Prince Harry - The African Mirror

Mar

2023

Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet: royal titles for Prince Harry’s kids

THE children of Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will be known as prince and princess, with the couple publicly using their daughter's royal title for the first time to announce she had been christened. Under royal rules, the monarch's grandchildren can become princes or princesses of the realm, meaning that Harry's children, Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, were eligible to use the titles since his father became king last September. The interest in Harry's children's titles comes after his relationship with his father, King Charles, hit rock bottom following his tell-all memoir earlier this year, in which he made accusations…

Jan

2023

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

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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…

Jan

2023

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Taliban criticises Prince Harry over Afghan killings comment

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THE Taliban administration has criticised Prince Harry after the British royal said in his memoir that he had killed 25 people in Afghanistan when serving as a military helicopter pilot, describing them as "chess pieces removed from the board". Harry's highly personal book "Spare" went on sale in Spain days before its global launch on January 10. It discloses the depth of the rift between the prince and his brother William, the heir to the throne, and other revelations such as drug-taking and how he lost his virginity. In one section, the 38-year-old recounts his two tours of Afghanistan, first…

Jan

2023

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Prince Harry’s memoir sheds light on bust-ups among British royals

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MICHAEL HOLDEN and CHARLIE DEVEREUX BRITAIN'S Prince Harry says his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry's American wife Meghan in his much-awaited memoir which went on sale days early in Spain. In his book "Spare", Harry also discloses how the brothers, the sons of King Charles, had begged their father not to marry his second wife Camilla, now Queen Consort, and that he had taken cocaine as a teenager. The book was due to be published on Jan. 10, but the Guardian newspaper printed leaked extracts overnight, and…

Dec

2022

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Prince Harry implies royals lied to protect his brother in latest Netflix trailer

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PRINCE Harry appeared to say Britain's royal household was prepared to lie to protect his elder brother, Prince William, in a new trailer released for the remaining episodes of a Netflix documentary series about him and his wife Meghan. The main focus of the first three episodes of the much-anticipated documentary, which aired last week, was on the couple's treatment by the British tabloid press and how it had impacted their relationship. The royal family had been braced for renewed criticism since the couple delivered scathing attacks on some members, including his father King Charles and heir William, most notably in an…

Jul

2022

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Prince Harry wins bid to challenge UK decision denying him police protection

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SACHIN RAVIKUMAR and FAROUQ SULEIMAN PRINCE Harry won permission to legally challenge a government decision that denied him police protection while in Britain. Harry, Queen Elizabeth's grandson, received the full police protection generally given to royal figures before he decided to step back from his royal duties and move to the United States with his wife Meghan in 2020. But the Home Office — the UK ministry responsible for policing, immigration and security — decided in February of that year that Harry would cease receiving personal police security while in Britain even if he were to cover the cost himself.…

Jul

2022

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BBC agrees ‘substantial damages’ to ex-royal nanny over Diana interview

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THE BBC said it had agreed to pay "substantial damages" to the former nanny of Britain's Prince William and Prince Harry over the broadcaster's now much-criticised 1995 interview with their mother, the late Princess Diana. The payout to Tiggy Legge-Bourke, now Alexandra Pettifer, was over false claims made about her by BBC journalist Martin Bashir in order to obtain the interview, in which Diana admitted to an affair and disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to the heir to the throne, Prince Charles. Last year, a report concluded Bashir had tricked Diana's brother into arranging a meeting with her…

Sep

2021

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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle visit New York’s World Trade Center

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PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle got a bird's-eye view of the New York skyline as they kicked off their trip to the city with a visit to the observatory at One World Trade Center. The royal couple is in town to attend Saturday's Global Citizen Live event at Central Park to encourage equal access to COVID-19 vaccines. It was their first joint outing since the birth of their daughter Lilibet 'Lili' Diana Mountbatten-Windsor in June. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were accompanied by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, his wife, Chirlane McCray,…

Jul

2021

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Britain’s William and Harry put feud aside to unveil Princess Diana statue

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MICHAEL HOLDEN BRITISH Princes William and Harry have put their differences aside when they unveiled a statue to their late mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 60th birthday, saying they hoped it would be a lasting memorial to her life and legacy. The brothers, whose falling-out has been the subject of intense media scrutiny, looked relaxed together as they revealed the statue they commissioned in honor of Diana in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace in central London, her former home. The bronze statue depicts Diana, who was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997, surrounded…

May

2021

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‘Pain of Diana’s death pushed me to drink, drugs’

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PRINCE Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother Diana's death in 1997 and accused the British royal family of neglecting him and his wife Meghan as she contemplated suicide. Harry, now 36, has spoken before about the trauma of losing Diana in a Paris car crash and then having to walk as a 12-year-old behind his mother's coffin in her funeral cortege under the glare of the world's media. "I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like…