Nov. 25, 2025

Prince Harry Eyes Home While Meghan’s in Kardashian Heaven and Harry’s in Hell

Prince Harry Eyes Home While Meghan’s in Kardashian Heaven and Harry’s in Hell

Today’s episode examines reports that Prince Harry is preparing to bring Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to Britain more regularly despite Meghan’s objections, alongside accounts of the Duke feeling out of place at Kris Jenner’s Bond-themed birthday party. We break down new analysis of “Picture-gate” from The Royalist, PR criticism of Meghan’s “return to acting,” and Bethenny Frankel’s pointed commentary on the Sussexes’ fractured public image. Also featured: Meghan’s early holiday preparations, hints of a future visit to Australia, and the couple’s $50,000 donation to the Masaka Kids Africana ahead of their upcoming Netflix documentary.

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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intry a game.

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I'm your host mark for Ancis. Despite Harry's public desire

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for privacy, sometimes the leaks come from within the house.

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Now we've seen part of Archie and Lilobt's letter to

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Santa thanks to a leak from Mom. In the trailer

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for upcoming Netflix holiday special with Love Megan Holiday Celebration,

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we see the Duchess of Sussex moving through a series

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of festive scenes, from trimming trees to setting out snacks

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for Santa, and includes a mug decorated in her signature calligraphy.

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The children's message addressed to Santa is only partially visible,

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showing the phrases have been good and travel safely and

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assigned Exo Archie and Lil. The names appear again on

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Personalized Advent Calendar's Megan prepares during the footage. Megan also

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reflects on her approach to hosting in the trailer, saying,

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being a hostess or a host, it's about making people

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feel comfortable. Speaking to people earlier this year about having

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her family visit the set, she said Archie did the

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filming clapboard, sweet moments I'd love that my children were

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able to watch me working and see the balance of

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that and understand what mamma does and is working to

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create and share. You may recall Harry once lived as

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a prince in the UK and gave it all up

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to get away from the press so he could protect

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his family. The short clip posted to her Instagram shows

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the Duke and Duchess of Sussex kissing in the kitchen

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as Megan talks viewers through her approach to Christmas and

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the trailer, the Duchess says, I love the holiday season.

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It's about finding time to connect with people we love,

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embracing traditions and making new ones. Let the festivities commence

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and embrace the special touches that bring you joy. Megan

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is seeing preparing easy and elegant crafts, chopping ingredients, mixing

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cocktails and carefully placing decorated Christmas biscuits. Later, she explained

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being a hostess or a host is about making people

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feel comfortable, adding you can do things that make people

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feel seen. Body language expert Judy James said it's Harry's

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cameo appearance that might create the discomfort. Here, he is

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seen standing front onto camera, looking like a very self

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conscious fish out of water as he holds a small

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bowl aloft and too high for comfort as he mixes

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whatever small doll up he has incided. James went on

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to ask whether Harry had been invited to stir the

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pudding at last, having missed out on the four generational

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Royal pudding stirring event that his brother appeared on, adding,

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if so, this looks like a very censorious portion sized version.

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She was referring to the twenty nineteen Christmas pudding making

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moment involving the late Queen King Charles, Prince William and

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Prince George, an event Harry did not attend shortly before

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stepping back from Royal Life. Nice digby Judy there. The

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trailer was released hours after the latest as Ever newsletter

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came out. In it, they talked turkey. When dreaming up

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the holiday collection months ago, Meghan imagined what it would

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taste like to have a sage honey drizzled on her

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Thanksgiving turkey and TOADA. Here we are stunning sage honey,

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aromatic and earthy, epicurean in its depth of flavor and

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elegant simplicity, inspired by the treats she enjoys at her

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home with her family. In The Daily Beast, Tom Sakes

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suggests Meghan Markle's frantic insistence on the title of Duchess

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as an attempt to imprint her family's royal connections on

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the public before their inevitable removal. The Harper's bizarre interview

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with Meghan was meant to be a triumphant finger aimed

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at the British Royals, released on the very day that

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Prince William and Princess Catherine signified their increased responsibility by

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attending the Royal Variety performance. This clear attempt to overshadow

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them was Meghan's most extraordinary own goal. Yet the world

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ignored the tedious gold Boss platitudes and instead reveled in

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her insistence that everyone around her use her full royal title,

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even in situations where it made no sense. Meghan belatedly

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appears to have woken up to the direction of travel.

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Before Andrew, the argument was that divine right meant that

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royal titles could never be taken away. Post Andrew, the

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question has become why should all these other people keep

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their titles? Meghan's strategy is to use the titles more

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not less across the private, commercial and pr planes of

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her existence to try and imprint them on the public mind.

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The same applies to her use of the surname Sussex.

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The British public is clamoring for a reckoning and for

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titles to be removed from all Sussex'es and Yorkes. If

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King Charles the Third really wanted to shift the desperate

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polling for the monarchy and the appalling state of his

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legacy as it currently stands, he would man up and

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do the job for William More Palace. In just a moment,

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Heatwold suggested the Sussexes cross the one person in Hollywood

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who nobody messes with the issue the recent picture gate

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involving Chris Jenna. In an article, Heatwold shared, we're told

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the way Chris sees it. Harry and Meghan. They've asked

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for and received her advice and connections. Here she was

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inviting them past the velvet rope of oz and she

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felt that they repaid her by acting as though they

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are too good to be seen partying with her. Chris

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and Kim now have egg on their faces and better

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believe they're fuming asking for permission to share photos as

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done as a courtesy, but Chris certainly wasn't expecting anyone

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to say no, and certainly not Megan than Harry. We're

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hearing that, despite the caliber of guests at the bash

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Chris fills them, the former Royals still see themselves as

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somewhat superior to the grafters of Tinseltown, and now we're

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told that their request for the candid snaps to be

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taken down as something Chris cannot let slide as she

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plans to can the duo from Hollywood. To her, it

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says everything she needs to know about them the inside.

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It says She's had plenty of people use her connections

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in her lifetime. Many more have tried, but she's at

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a point where that doesn't really happen anymore because as

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soon as she spots it, she cuts the relationship off.

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And that's all of her influential friends know. So Harry

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and Meghan should take note of that. Chris and Kim

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have heard all the rumors about the Sussex's being tricky

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and prone to deva behavior, but this incident caught them

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totally off guard, and the more they reflect on it,

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the worse it's sitting with them. It's a massive slap

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in the face and one that Chris cannot let slide.

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Wild adds to make matters worse, with photographers from within

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the velvet draped casino, complete with crystal chandeliers, personalized poker

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chips and Martini's have dominated headlines. There's no doubt that

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the Sussex scandal has overshadowed what the Kardashians had hoped

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would be the party of the year the inside. He continued,

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it's just so insulting and ungracious from Chris's point of view.

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The way it comes across, rightly or wrongly, is that

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the Sussexes consider themselves superior to the Kardashians, and they

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felt embarrassed to be seen with them. That's left a

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very bad taste in everyone's mouth, and it's hard to

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see how Megan or Harry can salvage the friendship moving forward.

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An opposing view, rooting fourteen Sussex, suggested, as usual, the

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fault lines with Harry's family. If it wasn't for their

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constant judgment and criticism, Meghan and Harry wouldn't have to

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guard their privacy the way they do. Apparently, Megan and

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Harry are saying they were asked if they wanted their

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photos shared publicly, and they said no because they knew

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it would be frowned upon by his family. Meghan is

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distraught as she respects Chris, but she's not giving up hope.

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She has already sent an apology letter and will no

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doubt be mailing holiday gift packages and other peace offerings

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to find her way back into the Kardashian's good books.

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She's hopeful it'll all blow over water under the bridge

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soon enough. When you cross this family, that tends to

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be no way back, and the likelihood is that they'll

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be giving Harry and Megan an extremely wide birth moving forward.

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Megan's not giving up, but right now it's a nightmare

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as far as their social prospects go, and it's likely

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to cost them a lot of money too. She really

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didn't mean to upset Chris and just wants the friendship back.

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We asked out Royal inside a Deep Crown about this.

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Usually isn't very interested in the Sussen's gossip, but we

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did get a reaction from him. One has to marvel

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at the extraordinary naivete, or perhaps it's calculated audacity of

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imagining that an event hosted by Chris Jannon would somehow

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qualify as an intimate camera shy affair. The woman has

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built an empire on the strategic deployment of imagery. Did

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they suppose these photographers were there for mister bezos private scrapbook?

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The fundamental miscalculation here reveals a pattern we've observed from Montecito,

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a persistent desire to move freely within certain circles while

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simultaneously maintaining an arm's length disdain for the very currency

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those circles trade in publicity. One cannot have it both ways.

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The Kardashians understand this implicitly. They've made peace with the

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transactional nature of modern celebrity. The Sussexes, it appears, still

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labor under the impression that they occupy some rarefied middle

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ground between royalty and Hollywood, entitled to the benefits of both,

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whilst bound by the obligations of neither. There may had

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been an olive branch, however, as Chris Jenner reposted two

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clips that Megan released the trailer for her Netflix Christmas

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special and her new Harper's Bizarre cover, signaling that any

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speculation of tension between the pair has now eased or not,

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