EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How does Meghan feel about Charles handout?
With Meghan reportedly once lamenting not being paid for undertaking royal tours, what has been her reaction to the jumbo payments from her father-in-law Charles?
In her and Harry’s last year as ‘working’ royals, Charles paid out £4.5million to his sons – the split not divulged – to cover their official duties and lifestyles in taxpayer-funded palaces.
With Meghan reportedly once lamenting not being paid for undertaking royal tours, what has been her reaction to the jumbo payments from her father-in-law Charles?
Harry’s claim to Oprah that Charles cut him off financially after they left the gilded cage was debunked by the revelation that his dad had actually been generous with a pay-off.
The Sussex duo’s faltering memory is, presumably, the main reason that the rest of the family has trust issues with the exiles.
Amber Rudd’s journalist daughter Flora Gill, highly critical of Liz Truss, hasn’t a bad word for the Chancellor, once declaring on her radio show: ‘Shout out to Kwasi, love you!’ She has been a fan since beleaguered Kwarteng’s romance with her mother.
The Duchess of York has won a Literary Titan Gold Award for her novel Demon’s Land, described as ‘brilliant’ with her ‘unique writing style, complex characters and original ideas’. Does the Booker beckon? Alas no. Previous award recipients including Master Your Mortgage and Crush Medical Debt failed to catch the eye of the judges.
Woman’s Hour presenter Emma Barnett, pictured, expecting her second child after gruelling fertility treatment, has been trying to relax during pregnancy by indulging in £60 gong baths, where you lie down and ‘bathe’ to the sound of someone hitting a gong.
‘I didn’t love the gong bath and fell asleep for some of it,’ she wails.
Emma, why not tune in to News At Ten and doze to the opening bongs. Tis cheaper!
On tonight’s ITV documentary about Jeremy Paxman’s struggle with Parkinson’s, he is reunited with the former home secretary Michael Howard, who avoided answering a question about prisons on Newsnight in 1997. ‘My death announcement,’ moans Paxman, ‘will be: Man who asks same question 18 times dies.’ Cheer up Paxo. You asked him only 12 times.
Monica Lewinsky admits to needing at least five therapists, saying: ‘I have a normal therapist, who’s a trauma psychiatrist. I have my energy guy. I have a therapist who’s also a sort of a friend but kind of on call for emergencies. And I started during the pandemic doing somatic therapy. There’ll be other people who kind of come in and out.’ She adds: ‘I’m very lucky because I’m in a position where I’m supporting myself enough now, where I can afford to give myself the kind of healing things that I need.’ Does Bill Clinton cast a long shadow?
If friendless David Dimbleby is seeking chums at the BBC, Gary Lineker won’t be on his list. ‘I simply don’t understand Lineker,’ he says. ‘He just seems to shout his mouth off about everything. I don’t know what he does.’ He adds provocatively: ‘Was he a footballer?’
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