March 2, 2026
Sussex strategy or royal sabotage? Are Beatrice and Eugenie being urged to break their silence by Harry and Meghan?
Reports claim Harry and Meghan are encouraging Beatrice and Eugenie to speak publicly about the Epstein fallout, a move some fear could detonate new family divisions. Jan Moir says the Jordan tour made the Sussexes look like “Windsor saints,” while Tessa Dunlop argues William could end the exile with a single public gesture. Attention also turns to the King’s high-risk U.S. visit, where lawyers, politicians and the First Amendment could collide with royal protocol.
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Ah Calorougus Shark Media, Hi.
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And welcome to Pallace Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Rancis.
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Radar Online reports that Harry and Meghan are said to
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be encouraging Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie to speak publicly
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about the ongoing fallout from the Epstein scandal, a move
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that some sources claimed could further destabilize the royal family.
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One source told Radar Online, Harry and Meghan genuinely believe
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that Beatrice and Eugenie would benefit from speaking for themselves,
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rather than allowing speculation to define them. In their view,
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silence has only allowed assumptions to harden into accepted fact.
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They think the sisters are in a position to set
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the record straight, particularly about the extent of their parents'
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association with Epstein and what they themselves knew or didn't know.
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From Harry and Meghan's perspective, offering context and clarity could
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help them step out from under the shadow that has
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followed them for years. Another source suggested the Sussexes have
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drawn on their own experience of telling their story publicly.
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Harry and Meghan are drawing on their own experience. They
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saw how telling their story on their own terms reshaped
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the conversation around them, and they believe that same strategy
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could work for Beatrice and Eugenie. In their eyes, controlling
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the narrative is a form of leverage. However, there is
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said to be concerned within royal circles about the potential
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impact of such a move. One insider claimed, for some
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it feels like Harry and Megan want to use them
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like puppets on their ongoing mission to bring the Royal
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family to its knees. A separate source added there are
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people who question the motive behind this. They worry it
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isn't purely about helping the sisters find their voice, but
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about applying pressure in a wider family power struggle. If
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Beatrice and Eugenie were to lay out timelines, conversations, and
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what they personally witnessed, the repercussions would not stop with
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their parents, it could ripple through the entire institution of
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the royal family. Beatrice and Eugenie are deeply conflicted. On
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one hand, they are determined to shield their husbands and
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children from the fallout and finally disentangle themselves from a
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saga that has defined them for too long. On the
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other hand, they know that going public, whether through a
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memoir or a televised interview, would be interpreted by some
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as crossing a line. They are weighing loyalty against self preservation,
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and it feels like a pivotal decision that could shape
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the rest of their lives. Another insider concluded, they genuinely
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believe openness can be cathartic and strategically smart, but the
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dilemma is obvious. Any move toward a full transparency by
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Beatrice and Eugenie could deepen existing divides and make reconciliation
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within the family even more remote. That tension between personal
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freedom and collective fallout is what makes this so combustible.
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Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have not commented public on
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the claims. The Daily Mail Jan Moyer rightes of Harry
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and Meghan's recent trip to Jordan in the middle of
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Andrew Gate. In this harsh light, even the bad guys
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look good, and don't Harry and Meghan know it. The
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couple made an eight thousand mile trip from Montecito to
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the Middle East, pantingly keen to show that despite royal scandal,
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there is no end to their kindness and compassion, their
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sense of global duty, their humanitarianism. They were invited there
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by the World Health Organization, to which they have a
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charitable connection. Six months ago, their charity, Archwald Philanthropies, gave
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three hundred and seventy thousand pounds to projects, including those
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operated by WHO, to help develop prosthetic limbs and provide
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other support for child war victims from Gaza and Ukraine.
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It is an incredibly worthy cause, But is it so
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terribly wrong to point out that the Stone nation is
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hardly a fortune in terms of global benevolence or indeed
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the size of their own personal fortune. Meghan's television wardrobe
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for her Doomed Netflix series cost almost as much althose
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Cartier diamonds among the flower dust as she baked treats
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for her imaginary friends and patted around her fake kitchen
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and seven hundred pound leather sandals. Every little bit helps,
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of course, let's not be mean yet. To put it
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in context, the British government pledged three hundred and ten
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million pounds to the WHO for the twenty twenty four
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to twenty eight period, just saying, however, optics are everything.
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In Jordan, Megan and Harry kicked footballs around, visited refugee camps,
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preached to anyone suffering from anything that it's okay not
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to be okay, and wrote glib messages to recovering addicts
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on post it notes. Because there were no fresh banannas available.
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Apart from the occasional wild eyed glance from Harry, the
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pair looked more like royalty than royalty, Glowing, confident, even smug.
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It is amazing how one turn of the Royal kaleidoscope
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can change everything. Five minutes ago, the champagne soaked Sussex's
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were trying to pretend they were not really at a
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grotesque kardash party in Jeff bezos Hollywood mansion, sucking up
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to the separating excrescence of tinkle Town in a ballroom
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with blood red walls. Now they look like windsor saints,
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perhaps even the only ones likely to escape the New
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York contained intact. But is that fair? Tessa Dunlop in
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The Eye News offers this thought, when is William going
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to facilitate Harry's partial return to the royal fault? At
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the beginning of the week, the Prince of Wales's deep
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concern had morphed into a self confessed lack of calm
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at the Bafts, he was too perturbed to watch Hamnet.
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Such qualms are not good for monarchy, an organization designed
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to keep calm and carry on. Much of the toxic
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fallout from the Epstein files is beyond William's control, but
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the scandal eats away at the institution's credibility and support.
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It's all well and good ostracizing Andrew, but Harry's continued
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exile suggests the royal family can't differentiate between the two.
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Of course, amidst all the bru haha, there is an
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easy win. Next time Harry is over William but extend
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a brotherly welcome to his infuriating but eminently lovable younger brother,
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a hug, a visible olive branch, a redemptive moment caught
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on camera. At this stage, a gesture would suffice more
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palasing just a moment. In The Independent, Alex Hannaford suggests
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why the King's visit to America could be the biggest
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moment of jeopardy. Anniford writes, in fact, the timing for
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the King could not be more fraud The specter of
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awkward questions from lawyers for Epstein's survivors, members of Congress,
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and journalists now looms over the visit. In Washington. There
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is little of the reflexive deference that surrounds the monarchy
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at home. American political reporters and British correspondents in the
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US operate at a greater remove. Here an unanswered question
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could prove a provocation that invites a louder, more public
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demand for the truth. Steve Schmidt, founder of the Anti
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Trump Political Action Committee, tells the Independent history here matters.
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The first British sovereign to step foot on American soil
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was Charles grandfather George the Six, and when he did
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so in nineteen thirty eight, there was no special relationship
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between the UK and the US. It was a country
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filled with irishman who had no affection whatsoever for the
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British crown. Franklin Roosevelt curated every aspect of that visit,
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which included traveling up the Potomac rever on the Presidential
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yacht to Mount Vernon, where George the Six entered the
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tomb of George Washington and paid his respects. The greatest
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American invention, many of us believe, is the peaceful transfer
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of power, which continued uninterrupted from seventeen ninety seven until
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twenty twenty. Donald Trump lost that election. His lies about
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it being stolen have poured acid on the cornerstone of
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the country. Trump, who was a close associate and friend
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of Epstein, is hanging banners of himself off the Justice Department.
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There are men shooting American citizens in the back. Now
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is not the time for a British sovereign to come
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in service a propaganda tool for this. You should imagine
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billboards and Times Square that have Charles and Camilla and
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Donald and Milania and Epstein and Gallain right, remember when
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Charles wanted to be a tampon for Camilla. It will
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be brutal, it will be humiliating. We will also ask
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the question, what did the King know and when did
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he know it? About his brother. We'll play by the
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First Amendment. By American rules, the First Amendment is absolute,
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and it will be a public relations disaster that exceeds
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anything known by the Crown. Our goal is not to
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disrespect the British sovereign. Our goal is not to humiliate
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the King of England, but we will do so in
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defense of American liberty. Hannaford points out, Charles is also
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banking on a side of America that Steve Schmid's billboards ignore.
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The vast, quiet contingent of American royalists, the same people
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who flew across the Atlantic for the Queen's funeral and
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who still view the British sovereign as a rear symbol
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of stability. Perhaps for them, the pomp and circumstance of
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a royal visit is not a political endorsement, but a
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welcome reprieve from the nightmare at home, and they have it.
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