April 14, 2025

The Sussex Survivors Club

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You know its a healthy work environment when former employees call it a Survivor's club.

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Calorogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome through Pallace intrigue game

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host Bark Francis. Should the whole being King thing not

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work out, Prince William may already have his dream backup

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job lined up. Football pundit Wills was with George and

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Paris last week to watch Aston Villa face off against

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Paris Saint Germain in a Champions League clash. Speaking with

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T and T Sports Rip Ferdinand and Alan McCoist, Williams

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showed himself to be every inch the armchair tactician. Referring

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to Aston Villa manager Uni Emery, he analyzed the team's

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prospects against PSG, saying we all saw the Liverpool game.

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PSG's intensity in the first leg. They were unbelievable. They

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gave a lot of pressure. They pressed very high. So

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for Uni tonight and team, it's about managing that press.

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The commentary drew admiration from Real Ferdinand, who laughed, do

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not go for a pundit's job, please, because they could

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be out of the game. He added, the way he

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just dissected that down, I'm going to nick that for

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later on. William who predicted a two to one win

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for Villa may have been overly optimistic. PSG won three

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to one, but the Royal remains undeterred in his support

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for the club. Speculation is mounting over just how influential

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Prince William may have been in Marcus Rashford's surprise January

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move to Aston Villa, after the two shared a warm

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embrace at the Park day Princess ahead of Villa's Champions

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League clash with PSG. A club inside had told Mail

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Online his passion for Villa goes way beyond that of

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a normal fan. He is obsessed with football and his team.

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It is the same with England. The deep rooted devotion,

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coupled with the Prince of Wales's long standing rapport with Rashford,

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has ignited online chatter that William may have played a

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quiet role in encouraging the Manchester United Stars to join

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his beloved club. The pair's closeness is no recent development.

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William awarded Rashford an MB in twenty twenty one for

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his campaign to ensure vulnerable children received meals during school

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holidays in the pandemic. He also spoke out publicly in

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defense of the striker after he endured racist abuse. Further

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cementing their relationship. So when the Prince greeted Rashford in

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the tunnel in Paris with the words I missed you,

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it came as no surprise to fans who followed their history.

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But that moment, caught on camera before kickoff, has only

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fueled rumors that William may have reached out to Rashford

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ahead of his loan switch. One source claimed it was

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hard to believe that William wouldn't have contacted Rashford if

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it had helped get the deal over the line. While

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there is no official suggestion that the Air the Throne

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medaled in club business, his regular appearances at training, close

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rapport with Villa players and hands on support of manager

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woulda emory have made it clear that this is not

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your average football fan. From the Supporters Club to the

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Sussex Survivors Club, a monica reportedly adopted by former staff

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who claimed to have been left emotionally scarred by their

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time in Harry and Meghan's service. According to Daily may

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Royal editor Rebecca English, this unofficial fraternity consists of aides who,

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in her words, lived to tell the tale. Some, she reports,

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were left in tears, others allegedly exhibited symptoms akin to

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post dramatic stress disorder. One person, she wrote, sobbed down

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the phone to me after a particularly harrowing day, emotionally

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broken and no longer able to cope. At the heart

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of these claims's a pattern of high staff turnover and

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allegations of bullying, all of which have been consistently and

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vehemently denied by the Sussexes. Melissa to Barty, a highly

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regarded personal assistant who had previously worked for Robbie Williams

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and Aida Field, reportedly resigned after just six months, with

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Royal biographer Robert Lacey recounting an episode involving custom red

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blankets that were disastrously the wrong shade. To Barti, he wrote,

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was traumatized by her boss's behavior. Others who departed included

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Amy Pickerel, Meghanan's private secretary, who left shortly after the

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birth of Prince Archie in twenty nineteen, Heather Wong, who

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had once worked in the Obama administration, Edward Lane Fox,

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Prince Harry's longtime aide, and Jason Nouf, who went on

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to join Prince William's household and was later honored with

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a Royal Victorian Order Now, it should be noted, was

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the author of a formal HR complaint in twenty eighteen

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alleging that the Duchess had bullied two pas out of

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the household. In a televised interview earlier this year, Neelf

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declared that he wouldn't change anything about the decision to

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raise those concerns. The fallout prompted Buckingham Palace to open

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an internal review, the findings of which have never been

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made public. For her part, Meghan has consistently rejected the allegations.

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Megan has made a surprising move into the six hundred

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billion dollar menopause market with a fresh investment in Midi Health,

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a virtual clinic focused on women's health after age thirty five.

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The California based startup raised sixty three million dollars in

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its latest funding round, and Megan joined the u high

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profile list of backers alongside Amy Schumer, Connie Britton, Tory Birch,

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and Cheryl Sandberg. According to Fortune and tech Crunch, Meghan's

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involvement aligns with her strategy of investing in female led companies.

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She's now backed over ten since moving to the US

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in twenty twenty. Her portfolio includes everything from coffee clever

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blends to clean beauty, eyebrow hippie, and she's now targeting

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health tech with Middy, which offers virtual visits priced at

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around one hundred and ninety two pounds for an initial appointment.

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Fans are lighting up social media with accusations that Megan

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has been borrowing rather heavily from a few already established

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celebrities in shaping her latest ventures. Her new podcast, Confessions

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of a Female Founder, immediately raised eyebrows for sounding a

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touch too close to Stephen Bartlett's Diary of a CEO.

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One impressed ex user called it the same name plus

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a thesaurus, and added, we're supposed to believe you're a

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female founder. You can't even found an original name for

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a podcast. Meanwhile, compared Essen to Gwyneth Paltrow were heating up.

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Fans uploaded side by sides to prove it when us

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equipped she's totally copying one of Gwyneth's early Goop videos,

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the Roasted Chicken one. Another added simply, oh my god.

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Lemons and all fans also say Megan's Netflix show with

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Love Megan feels awfully similar to Pamela Anderson's Pamela's Cooking

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with Love side by side trailer comparisons have made the rounds,

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with one fan saying Pamela's version feels more authentic while

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Megan's is trying too hard. This week, on the TV

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series Elsbeth, things took a delightfully cheeky turn when our

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favorite redhead sleuth found herself outside a very posh funeral

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home in the middle of a murder investigation. As Carrie

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Preston's Elsbeth chatted with a photographer lingering outside. She asked

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if he was there for photos of the senator's family.

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His reply, family, no friends, Yes, rumor has it, Harrion

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Meghan are going to be here. A good shot of

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them will make my whole year. Elsbeth, ever polite, gave

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him her breezy good luck and carried on with her case.

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Later in the episode, she bumped into the same fotographer again,

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this time no royal sightings. Family decided to cremate instead,

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he told her, which put an end to that tabloid dream.

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This isn't Elsbeth's first brush with Meghan related Mantera. Back

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in January, the show poked fun at wellness culture with

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a subtle nod to Montecito life during an episode investigating

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a suspect who ran a suspiciously holistic center. Megan wasn't named,

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but the fans certainly caught the vibe or palace. In

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just a moment in the Telegraph, Alan Cochran suggests it

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might soon be time to welcome Harry back into the

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royal family. Cochran writes, by any measure, he has behaved badly,

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very badly, even all on his own, he has made

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himself an outcast. Nobody else is really to blame for

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the situation in which he finds himself separated from the

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loving father who would still welcome him back into the fold,

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even if his elder brother is highly unlikely to feel

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the same way. However, as the rift between Prince Harry

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and the family of King Charles yawns even wider, could

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there be even the slightest chance of cutting some slack,

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and who knows, we might see the beginning of the

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end of Harry's war. Read again what he said during

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the court hearing. The UK is my home. The UK

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is central to the heritage of my children and a

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place I want them to feel at home, as much

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as where they live. At the moment in the US

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that cannot happen if it's not possible to keep them

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safe when they are on UK soil. If he loses

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this case before the Appeal Court, and it will be

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some time before we hear the judgment, it's expected that

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he will have to foot a substantial bill, which might

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suggest that the act of throwing himself on the mercy

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of the court in this way indicates that he's now

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bored with what looks to many like the aimless life

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he leads in Los Angeles in a battle for public opinion.

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Once upon a time, Harry reigned Supreme and was the

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rascal royal that everyone loved. It is pastime for a

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reproachment in the House of windsor for that to happen,

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Harry must show he wants to be part of it.

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In the Daily Mail, Russell Meyer's writes, it's barely believable

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how far Harry has fallen from consistently being the most

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popular member of the royal family, owered by everyone from

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the lads in the pub to the troops he's served

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with and your granny, far from denying anyone the right

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to fight for what they believe in, especially when it

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comes to the safety and security of their family. But

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surely Harry realizes by now that his path of resistance

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against his family, the government, or generally anyone who has

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irged him that week is a tiring practice. His own

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father and brother have become so exasperated with his various

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crusades and petulant attitude that they have found it far

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more cathartic to cut all tires on any level. This

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is a sad state of affairs. In a parallel universe,

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Harry would have been front and center flying the flag

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for the UK in the monarchy, but now finds himself

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on a path increasingly difficult to turn back from, and

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they have it fled to email us, who addresses at

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