British royal family - The African Mirror

Jan

2023

Prince Harry says UK royals got into bed with tabloid press ‘devil’

MICHAEL HOLDEN PRINCE Harry has said he had made public his rifts with the British royal family and taken on the press to try to help the monarchy and change the media, the latter described by his father King Charles as a "suicide mission". In the first of a series of TV interviews broadcast on Sunday ahead of the launch of his memoir, Harry accused members of his family of getting into bed with the devil - the tabloid press - to sully him and his wife Meghan to improve their own reputations. He told Britain's ITV he had fled Britain with…

Dec

2022

By The African Mirror

What Harry and Meghan said in final Netflix episodes

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NETFLIX released the final three episodes of a documentary series from Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Thursday, setting out their battles with the media and why they stepped down as working members of Britain's royal family. Below are quotes and details from the series: HARRY ON TIES WITH HIS FAMILY On a family meeting to discuss Harry's royal departure: "It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that just simply weren't true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in." On the royal household and…

Dec

2022

By The African Mirror

Harry and Meghan decry “pain and suffering” of women brought into UK royal family

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MICHAEL HOLDEN PRINCE Harry said the British royal family had dismissed race-related hounding of his wife Meghan by the press as a rite of passage as the couple delivered a fierce attack on the media in their Netflix documentary series released. Harry also drew comparisons between how papers had treated Meghan and the intense media intrusion that his mother Princess Diana had suffered. Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 as her limousine sped away from chasing paparazzi photographers. Harry, who along with Meghan stepped down from royal duties two years ago, said it was his…

Apr

2021

By The African Mirror

41 gun salute in 41 minutes to honour Prince Philip

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NATALIE THOMAS The British Royal Navy warships today led a worldwide gun salute in honour of Prince Philip, as tributes flooded in for a man who was a pillar of strength for Queen Elizabeth during her 69-year reign. Flowers were piled high outside royal residences as sombre mourners paid their respects to the 99-year-old prince who had spent more than seven decades at the heart of the British monarchy. "We're all weeping with you, Ma'am," read the front page of the Sun tabloid, while its rival the Daily Mail ran a 144-page tribute to Philip, who died on Friday at…