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Mar

2024

UK royal Kate’s statement about cancer discovery

KATE, Britain's Princess of Wales, said that tests taken after a surgery she had in January had revealed cancer had been present and she was now undergoing a course of preventative chemotherapy. Below is the full transcript of Kate's video message: "I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you, personally, for all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding whilst I have been recovering from surgery. "It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family, but I’ve had a fantastic medical team who have taken great care of me, for which I…

Feb

2024

By MICHAEL HOLDEN and MUVIJA M

King Charles diagnosed with cancer, will postpone duties and undergo treatment

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BRITAIN'S King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and the 75-year-old will postpone his public duties while he undergoes treatment, Buckingham Palace said. Charles, who became king in September 2022 following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, is "wholly positive" about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty as soon as possible, the palace said. Charles spent three nights in the hospital last month where he underwent a corrective procedure for a benign enlarged prostate. The palace said a separate issue of concern had been spotted during the hospital visit but did not give…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

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

By The African Mirror

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

By The African Mirror

Harry accuses Prince William of screaming at him, his aides of leaking stories

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MICHAEL HOLDEN PRINCE Harry and his wife Meghan piled fresh criticism on the British royals in new episodes of their documentary series released on Thursday, accusing his elder brother Prince William of screaming at him during a summit to discuss his future. In the final three episodes of the Netflix series, Harry also said aides for William, now heir to the throne, had been complicit in negative stories appearing about the couple in the media and blamed the press for Meghan having a miscarriage. "It is a dirty game. There's leaking but there's also planting of stories," said Harry. "So if the…

Dec

2022

By The African Mirror

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

By The African Mirror

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…

Jul

2021

By The African Mirror

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…