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Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown has shared her honest opinions about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, with the journalist alleging that Meghan Markle has the 'worst' judgment. Brown appeared on The Ankler podcast with Janice Min to promote her new Substack newsletter, Fresh Hell.

Joel L Fleishman, founding director of the public policy program at Duke University, wine connoisseur and the center of a legendary network of friends has died. He was 90 years old. Professor of Law and Public Policy, Fleishman served as a transformative leader at Duke in North Carolina for more than half a century. Famed for his generosity as well as his brilliance, he was described as 'a real-life Pied Piper' whose enthusiasm inspired friends and students alike.

With the palace rocked in recent years by scandals and tragedy, a relatable royal has quietly become everyone's favourite. Hilary Rose on how the nation fell for no-nonsense Camilla

When Prince Andrew found himself caught up in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the Royal Family had to quickly respond. Prince Philip, who was 98 years old at the time, had retired from royal duties but was still the head of the family. Advising his son on how to handle the situation was, 'one last family intervention he was keen to execute himself,' royal expert Tina Brown wrote in her 2022 book The Palace Papers. Andrew had been summoned to Sandringham to meet with his father and explain his side of things after his disastrous interview with the BBC 's Emily Maitlis on Newsnight. The meeting resulted in the late Duke of Edinburgh asking his son to 'step down' from his royal duties. Andrew's Newsnight encounter has been dramatised in the new Amazon Prime show A Very Royal Scandal , which stars Michael Sheen as the Prince and Ruth Wilson as Ms Maitlis and was released last Thursday.

Cate Blanchett shared a sweet moment with her daughter Edith, nine, before taking to the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday. The actress, a regular at the annual event, attended the star-studded opening premiere for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but not before taking in the festivities with her little girl. Cate and Edith were spotted watching the red carpet from a balcony, snuggling up as they enjoyed the spectacular view.

Make-up artist up artist Marina Sandoval, whom Camilla hired 15 years ago, is credited with enhancing the royal's increasingly glamorous appearance. At this year's Wimbledon Championships, the wife of King Charles's was seen applying a Tom Ford Lip Colour in Indian Rose from the royal box on centre court. The medium-dark mauve hue perfectly complemented Camilla's glowing complexion. For 35 years, she has entrusted her trademark blonde bob to Mayfair colourist, Jo Hansford. Additionally, the royal, 76, has maintained a longstanding collaboration with nail and make-up artist, Marina Sandoval, whom she hired 15 years ago.

Living well is the best revenge, or so the saying goes. For Princess Diana, revenge took the form of an off-the-shoulder, form-fitting, black silk dress, having made its debut almost three decades ago to this day. The dress in question, famously known today as the Revenge Dress was designed by Christina Stambolian for Diana, who memorably wore the black number on June 29, 1994, to the Serpentine Gallery.

His visit to Royal Ascot (right, centre) with wife Carole last week told the nation that their daughter Kate is doing well as she continues her cancer treatment. But, as he turns 75 today, Michael Middleton may well be reflecting on just how difficult this year has been for his family and the royals. The Princess of Wales and her husband Prince William have relied on Michael and Carole's support since her diagnosis, which was announced after King Charles revealed his own fight with the disease. The ongoing health challenges faced by his daughter and the King come after joyous news last October, when Michael and Carole's son James welcomed baby son Inigo with his wife Alizee Thevenet. Pictured: Michael with Prince George watching the Kings Cup Regatta in Cowes in 2019 (left); with Kate as a young girl (inset); giving his daughter away at her wedding in 2011 (top right); making a statement with Carole (bottom right) on the day of Kate's engagement announcement.

When Miss Rhys-Jones walked down the aisle at St George's Chapel on a warm day in the summer of 1999, she had already beaten many expectations. It is said that the Queen's first words on meeting Sophie - the daughter of a Kent tyre salesman - years earlier were: 'You wouldn't pick her out of a crowd.' In fact, the now-Duchess of Edinburgh has always been ahead of the crowd and has proven herself to be the worthiest of partners for the Queen's youngest son. Today, Prince Edward and Sophie celebrate their silver wedding anniversary in their typically subtle manner without formal fanfare. The palace have released a new photo of the couple, taken earlier this month, and it is thought they might attend Royal Ascot this afternoon. But their low-key style is perhaps the secret to their success - both as a couple and as working royals.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: As Princes William and Edward can attest, with the King and Harry wanly nodding in agreement, baldness is rife among male members of the Royal Family. Now fashionable coiffeur Nicky Clarke wants William and his sparsely-furred relatives to tackle their hereditary male pattern baldness. 'Royals have not traditionally got good heads of hair,' he says. 'More people in the public eye now are using the latest hair technologies like implants so why not?'

Dame Shirley, who died last week, had befriended Diana when she sought advice after her separation from Charles. Tina Brown, in her book The Palace Papers, described the plan as a 'startlingly sophisticated vision', offering a film every two years to generate a humanitarian campaign for one of the princess's causes. Poignantly, Conran and Dineen were to launch the strategy during a Kensington Palace lunch with Diana on September 1 - the day after she died.

After seven decades of certainty and of a monarch who was an unwavering physical presence on the landscape of British national life, the future for the Royal Family suddenly looks less than clear. In the past, it had been been rocked by scandals, extra-marital affairs and what felt in the mid-1990s like a never-ending stream of divorces that all but shattered the fairy-tale ideal of the modern royal marriage. Despite these upheavals royal life, as a whole, continued as normal. This is not the case today, when the difficulties are not just a matter of reputation but are practical.

It's pity that the second son of any royal family is a stranger. "The only certainty is that as the years go by, his importance will decline as he declines inexorably behind in the line of succession,' says author Tina Brown.' This prince's career seemed to have been in decline ever since he left the Royal Navy in 2001. A stint as the United Kingdom's special representative for international trade and investment did nothing to damage his image. In her best-selling book, The Palace Papers, Brown describes it as a role 'that allowed him to swan around the world at government expense playing golf.'

Parts of the American media today focused on the Princess of Wales photographic scandal after she took responsibility for the manipulated Mother's Day photograph. CNN announced that it had started looking at all handout photos previously released by Kensington Palace, while the New York Times sluggishly characterized it as a "another self-created crisis." On its front page, the Los Angeles Times referred to the event as a "significant royal oops," and the New York Post ran a story titled 'Team Harry and Meg pile on Kate.' The photograph, according to the Washington Post, triggered a'media crisis' amid a brawl between 'celebrities' aspiration for perfection and journalism's truth-telling mission.' And a Good Morning America reporter said that, despite Kate's personal apologetics, the story will only go away if she appears in public or the original photograph is released. The photo of Kate and her children, taken by William, was the first to be published after the Princess's abdominal surgery and was released by the palace on Sunday.

The portrait was as unforgiving as one might imagine: it was gritty, coarse-featured, and imposing. According to one commenter, the monarch should have Freud locked up for lese majeste. However, as Brown explains, the Queen herself reflected her customary lack of personal appearance when the painting was unveiled. She remarked gnomically, 'Very interesting.'

Both royal princes, William and Harry, should have opted to live in helicopters, which is fitting. They started their training at RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, in 2009, and then shared a tiny cottage nearby for the duration. However, they will soon be helicopter pilots of radically different designs. William decided to join the RAF Search and Rescue Force, which required him to serve with the doughty Sea King, first in RAF Valley on Angelsey and then with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, flying doctors and ambulances to scenes of terror. A helicopter, on the other hand, was a Apache, a war machine that author Tina Brown describes as the most lethal and challenging of aircraft.'

Prince Philip was well-known as a technology enthusiast. Whether it was piloting jets, sailing boats, or subscribing to the Flying Saucer Review, he spent hours immersed in machine and machine operation. Gadgets were a particular favorite, and it has been revealed that as a Naval officer, Philip air-conditioned his own quarters with a system of fans, radiators, and thermostats.

At all costs, she was known as the last great Edwardian Lady, a stickler for royal protocol, and a dependable keeper of appearances. She became a heralded hostess in her later years, throwing glittering parties at her Royal Lodge home for visitors from music and the arts. These occasions, according to author Tina Brown, permitted the royal to display one skill in particular. Ali g. is a fan of the actress.

She was Europe's most volatile woman,' according to Adolf Hitler, whose brains and steely would triumph. Cecil Beaton, a royal photographer, had a more vibrant take on word, describing Elizabeth, Queen Consort to George VI, as a "mega marshmallow made on a welding machine." Tina Brown's best-selling book The Palace Papers, she suggests that she may have been against Prince Charles, the Queen Mother, 'an implacable enforcer of royal indepence.' According to Brown, form took precedence over emotion.

In 1995, Bashir's television interview with him attracted 23 million viewers, sparking a worldwide media buzz. Bashir said, "there were three people in this marriage," a reference to then Prince Charles' affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, now Queen Consort. Diana and Charles had been separated for three years by then and would divorce in 1996. Bashir later revealed that to gain access to the princess, she gave her brother, Earl Spencer, inaccurate bank information that indicated that his former head of security was receiving money from tabloids and the security companies to spy on his sister. Bashir told Diana a string of lies, claiming that Prince Charles was having an affair with then royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, which caused her to become pregnant and have an abortion as a result. However, Ms Brown (right), 70, who has written a series of books on Diana and the Royal Family, believes that if she had not been deceived by Bashir, she would have still speak to the public even if she hadn't been misled.

On Halloween, a huge European owl has swooped in on a cul-de-sac in north Wales. Despite some mystery over where she came from, residents in Rossett, near Wrexham, have taken her under their care. They are not native to the United Kingdom, and European eagle owls are not native to the United Kingdom. Those who have been able to get close to her report she has a leather strap on her leg, indicating that she has escaped from captivity.

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Kate Middleton's life had never been the same as she had expected. Catherine was 25 and working as a fashion buyer for Jigsaw when, according to author Tina Brown, her world exploded. The setting was hardly auspicious. But Kate's reaction showed she was made of strong stuff - and paved the way for her happy union with Prince William today,

Many new students' first weeks at University were subjected to what seemed to be a simple 'wobble'. A little homesickness, perhaps, combined with trepidation of the new and a little buyer's remorse. In his first weeks at St Andrews, there is no such thing as a basic wobble when you are second-in-line to the throne and every move is scrutinized. Indeed, his suggestion that he withdraw after his first term was not only seen as unhelpful, but also as a potential public relations disaster. William wasn't yet aware how 'boring' - his word - life in a tiny Scottish seaside town could be. Well, he had grown up surrounded by the brilliant lights, but St Andrews hadn't entirely lived up to expectations, according to royal biographer Robert Lacey. 'Shopping in the local Tesco' at the time,' he says. And although there were nights out with friends, these were constrained and 'clouded' due to his position as a prince.