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King Charles III didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes when he arrived in Kenya for a four-day state visit on Monday. Calls are growing for the British monarch to make a heartfelt apology for colonial era abuses as he and Queen Camilla tour the east African country. The tour is the first to a Commonwealth country since he succeeded his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, who died in September after a seven-decade reign. Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles would “acknowledge the more painful aspects of the U.K. and Kenya’s shared history,” which includes the bloody Mau Mau rebellion of the......

Prince William and Kate Middleton are already preparing to someday take the throne following the death of Queen Elizabeth — one year ago this Friday. In addition to graduating to the titles of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the heels of the monarch’s passing, the couple, both 41, “are both involved in decision-making behind the scenes,” a friend of Middleton’s told People. “(King) Charles is leading the way for them already,” said the insider. “They are ready and willing to do the job — and Kate is very much a part of that.” Though insiders from the palace dismissed the idea that the newl......

The British royal family’s annual Sovereign Grant spending report was released Thursday, showing that the royals spent around $27 million more than they received from April 2022 through March 2023. Royal spending increased by 5% from 2021-22, as The Firm dealt with massive transitions, including Queen Elizabeth II’s death and King Charles III’s rise to the throne. The royals received $109 million from the taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant and earned an additional $12 million, according to the report. However, they spent a whopping $148 million on official appearances and work, leading to the def......

It's been said that the floodgates have opened on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Since news broke that they had lost their $20 million podcasting deal with Spotify, Hollywood power players and writers for top U.S. media outlets have spoken up about how "entitled," "lazy" and "untalented" the renegade royal couple have been — how they are "grifters" who hoodwinked the American public into believing that they deserve accolades, millions of dollars and global influence, just because they bolted from life in the British royal family. But if people are turning on the California-based Duke and Duch......

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly not been invited to Saturday’s party celebrating the birth of the British sovereign. The pair attended the centuries old Trooping the Colour celebration in 2022 when it was hosted by Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. This weekend’s jubilee will be the first to take place with Harry’s father, King Charles, seated on the throne. The event was dubbed the Queen’s Birthday Parade during Elizabeth’s reign. According to People, Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, will likely be at home in California with their young children when the festivities get unde......

Prince Harry was accused of wasting the court’s time in his phone-hacking lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper and left the London judge overseeing his case “visibly irritated” because he did not show up for the first day of his trial, as the judge had instructed him. The Duke of Sussex had been ordered by the judge to be present in the High Court in London Monday, in the expectation that the court would be ready for him to start testifying Monday afternoon against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the London Times, Telegraph and Guardian all reported. Instead, Harry left California Sunday eve......