Sept. 6, 2025

Royal Funeral Shocker: Harry’s Role Revealed, Kate’s Secret Life Exposed, and Queen Victoria’s Hidden Heir

Royal Funeral Shocker: Harry’s Role Revealed, Kate’s Secret Life Exposed, and Queen Victoria’s Hidden Heir

Royal funeral plans are sparking new drama as reports claim Prince Harry may walk side by side with Prince William, but insiders insist he’s still out of the inner circle. Meanwhile, fresh details emerge about Kate Middleton’s private life, from school-run WhatsApp groups to playing rounders at kids’ parties. Plus, royal crushes revealed (from Charles and Barbra Streisand to Diana and Kevin Costner), a Minnesota woman claims she’s Queen Victoria’s secret descendant, and palace insiders spill the truth about the Firm’s ultimate weapon: silence. When the royals erase you, they do it quietly — and permanently.

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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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heart flutters more Palace in just a moment, And as

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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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