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They have glittering palaces, unreal fortunes, medieval crowns, and weird traditions. But what really makes the British royal family tick? Hidden secrets, unreal scandals, bitter feuds, wild rivalries, fantastic fashion… and, of course, corgis. Now Tom Sykes, the royal correspondent whose fearless reporting has delivered scoop after scoop on the Windsors is cracking open all the family’s secrets in an unmissable podcast: The Royalist. Nothing is off limits as Tom and his best-connected experts spill every drop of royal tea. From paranoid princes and disgraced dukes to haunted palaces and diva designers, this is insight into the royals people used to lose their heads to get. Make a royal appointment to join Tom in the throne room for The Royalist, every Wednesday.
Episodios 63
LIVE: Sordid Markle Arrest Damages William and George’s Country Life PR Push
Prince William has spent six months working on his guest edit of Country Life, and this was supposed to be his week. Today the 300-page special issue finally goes on sale, with the Prince of Wales as its cover …
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Prince William has spent six months working on his guest edit of Country Life, and this was supposed to be his week. Today the 300-page special issue finally goes on sale, with the Prince of Wales as its cover star, sharing his thoughts on the countryside, the people who look after it, and even his fondness for a pint of cider with ice down the pub. William to give insight into public and private life as he guest edits magazine Instead, the royal news agenda belongs to an 82-year-old man in Florida. Last Friday the FBI took Thomas Markle, Meghan’s estranged father, into custody, and he now faces a federal count of possessing child sexual abuse material. He has called the accusations false, and it is important to say that an arrest is not a conviction. But the story has swallowed everything else in the royal world whole. meghan markles father reportedly arrested on child sexual abuse material charges In this video, I look at how the Markle arrest has overshadowed William’s Country Life debut, and why a magazine issue that Kensington Palace would have expected to dominate the headlines for days has been pushed down the running order by a scandal that has nothing to do with him. William is following his father, Queen Camilla and Princess Anne into the guest editor’s chair. (Camilla’s issue is still the magazine’s best seller of all time.) For the heir to the throne, this was a chance to set out who he is and what he cares about: rural Britain, the environment, and the people working the land. I also look at what the arrest means for Meghan. She addressed the allegations against her father when they first emerged in October, though her representative would not comment on the arrest itself. And I ask the bigger question: more than six years after Harry and Meghan left royal life, why does the Sussex story still have the power to blow the Prince of Wales off the front pages? oxygen Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Why Humiliated Harry and Meghan Will Quit UK
In this episode of The Royalist, Tom Sykes is joined by Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) and Mark Dolan for a revealing look at the latest royal drama. From …
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In this episode of The Royalist, Tom Sykes is joined by Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) and Mark Dolan for a revealing look at the latest royal drama. From Prince Harry’s controversial Remembrance Sunday appearance and Prince Andrew’s life away from the royal spotlight to the explosive questions surrounding Meghan Markle and her father, Thomas Markle Sr., no stone is left unturned. Plus, Mark Dolan delivers his take on the Sussexes’ troubled UK return, the future of their royal brand, and why he believes Harry and Meghan could be heading back to California within a year. Is a royal escape plan taking shape? Tune in for sharp analysis, royal family news, behind-the-scenes insight and plenty of debate.
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LIVE: EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry’s Lonely UK Life: No New Friends and the King STILL Hasn’t Seen Him
Seeing Prince Harry standing alone in Brackley, with no friends or neighbors around him, was a salutary reminder of just how much he has lost in his idiotic decision to go to war with the royal family. He cut a …
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Seeing Prince Harry standing alone in Brackley, with no friends or neighbors around him, was a salutary reminder of just how much he has lost in his idiotic decision to go to war with the royal family. He cut a lonely figure for a man who was once so beloved, had so many friends and was so social. He is now cut off from almost all of them, especially the ones who can’t forgive how he treated William and Catherine (the couples shared many friends). I am now told he and Meghan have made no new friends since moving to the UK. “The only people they see regularly are Ellen and Portia,” my source says. They are completely isolated, totally paranoid about privacy and security, and battered by the news cycle about Meghan’s dad, Thomas. Meghan is not keen on shooting invitations, which are of course the social lifeblood of the region at this time of year. The one bright spot is the kids’ school, which feels “normal,” and the children are settling in well. The same cannot be said for the parents. School is often a way to meet new people, but I’m told they haven’t really bonded with the other parents, partly because of their habit of arriving in a convoy of two or even three Range Rovers, which has started to annoy the other parents, many of whom are also high profile and rich. Meghan is adrift socially, even though hustling like crazy for work is keeping her busy. Harry is traveling a lot (New York last week, Brussels this week), again trying to hustle for business as the two of them try to figure out how to create a sustainable life here. And the King still has not seen them in person, which is becoming a source of frustration. A friend of the King says he is not in a position to just wheel out social visits, and that Harry’s refusal to go through official channels to schedule an audience is making this difficult, as is his decision to appeal the Mail on Sunday judgment (very awkward for the King). Can Harry rebuild a life here, or is this it? Let me know what you think in the comments.
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LIVE: Harry Vowed Not to Pull Focus. Then He Turned Up in Brackley in His MEDALS
Harry promised he wouldn't pull focus. In the run-up to Remembrance Sunday, a friend told HELLO! that he would do nothing to distract from the Royal Family or the national commemorations at the Cenotaph. Then …
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Harry promised he wouldn't pull focus. In the run-up to Remembrance Sunday, a friend told HELLO! that he would do nothing to distract from the Royal Family or the national commemorations at the Cenotaph. Then, at just before three o'clock this afternoon, there he was. He was standing beside The Crown Hotel in Brackley, a Northamptonshire market town he has no connection with whatsoever, with his medals on his chest and a poppy in his lapel, being filmed. There was no Meghan. By teatime, the pictures were everywhere, sitting right alongside the King at the Cenotaph. He couldn't resist. And I think it is desperately sad. In tonight's live, I go through why this matters. Harry has spent the best part of seven years taking the institution apart in public. There was Oprah, the Netflix series about his privacy, Spare, and the BBC interview in which he said he couldn't see a world in which he would bring his family back to the UK. Now he lives in the Cotswolds and wants to stand at a war memorial as the nation's solemn veteran. We look at the medals (one earned in Helmand, three jubilee medals from his grandmother). We look at the uncanny habit cameras have of finding the Sussexes at their most "private" moments. And we look at the timing, given that last year his people made a point of releasing his Remembrance essay on a Wednesday to avoid pulling focus. I also look at the Andrew comparison. Harry hates it, and on conduct he's right. But in the hunger to stand in the light of a royal occasion you've been shut out of, the two Dukes of Hazard are looking awfully alike. Above all, Brackley shows the profound difficulty Harry is going to have living in the UK while estranged from the royals but pretending to be a royal. If he were in, there would be no problem. He's not. So is this the model now? Christmas, Easter, Trooping the Colour, Diana's anniversary: will it be Harry in a crowd nearby, on camera, every time?
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LIVE: Bursaries, Tailcoats and a Chequebook at 13| The Royalist at Eton; Episode 1
I’m taking a couple of days off the royal news to do something a little different and tell you about my own schooldays at Eton College, where Prince George has just started. I arrived in 1987, aged 13, as a new …
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I’m taking a couple of days off the royal news to do something a little different and tell you about my own schooldays at Eton College, where Prince George has just started. I arrived in 1987, aged 13, as a new boy in Keate House. My father had been there before me (and was expelled, I hasten to add, as was I in the end). The only reason I got through the door at all was my brilliant mum, a children’s fashion designer, who tracked down the War Memorial Bursary that paid half my fees. In this first episode I talk about how the money was found, the family who went before me, being kitted out with my one new tailcoat on Eton High Street, and being handed a Coutts chequebook at 13 so I could pay for bacon rolls at Rowlands. It ends in the car on my first day, my stomach flipping like a pancake as the spires of Eton loomed up ahead. Part two is out tomorrow.
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Meghan's New Victim Strategy Exposed
Tom Sykes is joined by royal editor Robert Jobson to unpack the explosive Thomas Markle scandal and its implications for Meghan and Harry. Is Meghan using this disturbing family story to portray herself as the …
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Tom Sykes is joined by royal editor Robert Jobson to unpack the explosive Thomas Markle scandal and its implications for Meghan and Harry. Is Meghan using this disturbing family story to portray herself as the victim of a media campaign? Tom and Robert examine the mysterious letter, the disputed timeline, the Sussexes’ media strategy, and whether King Charles should finally make a definitive break with the couple. Plus, in Royal News Update, Tom looks at Prince Harry’s plans for Remembrance Sunday and whether he can avoid another royal PR storm. And in Tea with Tom, NewsNation’s Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) joins Tom to dish on King Charles’ Caribbean tour, his dancing and rum-drinking, and the growing controversy over slavery reparations and the King's refusal to apologize.
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LIVE: Exclusive Special! TOM BOWER'S Withering Analysis of The Markle Debacle
YES FOLKS BOWER IS BACK ON THE ROYALIST!!!! Tom Bower, the author of BETRAYAL and REVENGE and the most feared investigative biographer in Britain, has said nothing about the Thomas Markle story. UNTIL NOW. Join …
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YES FOLKS BOWER IS BACK ON THE ROYALIST!!!! Tom Bower, the author of BETRAYAL and REVENGE and the most feared investigative biographer in Britain, has said nothing about the Thomas Markle story. UNTIL NOW. Join us this evening for a VERY SPECIAL LIVE SHOW, his FIRST since the news broke that Meghan’s father is under investigation over allegations he possessed child sexual abuse material, that his own son turned him in, and that the Markle family has split down the middle over it. Today he breaks his silence, live and exclusively on The Royalist, a man who has spent decades taking apart the powerful, and it is exactly why I wanted him on the show rather than another talking head with a hot take. Bower knows the Markles better than any journalist alive. He has investigated them, and he has watched their stories shift for years. He is the right person to ask the questions that matter: what do we actually know, what is being claimed, who is saying it, and what should we make of the fact that different members of the same family are telling completely different versions of events? We will go through the timeline from the beginning. We will look at what Thomas Markle Sr. has said, what Thomas Jr. has said, what Samantha has said and we will talk about what has to happen next. And we will get to the question everyone is really asking, how bad is this for Meghan? This is a live conversation, so MEMBERS PLEASE bring your questions, and I will put as many MEMBER'S QUESTIONS to Tom as I can.
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LIVE: Now Meghan Blames William and Catherine For Covering Up HER DAD'S Alleged Crimes
When the news broke last week that Thomas Markle had been accused of hoarding a stash of child sex abuse material, a certain kind of comment piece went round the, ahem, progressive end of the media almost …
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When the news broke last week that Thomas Markle had been accused of hoarding a stash of child sex abuse material, a certain kind of comment piece went round the, ahem, progressive end of the media almost instantly. The headlines were all variations on the same theme: how long before Meghan’s father allegedly hoarding pedophile material turned out to be "Meghan’s fault?" Not long, was the implication, if the wicked tabloids had anything to do with it. A week on, there is an alternative spin on offer, and it is coming from the Sussexes’ new house magazine, The Telegraph, and what it looks very much like, to my eye, is Meghan’s side trying to lump at least some of the blame for what happened to that letter onto William and Catherine. The same double standard runs through everything. In February 2020 they announced that by giving up public funds they had removed the “supposed ‘public interest’ justification for media intrusion.” In September this year their office issued a media advisory headed “PRINCE HARRY, DUKE OF SUSSEX SEPTEMBER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS,” and their friends briefed that they are public figures, not private citizens. They are whichever suits the day. And so it is with the letter: private when it protects her, public when it convicts the press, and now, apparently, a matter for the wider royal household when the question turns to who sat on it. I find the choice of vehicle fascinating. This is The Telegraph that last week fired around 100 staff as its new owner, Axel Springer (which bought the paper in June for £575 million), announced its intention to turn it into a “global, AI-powered premium media and intelligence business.” I called that a Slopbait factory in a Substack Note last night, and I stand by the coinage (neologisms are what Substack is for). Any tidbit about Harry and Meghan drives traffic, and what we appear to be watching is a paper abandoning basic journalistic principles and taking what it is fed on trust from a team that has been shown, again and again, to be highly manipulative and to say things that are not true when it suits them.
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LIVE: Palace Cover-Up? Met Police Admit Failures Over Thomas Markle Abuse Letter
First, the Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, over its handling of the January 2019 letter in which Thomas Markle’s first wife, Roslyn …
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First, the Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, over its handling of the January 2019 letter in which Thomas Markle’s first wife, Roslyn Loveless, accused him of child sex offenses. That is the Met admitting, in its own words, that it got this wrong. Not in a lost-the-paperwork way (although it did lose the paperwork, we’ll come to that). Wrong in two specific decisions that the watchdog is now going to investigate. Second, and this is the one that should be setting off alarms at Buckingham Palace: Richard Eden in the Daily Mail reports today that there is growing concern inside the Palace about what the Met’s review is going to uncover, and that a royal source has told him it is “unthinkable” the Royal Household was not told about that letter at the time. The source’s argument is simple. Harry and Meghan would not have been handed something like this on their own. The police had a duty to inform the Palace, and the source says they will have done so.
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LIVE: BREAKING King Pays Price For Bringing Harry Back In Devastating New Poll
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LIVE: Lying Then, or Lying Now? Meghan’s Father Scandal Just Blew Up Her Oprah Story
Either Meghan believed in 2019 that her father was a pedophile, in which case she lied to Oprah about what was really tormenting her, or she didn’t, in which case last week’s statement was pure opportunism …
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Either Meghan believed in 2019 that her father was a pedophile, in which case she lied to Oprah about what was really tormenting her, or she didn’t, in which case last week’s statement was pure opportunism. There is no third option. In this video I lay out why the Sussexes’ handling of the Thomas Markle allegations (which he denies, and which are a matter for the courts) has turned whatever sympathy initially flowed Meghan’s way into something close to disgust. The whole story hinges on a letter, allegedly sent to the Metropolitan Police in January 2019 by Thomas Markle’s first wife, Roslyn Loveless, accusing him of traveling to the Philippines for sex with children. A copy, we are told, reached Harry and Meghan via their bodyguards. Meghan now says that letter is the one reason she cut off her father and kept him away from Archie and Lili. Yet the police lost it, had to ask the Sussexes for a copy, and then dated it to 2019 rather than 2018, at which point Meghan’s much-vaunted record keeping fell apart and her spokesman had to correct her. So why did nobody follow up? Meghan had five police officers around her for another year. She allowed friends to tell People magazine, a month after the letter supposedly arrived, that she had written to her father: “I love you. I have one father. Please stop victimizing me through the media.” Harry praised Thomas in Spare. Her lawyers blamed the tabloids for the estrangement. Everybody’s actions suggest neither the Met nor Meghan found the letter credible. And if she did believe it? Then she sat opposite Oprah and blamed her suicidal ideation on racist press coverage and a heartless royal family (the bridesmaids’ dresses, the lip gloss, the sofa) while saying nothing about a father she was convinced was an abuser. That narrative built a global brand. A pedophile father would have destroyed it. Meanwhile Meghan has launched a $550 As Ever “Library basket,” signed up for MasterChef Australia, and let staff brief that she has fled the UK in tears. The public verdict is in, and it is grim. In Spare, Harry raged at William for urging him to take his time getting to know “this girl.” If only he had.
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The Thomas Markle Bombshell Meghan Can’t Escape
The latest allegations surrounding Thomas Markle, Meghan Markle’s estranged father, are raising new questions about one of the royal family’s most publicized family feuds. On this episode of The Royalist, Tom …
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The latest allegations surrounding Thomas Markle, Meghan Markle’s estranged father, are raising new questions about one of the royal family’s most publicized family feuds. On this episode of The Royalist, Tom Sykes examines the disputed claims, a letter from 2019, and the complicated circumstances surrounding Meghan’s estrangement from her father. Could this overlooked chapter change how we understand Meghan’s account of the family feud—and the events that shaped her relationship with the royal family? Plus, Tom sits down with Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) to discuss Prince William’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show and why the Prince of Wales made such a strong impression.
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LIVE: Bungling British Police LOST Letter Warning Them About Meghan’s Dad
The Metropolitan Police, the force charged with protecting the royal family, has had to go cap in hand to Meghan Markle and ask whether she still had a copy of a letter it was sent in 2019, because it had lost …
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The Metropolitan Police, the force charged with protecting the royal family, has had to go cap in hand to Meghan Markle and ask whether she still had a copy of a letter it was sent in 2019, because it had lost its own. That letter, according to The Times and The Telegraph, was written by Roslyn Loveless, the late ex-wife of Thomas Markle Sr. and the mother of Samantha Markle and Thomas Markle Jr. In January 2019 it was sent to the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, the specialist Scotland Yard unit that assesses risks to the royals, and it contained serious allegations of child sexual offences against Meghan’s father, along with a warning that he could pose a security risk to Meghan, Prince Harry and Doria Ragland. What did the Met do with it? By its own admission, following a review of its systems and records, it decided simply to hand it on to the Sussexes’ office. No referral to other agencies at home or abroad. And then, it appears, the original went missing. Meghan says she was assured at the time that the allegations were being investigated and was told not to discuss them. She has not spoken to her father since. For seven years she has been portrayed as the daughter who coldly cut off a sick old man; it now appears she was sitting on a police warning she had been instructed to keep to herself. The story has resurfaced because Thomas Markle Jr. says he found child abuse images at his father’s home in the Philippines earlier this year and reported him to Philippine police and the FBI. Philippine authorities have confirmed an investigation, and the FBI’s Tampa office is said to have joined it. Thomas Markle Sr. has not been charged with any offence. In this video I go through what the Met knew, what it did (and did not do), why Meghan is reportedly upset and frustrated, and what this does to the narrative of the Markle family feud that has dominated royal coverage since 2018. The Royalist keeps you up to date on all the latest royal news.
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LIVE: The Markle Story Just Got Far Darker: What Meghan’s Statement Really Means
The Thomas Markle story has taken its darkest turn yet. The Sun reports that Meghan’s estranged father is under investigation over claims he kept child sexual abuse images at his former home in the Philippines …
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The Thomas Markle story has taken its darkest turn yet. The Sun reports that Meghan’s estranged father is under investigation over claims he kept child sexual abuse images at his former home in the Philippines, allegations he flatly denies (he told the Daily Mail they are “sick lies”). The claim is said to have come from his own son, Thomas Markle Jnr, who alleges he found the material at the house his father left after moving there in 2025 following a series of strokes. Now the Duchess of Sussex has broken her silence, and her statement is extraordinary. Meghan says she is “deeply distressed” by what has emerged, but the real bombshell concerns 2018. According to Meghan, a letter was sent that year to the Metropolitan Police and to Royalty and Specialist Protection (the unit that guards the royal family) containing “troubling and disturbing allegations” against her father. That letter was later shared with her, and she says she was assured the claims were being investigated. It is understood she received it in the summer of 2018, in the months after her wedding to Prince Harry that May. That timeline matters. For eight years Meghan’s refusal to speak to her father, and her decision to keep him away from Archie and Lilibet, has been painted as cold, calculating, even cruel. Today she says there was only ever one reason: to protect her children. In this video I go through exactly what Meghan has said, what Thomas Markle has said in his own defence, and the questions this raises for the police, for royal protection officers, and for the palace. What was known in 2018, who knew it, and what, if anything, was done about it? Thomas Markle is now reportedly in a rehabilitation centre in Florida after having his left leg amputated last year. Meghan wrote to him in December after he said he did not want to die estranged from his daughter. Any hope of reconciliation now looks a very long way off. These remain allegations under investigation, not findings, and Thomas Markle denies them in the strongest terms.
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LIVE: BREAKING- Thomas Markle Under Child Abuse Investigation After His SON Turns Him In
Emergency live. The Sun reports tonight that Thomas Markle Sr., the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father, is under investigation by police in the Philippines over an alleged hoard of child sex abuse images, and …
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Emergency live. The Sun reports tonight that Thomas Markle Sr., the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father, is under investigation by police in the Philippines over an alleged hoard of child sex abuse images, and that the person who reported him is his own son. Thomas Markle Jr., Meghan’s half-brother and until this week his father’s carer and most loyal defender, has lodged a sworn statement with specialist child abuse officers in Cebu. The Sun’s Nick Parker was with him as he did it. Thomas Jr. says he found “hundreds, if not thousands” of abuse images and videos in four boxes of his father’s belongings, left behind when Thomas Sr. was flown back to the United States in May after losing his leg. Old phones. Three hard drives. Photography books. Film negatives. He says he reported it to the FBI in July, heard nothing, and went back to the boxes himself. The Sun says a task force has been appointed, the boxes are going for forensic examination, and an FBI agent has asked for the Philippine investigators’ details. The police declined to comment. No charges have been brought. Thomas Sr., now in a Florida nursing home being looked after by Samantha, has not responded. And a source close to Meghan has already told The Sun: “Now maybe people will finally understand why she has had nothing to do with her father since 2018.” That quote needs explaining, because nothing in this story suggests Meghan knew anything about what her brother says he found. Which brings me to the part I think matters most. This whole story rests on the word of one Markle about another. Thomas Jr. has a gun arrest, a drunk-driving arrest, a father who once said he “has a serious problem,” a sister who said “he always drank,” and a YouTube rant from last December in which he encouraged people to throw excrement at Meghan. Thomas Sr. has admitted lying on television. Samantha sued her sister and lost. All three have spent eight years monetizing Meghan. None of that makes the allegation untrue. A sworn statement cannot be deleted in the morning, and if those boxes contain what he says they contain, the forensics will prove it. But tonight, nobody outside the Markle family has looked in them. Full write-up in tomorrow morning’s newsletter. Tell me what you make of it in the comments.
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LIVE: Now Harry’s Phone Hacking Solicitors Go Bust!
The law firm at the heart of Prince Harry’s war on the British tabloids has gone bust. Thomson Heath Jenkins & Associates (the boutique London practice that acted for Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish …
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The law firm at the heart of Prince Harry’s war on the British tabloids has gone bust. Thomson Heath Jenkins & Associates (the boutique London practice that acted for Harry, Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and Sir Simon Hughes in their failed privacy claim against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail) has reportedly shut its doors and called in insolvency practitioners. According to the Telegraph, the collapse came as a shock to staff. Just a week ago, the firm was still boasting on its website about its rankings in the Chambers & Partners 2027 guide. This was no bit-part player. Founded in 2009 by Cambridge graduate Mark Thomson, the firm built its reputation on phone hacking litigation and helped prove the generic case against Mirror Group Newspapers. Seven of its solicitors worked on the case against the Mail. But in July, after an eleven-week trial, Mr Justice Nicklin threw out every single one of the claimants’ allegations, ruling that suspicion is not proof. Harry and his co-claimants were then ordered to pay £9.5 million as a first instalment towards Associated’s legal costs, with the total bill for both sides estimated at £40 to £50 million. So where does this leave Harry? The claimants are pursuing an appeal, and they must now do so without the firm that ran their case, while staring down a potential multimillion-pound costs liability should they lose again. It is hard to imagine a more humiliating coda to what Harry called his “mission” to reform the British press. In this video, I explain what we know about the firm’s collapse, what it means for Harry’s appeal and his finances, and why the Duke’s long crusade against the tabloids is proving so ruinously expensive.
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LIVE: Aberfan: The Day I Shook Hands With the King, the Queen and Prince William (In the Cheap Seats)
I have just spent the entire day in Aberfan. I stood in the crowd, as a member of the public, in the freezing cold, for hours. I shook hands with the King, the Queen and Prince William, one after the other. And …
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I have just spent the entire day in Aberfan. I stood in the crowd, as a member of the public, in the freezing cold, for hours. I shook hands with the King, the Queen and Prince William, one after the other. And I talked to the people who were there, listened to them and watched them. This video is what I saw. Sixty years ago today a colliery spoil tip slid down the mountain and buried Pantglas Junior School. 144 people died, 116 of them children, killed at their desks in the first minutes of the school day. Today the King, the Queen and the Prince of Wales laid their tributes in the memorial garden on the site of the school, stood in silence beside Mair Morgan, the last surviving teacher, met the survivors and the bereaved families, and then walked a line of easily a thousand people and shook hands with every single one of them. Bottom line: they absolutely aced it. A textbook royal performance. I’ll introduce you to Bonita Smith, whose father Robert was one of the first firemen digging in the slurry that morning, and who stopped the King and told him her dad’s story. That is what the monarchy is, at its best. I’ll explain why being in the cheap seats with the public beats the royal rota every time. And I’ll tell you honestly how the King looks in person, because you’d want me to. Then the bigger picture. Minutes after the Sultan of Oman’s state visit got underway on Tuesday, Harry’s GQ interview dropped, with the Duke complaining that “some people don’t want it to work out.” Everybody heard “some people” and thought William. That same evening, at the Windsor banquet, Charles stood up in front of 160 guests and talked about his son and “our successors.” Today, father and son stood at the memorial together. The line runs from Charles to William, full stop. It was deliberate, and we need to see a lot more of it (and some much tougher language about Harry). Finally, the anger. Not at the royals, but at the institutions: the Coal Board that was warned and did nothing, nobody sacked or prosecuted, the money taken from the disaster fund, and 2,589 disused coal tips still sitting above Welsh villages sixty years on. The royal family is the last institution these people still have faith in. That is exactly why what Harry is doing is so dangerous. Full write-up, with all my pictures and video, in tomorrow morning’s free Substack newsletter.
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Harry is Meghan's Brainwashed Puppet: Tom Bower
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On this episode of The Royalist, Tom Sykes is joined by Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) and investigative biographer Tom Bower for a revealing discussion of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and the latest royal drama. Did Queen Camilla see trouble brewing from the beginning? Tom Bower revisits the explosive claim that Harry was “brainwashed” and examines the Sussexes’ ambitions, their relationship with the Royal Family and the challenges facing King Charles. Plus, Paula Froelich weighs in on Meghan’s Netflix projects, With Love, Meghan, and the latest twists in her Hollywood ambitions. From the Sussexes’ royal status to the future of the monarchy, this episode unpacks the stories making headlines in the world of royal news.
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LIVE: "OUTRAGEOUS!" Harry BLAMES WILLIAM For Estrangement in Self-Serving New Interview
Tom was joined by writer and podcaster Molly Mulshine to discuss Harry's astonishing interview with GQ. Prince Harry has said he wants to reconcile with his brother, but suggested WILLIAM is to blame for their …
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Tom was joined by writer and podcaster Molly Mulshine to discuss Harry's astonishing interview with GQ. Prince Harry has said he wants to reconcile with his brother, but suggested WILLIAM is to blame for their ongoing estrangement! That's the big line from a new interview with GQ, published today as part of the magazine's One More Question series. It dropped just as King Charles was hosting a state visit for the Sultan of Oman. Asked whether he grieves his "complicated relationship" with Prince William and his father, Harry says: "Yes, of course." He calls family estrangement "another massively relatable issue for so many people," and then says: "Some people don't want it to work out. I want it to work out." Asked whether he really does, he insists: "Of course I do. Again, with everything else that's going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile. That's the key point."
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LIVE: Nottingham Crowds Were Coached to Cheer Meghan
The cheering crowds in Nottingham were not what they seemed. I was on the ground for Harry and Meghan's charity visit on Thursday, and I can tell you the crowds were coached to cheer for Meghan. The walkabout …
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The cheering crowds in Nottingham were not what they seemed. I was on the ground for Harry and Meghan's charity visit on Thursday, and I can tell you the crowds were coached to cheer for Meghan. The walkabout at the first engagement, at the Community Recording Studio, was more or less fake. Everyone taking part had been invited. Children were brought in from the neighboring school, young adults were brought in from the local Mencap, and the cameras were positioned to make the scene look busy. My own footage shows the rest of the street was entirely empty. I counted perhaps half a dozen genuine passers-by. At the Himmah Hub, people stopped because they saw cameras, not because they had come for the couple. By Epic Partners it was complete chaos, ending with a teacher from the school next door begging the crowd to part so the children could get out of the building. And the day ended, as I exclusively revealed, with the couple leaving their final event 15 minutes early to collect their own children from school. Why stage-manage a crowd? Because the Sussexes are desperate to be seen as royals. Days later, a conveniently placed "friend" (whom anyone on this beat will recognize as their press office) told the Sunday Times that Harry and Meghan hate being called anything other than members of the royal family. That is a direct rejection of the King's ruling, sent by the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Benyon, that their position is "akin to private citizens with commercial and charitable interests." In this video I explain why a manufactured royal welcome is so dangerous for the monarchy, why the Palace is in a state of dismay and has no idea what to do, and why the couple's camp says they might do "one or two more things together" before the end of the year. My bet is Remembrance. I also explain why Nottingham proves they can never be given police security: outriders at events like these would make them look exactly like members of the royal family again.
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LIVE: Exclusive: Meghan Raced Through Charity Events To Make Pick Up
Duncan joins me to discuss Meghan's latest headache, which has her fans and her critics reading the same story two very different ways. Supporters see a working mom juggling job and family. Critics see fresh …
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Duncan joins me to discuss Meghan's latest headache, which has her fans and her critics reading the same story two very different ways. Supporters see a working mom juggling job and family. Critics see fresh proof that the half-in, half-out model the Sussexes are trying to make work simply doesn't. So which is it? Tom Sykes breaks down what really happened, what it tells us about how the Sussex operation is run, and why this one will be hard to shrug off. Subscribe to The Royalist for daily analysis of the British royal family, from the only royal journalist who has been on the beat since Diana's funeral. Read more and join the conversation at The Royalist on Substack.
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LIVE: EXCLUSIVE ‘It’s Unforgivable’: Royal Insiders React as Harry and Meghan Tear Up Queen’s Megxit Deal
"It's unforgivable." A friend of the Sussexes has told Hello! magazine that Harry and Meghan never agreed to the Sandringham settlement the late Queen hammered out in January 2020, and do not consider …
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"It's unforgivable." A friend of the Sussexes has told Hello! magazine that Harry and Meghan never agreed to the Sandringham settlement the late Queen hammered out in January 2020, and do not consider themselves bound by it. "They never agreed they wouldn't be half in half out," the friend said. "That was what was decided and foisted upon them." "Half in, half out" was the very thing Queen Elizabeth II ruled out at Sandringham. It was the central tenet of Megxit, and the basis on which the entire post-Megxit structure was built (the HRHs held in abeyance, the loss of the military appointments, the end of public funding). Six years on, the Sussexes' position is that none of it counts. Tom Sykes reports on why the statement has gone down so badly with friends of the late Queen and the King.
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LIVE: Meghan and Harry Arrive in Nottingham
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LIVE: EXCLUSIVE: Weak King Charles Has Allowed Harry & Meghan to HUMILIATE Him With Their Sham Royal Tour
Harry and Meghan are back in Nottingham, and The Royalist has been there all day - and is going live with FOUR special guests to bring you every twist and turn. This is Meghan's first public appearance in …
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Harry and Meghan are back in Nottingham, and The Royalist has been there all day - and is going live with FOUR special guests to bring you every twist and turn. This is Meghan's first public appearance in Britain since the Sussexes left Montecito and moved back to the UK in August. Harry has been out and about on his own, with Invictus and the WellChild Awards, but today is the first time the couple have stepped out together on British soil in six years. And they chose the location very carefully. Nottingham is where, in December 2017, just days after announcing their engagement, they did their first walkabout as a couple, to a sea of camera phones and chants of "Harry! Meghan!" Nearly nine years on, the itinerary looks remarkably familiar: the Community Recording Studio in St Ann's, the Hubb Community Kitchen (born out of the Grenfell tragedy) and the youth charity Epic Partners. It looks, sounds and feels exactly like a royal engagement. There is just one problem. It isn't one. Only last month, the King had the Lord Chamberlain write to senior officials making it clear that the Sussexes are not working royals and should be treated as private citizens. Their office declared itself "surprised". Today's outing, with all the trappings of a royal tour, looks very much like their reply. So is this an olive branch, or a rival court setting up shop on the King's doorstep? With their security still unresolved and Christmas at Sandringham already off the table, what does it mean for relations with Charles, William and Catherine? And, belieev it or not, CHARLES was the one who got booed today. I've got a brilliant line-up to pick it all apart with me.
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LIVE: New As Ever Leak Reveals 16 Products Selling ZERO Units
Welcome to The Royalist. Today I am delighted to welcome back a friend of the show, the Daily Mail’s Editor at Large, Alison Boshoff. Alison has done something nobody else seems to have bothered to do: she has …
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Welcome to The Royalist. Today I am delighted to welcome back a friend of the show, the Daily Mail’s Editor at Large, Alison Boshoff. Alison has done something nobody else seems to have bothered to do: she has actually done the math on Meghan’s big charity gesture. Last week, after a “private” tea at Claridge’s that somehow ended up all over Instagram, Meghan announced that 100 percent of net proceeds from a day’s sales of As Ever jams and teas would go to Malala Yousafzai’s Malala Fund, in honor of International Day of the Girl. “Tea for Two has never felt so good,” she told her 4.9 million followers. So how much did the Malala Fund actually get? Meghan’s office won’t say. But Alison has gone back to the only hard sales data that has ever leaked out of As Ever (a website glitch in January that briefly exposed how many units were selling), and the answer looks distinctly modest. Even assuming a wildly generous 50 percent margin, a day’s jam and tea proceeds come to roughly $2,500 (about £1,900). That is less than the outfit she wore to tea. The wide white Ralph Lauren trousers alone cost $2,247, and the cashmere sweater another $832. To be fair, a source close to Meghan says any figure is speculative and argues the real value lies in the attention the gesture brings, encouraging others to give. But is there a gap between the size of the fanfare and the size of the check? And who really benefits most from these one-off acts of charity? We also get into what those January figures reveal about As Ever more broadly (not a single bottle of the $89 Napa Valley Brut sold in a day, with the $42 jam trio the best-seller), Meghan’s plans to start shipping to the UK, talk in California that the brand is a minnow in decline, and the suggestion (dismissed by Team Sussex) that money worries lay behind the move back to Britain. If not jam, then what? Acting, reality TV, Harry’s speaking circuit? Alison has her ear to the ground like nobody else. Don’t miss it.
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Wild Truth About Ex-Prince Andrew's New Lover
Prince Andrew’s bizarre new romance takes center stage as Tom Sykes reveals the wild story of how Andrew allegedly met his new girlfriend—including the shocking claim that she simply rang him up out of the …
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Prince Andrew’s bizarre new romance takes center stage as Tom Sykes reveals the wild story of how Andrew allegedly met his new girlfriend—including the shocking claim that she simply rang him up out of the blue. Tom and Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) react to the unlikely “meet-cute,” and Tom reveals what this strange new relationship could mean for Andrew’s life in Norfolk. Plus, Tom sits down with Vogue contributing editor and novelist Plum Sykes to discuss Meghan Markle’s new British wardrobe, Harry’s style, and the royal fashion rules he thinks they should follow.
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LIVE: Lonely Harry's Visit to Soho House With Just His Security Guard
Prince Harry has been spotted at Soho House again. This time there was no Meghan, no brunch and no fanfare. Just the Duke of Sussex, a gym, and his security guard. It is, I confess, another strong contender for …
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Prince Harry has been spotted at Soho House again. This time there was no Meghan, no brunch and no fanfare. Just the Duke of Sussex, a gym, and his security guard. It is, I confess, another strong contender for least surprising scoop of the year. Last month my Cotswold sources told me Harry had been seen in the Soho Farmhouse pool area, wandering around reception in search of a towel, and Hello! later reported that he had used the gym there before having brunch with his wife. Today he was back, working out with only his protection officer for company. Why does it matter? Because a Soho House is not somewhere you go to hide. If you turn up at one, someone like me is probably going to hear about it. And if Harry genuinely wanted to stay out of sight, one assumes the lavish property where he is staying has a bench press of its own. I have argued that these sightings are part of a normalisation campaign, a sort of exposure therapy for the British public. It comes after the King confirmed the Sussexes as non-working royals, and after a source told Alison Boshoff that Harry expects the royal family needs him and that the couple expect to be let back in. And yet there is something rather poignant about the picture. A prince who once had palaces, a regiment and a brother at his side, now working out alone in a members' club with a bodyguard standing by. All this in the week the Sussexes are expected to make their first joint public appearance since moving back to Britain, with a royal-style visit to three charities. In this video I ask what Harry's solitary gym sessions tell us about his new life in Britain, whether the normalization campaign is working, and what it would really take for the family to let him back in. Watch now, and tell me in the comments: is Harry lonely, or is this exactly the life he wants?
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LIVE: Harry and Meghan's Bond With Ian Wace Revealed
A Cotswold source told The Royalist that a terrifying incident “bonded” Harry and Meghan and the billionaire, on whose estate, The Royalist understands, the couple are now living. Meghan appears to have filmed …
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A Cotswold source told The Royalist that a terrifying incident “bonded” Harry and Meghan and the billionaire, on whose estate, The Royalist understands, the couple are now living. Meghan appears to have filmed the video she posted yesterday of Archie and Lilibet walking through a deer park on the property.
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LIVE: Do Harry and Meghan Actually Want to be Booed on Thursday?
If you genuinely believed your family was in danger in this country, would you let a national newspaper tell the whole of Britain, four days in advance, exactly which city you were going to be standing in on …
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If you genuinely believed your family was in danger in this country, would you let a national newspaper tell the whole of Britain, four days in advance, exactly which city you were going to be standing in on Thursday? Nobody would. The working royals don't, and they are the ones who actually have the armed police. And yet that is exactly what Harry and Meghan have just done. According to the Sunday Times, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit three charities in Nottingham on Thursday. It will be Meghan's first public appearance in Britain since the family moved here at the end of August. Nottingham is no accident. It is where they carried out their very first joint engagement in December 2017, four days after announcing their engagement. That was the day the country fell for them. In this video, I ask why a couple who say Britain is too dangerous for them without state protection (who moved their children out of a school after two days, and who treated two photographers at a school gate as a matter of national security) would advertise their movements like this. My theory: they are hoping for trouble. Heads they win, tails Britain loses. A peaceful day delivers the pictures. A heckler, a scrum or a chorus of boos goes straight into the file for RAVEC and the Home Secretary. I also look at Friday night's booing at Welford Road, why the Sussex claim that the crowd was "booing the ref" does not survive a stopwatch, and why being booed is not a security incident. Plus Malala, the rival court, and why they cannot be private citizens when it comes to the photographers and public figures when it comes to the applause. If you ring the bell, you do not get to complain about the noise. Do you think they are hoping to be booed in Nottingham? And will they be? Tell me in the comments.
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LIVE: King Just Gave Andrew ANOTHER $2m! Live and Exclusive With Jobbo
The King has lent his disgraced brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the money to settle a £1.5million repair bill at Royal Lodge, Robert Jobson exclusively reported today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit …
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The King has lent his disgraced brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the money to settle a £1.5million repair bill at Royal Lodge, Robert Jobson exclusively reported today.
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