Nov. 17, 2025

Buckingham Palace Rocked by Neo-Nazi Scandal

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An ITV investigation reveals a former Buckingham Palace warden secretly moonlighted as a neo-Nazi propagandist — proving once again that nothing good happens when “royal service” meets “far-right forum.” King Charles, meanwhile, embraced a 105-year-old WWII veteran who fought the original Nazis, reminding Britain what actual courage looks like. The New York Times wonders if the monarchy itself is running out of time, while Prince Harry’s phone-hacking case collapses after a key witness claims his testimony was forged. Even by royal standards, that’s one chaotic news cycle.

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue and

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host Mark Francis. One way to get people to start

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talking about Andrew was to involve Nazis. An ITV news

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investigation has uncovered that a twenty six year old from

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Leicestershire and former Buckingham Palace warden led a double life

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as a key figure in Britain's neo Nazi movement. While

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employed at the Palace, welcoming guests and working in close

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proximity to the Royal family's state rooms, the man is

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said to have secretly served as chief propagandist for far

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right organizations Active Club England and Vanguard Britannica. Both groups

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are part of a growing international white supremacist network operating

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under the pseudonym John. The Man produced propaganda, photography and

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artwork for extremist groups while promoting the racist great Replacement theory.

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In interviews with ITV News, he described himself as an ethnocentrist,

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claiming to advocate for the interests of my people. After

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leaving the Royal Service last year, John traveled to Texas

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in September, where he represented a British delegation at the

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inaugural conference of the US neo fascist group Patriot Front.

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When confronted by ITV news, John appeared startled before attempting

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to justify his beliefs. He admitted working for the Royal family,

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but said his employers don't tend to ask questions about

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the personal political views of their members. Buckingham Palace said

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it takes such matters extremely seriously, but declaimed to comment

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on individual security issues. King Charles shared a heartfelt embrace

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with one hundred five year old Second World War veteran

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Janva Abbas during a reception honoring veterans at Windsor Castle.

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Mister Abbas, who fought the original Nazis, served as a

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combat cameraman in the British Army and first met the

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kingdom En Camilla earlier this year at a remembrance service

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in Staffordshire. At that event, he gave an emotional speech

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thanking the couple for attending despite the King's ongoing cancer treatment,

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a moment that brought both Charles and Camilla to tears.

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Reunited at Windsor, the pair exchanged a few warm words

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before hugging. I told him we can't go on meeting

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like this. Miss joked afterwards, I was very much looking

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forward to meeting him again. I have a lot of

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respect for his majesty, not just as a monarch, but

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as a human being. It's wonderful to meet him and

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to know that he is improving. Because I had cancer

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and I got rid of it. It's been rid of

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for fifteen years now. Following the war, he became a

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filmmaker and used his platform to honor those who risked

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their lives in conflict. Speaking at Windsor, he paid tribute

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to journalists killed in Gaza, saying, whatever I did, it's

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insignificant when I see what the men and women of

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Gaza have done. For more than two years. They have

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been recording the genocide that has been visited upon them.

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Asked what message he would give to younger generation the veterans,

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tone turned somber. I am angry with the world, and

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I am ashamed, he said. I thought I fought a

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war to have a better world, and I find that

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aim in a worse world than I was in at

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the time. In the New York Times, russ Delta asks

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what if the monarchy went out with a bang dealt

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It wrote about the Norwegian rebels which we covered in

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season one of our feed currently labeled Crown and Controversy

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Prince Andrew. You can find that podcast wherever you get

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your podcast. But the first season is about the Norwegian Rebels.

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Just scroll down and you'll see distinct episode art that

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will show you which ones are the Norway episodes. But

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dealt it rates. My real sympathy descended on Martha Luise, who,

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like various equivalents in the more famous House of Windsor,

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has spent her life as a royal sibling, bouncing from

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public spectacle to public tragedy and back, enduring the most

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profound failure of the purely ceremonial monarchy its inability to

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figure out what to do with royals who aren't the

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king or Queen. That failure is also relevant to the

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peculiar position of Prince Andrew or mister Andrew Mountbatten Windsor

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as we are supposed to call them, after the stripping

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of his legal rank amid a new wave of Jeffrey

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Epstein coverage. One can be confident in Andrew's guilt in

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some form and still find it striking that the king's

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own brother could lose all his titles without ever being

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convicted of any crime. The last residue of absolute monarchy

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or power, it turns out, is the power to punish

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one of your own potential heirs without a trial. Nonetheless,

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I wonder if before history's curtain falls on the ceremonial

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style of monarchy, we will eventually see some unexpected attempt

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at a genuine ku de mann, some crowned monarch bringing

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back the controversies of the seventeenth century by trying to

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exert real power once again, or some youngest son or

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daughter trying to play real politics in that old fourteenth

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century style. It seems improbable more likely. Surely Andrew's sad

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exit is the model for a future when entire British

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monarchy ends with a whimper, with all the mount Batten

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windsors slinking away into it private life. But I do

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think the likely nature of that end looks different today

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than it might have in nineteen seventy or two thousand.

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Back then, monarchy would have seemed most likely to be

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abolished amid a surge of modernizing sentiment as an expression

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of vaulting confidence in the liberal democratic future. Now, though

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I tend to agree with the British writer will Lloyd,

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Who's recent blast against the British throne in The New

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Statesman compares Charles the Third to Franz Joseph, the aged

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Habsburg Emperor who presided over Austria Hungary before its demolition

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to the First World War, his point being that today's

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Britain is in deepening trouble economically and socially and spiritually,

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and the British monarchy seems increasingly likely to perish as

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part of a larger national crack up when ethnic tensions

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and native versus immigrant conflicts and regional separatism leave nothing

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for a ceremonial monarch to preside over. Monarchy survived the

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twentieth century by making its peace with liberalism and making

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its unruly members in the nacriani. But in a postliberal

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era that unrulingness might yet be a political virtue, or,

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if not quite that, at least a way to close

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out the Books of Kings with a bang more palace

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in just a moment. Prince Harry's phone hacking lawsuit against

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the publisher of The Daily Mail has been thrown into

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turmoil after a key witness dramatically withdrew his previous testimony,

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claiming it was forged. Private investigator Gavin Burrows now insists

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that a twenty twenty one witness statement, one that appeared

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to admit to extensive illegal surveillance on behalf of Associated Newspapers,

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was complete rubbish and not written or signed by him.

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In a new thirty page statement prepared with independent legal counsel,

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Burrows says the earlier document bears a forged signature and

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contains language completely inconsistent with his own. The disputed statement

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had played a central role in prompting several of the claimants,

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including Prince Harry and Sir Elton, to pursue legal action

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against the publisher. The group alleges that The Daily Mail

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and Mail on Sunday engaged in systemic privacy breaches, from

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phone tapping and vehicle bugging to obtaining confidential information by deception.

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Associated Newspapers has denied or wrongdoing. Burrows now asserts that

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he never worked for The Mail on Sunday or Daily Mail.

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Apart from a single legitimate inquiry involving Sir Richard Branson.

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He claims that journalist Graham Johnson, who has a prior

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conviction for phone hacking, and paralegal Dan Waddle encouraged him

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to cooperate in an investigation targeting The Daily Mail, offering

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him payment for statements. Burrows alleged that Johnson referred to

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the Burrows alleges that Johnson referred to the litigation as

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a gravy train that newspapers would pay to escape. He

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further claims he was introduced to solicitor Angelie Senghani, who

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represents several of the celebrity claimants, and that she visited

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his home with gifts and promises of five thousand pound

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monthly retainer for minimal work. Burrows also recounts meeting Barrister

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David Sherborne, who leads Prince Harry's legal team, during discussions

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about surveillance techniques and fees. Following Burrow's recantation, the claimants

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no longer planned to call him as a witness and

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may instead rely on hearsay evidence about his prior statements.

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In The Royalist, Tom Sykes writes, I've always felt that

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the problem with Prince Harry's big phone hacking case against

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the publisher of The Daily Mail, which is set for

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a blockbuster courtroom showdown in January, is that so many

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of the characters involved seem to be shady private investigators

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or admitted phone hackers themselves now claiming to have seen

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the light and they have it. If you'd like to

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