April 6, 2025

Palace Weekly - JAM DRAMA AND ROYAL FEUDS - The week in Royal News

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PALACE WEEKLY: JAM DRAMA AND ROYAL FEUDS

This week's juiciest royal gossip! Meghan's luxury "As Ever" jam packaging gets SAVAGED online for resembling perfume rather than preserves. Harry is "GRIEF-STRICKEN" over his Sentebale charity collapse, feeling like he's "had a finger cut off." William makes a BOLD BREAK from royal tradition by hiring Diana's divorce lawyers instead of his father's firm! Plus: The Sussexes' funeral wreath controversy, William's near-injury on the football pitch, and the EXPLOSIVE news that Harry has CUT TIES with cousin Princess Eugenie after she dared to lunch with his arch-nemesis Piers Morgan!

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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Weekly, our

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shorter form. If you need longer versions, please go back

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and listen to the daily versions in the world of

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the Royals. This week, Megan Sussex has revealed the first

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look at the packaging for her as ever raspberry jam,

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and the result has left the public somewhat stunned. The

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Duchess showcased a gleaming white case nearly double the size

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of the actual jar, complete with gold detailing, dainty white label,

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and a metal lid, all of which, to the casual observer,

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appear more befitting a luxury candle or perfume than a

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fruit preserve. What was that you heard, Yes, it was

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Queen Elizabeth Rowl in her grave. Social media reactions have

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been as tart as the jam itself. When unimpressed onlooker

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exclaimed Megan is just jam it doesn't require an entire

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presentation as packaging is as pretentious as she as. Others

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echoed the sentiment, noting that the elaborate box looks like

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a perfume, with another adding seems like a lot of

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extra packaging for a company that wants to be environmentally aware.

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Harry and Meghan are once again at the center of

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a royal controversy, this time over a wreath at Prince

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Phillip's funeral in April of twenty one. The couple were

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the only members of the royal family to include a

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press release with their floral tribute, a move critics quickly

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branded sickening in a pr stunt. Their wreath, designed by

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Cotswold's florist Willow Crossley, who had previously arranged flowers for

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their wedding and Archie's christening, featured a carefully curated selection

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of blooms, each chosen for symbolic meaning, according to the

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Sussex statement. Included Bear's breaches to one of phillips Greek

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heritage see Holly for his Royal Marines service, rosemary for remembrance,

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roses for his birth month, and aavender for devotion. The

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arrangement stood out among eight more modest family tributes in

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Saint George's chapel and was accompanied by a handwritten card

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from Megan, who remained in California due to her pregnancy.

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But while the sentiment may have been well in Tangent,

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many in royal circles and online were left unimpressed. Even

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Meghan's flower arranger had her own pr agency, noted Royal

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biographer Robert Lacy. Do you think they've got enough recognition

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for your wreath now, Meghan asked one sarcastic social media user.

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Another echoed the sentiment, she just can't help herself. Me, me, me,

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It's all quite seconding. Prince Harry has said to be

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grief stricken and feels as if he has had one

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of his fingers cut off following the public implosion of

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his Lesotho based HIV and AIDS charity center. Bali Alex Rainer,

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an old Etonian friend of the Prince who has remained

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in contact with him, said, h is very happy for

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me to speak for him and about how he feels

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about this awful situation. He is just beyond heartbroken and

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flabbergasted that the charity he founded as a teenager had

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been taken hostage by the chair. It feels tantamount to

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a hostile takeover. Is upset and hurt and wounded about

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the things that are being said about him. I think

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it's too early to tell whether he would just walk

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away now or whether he might try and get it back.

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The way he feels is as if he has had

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one of his fingers cut off. Prince William has confirmed

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that this year's earth Shop Prize Awards will take place

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in Rio this November, marking the first time the environmental

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honors will be staged in South America. The ceremony will

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coincide with the cop thirty UN Climate Summit, also in Brazil,

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set in the stage for what may prove to be

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a significant moment a global climate calendar. Launched by Prince

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William in twenty twenty, the earth Shop Prize awards five

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one million pound prizes each year to individuals and organizations

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offering groundbreaking solutions to environmental challenges. The five categories, known

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as earth Shots are protect and restore nature, clean our air,

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revive our oceans, build a waste free world and fix

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our climate. Prince William also has taken a striking step

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away from royal tradition by hiring the same legal firm

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that represented his late mother, Diana, Princess of Whale, during

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her divorce from King Charles. The move has been widely

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interpreted as a signal of his determination to chart a

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new course, one that is distinctly his own. According to

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reports in The Daily Mail and the Son, William has

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now parted ways with Harbottle and Lewis, the long preferred

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legal advisers of his father, in favor of Michon de Reya,

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the firm that stood by Diana through her tumultuous split

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from the then Prince of Wales in nineteen ninety six.

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Now nearly three decades on, her son has turned to

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the same firm. Sow As close to the Prince, told

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The Mail Wheniam wanted to strike out on his own,

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he did not want to continue using his father's lawyers.

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It's as simple as that he wants to be his

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own man. William wants to do things differently from his

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father and wants to be seen to do them differently.

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Prince William also had a close call on the pitch

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during a royal engagement. Former Lioness Jill Scott has revealed

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the Prince of Wales was nearly injured when the footballing

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star accidentally took him out during a charity match, a

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moment she says left her momentarily panicked at the thought

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of having side tackled the future King of England. Speaking

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on the Jonathan Ross Show, Scott recalled there rather dramatic

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first meeting we were opening this school. She said, I

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just had trainers and it was AstroTurf. I slipped and

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wiped him out. I thought, I've just slide tackled the

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future King. It's such a lovely guy. In another moment,

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captured ahead of the Euroscott was photographed speaking animatedly with

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the Prince. She explained the now viral image of saying

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before the Euros, he came to Saint George's part to

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say hello to the goals and wish them luck. I

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took our coffee cup to give it to him from

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our coffee shop. I thought it'd be a nice gesture.

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I gave it to a security there in the picture

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of trying to explain to him the difference between a

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flat white and a large latter. More Palace Weekly in

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just a moment, a collision in Western Australia has promoted

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concern for Virginia Geoffrey, the woman who accused Prince Andrew

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of sexual assaultant who has long spoken out as a

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victim of Jeffrey Epstein. Missus Geoffrey sheared a harrowing message

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on social media over the weekend, claiming she had been

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struck by a school bus traveling at nearly seventy miles

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per hour and was now suffering from kidney failure with

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just four days to live. The accompanying image showed her

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when in a hospital bed, her face bruised, and her

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message was a heartfelt plea to see her three children,

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from whom she is believed to be estranged. However, Western

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Australian Police have offered a markedly different account of events.

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They confirmed to the Telegraph that a minor crash did

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indeed occur in March twenty fourth and near Gabby, some

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twelve miles north of Perth, involving a school bus and

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a car, but Acting Police Commissioner Kyle Whitely told reporters

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that there were no reported injuries as a result of

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the crash, and that the incident was not reported until

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the following day by the bus driver. Police assessed the

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vehicle damage at approximately two thousand dollars. Australian Andrew is

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said to be unsurprised by Virginia Geoffrey's recent claims about

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this serious bus crash, though friends of the Duke of

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York consist the renewed attention has stirred sadness for him

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and his family. Prince Harry has reportedly severed tires with

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his cousin, Princess Eugenie after she was seen having lunch

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with broadcast at Piers Morgan, one of the most outspoken

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critics of the Duke and Duchess Sussex. Despite the wider

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family tensions following Harry and Meghan's departure from royal duties

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in twenty twenty, Harry remained on good terms with Eugenie. However,

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according to The Sun, that relationship is soured in the

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wake of the lunch with Morgan last April. A dim

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view was taken of this, as Peers has clashed with

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Meghan and Harry in the past. A friend told the newspaper,

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Eugenie has been supportive of Harry and Meghan for years

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and was right there at the beginning of their relationship,

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but it is now Soward. Peers has now confirmed the

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reports himself, claiming on Peers Morgan uncensored that Harry went

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completely ballistic after seeing images of Eugenie with him that

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was because of me. Morgan said she was having lunch

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with me and a group of people in a pub

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in London and I was seen hugging them goodbye, and

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Harry saw this and went completely ballistic. I can confirm

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that this is entirely true because he couldn't bear it

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