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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I
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am your host, Mark Francis. The royal funeral rumors are
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making the rounds again. While earlier rumors suggested the Sussexes
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might be excluded from the arrangements, The Telegraph now reports
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that the couple are expected to play a significant part
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in the ceremonial proceedings. According to the outlet, Prince Harry
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is said to walk side by side with his brother
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Prince William during the funeral procession, despite ongoing tensions between
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the siblings. Meghan Touches of Sussex would also reportedly be present,
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and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, are said
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to be invited to attend the service at Westminster Abbey,
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an indication that King Charles may be hoping for unity
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in the face of public mourning. However, early reports from
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Shatatskou painted a different picture. One inside A claimed that
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while Harry may attend, he would not be seated with
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senior royals life Queen Camilla, Princess Kate or Prince William.
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He's out of the inner circle and this makes a
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permanent source alleged described the seating plan as a clear message.
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For now, the Palace remains silent on the matter, and
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the extent of Harry and Meghan's participation in the King's
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eventual funeral service remains unconfirmed. Still, the notion of Harry
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walking alongside his brother, if realized, would be a striking
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image of reconciliation in a family long marked by a division.
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In Thenews dot co dot au, DANIELA Elsa writes, while
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much kids are written about Kate's health and work and
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clothes and hair and clothes, who she is and private
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is generally one of the most tightly guarded secrets out there.
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But get ready to meet our whole you. Kate not
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perfect Princess Kate, a woman immaculately styled and put together
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who gives modern day fairy tale like no one else
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on earth. But Mom Kate, a woman who turns up
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to school sports looking shattered, doesn't bother with makeup in
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the mornings, lets her kids have sugar retreats on the
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way home, cooks the same Tuesday night go tos we
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all do, and is stuck in appearance. WhatsApp group first
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crowned a British housewife Panthea Parker admitted to Hello that
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she sees Kate because my son's school plays against her
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son's school, and the princess is so lovely and she
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never misses any of the children's matches, So really amazing. However,
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the really fascinating new details com courtesy of the Daily Beasts,
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Tom Sykes via his sub stack and Sykes's connections, who
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see a completely different version of the Prince and Princess
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to the rest of the world. I went to the
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house for a kid's birthday party and women and Kate
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were the ones organizing the games and playing rounders. Appearent
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whose children go to Lambrouk told Sikes any of us
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would get an entertainer and sit in the house drinking rose.
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The royal family may be bound by duty, but over
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the decades they've also inspired their fair share of crushes
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and had a few themselves. Women at Home dot Com
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took a look at some famous crushes. King Charles once
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admitted he'd longer amired Barbara streisand calling her talent dazzling
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after meeting her in a set of Funny Lady, while
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Barbara later joked she could have been the first real
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Jewish princess. He was also said to be charmed by
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Joan Collins, even remarking in a letter on her unbelievable cleavage,
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and by Meryl Streep, who confessed she once dreamed of
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marrying him. Dame Emma Thompson has teased about trying unsuccessfully
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to have a rude relationship with the then Prince of Wales.
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Princess Dane's admirers include Kevin Costner, with whom she was
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in talks to star in a Bodyguard sequel. Costner revealed
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Prince William later told him, my mom kind of fancied you.
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She was so famously had a youthful crush on Prince Charles,
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whose photo sat by her school bed. Kate Middleton has
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admitted a teenage poster boy wasn't William but Levi's model
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Nick Kaman. She also once had a Hollywood crush on
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Tom Cruise, while rumors persist about a schoolgirl fancy for
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classmate Andrew Ellenxander. Prince Harry has been on more than
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a few celebrity lists. Adele Rita or A, Katy Perry,
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Hillary duff Sheryl Cole, Rosy Huntington Whiteley and Courtney Cox
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among them. In Spare, Harry admitted a crush on Cox,
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likinging himself to her on screen love interest Chandler. As
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a teen, he decorated his wall with a halle Berry post,
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something the actress herself cheekily acknowledged. Other famous names have
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found themselves smitten with royals. Paris Hilton once declared Prince
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William hot and suggested he ditches mousey girlfriend Miranda Curse
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that she had fancied him since childhood, and model Isabella
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Calthorpe was remembered to have caught his attention during a
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brief split from Kate. Jack Whitehall even confessed to the
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Princess of Wales she had been his first ever crush.
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Beyond romance, some have expressed admiration Harry Hill for Princess
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Anne's toughness, Paul McCartney for a young Queen Elizabeth Second's beauty,
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and Cindy Crawford, who fondly recalled Princess Diana inviting her
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to Kensington Palace to meet a teenage William. From schoolgirl
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posters to playful red carpet confessions, the royals have been
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both the subject and source of more than a few
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you for it thanks. A woman from Minnesota says her
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family's long whispered secret that they are descended from Queen
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Victoria and her loyal Scottish Gilly John Brown might be
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more than just a myth. Angela Webb Milankovich, forty seven,
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is hoping a DNA test will confirm what her family
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has quietly believed for generations, that she is the great
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great granddaughter of Queen Victoria through an alleged secret child
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the monarch had with Brown during a supposed hidden romance
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in the eighteen sixties. Webin Milinkovitch has teamed up with
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historian doctor Fern Riddle, whose book of victoria Arrious Secret
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explores evidence suggesting that mary Anne, the baby born to
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Brown's brother and sister in law in New Zealand in
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eighteen sixty five, may in fact have been Victoria's biological child.
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According to Ruddell, the timeline, the migration records, and the
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Sudthern royal generosity toward the family, including the gifting of
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her house on the Bowmoral Estate and later relocation to Windsor,
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support the theory that mary Anne was no ordinary niece.
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Angela says she's not interested in money or titles, just
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the truth. I want their relationship to be recognized for
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the royal family. That stops saying it didn't happen. If
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I'm going to reach for the top, it would have
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to be from King Charles or Prince William. That'd be
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great too. She and her sister, who wishes to remain anonymous,
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recently unearthed family heirlooms and papers long kept in a
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safety deposit box, including a broach and lock of hair
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said to be from Queen Victorian, Angela's grandfather, she recalls,
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was deeply bitter about how the Browns had been erased
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from royal history, a purge allegedly carried out by Victoria's
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son Bertie. After her death in nineteen o one. Journals
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detailing Victoria's affection for Brown were destroyed, private memorials removed,
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and references scrubbed from official records. I'm proud of their
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steadfastness in keeping the legacy of John Brown alive, Angela said.
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It's a beautiful romance that deserves its moment of recognition
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in history. While some have long speculated about the nature
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of Victoria and Brown's bond, fueled by gossip letters in
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their intimate closeness portrayed in films like Missus Brown, Riddle's
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research has added new historical weight to the theory. Channel
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four's documentary accompanying Victoria's Secret features Angela and traces the
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evidence suggesting the queen may have even married Brown in secret.
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What she wants most, she says, is honesty. Let's be real.
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Bertie was a bit of a jerk to the Browns.
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That story deserves to be known, According to Royal Inside
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of Rob's Shooter, the House of Windsor has a time
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tested method for dealing with scandal, and it doesn't involve confrontation.
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Due to a former representative for Princess Michael, says, the
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royal family handles controversy by going quiet and letting time
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and public interest through the heavy lifting they erase you,
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he claims. Speaking to Reality Tea, Shooter reflected on what
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he called the Palace's unspoken crisis management strategy silence. They
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won't publicly scold you or denounce you, who explained, They'll
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just stop answering your calls. It's a strategy Shooter says
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he saw at firsthand while working with Princess Michael, who
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found herself at the center of controversy. According to him,
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the response was simple. They quietly sidelined her and moved
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on as if the scandal and she had never existed.
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He believes the same approach is now being applied to
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markele. After years of interviews, documentaries
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and tells, Shooter suggest the couple didn't just leave the firm.
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They crossed a line their persona on grata, not in name,
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but in practice. He said, the Sussexes may still receive
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formal invitations to funerals or state occasions, but Tutor said
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they're more for show than sentiment. They won't slam the door,
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he explained, they just stop opening it. The former rep
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likened the monarchy to a well oiled machine. When a
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part stops working, they didn't fix it, they replace it.
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And if you ask Kim, that machine has already moved
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on without Harry and Meghan. As for any chance of
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royal reconciliation, Shooter doesn't sound optimistic. It's a dream, he
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said bluntly. And there you have it. Back to email
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