monarchy as “limiting and archaic” and feels Meghan Markle “could have modernised the royal family”.
In an interview with The Telegraph, the 34-year-old, the first black woman to take on the role of Anne Boleyn in a new Channel 5 series, said of the Duchess of Sussex: “It was a terrible missed opportunity, the way in which it was not allowed to be something that really modernises that institution, and to change it to something for the better.
“I think that’s why there’s dysfunction there.”
And discussing the monarchy generally, she said: “We have to look at things in a modern context. And only then we will recognise that certain things are archaic, and don’t really serve us as a community and are limiting us.
“I think we should keep those things in stories and move on to something else in reality.”
- Joseph Gamp
PRINCE CHARLES’ ‘VICTORIAN-STYLE UPBRINGING’ MEANT HE STRUGGLED TO PARENT, CLAIMS ROYAL AUTHOR
Prince Charles had a “Victorian-style upbringing” with nannies and did not know how to relate to his own sons, a royal expert has claimed.
Speaking to a new Channel 5 documentary, Royal author Tom Quinn said “Although Charles tried to be a more modern parent he didn’t have the tools because he didn’t grow up with them.
“Diana actually joined in their games, while Charles would have said ‘off you go’.”
Charles & Harry: Father & Son Divided will air on Channel 5 on Sunday night at 9pm.
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QUEEN ‘WILL COPE WITH ROYAL RIFTS’
According to Royal author Matthew Dennison, the Queen will take the latest royal rifts – primarily involving Prince Harry and Prince Andrew – in her stride and “will cope”.
He said: “She will do so using the simple instinct she has honed over many decades: that she was born into a role which leaves her no alternative; a role which history itself has bestowed upon her and from which there is no shirking.
“She will cope precisely through her understanding that her role is everything and supersedes all else in her life – even the most profound of personal tragedies.”
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HARRY USES AMERICANISMS TO ‘BE LIKED’, SAYS EXPERT
A speech expert reckons Prince Harry has dropped elements of his English accent in favour of Americanisms to “be liked”.
Emma Serlin told FEMAIL that the Duke of Sussex dropped his Ts and used Americanisms during his recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, using terms like “gotta”, “wanna” and “coulda” to “fit into” American society and be liked.
She said: “It’s not so much that he’s developed an American accent but more that he is adapting his. For example, dropping his Ts… and use of Americanisms.
“This softening of his own accent is really his psychology at play… He has a strong desire to be liked and to connect.”
- Joseph Gamp
ANDREW ‘QUIETLY REMOVED’ AS PATRON OF 50 ORGANISATIONS
Prince Andrew has reportedly been dropped as patron of almost 50 organisations in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal.
The Duke of York has been quietly or publicly removed from the top role by dozens of different bodies, it was reported tonight.
The Telegraph states some felt it was “no longer appropriate” to continue their public associations with him, while others are said to have expressed a desire to find someone “better suited” to their aims and values.
A spokesperson for the Duke of York has declined to comment on the report.
The royal stepped back from public duties over his friendship with convicted paedophile Epstein 18 months ago.
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MEGHAN DRAGGED INTO ROW OVER BOOK PUBLISHERS CHOOSING ‘CELEBRITY OVER QUALITY’
Meghan Markle has been dragged into a row over publishers prioritising “celebrity over quality”.
It comes as the Duchess of Sussex prepares to release her debut book, The Bench, next month.
British children’s author Gareth P Jones, who penned the Dragon Detective Agency book series, told the Telegraph: “Most celebrity authors get such whopping advances for their efforts that I’m not sure book sales or longevity are important factors for them.”
Fleur Hitchcock, author of children’s thriller Waiting for Murder, added: “There have been some absolute disasters over the years – remember Madonna’s?
“Some sell on the name, and fizzle out, but some are so aggressively marketed that they swamp the competition.”
- Joseph Gamp
MAN CLAIMS HE HAS MORE ‘PROOF’ HE IS CHARLES AND CAMILLA’S ‘LOVE-CHILD’
An Australian man claims he has even more ‘proof’ he is Prince Charles and Camilla’s son.
Simon Dorante-Day, who was born in the UK, claims he was conceived in 1965 by a 17-year-old Charles and 18-year-old Camilla.
He released a new photo from 1990, which shows an uncanny resemblance to Prince Andrew, reported 7News.
He told the outlet: “Prince Andrew is only six years older than me. But there’s no denying the likeness, which makes sense given that I believe he is my uncle.
“A lot of people think this is actually a photo of a younger Prince Andrew when they first look at it.”
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GEN Z ROYALS MORE ‘INFLUENCER THAN ARISTOCRAT’
The younger members of the Royal Family appear to be more ‘Instagram influencer than aristocrat’.
A report by The Times hails them royal-slash-socialites, or ‘royalites’ who enjoy the privileges of royal life while having the freedom to essentially do what they want.
Several work as models, artists and marketing agents, away from the ‘royal spotlight’.
“They will be expected to uphold the values of the Crown and not let the side down,” says Victoria Arbiter, CNN’s royal commentator and daughter of Dickie Arbiter, former press secretary to the Queen.
“The Queen does not rule with an iron fist and she would never presume to tell private members of the extended family what they can and can’t do. As with all things ‘royal’, it’s a delicate balance.”
- Joseph Gamp
PRINCE HARRY ‘TRAPPED’ BY MEGHAN, SAYS ROYAL EXPERT
Prince Harry thinks he has found freedom – but is increasingly trapped by Meghan Markle, a royal expert has claimed.
Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams says it’s “obvious” the Duke of Sussex no longer makes up his own mind, with the Duchess now making it up for him.
“He claims he’s found freedom,” Mr Fitzwilliams told The Sun Online.
“In reality he seems to be increasingly trapped, but it is clear he doesn’t realise it yet.”
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GHISLAINE MAXWELL ‘FULLY EXPECTS’ TO BE CLEARED
Ghislaine Maxwell is “looking forward” to her trial and “fully expects” to be cleared, according to her family.
Relatives spoke on behalf of the socialite and ex-lover of Jeffrey Epstein – Prince Andrew’s paedophile pal.
Writing on a Twitter account run by siblings, they said: “Ghislaine looks forward to a fair trial where she fully expects to be exonerated.
“She has never been found liable in any civil litigation.
“None of the allegations has ever been tested by cross examination with witnesses under oath.”
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