Welcome to this week’s edition of Royalist, The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Is reconciliation “the only way forward”? Prince Harry’s claim that he has enough material to write a second memoir is being seen as a threat to King … Read more
Prince Harry has claimed King Charles was envious of the Princess of Wales’ media coverage and allegedly accused her and Prince William of ‘drawing attention away from him and Camilla’. In his bombshell book Spare, which hit shelves on Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex described how his father ‘controlled the purse strings’ for his brother- … Read more
King Charles III left the room in stitches after he forgot what the date was while signing a book during a royal engagement. The monarch, 74, enjoyed a moment of levity amid a media storm around Prince Harry’s explosive memoir as he laughed off the blunder while visiting the Aboyne and Mid Deeside Community Shed. … Read more
LONDON (AP) – In public, they present a united front – always. But Prince Harry has a very different story to tell about the British royals and the way they operate. Harry’s explosive memoirwith its damning allegations of a toxic relationship between the monarchy and the press, could accelerate the pace of change already under … Read more
Prince Harry will not be welcome at his father’s coronation in May following the criticism leveled against his family in his memoirs, a source has claimed. Senior royals have baulked at the thought of spending time with the duke at the event in case conversations ‘end up in the paperback’ edition of Spare, The Sun … Read more
Readers have praised Prince Harry’s explosive memoir as ‘raw’ and ‘well written’, but said the ‘naughty’ royal’s ‘moaning’ should have stayed in the Royal Family – as the controversial tell-all finally hits the shelves today. Bookshops across the UK opened early this morning, but queues were sparse with just one person waiting outside Waterstones’ flagship … Read more
Recollections may vary. Prince Harry’s credibility is being called into question following an apparent error in his controversial memoir, “Spare,” about his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s death. In the book, the Duke of Sussex, 38, recalls the exact moment he was alerted that the late Queen Elizabeth II’s mother, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, died in March … Read more
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, who won an Olympic gold medal before becoming entangled in his country’s volatile politics in the 1960s as king and spent decades in exile, has died. He was 82. Doctors at the private Hygeia Hospital in Athens confirmed to The Associated Press that … Read more
LONDON (AP) – Prince Harry has accused his stepmother, Camilla, the queen consort, of leaking private conversations to the media to burnish her own reputation as he promotes a new book that lays bare his story of his life behind palace walls. In interviews broadcast Sunday and Monday, Harry accused members of the royal family … Read more
Prince Harry claims he was not invited on his family’s private royal jet after hearing the news that Queen Elizabeth II was dying. “I asked my brother – I said, ‘What are your plans?’ How are you and Kate? [Middleton] getting up there?’” the Duke of Sussex recalled during his “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson … Read more