June 23, 2025

Does Prince Harry want more children?

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“She’s so laser-focused on building her lifestyle brand, *As Ever*, and adding a baby to the mix just doesn’t make sense,” one insider told *RadarOnline.com*.

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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Inergy Game.

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Your host Mark Francis. Rader Online suggested Harry would like

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to have more kids, but Meghan isn't interested. Prince Harry,

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Insider says, quietly yearning to expand the family, the desire

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that has not been warmly received by his wife, the

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Dungeess of Sussex. She's so laser focused on building her

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lifestyle brand as ever, and adding a baby to the

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mix just doesn't make sense. When Insider told Rader Online,

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the Duke of Sussex now fought. He once seemed firmly

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committed to limiting the couple's family to two children, a

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position he declared in twenty nineteen during a conversation with

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primatologist Jane Goodall. At the time, Harry cited environmental concerns

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and said he and Meghan would have two maximum, But

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those close to the situation claim that time and tension

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have changed his thinking. Everyone is saying this push for

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another baby is a reaction to what he is going

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through with his father and brother, said a source. Now

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that he's been totally exiled from his family, it seems

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he's feeling the need to create a bigger family of

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his own. Harry is estranged from his dad and wants

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to make up for it with more children, said one insider.

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Yet Megan has reportedly been blindsided by Harry's change of heart.

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She was always under the impression that to was the limit,

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the source explained. He was always so vocal about not

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wanting a big family at this point in her life,

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another pregnancy is not something that she'd got the bandwidth for,

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and insider told people Meghan is focused on the future,

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Harry has one foot in the past. The source told

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people that the Duchess stands firmly by Harry's side, but

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which as her husband, could feel less burdened by the

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past and more present in the life they've built together.

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The couple are reportedly aware of everything happening back in England,

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but being left out of the details. There's clearly no trust,

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said the insider. For Jezebelt, Nora Beer Timmins writes, it

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seems like it was great being Megan Michkel and the

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summer of twenty sixteen. You're on a head, if not

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a critically acclaimed TV show. You're thirty four, comfortable in

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your own skin, but still young and hot. Sorry to

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be crass, but it's true. You have a fairly successful

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lifestyle blog. It's nothing special, but it makes you feel

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like you've really got a passion project. You advocate vaguely

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for the rights of women and girls worldwide, and then

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you're in London for work and your friend sets you

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up with the world's most eligible bachelor, a litter old prints,

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and even better, you hit it off. So look, I

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can see where Meghan might want to return to twenty sixteen,

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or at least emulate its naively optimistic vibes, because that's

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certainly what it seems like she's trying to do with

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what she's putting out into the world these days, everything

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from her food Staff's brand to her podcast interviewing female founders,

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to her incomprehensible Netflix show and abub all her Instagram

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post Salt Breek of mid twenty tens, which is to

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say it's all very millennial cringe. Since his show premiered

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earlier this year, Meghan has been active on Instagram. It's

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as if, after years about royalty and then presumably lawyer

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imposed social media blackout, she can't help herself, so she's

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binging and these posts have reached a level of basicness

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that is impossible to compare to anything else besides the

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lifestyle influences of the mid twenty tens, the ones who,

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much like Megan, probably started out blogging before pivoting to Instagram.

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Her podcast might be the most egregiously mid twenty tens

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of everything, though even its name, Confessions of a Female Founder,

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makes me pull a nick young face please appreciate that

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memes from twenty fourteen. Totally, It's the more thwardful, older

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sister of the lean in girl Boss. But at its core,

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its message is that the primary way to achieve women's

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rights is for women to make a lot of money

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from their companies. At a moment when women's actual bodily

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writes are much under attack, launching a podcast focusing on

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the woes of women's staying up late stressing over the

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design of their product labels is offensively out of touch.

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It really sounds as if Megan and her guests might

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be wearing Entrepreneurs for Hillary t shirts as they record. Meanwhile,

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she's also attempting a Martha Stuart Gwyneth to a Christy

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Tigan thing her Netflix show, offering tips and tricks for

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hosting and elevating the every day is heavily predicated on

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the thing these incredibly rich women all have in common,

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a huge, blandly beautiful house, a huge, blandly beautiful kitchen,

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and unlimited funds. But Megan also has some perverse compunction

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to be relatable, so she occasionally drops phrases like budget

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friendly and in order to profit of her carefully curated

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Coast grandmother rats vibe, She's not selling eight hundred dollars sweaters,

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but cookie mixes and ginger tea for under twenty. She

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seems intent on founding an empire of something, but I

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have no clue what it is, and I'm not sure

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the way to do it is repackaging her twenty sixteen

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influenza and dreams more balance. In just a moment, Prince

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William found himself going viral, not a Royal protocol or

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a charity gala, but for his reaction to a non

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alcoholic cider. While visiting the Royal Cornwall Show with Aunt Sophie,

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will stopped by the Rattler Cider Stall, a well known

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Cornish brand. When offered a zero percent alcohol version of

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the drink, William didn't hesitate to express his opinion. Oh no, no, no,

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no no, I need an original, he said, with a laugh.

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You can bring up the big guns, can't do the

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zero stuff. The clip, shared widely on TikTok, has racked

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up over seven hundred and fifteen thousand views and thirty

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four thousand likes, with many users praising William for his

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down to earth response. King Charles has revealed an unexpected

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culinary quirk. He rather enjoys sheep's cheese served on a

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digestive biscuit. The monarch made the confession during a visit

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to Lancashire, where he stopped by Lancaster Castle to take

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part in the traditional ceremony of the keys and to

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meet with local food producers. While speaking with Gillian Hale

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at Butler's Farmhouse Cheeses, the King shared his fondness for

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the tangy peering, though he declined to sample any cheese

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on the day, Hale said we're going to send some

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to him later in a goodie bag. He was so

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gracious in a rare indulgence for the King, who has

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long spoken about his carefully curated diet. In a twenty

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twenty to interview, Charles explained that he avoids meat and

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fish two days a weekens Toy is clear of dariu

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on one of those as well. His preference for organic

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food is well documented with his Duchy Originals line, launched

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in nineteen ninety, championing sustainable farming. He once told the

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Soil Association that the very future of humanity could depend

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on organic agriculture. Though no longer a working royal, Prince

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Andrew continues to live in royal style, quite literally, Despite

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mounting pressure from King Charles to downsize, the Duke of

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York remains firmly ensconced at Royal Lodge, the sprawling thirty

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room mansion in Windsor he has called home since two

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thousand and three. The late Queen's second son secured a

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seventy five year lease on the Crown of State property

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more than two decades ago, and he has shown no

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inclination to surrender it. Not even the loss of taxpayer

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funded security were rather pointed. Offer to relocate to the

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significantly smaller Frogmore Cottage formerly occupied by Prince har Magan Markel,

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has prompted the Duke to budge. According to property expert

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Robin Edwards, Andrew considers frog More not grand enough for him,

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telling gb News he has refused to leave his lavish

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mansion and move to the significantly smaller Frogmore Cottage, believe

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it not to be grand enough for him. Royal Lodge,

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a residence once cherished by Queen Elizabeth II, remains Andrew's

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residence of choice, shared with his ex wife, Sarah Ferguson.

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Though no longer romantically linked, the pair maintained a domestic

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partnership that continues to raise eyebrows within royal circles. The

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choice to stay, however, comes at a considerable price. Under

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the terms of his lease, Andrew is solely responsible for

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the property's upkeep, a financial burden that has become increasingly significant.

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Some of the required work reportedly began last year, but

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the overall maintenance is still estimated to be eye watering.

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Even back in September of two thousand and two, that

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maintenance work was very conservatively estimated at at least seven

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point five million pounds excluded in tax Edwards said the

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costs are likely to have grown significantly since then with

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time and inflation, and they haven't. I'd like to email

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