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LIVE: EXCLUSIVE ‘It’s Unforgivable’: Royal Insiders React as Harry and Meghan Tear Up Queen’s Megxit Deal Oct 16, 2026

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"It's unforgivable." A friend of the Sussexes has told Hello! magazine that Harry and Meghan never agreed to the Sandringham settlement the late Queen hammered out in January 2020, and do not consider themselves bound by it. "They never agreed they wouldn't be half in half out," the friend said. "That was what was decided and foisted upon them." "Half in, half out" was the very thing Queen Elizabeth II ruled out at Sandringham. It was the central tenet of Megxit, and the basis on which the entire post-Megxit structure was built (the HRHs held in abeyance, the loss of the military appointments, the end of public funding). Six years on, the Sussexes' position is that none of it counts. Tom Sykes reports on why the statement has gone down so badly with friends of the late Queen and the King.

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LIVE: EXCLUSIVE: Weak King Charles Has Allowed Harry & Meghan to HUMILIATE Him With Their Sham Royal Tour Oct 15, 2026

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Harry and Meghan are back in Nottingham, and The Royalist has been there all day - and is going live with FOUR special guests to bring you every twist and turn. This is Meghan's first public appearance in Britain since the Sussexes left Montecito and moved back to the UK in August. Harry has been out and about on his own, with Invictus and the WellChild Awards, but today is the first time the couple have stepped out together on British soil in six years. And they chose the location very carefully. Nottingham is where, in December 2017, just days after announcing their engagement, they did their first walkabout as a couple, to a sea of camera phones and chants of "Harry! Meghan!" Nearly nine years on, the itinerary looks remarkably familiar: the Community Recording Studio in St Ann's, the Hubb Community Kitchen (born out of the Grenfell tragedy) and the youth charity Epic Partners. It looks, sounds and feels exactly like a royal engagement. There is just one problem. It isn't one. Only last month, the King had the Lord Chamberlain write to senior officials making it clear that the Sussexes are not working royals and should be treated as private citizens. Their office declared itself "surprised". Today's outing, with all the trappings of a royal tour, looks very much like their reply. So is this an olive branch, or a rival court setting up shop on the King's doorstep? With their security still unresolved and Christmas at Sandringham already off the table, what does it mean for relations with Charles, William and Catherine? And, belieev it or not, CHARLES was the one who got booed today. I've got a brilliant line-up to pick it all apart with me.

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LIVE: Meghan and Harry Arrive in Nottingham Oct 15, 2026

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Tom was live in Nottingham. Listen here to hear the full scoop!

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LIVE: New As Ever Leak Reveals 16 Products Selling ZERO Units Oct 14, 2026

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Welcome to The Royalist. Today I am delighted to welcome back a friend of the show, the Daily Mail’s Editor at Large, Alison Boshoff. Alison has done something nobody else seems to have bothered to do: she has actually done the math on Meghan’s big charity gesture. Last week, after a “private” tea at Claridge’s that somehow ended up all over Instagram, Meghan announced that 100 percent of net proceeds from a day’s sales of As Ever jams and teas would go to Malala Yousafzai’s Malala Fund, in honor of International Day of the Girl. “Tea for Two has never felt so good,” she told her 4.9 million followers. So how much did the Malala Fund actually get? Meghan’s office won’t say. But Alison has gone back to the only hard sales data that has ever leaked out of As Ever (a website glitch in January that briefly exposed how many units were selling), and the answer looks distinctly modest. Even assuming a wildly generous 50 percent margin, a day’s jam and tea proceeds come to roughly $2,500 (about £1,900). That is less than the outfit she wore to tea. The wide white Ralph Lauren trousers alone cost $2,247, and the cashmere sweater another $832. To be fair, a source close to Meghan says any figure is speculative and argues the real value lies in the attention the gesture brings, encouraging others to give. But is there a gap between the size of the fanfare and the size of the check? And who really benefits most from these one-off acts of charity? We also get into what those January figures reveal about As Ever more broadly (not a single bottle of the $89 Napa Valley Brut sold in a day, with the $42 jam trio the best-seller), Meghan’s plans to start shipping to the UK, talk in California that the brand is a minnow in decline, and the suggestion (dismissed by Team Sussex) that money worries lay behind the move back to Britain. If not jam, then what? Acting, reality TV, Harry’s speaking circuit? Alison has her ear to the ground like nobody else. Don’t miss it.

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Wild Truth About Ex-Prince Andrew's New Lover Oct 14, 2026

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Prince Andrew’s bizarre new romance takes center stage as Tom Sykes reveals the wild story of how Andrew allegedly met his new girlfriend—including the shocking claim that she simply rang him up out of the blue. Tom and Paula Froelich ( @PaulaFroelich , https://thescoopwithpaulafroelich.substack.com/) react to the unlikely “meet-cute,” and Tom reveals what this strange new relationship could mean for Andrew’s life in Norfolk. Plus, Tom sits down with Vogue contributing editor and novelist Plum Sykes to discuss Meghan Markle’s new British wardrobe, Harry’s style, and the royal fashion rules he thinks they should follow.

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LIVE: Lonely Harry's Visit to Soho House With Just His Security Guard Oct 13, 2026

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Prince Harry has been spotted at Soho House again. This time there was no Meghan, no brunch and no fanfare. Just the Duke of Sussex, a gym, and his security guard. It is, I confess, another strong contender for least surprising scoop of the year. Last month my Cotswold sources told me Harry had been seen in the Soho Farmhouse pool area, wandering around reception in search of a towel, and Hello! later reported that he had used the gym there before having brunch with his wife. Today he was back, working out with only his protection officer for company. Why does it matter? Because a Soho House is not somewhere you go to hide. If you turn up at one, someone like me is probably going to hear about it. And if Harry genuinely wanted to stay out of sight, one assumes the lavish property where he is staying has a bench press of its own. I have argued that these sightings are part of a normalisation campaign, a sort of exposure therapy for the British public. It comes after the King confirmed the Sussexes as non-working royals, and after a source told Alison Boshoff that Harry expects the royal family needs him and that the couple expect to be let back in. And yet there is something rather poignant about the picture. A prince who once had palaces, a regiment and a brother at his side, now working out alone in a members' club with a bodyguard standing by. All this in the week the Sussexes are expected to make their first joint public appearance since moving back to Britain, with a royal-style visit to three charities. In this video I ask what Harry's solitary gym sessions tell us about his new life in Britain, whether the normalization campaign is working, and what it would really take for the family to let him back in. Watch now, and tell me in the comments: is Harry lonely, or is this exactly the life he wants?

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LIVE: Harry and Meghan's Bond With Ian Wace Revealed Oct 12, 2026

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A Cotswold source told The Royalist that a terrifying incident “bonded” Harry and Meghan and the billionaire, on whose estate, The Royalist understands, the couple are now living. Meghan appears to have filmed the video she posted yesterday of Archie and Lilibet walking through a deer park on the property.

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LIVE: Do Harry and Meghan Actually Want to be Booed on Thursday? Oct 11, 2026

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If you genuinely believed your family was in danger in this country, would you let a national newspaper tell the whole of Britain, four days in advance, exactly which city you were going to be standing in on Thursday? Nobody would. The working royals don't, and they are the ones who actually have the armed police. And yet that is exactly what Harry and Meghan have just done. According to the Sunday Times, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit three charities in Nottingham on Thursday. It will be Meghan's first public appearance in Britain since the family moved here at the end of August. Nottingham is no accident. It is where they carried out their very first joint engagement in December 2017, four days after announcing their engagement. That was the day the country fell for them. In this video, I ask why a couple who say Britain is too dangerous for them without state protection (who moved their children out of a school after two days, and who treated two photographers at a school gate as a matter of national security) would advertise their movements like this. My theory: they are hoping for trouble. Heads they win, tails Britain loses. A peaceful day delivers the pictures. A heckler, a scrum or a chorus of boos goes straight into the file for RAVEC and the Home Secretary. I also look at Friday night's booing at Welford Road, why the Sussex claim that the crowd was "booing the ref" does not survive a stopwatch, and why being booed is not a security incident. Plus Malala, the rival court, and why they cannot be private citizens when it comes to the photographers and public figures when it comes to the applause. If you ring the bell, you do not get to complain about the noise. Do you think they are hoping to be booed in Nottingham? And will they be? Tell me in the comments.

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LIVE: King Just Gave Andrew ANOTHER $2m! Live and Exclusive With Jobbo Oct 09, 2026

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The King has lent his disgraced brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the money to settle a £1.5million repair bill at Royal Lodge, Robert Jobson exclusively reported today.

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LIVE: How Ex-Prince Andrew Humiliated the Police: With Marcus Johnstone Oct 09, 2026

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has just humiliated the police. The search warrants used to raid his homes on the Sandringham Estate and at Royal Lodge have been quashed. At the High Court on Thursday, Mr. Justice Hilliard confirmed that Thames Valley Police had agreed the warrants were unlawful. The force’s own explanation is that the decision to issue them “under the specific piece of legislation used was incorrect.” In plain English: the warrants were issued under the wrong law by a judge at the Old Bailey, and it took a legal challenge from the former prince to expose it. This is the man who was arrested on his 66th birthday in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office, over allegations that he may have shared sensitive information with Jeffrey Epstein while he was Britain’s trade envoy. He has not been charged and has always denied any wrongdoing. Now he has taken the police to court, and won. To make sense of it, I am joined once again by Marcus Johnstone of PCD Solicitors, one of the country’s leading criminal defense lawyers. What actually is a judicial review, and how hard is it to get one? How does a police force get something this basic so badly wrong in the most high-profile investigation in the country? What happens to everything the officers carried out of those houses (the police are now asking a court to let them keep it, at a private hearing next year)? Can evidence seized under an unlawful warrant still be used? And who is paying for all this (not, we are told, the King)? The judge was careful to say that quashing the warrants “does not bring an investigation to an end,” and the police insist their inquiry is ongoing. But has Andrew just moved a crucial step closer to getting off scot-free?

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