Aug. 15, 2025

Is Meghan Markle Stealing Christmas from Kate? PLUS Happy Birthday Princess Anne!

Is Meghan Markle Stealing Christmas from Kate?  PLUS Happy Birthday Princess Anne!

Happy Birthday to Princess Anne, also known as the Princess Royal,who celebrates her 75th birthday today.

Ahead of the special day, Buckingham Palace has released a new portrait of Anne with her husband Sir Timothy Laurence. Meanwhile, a royal source has revealed why Princess Anne doesn't "want to do anything" for her 75th birthday. The Princess Royal has been spending ten days sailing around western Scotland aboard her not so secret Rustler 44 yacht.

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Calarogu Shark Media that Hello and welcome through Palace Injury

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Game your host Mark Francis. Happy birthday to Princess Anne,

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also known as the Princess Royal, who celebrates her seventy

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fifth birthday today. The head of the special day, Buckingham Palace,

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has released a new portrait of Anne with her husband,

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Sir Timothy Lawrence. Meanwhile, a Royal source has revealed why

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Princess Anne doesn't want to do anything for her seventy

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fifth birthday. The Princess Royal has been spending ten days

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sailing around Western Scotland aboard her not so secret Rustler

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forty four yacht. The portrait was taken before the state

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banquet held at Windsor Castle in honor of French President

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Emmanuel Macron's visit. In July, People magazine reported the Princess

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Anne's portrait debuted the royals first here makeover in half

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a century. The publication noted that Anne was trading her

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signature Bouffont of five decades for an elegant Hinnon. Rather

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than having a birthday party, Anne decided to invite a

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plethora of charities and organizations to a special gathering at

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Buckingham Palace. As the Royal patron of more than four

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hundred organizations. Princess Anne has dedicated her life to charity,

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so it's perhaps unsurprising she chose to focus on her

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work at the event. An accomplished sailor, Princess Anne keeps

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a five hundred thousand pound yacht in Scotland, which she

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and Sir Tim Lawrence sailed twice a year. She also

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made history as the first Royal Olympian, competing in equestrian

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in at Montreal in nineteen seventy six. Known for her

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no nonsense style, she was once fined after her bull

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terrier Dotty, bit two children and Winsor Great Park. The

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first royal convicted of a criminal offense. She famously survived

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in nineteen seventy four kidnap attempt refusing to leave her car,

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and has long been praised for her sustainable fashion since

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earning the title of True Style Icon from Vogue. As

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a grandmother of five, she is equally at home on

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the Royal circuit or babysitting on a Sunday, and her

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dry wit remains legendary. When son in law Mike Tindall

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split his trousers to reveal box of shorts reading nibble

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my nuts. Her reply was simply, I'd rather not. She's

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also rumored to be getting tired of her nephew William

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not working very hard. In the Telegraph, Rowan Pelling writes,

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Princess Ann shows shameless andrew what it means to be

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a royal. Over the course of twenty twenty four, she

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carried out four hundred and seventy four official engagements, over

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one hundred more than cancer stricken childs and almost two

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hundred more than Edward, despite being hospitalized in June for concussion.

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This surely makes her the Gordon Gecko of public service.

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Leisure is for whimps and fashion is for dupes, and

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has reached I called favorite garments for decades and maintained

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the same svelt figure since her twenties. No Munjaro, crazy

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diets or promotion to deal with weight watchers, a La Fergie,

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just a will of iron. Then there's Anne's young professional achievements.

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In a family where junior members are often more noted

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for holidays than hard grind. She's not only carried off

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the individual gold medal at the seventy one European eventing

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championships at Burley, but went on to represent Britain at

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the nineteen seventy six Montreal Olympics, becoming a heroine for

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a generation of schoolgirls. Then there's the claim she won't

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curtsey to Queen Camilla and is alleged to have said,

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you're the Queen Consort, not the Queen. If that's the truth,

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good for her. Much as I admire Camilla, There's no

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reason on earth why a woman of Anne's age and

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standing should bow the knee to a newly crowned second spouse.

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Although no exchange white out does the time Shari Blair

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suggested the princess could drop the formal missus Blair and

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addressed her by her Christian name, and we put her

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in place. I'd rather not. It's not how I was raised.

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And while Andrews spent decades lobbying for Beatrice and Eugenie

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to keep the titles and public purse privileges he felt

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were their birthright, like a security detail, and quietly decided

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there was zero need for her children to be part

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of the royal circus. As a result, Peter and Sarah

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Phillips appear to be the jolliest and best adjusted kids

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of that generation of Windsors, the only ones you can

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imagine wielding a barrow full of horse stone is a

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matter of course. In Anne and her family, you see

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happy echoes of Prince Philip, who rebelled against stuffy palace

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protocol and was happiest carriage driving or outdoors with his barbecue.

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Megan released a trailer for the upcoming season of her

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cooking show, coming out on August twenty six. Royalist broke

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down how the ninety second teaser is filled with uppy music,

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warm visuals, and a flurry of affirmations. The word joy

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or joyful appears three times, alongside invitations to get creative,

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learn something new, get out of your comfort zone, and

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let's be curious together. The footage features Meghan unwrapping bread,

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guests admiring cheese and jewelry, making sessions described by one

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participants so happy over mugs of tea. The atmosphere is

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called comforting, with Megan echoing so comforting. One surprising moment

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reveals that Prince Harry dislikes lobster. Season two will welcome

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celebrity guests including Chrissy Tiger and Chef Jose Andres of

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World Central Kitchen, set to the song Rock and Robin.

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The trailer leans heavily into the show's trademark tablescaping and

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curated positivity. Meghan also showed her link to influence of

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Royalty as she featured Mamager Chris Jenna on her Instagram

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story the Kardashian Matriarch. She had a photo and Instagram

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stories of a gift that Duchess had sent bottles of

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her twenty twenty four Napa Valley Rose wine. In addition

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to sharing a photo of the wine on her social media,

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Mother of six Chris tagged both Meghan's Instagram account as

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well as as Evers, saying thank you. We won't act

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like we don't make fun of Megan sometimes, but this

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notion that Meghan is hijacking Christmas is ridiculous. Royal commentator

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Kinsey Schofield and Ripert Bell commented on the upcoming A

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Christmas Special with Meghan Markle, prompting Bell to observe, I'm

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not sure how Megan is going to elevate Christmas. I

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am sure it will be beautifully shot. It will be schmaltzy, missus.

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Schofield interjected, it will be commercialized with a suggestion that

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Megan is out to hijack the birth of Jesus Christ

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to sell another bottle of rose or fruit spread. Look, everyone,

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Kate may be wonderful in all, but she doesn't get

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to own the entire month of December because of one

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annual concert. More Palace in just a moment. By the way,

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Andrew these days is that you can be a jerk

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in public, and it's only the twenty seventh worst thing

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about you. Andrew has been accused of launching a foulmouth

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outburst at a workman installing speed bumps there is home

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at Royal Lodge and Windsor Great Park. Witnesses say the

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Duke of York was on horseback when he encountered a

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crew placing the new traffic humps along his usual driving

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route out of the thirty one room property. Pulling up

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beside them, he reportedly demanded, what the f A you're

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doing now. One source suggested the new hump positioned near

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the park gate will force Andrew to slow down when leaving,

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adding Andrew likes to drive his car out of Royal

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Lodge quite fast and is obviously a bit peeved. The

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estate is managed by King Charles in his role as

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Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Author Andrew Lowney has claimed

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that the Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein were

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all part of the same little group who moved in

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very much the same circles and shared the same interest

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in golf, money and sex. Speaking on the Daily Beast podcast,

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Lowney alleged that Andrew's buddy buddy relationship with Epstein began

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earlier than they claim, lasted much longer, and was much deeper,

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dating back to at least ninety one Lowdey said that

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Sarah Ferguson was also drawn into the association, claiming there

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were more numbers for Sarah Ferguson in the Black Book

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than they were for Andrew on Epstein's accomplice Gilene Maxwell,

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a sometime girlfriend of Andrew. Lowney alleged she exploited the

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princess greed and sex addiction, making him easy pickings for Epstein.

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She was an enabler for Epstein and Andrew. Epstein got

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a kick from his girlfriend being involved with Andrew, he said.

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According to Lowney, the royal family protected Andrew from criminal

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prosecution in the UK, and the late Queen Elizabeth not

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only allowed his behavior but colluded with efforts to shut

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down stories about her favorite son. The buck stopped with

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the Queen, he added. On Trump's connection to Andrew, Lowney

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said that despite Trump's denials, there's plenty of photographic evidence

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of them together in New York, in Mara Lago and elsewhere,

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and indeed in London. They're all distancing themselves, but they're

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all part of the same little group. So I don't

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think anyone can deny these people were extremely close in

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a particular period at the beginning of the century. The

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Daily Beast reported that the White House did not respond

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to a request for comment. In twenty twenty two, Andrew

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settled the civil sexual assault lawsuit brought by Virginia Jeffrey,

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who alleged Epstein had trafficked her to the Prince for

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sex when she was seventeen. Andrew denied any wrongdoing. On

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the case, Loney said, no one I spoke to believes

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he is innocent. Yeah, there, you haven't to email us

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