X-Issue winner Matt Cardle claims he and the duchess ‘weren’t meant to be’

A WILD BEAR WAS SPOTTED NEAR MEGHAN AND HARRY’S MANSION

Harry and Meghan moved to California final summer season, they usually have been as soon as warned {that a} wild bear had been noticed prowling close to their £11million mansion.

The bear was filmed by ­safety cameras and neighbours had chickens attacked and garbage bins raided.

It is believed to have a den in a close-by ranch, ­which was disturbed when it was offered – specialists mentioned it was on the lookout for meals and poses a critical threat.

The Sussexes and child son Archie moved into their nine- ­bed room, 16-bathroom pad within the rich neighborhood of Montecito in early July.

Quickly afterwards, a big black bear was reported yards from chat present queen Oprah Winfrey’s sprawling property.

KATE AND WILLS BEGIN RAILWAY TOUR TO THANK KEY WORKERS

Kate Middleton and Prince William yesterday started a nationwide railway tour to hail communities’ Covid efforts.

The royal pair will likely be travelling 1,250 miles on the Royal Practice in a three-day tour, dubbed Thomas the Thank Engine.

The stops are being stored beneath wraps however the Cambridges will greet frontline employees, volunteers, care workers, academics and pupils.

Aides say they plan to go on the nation’s “honest thanks and gratitude” for his or her efforts.

Kensington Palace mentioned: “The Duke and Duchess are very a lot wanting ahead to shining a highlight on the unimaginable work that has been completed.”

HARRY ‘ENCOURAGED’ MEGHAN TO WRITE ABOUT HER MISCARRIAGE

Self-importance Truthful royal correspondent Katie Nicholl claims that Harry mentioned Meghan’s trustworthy account would assist different households going by the identical factor. 

Talking to True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat, she mentioned, “Harry mentioned (to Meghan) ‘I feel you must write about this miscarriage as a result of if we can assist one other household going by this then it’s a motive to do it’.”

“That’s the reason they did it. You have a look at Harry and a number of the issues that he has mentioned you’ll by no means anticipate from a senior royal. 

“When have we ever learn a royal write like that? I believed it was extremely courageous.”

PRINCE HARRY SUGGESTS ‘CORONAVIRUS WAS PUNISHMENT FROM MOTHER NATURE’

Prince Harry has suggested Covid is punishment from Mother Nature as he urged everybody to “be a raindrop” and restore the Earth.

The Duke of Sussex made the declare as he launched a brand new Netflix-style streaming platform for local weather documentaries – including that he’d additionally questioned having kids as the world will be “on fire” when they grow up.

The 36-year-old, who recently bought a £11million Californian mansion, mentioned within the very woke promo: “Anyone mentioned to me at first of the pandemic, it is nearly as if Mom Nature has despatched us to our rooms for unhealthy behaviour to actually take a second and take into consideration what we have completed.

“It is actually jogged my memory about how interconnected all of us are, not simply as folks however by nature.

“We take a lot from her and we hardly ever give loads again.”

PRINCE HARRY ‘MISTAKEN FOR A CHRISTMAS TREE SALESMAN’

Prince Harry was mistaken for a Christmas tree salesman as he went buying with Meghan, it was revealed.

The couple have been on the lookout for a festive fir to place up of their £11million California mansion.

A salesman mentioned the Sussexes’ agent had organized for the pair to select a tree when his store was meant to be empty.

However one household was nonetheless milling across the timber and their little one ran in the direction of Harry pondering he was workers.

Posting on Twitter he wrote: “Meghan and Prince Harry got here into my work immediately and we offered them their Christmas Tree.

“It was anticlimactic, however a really, very fascinating expertise.”

PALACE INSIDER ACCUSES NETLFIX OF ‘TROLLING THE ROYALS’

Netflix has been accused of “corporate trolling” after posting a “sinister” tweet plugging a documentary that guarantees to reply criticism over The Crown.

The streaming big tweeted a clip from its documentary Diana: In Her Personal Phrases – telling followers it “solutions a lot of what you’re asking”.

A wave of criticism has been directed on the Royal Household by followers over how Princess Diana is handled in widespread collection with trolls hurling vile abuse at the Duchess of Cornwall over her false portrayal.

Many figures – together with the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden – have known as for the present to remind viewers that it’s a work of fiction.

Now senior palace figures have accused Netflix of utilizing its social media channels to proceed sharing “sinister” messages.

MELANIA TRUMP ‘LOST TATLER COVER TO MEGHAN MARKLE’

Melania Trump reportedly missed her chance to land the cover of Tatler’s November issue to Meghan Markle as a result of her chief of workers failed to barter a deal for the primary girl.

Throughout her husband Donald Trump’s re-election bid, Stephanie Grisham managed to land Melania the one unique interview of his marketing campaign with the British vogue journal.

However Grisham, the primary girl’s most trusted staffer, did not negotiate a canopy deal regardless of shrugging off a number of interview gives from big-name retailers, in line with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine.

“Having eschewed numerous gives for constructive interviews from American retailers corresponding to Girls’s Put on Each day and The Publish, Grisham allowed the British journal Tatler to have the one unique interview of the marketing campaign for its November concern,” Devine wrote.

“And but she didn’t negotiate the duvet of the journal. As an alternative, Meghan Markle took the honour.”

KATE ‘STILL WAITING’ FOR ROYAL HONOUR BESTOWED TO MEGHAN

Kate Middleton is claimed to be nonetheless be ready for a really particular journey honour bestowed by the Queen – which Meghan Markle loved simply weeks after getting married. 

Regardless of being a part of the inside circle of The Agency, it’s thought the Duchess of Cambridge is but to experience the Royal Practice. 

Whereas it’s believed Prince William, 38, might have ridden it, it appears Kate, 38, continues to be ready for an invite – regardless of being a royal for 9 years.

Her prolonged wait is in stark distinction to Meghan, 39, who was given the honour of using the prepare simply weeks after marrying Prince Harry, 36, who can also be thought to not have taken the prepare, Town and Country reported. 

MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDING RING SHOWS SHE’S A FASHION LEADER, EXPERTS SAY

Lorna Haddon, head of diamonds and jewelry at Beaverbrooks, has outlined the tiny particulars in every Royal ring which affirm Meghan Markle‘s standing as a ‘vogue chief’.

Prince Harry used stones from Princess Diana’s assortment to create a hoop for Meghan Markle, 39.

The 35-year-old proposed in 2017 with a traditional gold band set with three diamonds, though the mum-of-one later upgraded the ring to characteristic a diamond-studded band, valued at £150,000.

Lorna said: “She may have dropped her royal duties, but her ring is definitely still fit for royalty!

“Three stone diamond rings are a preferred alternative because the ring sits completely with a standard wedding ceremony band and eternity band, and reveals off an excellent minimize diamond to its full extent.

“The three stones are mentioned to characterize a pair’s previous, current and future collectively – a romantic and significant gesture from the prince.”

WHO IS MEGHAN’S MUM DORIA RAGLAND?

Doria Ragland is Meghan Markle’s mom, and the American lives in Los Angeles, close to her daughter and Prince Harry.

The 64-year-old, who works as a yoga teacher, has a house within the View Park-Windsor Hills neighbourhood of LA, simply an hour-and-a-half drive from Montecito, the place Harry and Meghan just lately purchased a home.

Doria inherited her home, located just east of Los Angeles International Airport, in 2011 when her father died.

Mom and daughter are extremely shut, with Doria staying with Meghan after she welcomed child Archie in Might 2019.

Learn our full explainer on that here.

ARCHIE AND THE QUEEN’S SUCCESSION SIMILARITY

As child Archie is seventh in line to the throne, it’s extremely unlikely that Meghan Markle’s son will turn into King.

Nevertheless, the newest addition to the Royal Household shares a shocking similarity to his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II who held the same position in the line as succession when she was born.

In 1936, the Royal Household was rocked by an abdication disaster after Edward VIII gave up his position as monarch to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson with out having produced an inheritor of his personal.

After Edward stepped down, his youthful brother the Duke of York – the Queen’s father – inherited the throne and have become King George VI in December 1936.

This then paved the best way for Queen Elizabeth II – who was initially seventh within the line of succession after her father’s siblings – to ultimately turn into the sovereign aged 25.

MEGHAN’S REAL NAME REVEALED – AND YOU MIGHT RECOGNISE IT

Meghan Markle is now a household name, but it’s not the one on her birth certificate.

Meghan’s actual identify is in reality Rachel – the identical identify as her Fits character.

The Queen used Meghan’s full identify when she formally blessed the couple’s marriage, saying: “My Lords, I declare My Consent to a Contract of Matrimony between My Most Dearly Beloved Grandson Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales and Rachel Meghan Markle, which Consent I’m inflicting to be signified beneath the Nice Seal and to be entered within the Books of the Privy Council.”

NEW PRINCESS DIANA STATUE INSTALLED JULY 2021

A brand new statue of the late Princess Diana will likely be on view at Kensington Palace from subsequent July on what would have been her sixtieth birthday, an official has mentioned.

Her sons, Princes William and Harry, commissioned a statue in honour of their mom – who died in a Paris automobile crash greater than 20 years in the past – to be erected outdoors the Duke of Cambridge’s house on the palace.

However, there was a delay as a result of coronavirus pandemic.

The primary everlasting memorial to her, a 210-metre (689-foot) lengthy fountain, was launched in Hyde Park in 2004 after years of bureaucratic wrangling and squabbling over the design.

The princes’ new statue will likely be unveiled on July 1.

PRINCE HARRY & MEGHAN MARKLE THOUGHT TO BE FOLLOWING IN FERGIE’S FOOTSTEPS

Prince Harry was mocked this week when he instructed folks to be “like a raindrop” in his very woke speech selling his new platform for environmental documentaries.

The Duke of Sussex also raised eyebrows saying: “Anyone mentioned to me proper at first of the pandemic it is nearly as if mom nature has despatched us to our rooms for unhealthy behaviour to actually take a second and take into consideration what we have completed.”

That ‘somebody’ may just be his aunt Sarah Ferguson who delivered the identical phrase at first of the pandemic.

THROWBACK POST ON THE SUSSEX ROYAL INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

On today final yr the Sussex Royal Instagram account shared a snap of Meghan Markle on the Hubb Neighborhood Kitchen. 

The put up mentioned: “It was only one yr in the past that The Duchess of Sussex made a particular go to to the ladies of The Hubb Neighborhood Kitchen to assist put together meals for these in want. 

“The connection between The Duchess and these ladies started a yr prior, as she supported them within the creation of ‘Collectively’, a charity cookbook which celebrates the facility of cooking to carry communities collectively.”

NETFLIX ACCUSED OF ‘TROLLING’ AFTER TWEET PLUGGING DIANA DOC

Netflix has been accused of “company trolling” after posting a “sinister” tweet plugging a documentary that guarantees to reply criticism over The Crown.

The streaming big tweeted a clip from its documentary Diana: In Her Personal Phrases – telling followers it “solutions a lot of what you’re asking”.

The favored collection has seen a wave of fan criticism directed on the Royal Household over how Princess Diana is proven to be handled with trolls hurling vile abuse at the Duchess of Cornwall over her false portrayal.

Many figures – together with the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden – have known as for the collection to remind viewers that it’s a work of fiction.

Now senior palace figures have accused Netflix of utilizing its social media channels to proceed sharing “sinister” messages.

ITV HOST LORRAINE KELLY SAYS MEGHAN’S MISCARRIAGE WAS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO HER

Discussing the information of the Duchess of Sussex’s miscarriage with Dr Hilary, she mentioned: “It was nearly precisely the identical, having to go to hospital and the best way she talked about it. 

“What actually helped me was with the ability to speak to you clearly and likewise different folks, but additionally Rosie.

“I feel she was solely six then and I do know Archie is loads youthful than that however I do know that that can actually assist you realize having one other little one will actually assist.

“My coronary heart goes out to them, it is so unhappy and I feel the best way she’s completed it’s completely sensible.”

Lorraine spoke about how ladies take care of miscarriages in many various methods, and mentioned there is not a proper manner to deal with loss.

THE STORY BEHIND MEGHAN’S ENGAGEMENT RING

Prince Harry designed Meghan’s ring himself, utilizing a diamond from Botswana together with two others from Princess Diana’s private jewelry assortment.

Throughout their royal tour of Southern Africa, Meghan swapped out her £250k ring for an understated, plain gold band with a small however fairly turquoise stone.

Final yr, followers noticed Meghan had tweaked the ring, changing the unique thick gold band with a a lot thinner, diamond-studded micro-pavé one.

MEGHAN HANDED OUT CLOTHES TO NEEDY FAMILIES WEEKS AFTER MISCARRIAGE AGONY

Meghan and Harry handed out provides, garments and diapers at a drive-through run by Los Angeles charity Baby2Baby in August, weeks after they experienced the heartbreak of a miscarriage.

The occasion noticed households in want given primary requirements due to the charity.

And regardless of their heartbreak behind the scenes, Meghan and Harry threw themselves into the charity work.

I’M A CELEBRITY STAR RUTHIE HENSHALL SAYS THE ROYALS ARE A ‘NORMAL FAMILY’

The previous actress who just lately appeared within the I am A Superstar fortress had an on-and-off relationship with Prince Edward for six years.

Speaking to the Mail final evening, she mentioned she was invited to Balmoral and Windsor Citadel throughout her royal romance.

She mentioned, “They have been very welcoming and as a lot as you’ll be able to say this – since you are with the Royal Household within the Palace or at Windsor or Balmoral, which aren’t regular circumstances and locations – however when they’re collectively, they’re a traditional household and you might be a part of that.

“I used to be completely welcomed in. I’ve nothing however fondness and beautiful reminiscences of them being extremely variety and really eager about my life. I did not ever really feel like an outsider.”

FINDING FREEDOM AUTHOR CLAIMS THE CROWN COULD BE EXTENDED

The Crown could possibly be “prolonged” to indicate Prince Harry and Prince William as adults, Discovering Freedom writer Omid Scobie has claimed.

He mentioned he is heard “rumblings” Netflix are contemplating extending the run previous Princess Diana’s tragic dying in 1997, talking on his podcast Heirpod.

“I feel initially it was reported that it will cease earlier than William and Harry turn into adults, I’ve actually heard there’s talked inside Netflix concerning the chance that the present is likely to be prolonged.”

The Crown collection 4, which focuses on Diana becoming a member of the Royal Household and was launched on November 15, has sparked outrage with its portrayal of outstanding royals.

SURPRISE ITEMS IN THE ROYALS’ HOMES SHOW THEY’RE JUST LIKE US

They might reside in palaces, dine on royal banquets and luxuriate in star-studded balls, however behind closed doorways, the royal household could also be extra down-to-earth than you assume. 

The likes of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle have given royal followers a sneak peek inside their gorgeous houses, and revealed they love Ikea and Dunelm simply as a lot as the remainder of us.

Kate and William are mentioned to have revealed that the younger Cambridge children have Ikea furnishings of their bedrooms at Kensington Palace.

The Queen has her personal Dyson fan and Dunelm’s Dorma assortment of beds do in reality have a royal warrant, so that they’re prone to be a favorite, too.

GEMMA COLLINS PENNED EMOTIONAL LETTER TO MEGHAN

Former Towie star and businesswoman Gemma Collins wrote an open letter to Meghan after she shared her miscarriage heartache.

“I hope you don’t thoughts me writing to you want this. You don’t know me, and we’ve by no means met, however I cried when I read what you’d written about your miscarriage yesterday”, she wrote.

“Your disappointment and grief leapt out of the web page, alongside together with your need to consolation different ladies who’ve been by the identical heartbreak.

“I’m a kind of ladies. As a result of such as you I additionally had a miscarriage in July – one of many ten or twenty ladies in a room of 100 that you simply wrote about who will know the actual ache of dropping a longed-for child.

“I’ve not talked about this earlier than, nevertheless it was my third, each a devastating loss on my longed-for journey to motherhood.

“It does not matter in case you’re within the public eye or married to a Prince, miscarriages do not discriminate, and the ache is identical for us all. “

MEGHAN PRAISED FOR SHARING MISCARRIAGE HEARTBREAK

Kym Marsh has praised Meghan for sharing her heartbreaking miscarriage ordeal.

The Duchess of Sussex, 39, just lately wrote of the second she knew she was “dropping” her second child in a deeply private essay for the New York Times.

“While you lose a baby you are feeling so lonely and empty and like the one particular person who’s going by it,” Kym wrote in her OK! journal column.

“So whenever you lastly have the possibility to attach with individuals who have been by the identical factor and are capable of establish with you, that actually helps.”

HARRY WAS MISTAKEN FOR CHRISTMAS TREE SALESMAN

Prince Harry was just lately mistaken for a Christmas tree salesman when he went looking for a festive fir with Meghan.

A salesman mentioned the Sussexes’ agent had organized for the pair to select a tree when his store was meant to be empty, however one household was nonetheless milling across the timber and their little one ran in the direction of Harry pondering he was workers.

Posting on Twitter he wrote: “Meghan and Prince Harry got here into my work immediately and we offered them their Christmas Tree.

“It was anticlimactic, however a really, very fascinating expertise. We had our lot empty after they received there – their agent promoted them time to come back as a substitute of us shutting it down.

“There was one household in there and their stoked little son ran by timber as much as Harry and requested if he labored right here not figuring out who that’s.

“They looks as if very good folks truthfully. Meghan sounds very variety and Harry sounded and acted like a chill lad truthfully.”