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Prince Harry and Queen Camilla have traded places. The Duke of Sussex, 41, is now the “outcast” of the British royal family, a “position” once held by his stepmother, 77. Ahead, why the queen’s so much more than a “simple country woman.” Plus, how Harry’s comments about Queen Camilla were “the last straw” for King Charles III.

Camilla’s now ‘seen with affection,’ not Harry

Speaking on Queen Camilla: The Wicked Stepmother?, a Channel 4 TV program broadcast in the U.K., journalist Petronella Wyatt, who is also a friend of the queen’s, discussed how the two royals have switched places.

There once was a time—the King Charles and Princess Diana years—when Queen Camilla proved a controversial figure. Now, she’s someone who has received praise for taking on more duties amid the king and Kate Middleton’s respective cancer battles. Meanwhile, Harry, a once popular British royal,...

British royal family news divulges that Dirty Harry and Queen Camilla don’t have a lot in common but they are connected in one peculiar way.

You might call it karma. It seems that their approval ratings have been swapped out; as Prince Harry’s plummets, the queen’s rises upward. Numbers don’t lie. Here’s what to know about the royal flip flop taking place behind the scenes.

Queen Camilla’s Popularity

Back in the day the queen was once as despised, almost, as Harry is now. But her loyalty and decorum after she became King Charles’ wife has given the public a new perspective.

Conversely, Harry has gone from a cherished member of the monarchy to being a rent-a-royal for money launderers and stans. Harry and his B-list wife Meghan Markle are also dodging hard questions about their Archewell finances after not disclosing a key sum last year.

Maybe this financially-independent stuff just isn’t working out for him. There’s a new report that suggests Prince Harry has been asked to get a real job because his finances have been so inconsistent. Keep reading below for everything you need to know.

Royal Family News: Prince Harry Encouraged To Get A Full-Time Job

As many royal fans already know, both Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle left the royal family back in 2020 because they wanted to become financially independent royals in America.

Well, it seems like their plans have gone wrong as they’ve lost one lucrative contract after another. And because they are having a hard time bringing money in to help pay their bills, there are some critics out there who think that it’s time for Prince Harry to get a job.

And by that, they think he should get a real salaried job...

Is Prince Harry having doubts about the way that he is feeling or even how his life is going at the moment? That’s what a lot of royal fans and critics alike can’t help but wonder as there’s heavy speculation on social media that suggests Prince Harry might be feeling just a little bit depressed ahead of his milestone 40th birthday.

Royal Family News – Prince Harry Depressed On His 40th Birthday?

That’s mostly because he’s torn about his life. While he loves the family life that he built with his wife Meghan Markle in California, he also misses everything and everyone that he left behind in the UK as well.

Not only that, but the fact that he and his brother Prince William are no longer close hurts him the most. That’s because he knows that his mother Princess Diana would have been quite upset over their ongoing feud.

Imagine two of the most famous people in the world being together in the same room and the public being none the wiser. That’s what happened when Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr. secretly met in 1995. Ahead, what JFK Jr. said about the British royal’s looks. Plus, why Diana didn’t comment on his.

Diana and JFK Jr. had a ‘discreet’ meeting about George magazine

In JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography, JFK Jr.’s former executive assistant RoseMarie Terenzio and co-author Liz McNeil shared details of a secret meeting between JFK Jr. and Diana.

The two met in New York, New York, in the summer of 1995 after Kennedy wrote to the British royal asking if she’d be on the cover of his new George magazine. The hope? To get Diana to dress up as an American historical figure. (Cindy Crawford previously dressed as George Washington for the inaugural issue.

British royal family news shows that the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine, forged their solid union on April 29, 2011. Since then they have weathered many storms including his brother Harry’s attempt to topple the monarchy, as well as Kate’s current cancer battle.

We always knew that Prince William was a keeper and now one startling fact from his past confirms what we knew all along. Keep reading to find out how William defied the monarchy out of love and respect for his wife.

Royal Family News: Prince William Did Not Want a Pre-Nup

Prince William was warned to have Kate sign a prenup but he refused. According to Marie Claire, the insider warnings “likely came from those remembering William’s own parents’ messy divorce, which was finalized in 1996. The then Prince Charles had to pay Princess Diana 17 million pounds …”

Unfortunately divorce was common in Charles’ generation,...

As the royal ranks thin out further, Kate Middleton remains the crown’s “best hope” for continuity, says Princess Diana’s former secretary.

Kate Middleton can carry the crown into the future

Princess Diana’s former private secretary, Patrick Jephson, alluded to Vanity Fair that Kate Middleton was the one person who could keep the monarchy afloat. Reaction to her presence at Trooping the Color proved just that, as public excitement bubbled over six months after Kensington Palace revealed she had cancer.

However, as senior royals remain spread thin, as Kate and King Charles continue to battle cancer, and Princess Anne recovers from a head injury, pressure mounts on Kate to save the family. According to Jephson, without Kate, the entire institution seems “rather flat.”

“Without Catherine, it all seems rather flat. The monarchy’s future is William and Catherine,” the former private secretary says. “And, as we know from...

After almost one year in her role as queen consort, has Camilla Parker Bowles finally turned the tides of opinion in her favor? For years, royal followers found it difficult to accept Camilla due to her long affair with King Charles. Today, if Camilla’s followers accept and champion her work as a senior royal, are they “disloyal” to the late Princess Diana?

Camilla Parker Bowles and King Charles had an affair during his marriage to Princess Diana

Royal followers who followed the gossip surrounding the marriage of King Charles and Princess Diana learned of Camilla Parker Bowles by reading the British newspapers. There were years of rumblings about her affair with Charles.

Camilla’s place in royal history was cemented after Princess Diana shared details of Charles’s longtime affair with Camilla in the book Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton. Diana discussed Camilla’s influence over Charles...

The wait is almost over for fans of Netflix’s The Crown as the countdown to the new and final season is on.

It’s no secret that season 6 is going to include one of the most unforgettable and tragic moments in the history of the royal family. As viewers prepare to grab a box of tissues and watch the series’ depiction of what happened on Aug. 31, 1997, someone who actually lived through it will also be watching. However, that former aide has slammed the new season as “upsetting” and “distasteful” for recreating the car crash that took Princess Diana’s life.

Princess Diana’s former butler has a warning for viewers about ‘The Crown’ Season 6 Princess Diana with her butler Paul Burrell (circa 1994) | Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty Images

Paul Burrell began working in the royal household when he was 18 years old and became Queen Elizabeth II‘s personal footman.

The Crown has won 21 Emmys and five Baftas in its four seasons on Netflix, with a total of three actors so far portraying King Charles III in his years as a prince. But how accurate have the storylines been around Britain’s new monarch?

Read about some of the former prince’s key storylines in the show below, how accurately they present reality, and how the King himself and those in the know have reacted to the show...

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles (formerly Shand)

Before Prince Charles began dating Princess Diana, he fell in love with Camilla Shand in around 1971 – but the royal family did not approve.

In The Crown’s third season, Lord Mountbatten (a sort of father figure to Prince Charles) is shown arranging for the royal to be sent on a Navy mission to separate him from Shand. It’s unclear whether, in real life,...

The Crown has won 21 Emmys and five Baftas in its four seasons on Netflix, with a total of three actors so far portraying King Charles III in his years as a prince. But how accurate have the storylines been around Britain’s new monarch?

Read about some of the former prince’s key storylines in the show below, how accurately they present reality, and how the King himself and those in the know have reacted to the show...

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles (formerly Shand)

Before Prince Charles began dating Princess Diana, he fell in love with Camilla Shand in around 1971 – but the royal family did not approve.

In The Crown’s third season, Lord Mountbatten (a sort of father figure to Prince Charles) is shown arranging for the royal to be sent on a Navy mission to separate him from Shand. It’s unclear whether, in real life,...

The BBC’s chief yesterday said the broadcaster will “never” again screen its era-defining Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales and urged other broadcasters to follow its example.

The pledge by the BBC’s director-general Tim Davie came in light of an inquiry by Lord Dyson, which found that interviewer Martin Bashir’s deceitful behavior – including the faking of statements to make it look as though Diana’s staff were selling stories on her – “fell short of high standards of integrity and transparency.” Dyson’s report found Bashir to be in “serious breach” of BBC producer guidelines as he pursued his scoop 27 years ago.

On Thursday, Davie said: “Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained, I have decided that the BBC will never show the program again; nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters.

“It does of course remain...

The BBC and Mark Killick have reached a settlement over the infamous 1995 BBC Princess Diana “Panorama” interview.

Princess Diana was interviewed by journalist Martin Bashir on the program. An independent investigation into the program, conducted by Lord Dyson, found that the public broadcaster “fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark.” The Dyson report also found that Bashir used deceitful methods to gain access to Princess Diana, including allegedly forging bank statements.

Killick, formerly a “Panorama” senior reporter and producer, informed the BBC about the forged bank statements. His position was terminated within a day.

“The BBC’s attempt to try and destroy my reputation rather than investigate my concerns shows just how desperate the BBC was to hide what had happened,” Killick said. “It was an extraordinary attempt to cover up wrongdoing and the climate of fear it created may well have stopped...

The BBC and Commander Patrick Jephson, who was private secretary to Princess Diana, have reached a settlement over the harm caused to him around the infamous 1995 BBC “Panorama” interview.

Princess Diana was interviewed by journalist Martin Bashir on the program. An independent investigation into the program, conducted by Lord Dyson, found that the public broadcaster “fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark.” The Dyson report also found that Bashir used deceitful methods to gain access to Princess Diana. These included Bashir allegedly forging bank statements showing that Jephson and a colleague had received off-shore payments.

Jephson, who served with the Princess for eight years, was her private secretary at the time.

Seeing these supposed payments to Jephson was what convinced Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer to introduce Bashir to her, Spencer had said.

“The BBC accepts and acknowledges that serious harm was...

BBC Panorama has finally aired the results of its own internal probe into Martin Bashir’s infamous interview with Princess Diana.

Thursday night’s episode of the long-running investigative series, titled “Princess Diana, Martin Bashir and the BBC,” detailed the inside story of how Bashir obtained the candid sit-down, as well as the BBC’s response upon discovering that Bashir had shown falsified documents to Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer.

In the opening statement, Bashir was described as having “spun a web of elaborate lies” in order to secure an interview with the princess.

“We’ve pieced together the calculated deceit that Martin Bashir deployed to get his scoop,” said the program’s lead reporter John Ware.

During the program, Earl Spencer alleged again that the said documents, which supposedly revealed that two senior courtiers were being paid to provide information on Diana, played a large part in his decision...

You're not the only one: A former senior aide of the late Princess Diana is also comparing Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal rift to the late Princess of Wales' dealings with the monarchy. Diana's former private secretary and chief of staff, Patrick Jephson, spoke about the family on CNN on Saturday, March 6, a day before CBS aired Oprah Winfrey's highly anticipated tell-all interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant with their second child. During the special, Meghan, 39, and Harry, 36, detailed the reasons behind their move to the U.S. and their 2020 royal exit, which was recently made permanent and which followed...

In today’s Global Bulletin, streamers face potential content quotas in Australia, Leonine hires former Red Arrow exec Nina Etspueler, Channel 4 commissions a second Diana doc and Tallinn’s industry section announces its winners.

Quota

Global platforms facing imminent local production quotas across Europe could be looking at a similar situation in Australia, where new proposed TV reforms could force international streaming services to invest heavily in local content.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, that is just one of two parts of a government plan to level the regulatory playing field between streamers and traditional free-to-air networks in Australia, which are struggling in the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The government is also considering the removal of annual broadcast spectrum taxes for commercial TV networks and replacing them with an entirely new licensing program that could save local broadcasters as much as $12 million Aud ($8.85 million) per year.

Proposed...

It took only a few hours for “The Crown” to cause a royal rumble when it launched on Netflix over the weekend, and there are no prizes for guessing why.

Season 4 introduces viewers to Princess Diana for the first time and spends a large part of its 10 episodes charting her tumultuous marriage with Prince Charles and analyzing her bombshell impact on the royal family.

Now that everyone has fallen in love with Emma Corrin’s firecracker performance as Lady Di, the relative newcomer broke down several key scenes with Variety and talked about why portraying the princess’ eating disorder was so important to her.

The amount of research for the role must have been intimidating.

I did a lot of preliminary reading and leafing through biographies, trying to get a sense of the things they all said, trying to filter through what was complete bullshit and speculation, and what was...

Disney Apac Boss Uday Shankar Quits

Uday Shankar, president of The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific and chairman, Star & Disney India, is to step down at the end of 2020 after less than two years in the role. Shankar said he intends to pursue new entrepreneurial opportunities to “give back to the country.” Before stepping down, he will work with Rebecca Campbell, chair of Disney’s direct-to-consumer and international segment, to identify a successor. Campbell said: “With the successful launch of Disney+ throughout the region, he has helped put The Walt Disney Company in a commanding position in this dynamic and incredibly strategic part of the world. His vast experience and expertise have been invaluable in bringing together a strong, cohesive Apac leadership team to chart a path forward for our streaming businesses in the region and beyond.”

BBC Three Picks Up Lena Waithe’s ‘Twenties’

The first two seasons of...

If Princess Diana was here, things may have been easier for Meghan Markle right now. According to the late royal's former private secretary, Patrick Jephson, Diana would have helped her daughter-in-law deal with the scandal surrounding her dad not attending her upcoming royal wedding on Saturday, May 19. Better yet, she may have even prevented all of this drama from happening in the first place. "The first thing you need to know is that she was fabulously approachable, warm, and emotionally empathetic. And she recognized those strengths only work if you also learn the practical skills to be a perfect, professional princess," Jephson told Page Six of Diana. "She worked very hard at that. Not least because of her own lineage, which was way more aristocratic than the Windsors. She had a sixth sense about how to make royalty approachable." "The only thing [Diana] would be concerned with is that Meghan should...

Ahead of the release of a new biography about Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, new details have emerged of threatening phone calls Princess Diana allegedly made to her while still married to Prince Charles.

In a new excerpt from the book, The Duchess: The Untold Story, posted on the Daily Mail, biographer Penny Junor writes that Camilla received several “threatening and unnerving” phone calls from Diana in the middle of the night.

Diana would say things like, “‘I’ve sent someone to kill you. They’re outside in the garden. Look out the window; can you see them?'” according to Junor and her sources,...

Princess Kate is opening up about her little girl Charlotte Elizabeth Diana - and how she's carrying on the most loving traditions of William's mom. Subscribe now for an inside look at how Kate is honoring the legacy of her mother-in-law, Princess Diana, only in People!Princess Diana championed many important causes over the years - including bringing awareness to HIV/AIDS, helping homeless and disabled people and shining a light on the issue of landmines. She also focused on the struggles of those with mental health issues. And it's a cause that is also very important to Princess Kate.