Meghan Markle latest news – Duchess had 'disastrous' secret night out with Eugenie and Prince Harry
MANY couples have sweet nicknames for one another, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are no different.
Last year, Meghan, 40, let her pet name for Harry, 37, slip out during a TV appearance, leading to the royal being mocked mercilessly by one of his celebrity friends.
The moment occurred during Harry’s appearance on the Late Late Show with James Corden, when the pals took a tour bus round LA.
Meghan also featured in the popular episode, with James ringing her on a video call.
When the mum-of-two spotted Harry in the background, she asked: "Haz, how is your tour of LA going?"
Harry jokingly branded Corden "the worst tour guide in LA".
The Brit TV host then teased the royal over the moniker, saying: "Haz, oh Haz, I didn't know we were calling you Haz now?"
Read our Meghan Markle live blog for the latest news and gossip
- Ije Teunissen-Oligboh
How Harry tried to keep his legal fight a secret
The Mail on Sunday revealed that Prince Harry tried to keep the details of his legal battle a secret from the public, in which he tried to reinstate his police protection.
High Court documents show he fought for a far-reaching confidentiality order on the documents and witness statements surrounding his case against the Government.
However, the Home Office argued for transparency, saying “there must be a sufficiently good reason, in the wider public interest, to justify the departure from open justice that such an order involves”.
Both sides agreed that some papers would be made public, with the Home Office agreeing to carry out a ‘confidentiality exercise’ to determine what would be kept secret.
The revelations of this are a crushing blow to Harry as he has always implied he had always been willing to foot the bill.
Following this, royal author David McClure, tweeted: “Once more confusion about the accuracy of messages coming out of the Sussex camp. First Harry offers to pay, then when he visits the UK, he does not.”
- Ije Teunissen-Oligboh
Meghan and Harry might be in the US most of the time, but they aren't ready to leave the UK behind
Harry may have vocalised his frustrations with the UK in his and Meghan's interview with Oprah, but he'll always be Prince Harry to us.
Harry and Meghan famously spoke of the racism and lack of care they'd received from the institution that is the Royal Family.
Meghan made clear that it affected her health and was unable to show she was hurting. Harry remained protective of his wife and family, so they left for the US.
But, they renewed their lease on Frogmore Cottage. While they're in the US they've been letting Eugenie and her family live there.
Does the renewal of their official UK residence mean they intend to return?
- Milica Cosic
Fans have urged Prince Charles to protect Harry
Sussex fans have urged Prince Charles to protect his son as the row over Prince Harry's UK security continues. The Duke of Sussex is making a claim against a Home Office decision that ruled he was not allowed to pay for police protection for himself.
Taking to Twitter, Sussex fan defended Harry, with a lot of fans takingswipe at Prince Charles.
One user wrote: "His father is about to be king. Protect him."
Another said: wrote: "Imagine if Charles, just this once, showed support for his son and his two small grandchildren. A little letter of support from him can make the difference. I could never be that kind of parent… God forbid."
In a statement released late Saturday evening, Prince Harry's legal spokesperson wrote: “The UK will always be Prince Harry's home and a country he wants his wife and children to be safe in… With the lack of police protection comes too great a personal risk.”
- Milica Cosic
Meg & Harry to have 'more content control' over Netflix
A media lawyer has claimed that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will have "more than the usual authority" over the content they produce with Netflix.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, media lawyer Barry Chase claimed that Netflix doesn't "want to get into a public spat over an attempt to control the content" that the royal couple produces.
Mr Chase said: "They will want to protect the substance of whatever message they want to convey.
"That's a little different from what an entertainment company is usually concerned about.
"I would think that Harry and Meghan would have obtained more than the usual authority to control the actual content of what they're producing because the message would have been so important to them.
"And they would have had the leverage to bargain for more content control than would usually be the case in productions.
"People normally can't do that.
"Generally, if you want to produce for Netflix, Netflix holds the final content control hand – and they might formally with Harry and Meghan as well – but they certainly don't want to end up with a black eye."
- Milica Cosic
98% of donations go to royal charity's staff
Royal charity that has gone into partnership with Prince Harry paid out 98 per cent of its donations to its own staff.
A Royal charity that has partnered with Prince Harry’s life coaching firm paid its staff 98 per cent of the money it raised in a year, it has emerged.
The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust (QCT) brought in £796,106 from donors but paid out £787,314 in staff costs to its ten employees in the year up to March 2021.
More than half of the cash went to its five most senior executives who earned £420,000 between them, Charity Commission accounts show.
Chris Kelly, the QCT chief executive, earns at least £140,000 – a similar salary to the boss of the RSPCA, despite the animal charity raising some £130million in donations and employing nearly 2,000 staff.
The QCT, which has the Queen as its Patron and is based close to Buckingham Palace in London, was launched in 2018 to provide funding and other types of support to young Commonwealth leaders.
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, were the original QCT President and Vice President, but they lost their positions when they moved to the USA to pursue commercial and media careers.
Now, however, the QCT is promoting online coaching company BetterUp, which employs Prince Harry as its Chief Impact Officer of an undisclosed salary.
- Milica Cosic
Buckingham Palace warning to Meghan & Harry
A royal expert has claimed that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were warned "the Palace will always win" before they stepped back as senior working royals.
Royal expert Angela Levin author of ‘Harry: Conversations with the Prince’, wrote in her book in 2018 that Meghan had “no qualms about working outside the rather antiquated royal machine”, and knows exactly how the modern world works, boasting a “pool of loyal, savvy friends ready to speak out on her behalf”.
A source told Ms Levin that the Palace was prepared to “wrestle back control” from the Sussexes.
The source said: “Don’t worry. The Palace will always win. The Palace machine is a force to be reckoned with.
“However impressive employees may be, in the end they are all worn down. It just takes different people a different amount of time.
“The best communications staff are those who have spent some time in the armed forces because they can take orders and know their place. Harry will have recognised this.”
- Milica Cosic
Harry set to miss Prince Philip's memorial service
Prince Harry has been tipped to miss his grandfather Prince Philip's memorial service next month. This is due to his ongoing row with the Home Office about security.
The Thanksgiving Service to honour Prince Philip will be held at Westminster Abbey on March 29.
However, according to a royal source, Prince Harry is not expected to be in attendance due to his ongoing legal battle with the UK Government over security measures.
On Friday, a court heard that Harry does not “feel safe” in Britain without police protection.
- Milica Cosic
Andrew 'could make his own Megxit-style move'
A royal expert has claimed that Prince Andrew could make his own Megxit-style move to USA and model himself on Harry. Expert Ingrid Seward explains:
Since the duke was stripped of his royal titles and patronages, he has likened his own situation to that of his nephew Prince Harry.
It is possible Andrew could even attempt to reinvent himself as a supporter of abused women and appear on TV chat shows in the States.
Like Harry, in order to do this, he would probably need to move to America.
He certainly wouldn’t take such a leap until things have settled down with the FBI’s investigations into Epstein.
He’s also unlikely to move while his beloved mother is still on the throne.
Read more here.
- Milica Cosic
Queen’s charity website promotes Harry’s US coaching firm
A leading Commonwealth charity which has the Queen as its patron is promoting the online coaching business that employs Prince Harry as its chief impact officer.
The coaching, by BetterUp, is described as “truly phenomenal” in testimony by one user on the website of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust (QCT). Prince Harry was previously president of the trust.
One branding expert said the endorsement was valuable publicity for the startup, which is now valued at $4.7bn (£3.5bn) and is described as “the largest mental health and coaching company in the world”.
- Milica Cosic
How Harry tried to keep his legal fight a secret
The Mail on Sunday revealed that Prince Harry tried to keep the details of his legal battle a secret from the public, in which he tried to reinstate his police protection.
High Court documents show he fought for a far-reaching confidentiality order on the documents and witness statements surrounding his case against the Government.
However, the Home Office argued for transparency, saying "there must be a sufficiently good reason, in the wider public interest, to justify the departure from open justice that such an order involves".
Both sides agreed that some papers would be made public, with the Home Office agreeing to carry out a 'confidentiality exercise' to determine what would be kept secret.
The revelations of this are a crushing blow to Harry as he has always implied he had always been willing to foot the bill.
Following this, royal author David McClure, tweeted: "Once more confusion about the accuracy of messages coming out of the Sussex camp. First Harry offers to pay, then when he visits the UK, he does not."
- Milica Cosic
Harry can’t buy police ‘like a pack of biscuits’
Norman Baker, a former crime prevention minister, said: “The police are not a commodity to buy like a pack of biscuits,” he said.
“If Harry has concerns about a specific threat, he should share those with the police. Otherwise, it is open to him to engage security staff on any visits.”
Robert Palmer QC, for the Home Office, has said that if Harry loses, the government will “seek the costs incurred in full, including those of the confidentiality exercise”.
- Milica Cosic
Royal news you may have missed
- Andrew is reportedly making secret visits to see his mother late at night
- And the embattled Duke of York is facing a new storm after the jail cell suicide of Jeffrey Epstein’s paedo pal Jean-Luc Brunel
- Meanwhile, the city of York is moving to cut ties with him after his court settlement this week
- Elsewhere, lawyers for Harry have argued he should get police protection on visits to the UK as he's in "immediate" line to the throne
- And Piers Morgan has come out in support of Eugenie, Beatrice and Fergie after a difficult week for the women
Harry cut ties with billionaire in ‘cash for access’ row
The Duke of Sussex cut ties years before a millionaire tycoon became the centre of a police enquiry which has scandalised the next king, Prince Charles.
Emails which have been leaked reveal that Prince Harry axed his relationship with a Saudi billionaire, Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, amid serious concerns about his “motives”.
The Duke of Sussex cut ties years before the tycoon became the centre of a police enquiry which has scandalised the next king, Prince Charles.
However, Prince Harry had already distanced himself from Mahfouz amid “cash for access” concerns in 2014, years before Charles accepted his generous donations.
This weekend detectives were examining a letter sent to Mahfouz’s representatives by Michael Fawcett, Charles’s longest-standing confidant and the former head of the Prince’s Foundation, in which Fawcett said he would be “very happy” to back the Saudi’s nomination for an honour, The Times reports.
Meg & Harry ‘renew lease on Frogmore Cottage’
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle have renewed their lease on Frogmore Cottage, it's understood – after the Duke insisted the UK is still "home".
The couple haven't lived in the Windsor property since 2020 when they left the UK for America, and it's now being used by Princess Eugenie, husband Jack Brooksbank and their baby August.
However, the Sussexes have reportedly decided to extend their lease when it expires on March 31, the Telegraph reports.
Harry, who is close to his cousin Eugenie, uses the home as a base when he returns to the UK.
Harry's book to look 'inside' Charles & Diana's marriage
Speaking to US Weekly, British Royal correspondent Tom Skyes has talked about whether Harry will “really go for Camilla'' when speaking on the breakdown of the marriage between Prince Charles and Diana in his new book.
Skyes said: “If you really think what a publisher is going to pay $20 millions for, it's the inside account of the breakdown of that marriage”.
Prince Harry is to release a memoir next year, which he says will be "accurate and wholly truthful".
In a statement, The Duke of Sussex said: "I'm writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become.
"I've worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story – the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned – I can help show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think.
"I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to share what I've learned over the course of my life so far and excited for people to read a firsthand account of my life that's accurate and wholly truthful."
- Milica Cosic
Meghan lacked Kate's grasp on royal 'heritage'
According to a branding expert, Meghan Markle's lack of appreciation for the British monarchy was a key reason she failed to adjust to Royal Family life.
Professor Cele Otnes, a professor of marketing specialising in how the Royal Family brands itself, told Express.co.uk: “The UK is an extremely significant society.
“And I don't think Meghan cared about that, not being British.
“Think about the difference between Kate being British, and how she must understand that heritage.”
- Milica Cosic
Harry & Eugenie 'will have discussed royal rift'
A royal expert has claimed that during Princess Eugenie's visit to the US, Prince Harry and his cousin will have "talked about" Megxit and their ongoing rift with the Royal Family.
Since quitting his role as a senior member of the The Firm two years ago, Eugenie became the first member of the Royal Family to make a public visit to visit Harry in California last week.
Speaking to the Telegraph, royal expert Phil Dampier said: "They’ve always got on very well and been very close.
“If there is going to be an emissary, or an intermediary, between Harry and the Royal Family back home, she could well fit the bill."
The royal expert added: “I’m sure when they met in LA, they would have talked about the situation – and I’m sure she’ll be trying to smooth things over. She could be one of the ways whereby tentative steps could be taken to try and heal the rift."
- Joseph Gamp
Leaked emails show Harry cut ties with Saudi billionaire over £1m donation
Leaked emails show how Prince Harry cut ties with a billionaire Saudi over a £1million charity donation.
He was to receive the money from Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz for one of his causes, but had major concerns when the donor wanted to meet in person, The Sunday Times reported.
Mahfouz is at the centre of a "cash-for-access" cop probe into the Prince's Foundation, a charity run in the name of Prince Charles, right.
- Joseph Gamp
Harry’s offer to pay for own security is ‘irrelevant’, High Court told
The Duke of Sussex’s offer to pay for his own police protection is “irrelevant”, Home Office lawyers told the High Court in the first hearing of Harry’s claim against the department.
Harry is suing over a decision not to allow him to pay for police protection for himself and his family while in the UK.
The duke wants to bring his children to visit from the US, but his barrister told the High Court on Friday that he “does not feel safe” when visiting under the current security arrangements.
He is arguing that his private protection team in the US does not have adequate jurisdiction abroad or access to UK intelligence information which is needed to keep his family safe.EditDelete
- Joseph Gamp
MP advised to speak to Commons officials over bid to remove Duke of York title
A new law could be tabled in the House of Commons to create the power to remove the Duke of York title from Andrew, MPs have heard.
Labour's Rachael Maskell, who represents York Central, has suggested Andrew should lose his association with the north Yorkshire city following the settlement of his legal battle with Virginia Giuffre.
Ms Maskell said it appeared "impossible" under parliamentary rules to bring forward new legislation to ensure the necessary powers are in place to remove such a title from someone.
But Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing suggested the private members' bills system, which enables backbench MPs and peers to introduce proposed laws, could be an option for her to pursue.
Dame Eleanor added House of Commons clerks could offer advice should Ms Maskell wish to take the matter forward.
Elsewhere, Dame Eleanor also advised Labour's Andy McDonald to get in contact with ministers to establish if any public money has been used to pay for the duke's settlement with Ms Giuffre.
Andrew will have to pay a legal bill of up to £12 million, according to speculation, following his out-of-court agreement with Ms Giuffre who was suing the Queen's son for sexual abuse after she claims she was trafficked by his friend and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- Joseph Gamp
William and Kate to attend England vs Wales six nations match at Twickenham
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be in direct competition this weekend as they attend England's Six Nations match against Wales.
Saturday's match at Twickenham Stadium will be the first Kate has attended since becoming patron of the Rugby Football Union (RFU).
William, who has been patron of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) since 2016, and Kate, are known for their rivalry during sporting engagements, with the fixture putting them in direct competition.
They will meet Jeff Blackett, president of the RFU, and Gerald Davies, president of the WRU, prior to kick-off and speak with volunteers and council members of the RFU.
The duchess, known for her love of sport and competitive nature, said earlier this month she was "very proud" to become the RFU's figurehead, a role that used to belong to the Duke of Sussex.
Kate, 40, grew up watching England rugby games with the Middletons, and the family would plan their weekends around international matches.
- Joseph Gamp
Kate to take a trip to Copenhagen this week
Kate Middleton will take her first solo overseas tour since 2019 to promote her work.
In a post on Twitter, Kensington Royal wrote: “The Duchess of Cambridge will take her first overseas tour since 2019 to promote her work on early childhood education”.
During the visit, the Duchess of Cambridge “will spend time learning about how Denmark has created an enabling culture for early childhood development.”
While in Denmark, the Duchess will also meet with Queen Margrethe II to celebrate her golden jubilee, as she enters her 50th year on the throne.
Kate is expected to be in Denmark from February 22 to the 23.
- Joseph Gamp
Royal news you may have missed
- Andrew is reportedly making secret visits to see his mother late at night
- And the embattled Duke of York is facing a new storm after the jail cell suicide of Jeffrey Epstein’s paedo pal Jean-Luc Brunel
- Meanwhile, the city of York is moving to cut ties with him after his court settlement this week
- Elsewhere, lawyers for Harry have argued he should get police protection on visits to the UK as he’s in “immediate” line to the throne
- And Piers Morgan has come out in support of Eugenie, Beatrice and Fergie after a difficult week for the women
Harry can’t buy police ‘like a pack of biscuits’
Norman Baker, a former crime prevention minister, said: “The police are not a commodity to buy like a pack of biscuits,” he said.
“If Harry has concerns about a specific threat, he should share those with the police. Otherwise, it is open to him to engage security staff on any visits.”
Robert Palmer QC, for the Home Office, has said that if Harry loses, the government will “seek the costs incurred in full, including those of the confidentiality exercise”.
What is the Royal Family’s portfolio worth?
The Queen also has a private property portfolio, known as the Duchy of Lancaster.
This was established for the reigning monarch in 1399, as a way to provide independent income to the Sovereign.
It’s one of two royal duchies.
The other is the Duchy of Cornwall, which provides Prince Charles with an independent income.
His private residences include Gloucestershire’s Highgrove House, Tamarisk House – which is on the Isles of Scilly – and Llwynywermod in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Overall, the Royal Family’s property portfolio is worth an estimated £13billion.
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