Team Sussex was busy today, briefing their favored media outlets and confirming some tentative holiday plans . My guess is that the Sussex family returned to th

An expert believes the royal family should apologize to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle amid their ongoing estrangement. The comments come as tensions between the Sussexes and the rest of the family pe...

King Charles and Queen Camilla's Caribbean tour has delivered an unexpectedly memorable moment, and it involves an umbrella. During celebrations marking Antigua and Barbuda's 45th anniversary of independence on 1 November, torrential rain swept across the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. Camilla quickly received an umbrella and headed towards covered seating. Charles, meanwhile, remained on the exposed ceremonial platform, visibly struggling to understand why nobody had brought him one. For a couple whose public image revolves around devotion, partnership and royal duty, the photographs were quite something.

It’s truly insane to watch, in real time, how Prince William shuts down critical reporting around himself, his family, his personal life and his activities. In

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and their two children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, have been living with a friend in the Cotswolds since their return to the UK in August

King Charles has spent the past week travelling through the Caribbean acknowledging the horrors of slavery while carefully avoiding the formal apology that reparations campaigners have requested. Now Buckingham Palace has offered the old and quite frankly tired excuse for why the King cannot go further. He does not make policy. That is the Palace's position as Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda for a summit where slavery, historical accountability and reparatory justice are expected to feature prominently. But there is an interesting comparison that should make Britain's position considerably harder to defend as inevitable.

The Duke of Cornwall is to offer new valuations of farms and homes on his land in Devon following an Observer report about the plight of farmers and residents last week

During their visit to Antigua and Barbuda, King Charles and Queen Camilla were caught in a rainstorm, and the monarch was left fuming as he asked for an umbrella.

Prince Andrew may have lost his royal titles, but his financial dealings during his years as a senior member of the Royal Family continue to draw legal scrutiny, and this time, the court is calling him to testify. According to reports published on November 3 and 4, court officials served Andrew with a witness summons requiring him to testify in a High Court fraud trial involving Turkish businessman Selman Turk. The proceedings concern allegations brought by wealthy Turkish national Nebahat Evyap İşbilen, who claims her former financial adviser misappropriated tens of millions of pounds.

For nearly a decade, Meghan Markle has been framed by tabloids as one of the worst things to happen not only to the British royal family, but the world more broadly. We’ve heard of her alleged bullying, brattiness, manipulation, social climbing, sexual escapades and of course, her family betrayals. Apparently, all this made her a greater threat to the monarchy than Prince Andrew’s association with Jeffrey Epstein and the extensive sexual assault allegations against him. Of course, one of the most effective weapons in the campaign against Meghan was her estrangement from her father, Thomas Markle. Didn’t you hear? She abandoned her own father because she was too selfish to forgive him. Thomas Markle Snr has long been presented as a heartbroken dad, publicly lamenting his daughter’s unexplained rejection. The media, apparently unfazed about the root of their estrangement, instantly capitalised. They paid Thomas off for sob-story interviews where he took aim at his daughter’s ingratitude. For a media gagging to make Meghan the problem, Thomas Markle’s testimony was a goldmine. There was just one question the tabloids (in all their haste) forgot to ask: what if she had a very good reason for walking away? Allegations that Thomas Markle possessed reams of child sexual abuse material are now being investigated by authorities in the Philippines. Allegations, reportedly brought to light by Meghan’s half-brother Thomas Markle Jr. Thomas Markle Sr denies them, but the FBI is moving swiftly. Meghan, herself, has said she became aware of disturbing allegations about her father in 2018 and that keeping him away from her children was about protecting them. British police have also confirmed receiving a letter containing allegations about offending outside the UK in January 2019 and are reviewing how the matter was handled. Funny how the tabloids didn’t find that letter? We don’t yet know where this will lead. But what we do know is that Meghan spent years being publicly condemned for maintaining a boundary around a relationship the rest of us knew very little about. Thomas Markle’s public distress was always treated as sufficient evidence of her heartlessness. He was given a platform to tell his story to a global audience. (Side note: I don’t know one genuinely decent father who would do this, even if their child was problematic). But right from the start, Meghan Markle didn’t fit the mould. And if she didn’t fit the mould, the media was going to let her know about it. Even now, after she’s left and started a life with Harry anew, they’re hounding her. Even after these allegations about her father have surfaced, she’s being talked about as “the real problem”. Thomas Markle’s actions have never been questioned. We were encouraged to accept his version of events and treat her refusal to participate as further evidence against her. Even when all the stats of situations like this are well known. Estrangement between adult children and their parents can be complicated. Often it follows abuse, manipulation or years of behaviour that makes continued contact untenable. Despite this, women are still expected to do the emotional labour of holding families together even at obscene personal cost. Meghan was judged for making a decision about her own children, when the public had no right to any of the backstory. She should never have had to disclose potentially traumatic family information to justify protecting them. The tabloids made a business out of portraying Meghan as malignant. Too many of us have clicked, shared and commented, helping keep that business going. And when the story became more complicated than the caricature allowed, the appetite for judging her didn’t just disappear. It’s still festering like an open sore. Meghan Markle may never tell us everything that happened between her and her father. She doesn’t have to. But maybe it’s time we asked why we were so quick to drink the Thomas Markle Kool-Aid rather than believe a mother’s motive. And why, in a family with much more serious controversies to answer for, Meghan Markle was so often seen as the issue? Share this epsteinMeghan MarklePrince AndrewThomas Markle by Tarla Lambert-Patel 3 days ago ## Stay Smart! Get Women's Agenda in your inbox * LinkedIn This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. * Email SUBSCRIBE ## Latest news ### Erin Patterson loses appeal, and her parole ### Women in Parliament form cross-party network in wake of Haines attack ### Women, WhatsApp, a shorter work week. How Brazil beat the right ### Dolores Huerta, civil rights organiser who gave farm workers “Sí se puede,” dies at 96 ### Parents have one of Australia’s most important jobs, so why don’t we have policy for them? ### Podcast: Why it’s time to quit being nice

It’s still so interesting to me that the Duchess of Sussex really blew up the story about the Thomas Markle allegations. Twelve hours after Tom Jr. outed his fa

As investigations into serious allegations against Thomas Markle Sr. develop across several countries, the Metropolitan Police admits it received a warning in January 2019 but failed to alert overseas law enforcement agencies. Curiously, the Daily Mail now reports that the royal protection officer who allegedly advised Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, against publicising those allegations may never be identified. How convenient that the institution responsible for handling the warning is struggling to establish who did what. Now, the questions should no longer be centred on why Meghan distanced herself from her father.

YouGov may rank Prince William among Britain’s most popular royals, but those popularity ratings look hollow when tenants on his Duchy of Cornwall estate in Devon face losing their homes under his watch. The Prince of Wales, who has made ending homelessness one of his defining charitable causes, now faces an embarrassing backlash after The Observer exposed how his Duchy was treating longtime tenants. His representatives have since apologised and agreed to review property valuations, although the estate sale remains on the table. The irony is almost too good to be true.

Remember when Prince Harry described his security battle as a “good old-fashioned establishment stitch-up”? The latest revelations concerning Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, bring those words to mind. According to The Sunday Times, Meghan wanted to expose disturbing allegations against her father, Thomas Markle, in 2019, but a royal protection officer advised her to remain silent and promised an investigation. Seven years later, the Met cannot locate its original letter and is reportedly struggling to identify the officer. Meanwhile, journalists Dipesh Gadher, Roya Nikkhah and Izzy Lyons report that senior aides to…

The Duke of Cornwall is to offer new valuations of farms and homes on his land in Devon following an Observer report about the plight of farmers and residents last week

When the Sussex family moved to the UK in August, there was a lot of reporting about how they were house-hunting like crazy in the Cotswolds. That reporting see

Over the weekend, the Mail’s Richard Kay let something slip. It was obvious, but it speaks volumes about how unsettled the royal media is these days. Kay let it

The Daily Mail has been making weird moves ever since Thomas Markle was outed as a likely PDFile. You have to understand, the Mail has always had an unethical,