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It's hard to remember a week more inundated with high-stakes royals news than this one. Wherever you stand on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, their upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey looks like it will come with some bombshell revelations — in the same way as Princess Diana's now-iconic (and now-scrutinized) interview with Martin Bashir in 1995. In one short clip from the Oprah interview, Prince Harry even said he feared “history repeating itself," referencing his mother's 1997 death.
Even staunch monarchists can admit that The Firm's legacy is a complicated one. The Royal Family sometimes makes mistakes. On Sunday, we'll find out the nature of the mistakes to which Harry and Meghan have been alluding.
Of course, another big event happening the same day as the Oprah interview is a televised Commonwealth Day celebration, which will include appearances by the Queen, Prince Charles and the Cambridges. The special “will pay tribute to the way in which communities across the family of nations have come together in response to the pandemic,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
Have a great weekend, royals watchers — only two days until Sunday!
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| Queen Elizabeth Urges Everyone To Get The COVID-19 Vaccine | The Queen, who got the first dose of the vaccine in January, talked about the experience during a video call with world leaders this week.
She talked about how she now felt "protected," and encouraged people who were hesitant about the shot to “think about other people rather than themselves." | |
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👑 More Royal Family News 👑 |
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Prince Philip had successful heart surgery, the palace said. He was transferred to a different hospital this week. And his daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, said he's "slightly improving."
After Meghan was accused of "bullying" royal aides, she said she was “saddened” by the charges, which she called a "smear campaign"
When Buckingham Palace announced it would investigate potential bullying, people started to ask whether they would also investigate sex abuse allegations against Prince Andrew
Here's a clip of Meghan and Harry's Oprah interview...
... and here's what we can tell from Meghan's fashion choices
By the way, Meghan won £1.5 million in court fees from her tabloid lawsuit
In case you missed Harry on James Corden last Friday, here's the video, his mud crawl, him talking about why he stepped back, and his pick for who he'd want to play him on "The Crown"
Speaking of "The Crown," Emma Corrin just won a Golden Globe for playing Princess Diana, and thanked the royal in her speech
She also said she was "moved" by Harry's reaction to the show
And just in case that's not enough news for you, Kate Middleton's younger sister Pippa is pregnant again! |
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Here are some photos of Princess Diana from 1995, the year she spoke to Martin Bashir about how she didn't feel supported by the Royal Family, who she believed saw her as a threat. |
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Princess Diana with Prince Harry, watching a parade of veterans on Aug. 19, 1995. |
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Eton College housemaster Dr. Andrew Gailey with Princess Diana, her ex-husband Prince Charles, and their sons on William's first day at Eton on Sept. 16, 1995. |
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Diana at a gala to benefit cancer research on Nov. 20, 1995. |
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👑 Royal Fun Fact 👑
Can you guess who the first royal was to send an email? It was — of course! — the Queen, and it happened 45 years ago.
In March of 1976, Queen Elizabeth signed on to ARPANET at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, a research centre in Malvern, England. (If "signed on" is even the right term? Hard to know 1970s computer lingo.) ARPANET, in case you don't happen to already know, is a network of computers that formed the basis of what we now consider the internet.
Back in '76, the Queen sent out a message about the development of a new programming language. Computer scientist Peter Kirstein, who was there at the time, told People that "all she had to do was press a couple of buttons, and her message was sent.”
She signed the message “Elizabeth R." The "R" is for "Regina," the Latin word for "Queen." It's the same sign-off she uses in all official correspondence, including when she sent her first messages on Twitter in 2014 and Instagram in 2019. |
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