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The royal biography comes two months after the release of another tell-all book “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family”, which sheds light on the Sussexes’ bombshell decision to step down from senior roles in the Royal Family. Queen Elizabeth II told her grandson Prince Harry that Meghan Markle couldn’t have whatever she wanted on their wedding day, claims a new book on royal life. “Battle of Brothers: William, Harry, and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult”, penned by biographer and historian Robert Lacey, who is known for his work on the popular […]
The survey was compiled by the company SaveOnEnergy, which evaluated senior members of the Royal Family by analysing several factors – travel footprint, support for environmental charities, attendance of events dedicated to improving nature, and how eco-friendly is their everyday life (use of electric cars, sustainable wardrobe). Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the least eco-friendly members of the Royal Family, says a new survey, conducted by the firm SaveOnEnergy, which assists people in reducing their energy bills and help the environment. The couple produced three tonnes of CO2 each during their trip around Africa last year and are the least […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. No royal reunion this Christmas The seemingly never-ending beef between Prince Harry and Prince William is reportedly playing a key part in Harry and Meghan’s decision not to return to Britain to celebrate Christmas with the royal family. Source link
Get ready for The Real Royals of Montecito. Or maybe not. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have denied a report in the British Sun that they are planning to film a Netflix reality show which would have followed their lives and work for three months. A spokesperson for Harry and Meghan told the Independent: “The Duke and Duchess are not taking part in any reality shows.” The Sun originally reported that a source said the show would “be tasteful. They want to give people a glimpse into their lives.” Meghan, the source said, wanted viewers to see “the real her.” “They […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Harry and Meghan’s advocacy “violates” royal divorce deal Reaction, almost all of it hostile, to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s decision to appear in a video encouraging Americans to vote, dominates royal coverage in the U.K. press. Source link
When Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and his wife of two years, Meghan, stepped down from their senior royal duties and moved to Los Angeles to live a “financially independent” life this year, his father was still reportedly eager to provide them with some funds. He was no less generous when they were still living in the UK. Prince Charles spent up to £5.6 million ($7.1 million) last year to support his two grown-up sons, Princes William and Harry, as well as their wives, the annual review from Clarence House, Prince Charles’s official London residence, revealed. It is not clear […]
In a video message released Tuesday, UK Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the latter a US citizen, called on Americans to “reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity”, urging them to vote on 3 November in the “most important election of our lifetime”. Many viewed the comments as directed against US President Donald Trump. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Prince Harry and his American spouse, Meghan Markle, for their involvement and interest in the 3 November presidential election. In a press conference at the White House, Trump was asked by reporters about the Duke and Duchess of […]
The Duke of York, one of the high-profile personas implicated in the notorious Jeffrey Epstein case, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, saying his ties to the late convicted paedophile was all about business and he was completely in the dark about Epstein’s criminal dealings. In a soon-to-be-released bombshell book by Author Ian Halperin, Prince Andrew is portrayed as a “sex addict” and “a daring lover,” based on the accounts of women who claim they were intimate with the now-embattled senior royal, after allegedly being introduced to him by the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Halperin, whose “Sex, Lies and Dirty Money by […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0a/1079848014_0:0:1200:676_1200x675_80_0_0_84c25a7d57f282140e08791102802aa9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Asya Geydarova. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202009191080509014-epsteins-ex-chef-cooperates-with-fbi-triggering-even-more-pressure-on-prince-andrew/ Epstein’s former chef Perry Lang volunteered to speak with federal agents after the alleged victim of sexual assault, Virginia Giuffre, wrote a letter to him asking Lang to provide help in her case against the Duke of York. Prince Andrew faces more difficulties as the former chef of the convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, is now “fully cooperating” with the FBI. Perry Lang had worked for the former financier from 1999 to 2003, and reportedly flew next to him and the Duke of York in Epstein’s private jet, according to unnamed sources cited by the […]
In light of the unfurling Epstein scandal, which has cost the Duke of York his reputation among other top figures, a royal biographer believes Andrew’s loss of his HRH title is only a matter of time. Prince Andrew will be effectively excluded from his father Prince Philip’s 100th birthday next year over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal for the “survival of the monarchy”, according to his biographer Nigel Cawthorne, the author of Prince Andrew, Epstein and the Palace, as cited by Newsweek. The biographer went on to comment that the purported decision to airbrush Andrew from his father’s anniversary celebrations “is one of […]
By Nauman Sadiq for VT Islamabad Besides the admission that Trump knew coronavirus was deadly yet he deliberately downplayed the outbreak, Bob Woodward has made several other startling revelations [1] in his book “Rage” set to be released on September 15. President Donald Trump boasted that he protected Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after the brutal assassination of Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was brutally murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. “I saved his ass,” Trump said in 2018, according to the book. “I was able to get Congress to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107918/35/1079183598_0:0:2919:1642_1200x675_80_0_0_09f7d31fda9f2802530946ab285593d8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202009061080382446-tory-mp-wants-prince-harry-meghan-markle-to-pay-back-for-their-uk-home-renovation-with-netflix-cash/ Earlier this week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they had clinched a deal with Netflix to create content for making documentaries, feature films, scripted shows, and children’s programming. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, deputy chair of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, has urged Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to use a hefty sum from their deal with Netflix to pay back the money they received to renovate Frogmore Cottage, the couple’s former home on the Windsor Castle estate in the UK. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now in the process of […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Earning their keep One of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s first projects as part of their Netflix deal could be a film about Harry’s mom, Princess Diana. The Sunday Mirror reports that the couple are in talks to make a documentary about Diana’s life and the legacy of her work, as one of their first projects for their reported $100 million deal. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106549/85/1065498526_0:12:2428:1378_1200x675_80_0_0_0e7f94e070a29d473054f273226ecb98.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202009011080339948-former-prince-william-aide-simon-case-appointed-as-uks-top-civil-servant/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Simon Case, a former aide to the UK’s Prince William, has been named on Tuesday as the country’s new top civil servant, according to a government press release. Case, a former private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge, will serve as the UK’s cabinet secretary and the head of the civil service, replacing the outgoing Mark Sedwill. “Simon will make a fantastic Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service. His years of experience at the heart of government and working for The Royal Household make him ideally suited for this […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle commemorated the anniversary of his mother’s death Monday by visiting a preschool learning center for disadvantaged kids aged 3 to 5, near where Meghan grew up. Harry and Meghan spent several hours at the school and, in a thoughtful tribute to his mother, sources said they spent the morning with the kids replanting the school garden. The couple and the children planted some forget-me-not seeds, the source said, which were famously his mother’s favorite flower. Keen royal watchers will of course not need reminding that Forget-Me-Nots were a feature of Meghan’s wedding bouquet, and that Harry’s […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Home and away Prince Harry is unlikely to come back to the U.K. this year, and will miss an important fundraiser which traditionally sees him and his brother William square off against each other on horseback, the King Power Royal Charity Polo Day. Source link
Describing Ghislaine Maxwell’s relationship with the prince, her friend suggested that the former will “protect him to the last”. Christopher Mason, a former friend of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, said that she is unlikely to disclose any information about Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, and his “alleged liaison” with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, The Sun reports. A former associate of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell currently awaits trial in the United States after being arrested in July 2020 and charged by federal prosecutors in New York City with four counts of procuring and transporting minors for illegal […]
As the first non-white woman to marry a senior member of Britain’s royal family, Meghan Markle has been subjected to appalling levels of racist abuse and trolling on social media. Indeed, in the recent biography of the couple by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, it was revealed that Meghan was racially abused on her social media accounts using vile epithets. Sources close to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have hinted to The Daily Beast in recent weeks that one of the main areas the couple wished to impact was digital responsibility, and harnessing the positive energies of social media and online […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially merged spirits with every couple in L.A.—by which I mean, they’re shopping a project together. Variety reports that in June the couple began pitching a top-secret pitch, which they would jointly produce, to multiple networks. A source close to Markle told the trade that she has no plans to star in the potential project; a representative for the two declined to comment. A representative for the couple did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment. Back in June, Variety notes, the couple also signed with the same speaking agency that represents […]
Palestinians have held protest rallies across the West Bank and Gaza, decrying the recent deal to normalize the ties between Israel and the UAE as a betrayal of their cause and a blow to “Arab solidarity.” Protesters carried Palestinian flags and stomped on photos of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, before setting them on fire in central Ramallah in the West Bank. They also burned photos of US President Donald Trump, who brokered the deal, and Palestinian politician Mohammed Dahlan, who currently resides in the UAE. Similar demonstrations occurred across the […]
For The Daily Beast’s membership drive, we’re asking our reporters and editors to tell the stories behind some of their biggest stories. While the working life of my hard-bitten colleagues at The Daily Beast involves a punishing regimen of worn shoe leather, lightning-fast shorthand and an easy facility with navigating the murkier corners of the dark web, my working life is rather different. My best scoops all seem to come from country house dinner parties, shooting weekends and my network of family, friends, and old school and university friends. I’m sorry, but it’s true. When I look back at the last […]
Although the Duke of York has insisted he was at a different place on a now scrutinised night in March 2001, a lawyer for Epstein’s accusers says at least two witnesses may testify otherwise. A new witness in the Jeffrey Esptein case has emerged claiming, as cited by The Sun, that she saw Prince Andrew with the billionaire financier’s alleged victim Virginia Giuffre at a nightclub. Shukri Walker’s claims essentially contradict the Duke of York’s insistence that he was not there on the night in question. “I remember him dancing and chatting with the young girl”, Walker recalled the night at […]
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers tried to keep x-rated evidence related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein from going public, but a judge denied the appeal and released damning docs on Thursday evening. A witness interview revealed Bill Clinton was at Epstein’s pedophile island with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and “2 young girls.” The documents discuss allegations that a minor girl was trafficked to Maxwell, Prince Andrew and Attorney Alan Dershowitz (although he has always denied these allegations). The Ghislaine Maxwell (Epstein) documents have been unsealed. Will be posting excerpts here – Starting with allegations of minor being trafficked to Maxwell, Prince Andrew, and Alan […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have launched a lawsuit against unnamed paparazzi who have allegedly used drones to photograph their 14-month-old son Archie at home in Los Angeles. The invasion of privacy complaint, which was filed in L.A. County Superior Court, claims Archie was photographed in the backyard of the family’s Beverly Hills home, which is in a gated community. Source link
Prince Harry issued a furious denial of impropriety today after an anti-monarchy campaign group accused the prince of violating rules around charity funding. In a letter to the Charity Commission, Graham Smith, the CEO of anti-Royal campaign group Republic, alleged that funds were transferred from William and Kate’s royal foundation to Harry and Meghan’s foundation because of the “personal relationship” between the two patrons and accused the organizations of “inappropriate use of charitable funds, conflicts of interest and lack of independence.” The annual report for William and Kate’s foundation shows it paid Sussex Royal £145,000 to fund its set-up and launch, […]
The island of Little Saint James that Jeffrey Epstein bought for almost $8 million in 1998 is where the billionaire’s alleged victims claim they were abused by him and his powerful friends. Prince Andrew was one of Epstein’s high-profile friends who visited the island, but the royal has claimed he didn’t see any wrongdoing on the part of Epstein. A 2015 video has reappeared online showing Donald Trump commenting on financier Jeffrey Epstein and his private island. The short footage, which was uploaded to social media several days ago, shows then-presidential candidate Trump answering questions from Bloomberg reporters, saying: “That island […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Andrew becomes a royal unperson Amidst all the happiness of Princess Beatrice’s wedding Friday was the very obvious exclusion of her parents from the official wedding photographs. Source link
In November 2019, the Duke of York resigned from all public roles on behalf of the royal family. The prince has been accused by one of the alleged victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of having sex with her when she was underage. The 60-year-old royal has consistently denied the allegations. The website of the UK’s Price Andrew (thedukeofyork.org) has been taken down and it directs visitors to the Duke’s page on the Royal Family’s website, which contains a link to his statement of resignation from public roles over his “ill-judged association” with infamous American financier Jeffrey Epstein. […]
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex faced criticism last year after newspapers claimed they took four private jet journeys in 11 days, including to Sir Elton John’s home in Nice, weeks after Prince Harry insisted the couple would have two children “maximum” for environmental reasons and spoke on the importance of tackling climate change issues. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could be generating a carbon footprint 26 times that of the average British citizen, writes The Sun. A study by a Lib Dem politician, former MP Norman Baker, claims the ex-royal “eco-warriors” generate around 215 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually from […]
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who stepped down from their roles as senior royals in March, have been the focus of attention in the media, with the documentary Prince Harry: The Troubled Prince offering an insight into the life of the younger brother of the future king of England and his struggle to find his place. “Royal rebel” Prince Harry reportedly displayed his wild side early on, partying heavily and experimenting with drinking and drugs instead of cramming for his A-level exams, according to the Channel 5 documentary “Prince Harry: The Troubled Prince”. As the younger brother of the heir […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Prince Andrew likely to have been caught on tape at Epstein home, lawyer says Prince Andrew is likely to have been caught on tape during one of his visits to Jeffrey Epstein’s homes, a lawyer for the dead sex offender’s alleged victims has claimed. Source link
As Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly helped recruit and groom minor girls for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is expected to appear in a US court next week, royals experts have weighed up as to how her testimony may affect Prince Andrew and the British royal family. When speaking to ABC News’ Pierre Thomas on Thursday about the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, Attorney General William Barr made it clear that the US Justice Department wants to talk to Prince Andrew, known for his decades-long communication with Jeffrey Epstein, who hanged himself in August 2019. Meanwhile, the Southern District of New York has been seeking […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0a/1079843037_162:0:1370:680_1200x675_80_0_0_5eb54be0a8c81f9f54c5cabbed6b8358.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202007101079843021-frozen-prince-charles-watches-employee-fainting-during-visit-to-distribution-centre—video/ It is still not clear what exactly happened there and why the man blacked out, but moments later he was seen safe and sound speaking again to the Prince of Wales. Prince Charles had an unusual experience outside the Asda Distribution Centre in Bristol. Footage posted online shows the Prince of Wales, 71, speaking to an employee, who looks cheerful at first, but then he starts to stagger and fall to the ground. The prince looks stunned for a few seconds but then checks to see if the employee is okay, as staff rushes […]
He handled one of Israel’s most high-profile Palestinian informants during a time when suicide bombings had become an integral aspect of the country’s reality. Now, twenty years down the line, Gonen Ben Itzhak, an Israeli handler of secret agents, speaks about the mission, the dangers and the friend he obtained during that difficult period. In the early 2000s, with the eruption of the Second Intifada, Gonen Ben Itzhak, a senior agent of the Shin Bet, an Israeli spy agency, was tasked with the mission of monitoring Ramallah, one of the West Bank’s largest cities, that served as the epicentre of the […]
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If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Ghislaine may be “tempted” to give up Prince Andrew A friend of accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell says incarceration and the threat of prosecution may lead her to give damning evidence to the American authorities about Prince Andrew’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Source link
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle issued their first official photograph together as a couple to mark their engagement, the fact that Meghan chose to appear in a dress by designers Ralph and Russo that was priced at $75,000 was a source of bemused horror to seasoned courtiers. The fact that this was an engagement photograph, and there was a ton of goodwill toward the couple (at that stage) in the […]
In the recent development in the criminal Jeffrey Epstein saga, which was kickstarted after the billionaire financier was found dead in prison in August 2019, Epstein’s elusive ex-partner and confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on Thursday morning on charges she might have been personally involved in sex trafficking. In an LBC radio interview, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has referred to the Epstein case saying sympathies are all with the convicted paedophile’s victims and adding he would not comment on the allegations targeting Prince Andrew. However, he added, the US has issued to request for the Duke of York to comment […]
The Clintons, the Trumps, Prince Andrew, the Weinsteins, Mick Jagger, the Duchess of York, Naomi Campbell—Ghislaine Maxwell certainly collected a glittering set of powerful pals. The 58-year-old British high-society heiress and alleged “madam” of billionaire pedophile Jeffery Epstein was arrested on Thursday on charges of procuring and trafficking underage girls for Epstein’s abuse, and of molesting them herself. In the coming days and weeks, expect Maxwell’s tony friends to scramble to distance themselves from her, just as they did with Epstein (who killed himself in a New York jail after his arrest last year). But the photographic evidence of all the […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Meghan’s ‘brand’ focus, Harry’s ‘cabin fever’ Yet another royal book is published, filled with juicy takes on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s dramatic exit from royal life, and the consequences for them and the royal family. Source link
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Whatever the state of the relationship between Prince Harry and Prince William, two things are most certainly not helping: royal “sources,” and an expanse of miscommunication-facilitating ocean between them. The apparent fraternal conflict is being exacerbated by a wealth of new claims about the circumstances by which Harry and wife Meghan Markle ended up quitting their roles as “senior royals.” Source link
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Prince William’s 38th birthday today has been happy and also a tad dramatic, with reports claiming royal aides fear a new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will see William “painted as the bad guy” in the tumult over their exit from the royal family. William’s birthday coincided with Father’s Day, the twinned events marked by new pictures taken by Kate Middleton showing William enjoying playtime with his three […]
In 2017, former senior royal Prince Harry became the president of African Parks, an organisation which manages and protects resorts across the African continent; but the Duke of Sussex has been a devoted environmentalist long before then, something many believe he has taken from his father, Prince Charles. Prince Harry said that there was some evidence suggesting the coronavirus’ origin “may be linked to our exploitation of nature”, according to his written foreword to African Parks annual report. The Duke of Sussex, who has been the president of this non-governmental organisation since 2017, also underscored that the humanity had only ten […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107957/91/1079579144_0:17:3133:1779_1200x675_80_0_0_f9f838ed2ae15f8afd556e502ddaeae8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006101079579133-spains-andalusia-fines-belgian-prince-for-breaking-coronavirus-rules—reports/ MADRID (Sputnik) – Belgian Prince Joachim has been fined for breaking a mandatory quarantine shortly after arriving in Spain last month, Spanish media said Wednesday. In late May, the 28-year-old prince, the nephew of Belgian King Philippe, went to two parties in the southern Spanish city of Cordoba and tested positive for the new coronavirus two days later. The government in Andalusia province has fined him 10,400 euros ($11,850) for breaking the 14-day quarantine that all arrivals in the country must observe, the EFE news agency said. The Prince reportedly has 15 days to […]
Sources at Buckingham Palace have told The Daily Beast that there is no truth to rumors circulating online that a new picture of Prince Philip, who celebrates his 99th birthday today, and his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, has been digitally altered. The picture, released today, shows the couple standing outside at Windsor Castle with the imposing stone edifice looming in the background. However, the image became the source of much online debate Wednesday after some people said that various quirks of the photograph made it look as if the picture had been digitally altered. However a senior courtier told The Daily […]
The US attorney general, William Barr, has ruled that Prince Andrew won’t be extradited for questioning over his links with late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. In an interview with Fox News, Barr confirmed that there were no plans to make a formal request for the Duke of York to be handed over to US authorities. Journalist and political commentator Ollie Richardson has shared his views in this interview. Sputnik: Firstly, are you surprised by this ruling from the US attorney general and can we expect to see Prince Andrew work with authorities in the US voluntarily? Ollie Richardson: I am not surprised whatsoever […]
Prince Andrew’s lawyers claimed Monday that he has offered three times to help U.S. authorities investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case, and accused the U.S. Department of Justice of breaching its own “commitment to confidentiality” via “misleading media briefings” in which it has been claimed Andrew is not co-operating. Andrew’s lawyers’ intervention came after it was revealed that federal prosecutors investigating Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring had asked British officials to turn over the prince for questioning. According to The Sun late Sunday, the U.S. Department of Justice had “formally told the UK [that] the Duke of York is now caught up in a criminal […]
Britain’s Prince Andrew has reportedly been summoned by the US Justice Department to answer questions about his relationship with deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The pair were friends for over a decade. The Southern District Court of New York has asked Prince Andrew to testify in the ongoing criminal investigation into Epstein’s alleged accomplices via a Mutual Legal Assistance request filed with the UK Home Office, ABC News reported on Sunday. According to the Sun, which first broke the story, the request was formally lodged last month. Also on rt.com Bill Clinton hung out with Epstein because of affair with late financier’s […]
US 00:41 GMT 08.06.2020Get short URL In early May, David Boies, an attorney and chairperson for the firm representing over a dozen victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said that the Duke of York had ignored at least three written requests to be legally interviewed about his relationship with the deceased wealthy pedophile. The US Department of Justice filed a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request last month to the UK Home Office to interview Prince Andrew about his relationship with the late US sex offender and high-profile pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sex trafficking, The Sun reported on […]
Federal prosecutors investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring are asking British officials to turn over Prince Andrew for questioning, The Sun reported. This report comes nearly six months after Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Andrew had provided “zero cooperation” with their probe into Epstein, who sexually abused scores of underage girls. According to The Sun, the U.S. Department of Justice “has formally told the UK [that] the Duke of York is now caught up in a criminal probe for the first time.” (Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace have denied the 60-year-old royal was involved in […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Prince Charles “terribly sad” Former coronavirus patient Prince Charles finds it “terribly sad” to be disconnected from family and friends because of the pandemic lockdown. Charles told Sky News, “I haven’t seen my father (Prince Philip) for a long time. He’s going to be 99 next week, so yes, or my grandchildren or anything.” Source link
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Kate and William launch magazine legal action Kate Middleton and Prince William are taking legal action against Tatler magazine, which is a fixture in the homes of British landowners, after it published an article which claimed that Kate blamed Meghan for ruining her family’s life by deserting the royal firm, the Mail on Sunday reports. Source link
World 11:59 GMT 30.05.2020Get short URL In early May, David Boies, an attorney and chairman of the firm which represents more than a dozen alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein, said that Prince Andrew had ignored at least three written requests to be legally interviewed about his unfortunate association with the deceased financier. Jeffrey Epstein’s former butler Juan Alessi, 70, has broken his decade-long silence to urge Prince Andrew to co-operate with the FBI. According to the Mirror report, Alessi, who has been previously interviewed by the FBI, police and victims’ lawyers about his former employer and Prince Andrew, said that he had never seen […]
Leave it to Netflix to drop a Jeffrey Epstein docuseries in the midst of a global pandemic that’s left many Americans trapped indoors with lots of free time to binge. On May 27, the four-part series Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich will premiere on the streaming behemoth. Based on the book by James Patterson, it details the harrowing stories of Epstein’s (mainly underage) victims, from his sexual abuse to the lasting mental toll it took. One of the biggest revelations in the documentary concerns Prince Andrew, a British royal and good friend of Epstein’s. Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused Epstein of sex-trafficking her […]
Saudi Arabia asks Hadi regime officials to leave as costs bite amid economic downturn …from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: VT always suspected that only economic pressures would force Prince Salman to fold his tent and go home, on the financial part of the war. But that does not necessarily mean an end to the war. Cutting the funding for the Hadi government is one thing, but there has been no mention on whether Saudi airstrikes will be ended, or be continued to pressure both sides to come to a settlement. We also will watch to see if the UAE wants […]
Society 09:12 GMT 11.05.2020Get short URL Recent reports suggesting that Elizabeth II’s grandson was finding his new life “challenging” after his departure from the royal duties this March and that he was missing the army have prompted many to suggest that the ex-senior royal might have already started to regret his move to North America with Hollywood wife Meghan Markle. Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told Daily Star Online that former senior royal Prince Harry was probably willing to come back home to the UK already, following news that he had been “feeling out of place” in LA and could not believe […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. Andrew’s no-good, very bad week, part I Grim reading in Sunday’s newspapers for Prince Andrew this weekend. Source link
UK 12:15 GMT 10.05.2020Get short URL The Duke of Sussex, who formally ditched his royal duties late last month, addressed the veterans and physically handicapped servicemen who take part in his sporty brainchild, the Invictus Games, in a bid to cheer them up as this year’s event has been delayed due to the coronavirus. In an expressive video message this Victory Day weekend, Prince Harry, speaking from his new Los Angeles home, affirmed that there has of late been dramatic changes in everyone’s life. The 35-year-old made the special recording dedicated to what would have been the now delayed opening ceremony […]
It’s not going out on much of a limb to say that the single greatest line in any rock and roll song—shall we double down and say all music ever?—is “A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom!!” Surely that says it all. As with any truly oracular pronouncement, it inspires consternation in the first-time listener, and the second-time listener, and the third, the fourth, and on and on. The mystery never diminishes. As song openings go, it’s impossible to top. And then the music kicks in, like something from the eye of a hurricane. “Tutti Frutti, aw Rudy! “Tutti Frutti, aw Rudy! “Got a gal named Sue, […]
UK 06:41 GMT 09.05.2020Get short URL The plane that took the ex-royals to a Beverly Hills estate “in a well-planned operation” was reportedly dispatched by prominent producer and director Tyler Perry. Oprah Winfrey arranged for the Duke and Duchess to secretly move into a Beverly Hills mansion owned by actor and director Tyler Perry at the end of March, by taking a private jet from Victoria, Canada, the Daily Mail reported, suggesting the said plane costs around $150 million and is among Perry’s personal assets. Perry sent his Embraer-E190, a “stretch” version of a plane mainly flown by JetBlue Airlines in the […]
…from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: We have heard less about Crown Prince Salman with the Covid pandemic dominating the news, but at VT we knew that the desperate ploy by Salman of triggering an oil price war with Russia was a poorly thought out move that only a desperate person would make. Colin Clarke, a senior researcher at Soufan, lays this all out for us below. Both Clark and Soufan are hard wired into the Western security apparatus so this is not a disgruntled leaker taking a shot at Prince Salman to make a name for himself. Clark is already […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday. So, let’s say you’re an all-powerful celebrity who, for complicated reasons (the global reach of the word “royal” and the fact that your grandmother-in-law is the queen) has been unavoidably separated from their Instagram account. It is your baby boy’s first birthday and you want to share a cute video of him with your friends, fans, and indeed the world, but the time for setting up a shiny new Instagram account […]