“Woke Royals”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey has, so far, claimed two scalps. One has been splashed across news websites and newspapers; the other has not.

The first belonged, to Piers Morgan, who was forced to quit Good Morning Britain after six successful if noisy years for daring to express disbelief at a number of the Duchess’s claims. The claiming of the second scalp, however, has attracted far less attention — even though it serves as an equally, if not more, damning parable for our times…

Royal aides have hit back at the Duchess of Sussex before her television interview with Oprah Winfrey by revealing that she faced a bullying complaint made by one of her closest advisers during her time at Kensington Palace.

The sources approached The Times because they felt that only a partial version had emerged of Meghan’s two years as a working member of the royal family and they wished to tell their side, concerned about how such matters are handled by the palace. The complaint claimed that she drove two personal assistants out of the household and was undermining the confidence of a third staff member.

Canadians’ desire to drop monarchy reaches ‘historic level’: poll

TORONTO — A new poll has found that the desire among Canadians to drop the monarchy is at the highest level recorded in the past 12 years.

The poll, conducted by Research Co., found that 45 per cent of Canadians surveyed said they would prefer to have an elected head of state instead of the Queen, when considering Canada’s constitution.

Prince Andrew’s spin doctor has stepped down after palace officials expressed their fury at a botched attempt to discredit the royal’s sex abuse accuser, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Mark Gallagher, nicknamed ‘the backroom fixer’, was hired almost a year ago in a bid to repair the Prince’s scandalised reputation.

The Duke of York, 61, is facing accusations from alleged victim Virginia Roberts that she was forced to have sex with him on three occasions when she was aged 17 in 2001.

Prince Harry’s ‘unhelpful’ decision to pour his heart out to James Corden has already caused ‘disquiet’ at Buckingham Palace after the Queen’s grandson insisted he and Meghan Markle ‘never walked away’ from the royal family by emigrating to Los Angeles – and blamed the media for driving him from the UK.

The Duke of Sussex said the move to California last year was about ‘stepping back rather than stepping down’ as royals as he appeared on The Late Late Show with Mr Corden, who has gazumped Oprah Winfrey to the exclusive 17-minute interview with his British friend.

The Duchess of Sussex also makes a brief appearance on the show during a FaceTime call, revealing her pet name for Harry is ‘Haz’, while her husband calls her ‘Meg’ throughout and reveals that his grandmother bought their son Archie a waffle maker for Christmas.

Doing their bit to see the institution of the Monarchy destroyed.

Harry and Meghan’s narcissism doesn’t sit well with the ideal of public service.

So Harry and Meghan are out. The Prince and Princess of Woke are formally splitting from the monarchy. The Soft Megxit of 2020 – when the painfully PC pair flounced off to North America with the intention of becoming ‘financially independent’ – has become a Hard Megxit. The queen has decreed that Harry and Meghan’s antics are incompatible with ‘the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service’ and therefore they have to hand back all their royal patronages. This is about as close to saying ‘bugger off’ as the famously restrained queen will ever get.

Most would prefer the Sussexes never to return to Britain, the exclusive Sun on Sunday poll says.

A third said their opinion of the couple has worsened since they left.

Some 55 per cent said they will not watch the Oprah show compared with 27 per cent who will.

When Harry met Woke, Woke killed Harry.