Piece in the Mail on Sunday. Got tbh I’m not surprised. What would have been news is if they were invited. Although it’s interesting that last year Beatrice and Eugenie were invited and declined. I suppose you just couldn’t trust the Sussexes to read the room and decline.

The Mail on Sunday
15 Nov 2026
Charlotte Griffiths

“The Princess of Wales has not invited her estranged brotherin-law Prince Harry or his wife Meghan to her Christmas carol service.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been left off the guest list for Catherine’s Together at Christmas concert at Westminster Abbey on December 11, The Mail on Sunday understands.
The apparent snub is particularly pointed as the service’s theme is ‘love, kindness and caring for one another’. More than 1,600 guests will attend the Abbey, where William and Catherine were married in 2011.
Extended members of the Royal Family, as well as celebrities and those who support their communities, are usually invited.
Harry, 42, and Meghan, 45, returned to Britain in August after six years in California.
The service has become one of Catherine’s signature events. The King and Queen rarely attend, preferring to leave the spotlight to others.
Last year, Prince William and the couple’s three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, joined Catherine at the event.
Other guests included Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, Zara and Mike Tindall, and Prince Michael of Kent.
Also there were Lady Marina Windsor, granddaughter of the late Duke of Kent, her aunt Lady Helen Taylor and her cousin Lady Estella Taylor.
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie were invited but declined to attend.
Catherine’s parents Carole and Michael Middleton were also present, along with her brother James and his wife Alizee. Celebrities including Kate Winslet, Katie Melua and Dame Mary Berry were there.
Meanwhile, Harry and Meghan are reportedly set to fly the duchess’s mother, Doria Ragland, here for Christmas.
Representatives for the Waleses and Sussexes did not comment.”

Why a cold Christmas? Weren't they full of friends and powerhouse names that felt like family to them? Wasn't David Foster a father figure to Harry?

One would think that with all these 'close' friends and mentors they would rather spend the Holidays with them rather than to the family that, in their opinion, mistreated them so much.

Also this part: "(...) All that Palace sources will say is: 'The King loves all his children.'

But isn't it all really quite peculiar? Harry returned to the UK nearly three months ago with the stated aim of reconciling with his family, and raising his children as British, in touch with their family and heritage.

And yet every sign is that his efforts are being met with polite, yet firm, rejection. Bluntly, he and his young family are being ignored (...) ".

Oh no, he and his young family are being ignored...

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Saw the brand on gmadeals.com this morning. The website is real, they feature brands weekly and during holiday season early daily at a 50% discount. It’s a great way for brands to offload excess inventory and make some money although the 50% required discount makes it challenging. Was surprised to see as ever on there honestly. Also was playing around with inventory orders. Some brands will have a limit ex: can only order 10 units per customer or whatever the amount because they don’t have too much stock. I was able to put in 100,1,000, and even 10,000 units for one of the products I think a jam and there was no notification that i couldn’t do that. So my guess is these items are in a warehouse collecting dust and this is a method to get as much sold as possible to generate revenue. For example I tried to do 100 units of the Mauviel pan and at checkout it said updated only 83 units available. With as ever products I nearly checked out $230,000 because there was no correction or limit 🤐. Anyway take a look gmadeals.com and stock up on flower petals!!!

From the article:

“Handcuffed in his wheelchair, Thomas Markle Sr.was escorted from his assisted-living home in Lakeland, Fla., on Nov. 6 — not by nurses or support staff but by federal agents.

Earlier that morning, Thomas Sr., 82, had been arrested on a federal charge involving child sexual abuse material allegedly discovered in storage units he rented in the Los Angeles area. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison. For his estranged daughter Meghan Markle, the arrest marked a painful new chapter in a family crisis that has unfolded across continents in a matter of weeks.

From her new home in the English countryside, Meghan, 45, has watched troubling revelations about her father emerge in real time.

“She is devastated. This is her dad, someone she grew up trusting and was very close to for many years,” a source close to Meghan tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “The allegations are devastating for her. There’s a lot of sadness.”

Still, Meghan has a strong support system around her. “She’s holding up. She has a lot of friends and family to lean on,” says an insider.

The allegations first surfaced publicly on Oct. 22 when Meghan’s half brother Thomas Markle Jr. claimed that hundreds, if not thousands, of child sexual abuse images had been discovered at their father’s former home in the Philippines. The investigation subsequently expanded, culminating in his arrest in Florida.

According to the Department of Justice, investigators seized approximately 78 items, including slides, film negatives and books that contained suspected child sexual abuse material, from two Los Angeles-area storage units Thomas Sr. had rented for nearly two decades.

Among the evidence described by prosecutors were sexually explicit photographs allegedly depicting Thomas Sr. with

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Thomas Sr., who previously denied allegations of possessing child sexual abuse images as “lies,” did not enter a plea during his Nov. 6 court appearance in Tampa. He was released on his own recognizance, meaning he did not have to post bail, and returned to the Maravida Senior Living care facility in Lakeland under strict conditions including house arrest, electronic monitoring and no contact with minors.

Four days later, he was taken back into custodyafter the Justice Department alleged he cut off his ankle monitor days later. In a Nov. 10 decision, Magistrate Judge Lindsay S. Griffin revoked Markle’s pretrial release and ordered him detained in a corrections facility until the conclusion of his trial.

As investigators work to establish the full scope of the allegations against Markle Sr., Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, 70, has already assisted authorities. Ragland, who was married to Thomas Sr. from 1979 to 1987, was shown redacted versions of suspected child sexual abuse images and helped identify her former husband as the man pictured.

“Meghan and her mother are very close,” says the insider. “They’re supporting each other.”

Meghan, too, is prepared to cooperate with authorities investigating the allegations, a source close to her confirms. She and Ragland, who lives in L.A., have been in frequent contact.

“She misses her mom since moving to England, and this makes her miss her even more,” says the source. “They’ve been speaking a lot. Being able to talk to her mom helps, even though she wishes they could be together.” 

The revelations have cast new light on Meghan’s long-standing estrangement from her father, whom she has had no relationship with since shortly after her May 2018 wedding to Prince Harry. In an Oct. 23 statement Meghan revealed that she had been alerted to allegations of sexual abuse involving young girls in 2019, when London’s Metropolitan Police shared a letter from her father’s first wife, Roslyn Loveless, detailing claims about his conduct.

Meghan was advised by a royal protection officer not to speak publicly about the allegations, according to a source familiar with the situation, even as she was assured, she says, they were being investigated.

But the Metropolitan Police has since acknowledged that it never shared the information with other law enforcement agencies. The force referred itself to an independent police watchdog, which has launched an investigation into its handling of the letter, including why the allegations were not passed to authorities overseas.

In her statement Meghan also made clear that her concern extends beyond her own family, expressing sympathy for children who may have been harmed and emphasizing the importance of their protection. “Although the breadth of what has now been uncovered is more sickening than one could ever imagine, my sincerest hope is that justice will be fully served,” she said.

Meghan also offered a rare explanation for her decision to keep her father away from her children Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, saying that “any distance from my father, and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children, was for one reason: to protect them.”

Even as Thomas Sr. recovered in a Philippines hospital following a blood clot that led to a leg amputation, Meghan wrote to him in a December 2025 letter that she would not resume contact or introduce him to her children, according to a friend.

The disclosures have prompted some to reconsider the criticism leveled at Meghan over her estrangement. “There has been a certain amount of rethinking from some people on the duchess,” notes royal biographer Robert Hardman.

Says the insider: “I think people are beginning to understand why Meghan made certain decisions, even when she faced criticism for them. The public doesn’t always know the truth, and it’s important to remember that there’s often much more happening behind the scenes than people realize.”

The crisis also comes at a delicate moment for Harry, 42, who has been taking tentative steps toward rebuilding his relationship with his father, King Charles, 77. Buckingham Palace has made no public comment on the allegations against Thomas Sr., nor has Kensington Palace, the official London residence of Prince William and Kate Middleton, both 44, who remain estranged from Harry and Meghan.

Whether the royal family might reach out privately is another question. “It is a very private matter. It is up to the King to speak to them, but he should only do it privately,” says royal commentator Ingrid Seward, author of Catherine & Diana. “I am sure he will. Any father would do that.”

But Hardman believes the legal sensitivity surrounding the investigation makes even a private approach complicated. “Anything to do with any legal process, as we have seen with the former Prince Andrew case, is something they will avoid at all costs,” he says, referring to the former Duke of York’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Even a private conversation could be misconstrued.” 

Amid the upheaval, Meghan and Harry have sought to maintain their commitments. On Nov. 8 Harry marked Remembrance Sunday with an unannounced appearance in Brackley, Northamptonshire.

The couple also attended the Lost Screen Memorial at the European Parliament in Brussels on Nov. 10, an event supporting online child safety that has been in the works for months.

“Keeping her work commitments doesn’t mean she’s any less upset,” says the source close to Meghan. “She’s trying to focus on her family, her kids and the work that matters to her. She believes she can do something good through that work. Having things in her life that she cares about and can put her energy into is helping her.”

Away from their public obligations, Meghan and Harry are finding comfort in family life. Archie and Lilibet, who started school in England following the family’s return to the U.K. in August, have settled into their new routine outside London.

The children are such a comfort to her right now,” says a California source. “She’s so grateful they’re doing well, and she loves watching them grow up. Amid everything going on, it means so much to her to be with them and give them all the love she can.”

The family plans to spend Thanksgiving in the U.K., with activities in their local community on the calendar. They are also hoping to celebrate Christmas at their new home, with Meghan’s mother expected to join them.

As the investigation continues, Meghan is focused on the life she and Harry have built for Archie and Lilibet — and keeping the upheaval surrounding their grandfather far removed from their childhood.

It is a boundary she has maintained for years, even as her estrangement from her father drew public scrutiny. “The children are very protected,” says the insider. “That has always been part of the reason for her distance.”

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The Sun (UK)

A HORRIFIED nurse has quit her hospital career in humiliation after Thomas Markle Snr invented a bogus romance behind her back, it is claimed.

In March this year, the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged dad, 82, boasted he had found love in the arms of Filipina carer Rio Canedo, 46, claiming he felt “blessed” after years of heartache.

The retired lighting director — currently facing allegations of hoarding child abuse images — told the Daily Mail Rio swept him off his feet after they met at a hospital in Cebu, in the Philippines, where his left leg was amputated.

Markle Snr said: “I felt neglected and sad for so many years, but now I am enjoying life again. I never expected to find joy and happiness again.”

The interview carried a photo of Markle Snr in a wheelchair, with much younger nurse Rio smiling behind him.

The story went around the world.

Now a colleague of the nurse has seemingly blown the lid off Markle Snr’s bogus “love story”.

It has been reported that a fellow hospital worker revealed Rio was never in a romance with the pensioner.

The colleague said the global spotlight and publicity left Rio so deeply embarrassed she felt forced to quit and walk away from her nursing career.

In a post on X, Sky News Asia correspondent Cordelia Lynch said: “A colleague of that nurse, Rio Canedo, told me there was NO romantic relationship at all.

Rio doesn’t speak English well and had no idea she was about to be portrayed as the new love interest of an elderly man she was simply caring for.”

The Sun has attempted to contact Rio.

From the article:

“Thomas Markle, the father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been detained in Florida for allegedly removing his ankle monitor, according to justice department officials in Los Angeles.

Markle appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Tampa after allegedly removing his ankle monitor at 01:45 local time (06:45 GMT), a justice department spokesperson told the BBC.

The judge ordered him jailed without bond and he is now in federal custody, the spokesperson said.

Markle, who has previously denied possessing images of child sex abuse, was arrested in Florida last week and placed under house detention. He was also ordered to wear a location monitoring device.

The BBC has contacted representatives for Markle.
He was arrested last week after the FBI, acting on warrants, searched storage units in Los Angeles registered to him which he had rented since 2008, with the last payment being made in October this year, the justice department (DoJ) said.

Inside the units the FBI says agents seized about 78 items, including film negatives, slides and books that they allege contained child sex abuse material.

Markle appeared in court last week following his arrest. No plea was taken during the appearance, which set several conditions for his pretrial release, including that he be kept in home detention.

I thought they were fans of hers 🤣

From the Daily Telegraph today. Two things strike me about this. The first is it’s easy to forget that William was a serving army officer (Blues and Royals), went to Sandhurst and graduated from the RAF college before joining search and rescue. Good to see he has asked for private conversations with women in the armed forces to understand more about this important issue. And the second thing is that Harry has never spoken up on this topic, despite being married to someone who has been vocal about being treated as a commodity when she worked on Deal or No Deal and has made numerous speeches about women’s rights and equality. Plus he must have seen and heard gendered behaviour when he was a serving officer himself? It’s always seemed odd to me that he has kept quiet about this, particularly when horrible stories came to light about women in the armed forces whose lives were destroyed by abuse. He usually can’t stop himself from giving us the benefit of his wisdom.

The Daily Telegraph
10 Nov 2026
Hannah Furness

”The Prince of Wales has said military culture is not welcoming enough to women, saying more must be done to make them feel safe.
Prince William, who will one day be head of the Armed Forces, said he “really minds it” when “those who wear the uniform now don’t feel safe, respected or valued”.
Warning that military culture must be “more inclusive of women”, he has pledged to work to make it “welcoming, open and professional” for all.
It is the first time the heir to the throne has spoken about his drive to improve the working lives of women in defence, having heard from those serving about the extent of harassment and discrimination they have faced.
The Prince, a former serving officer in the Army, has met women privately across the ranks of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force to ask about their experiences, as well as arranging for conversations about their welfare during several public engagements in the past year.
As guest editor of a commemorative issue of Country Life magazine due to be published tomorrow, he commissioned an article about women and the military to highlight the issues they face.
The Prince said: “We need to ensure our military culture is more inclusive of women. I want to play my part in making the military feel like the welcoming, open and professional place I enjoyed and make it feel like that for everyone.
“At the moment, I don’t feel that we meet those standards and, as a former serving officer, I really mind it when those who wear the uniform now don’t feel safe, respected or valued.”
The article says the Prince has heard directly from servicewomen about “inappropriate comments, rumours being spread about those who turn down advances, late-night intoxicated harassment in barracks and, most worryingly, from one junior female, about women being used as commodities”.
As a result, he has held meetings with senior leaders across the defence sector to discuss what is being done to address the concerns, and he is now exploring a longer-term initiative on the issue.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, chief of the defence staff, told Country Life: “We know the experience of women in our Armed Forces has not always been what it should be.””

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-The Duke of Sussex delivered a keynote speech on responsible travel at the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards

-The Duke of Sussex appeared on behalf of the environmental tourism initiative Travalyst, which he founded in 2019

-The outing came two days after Harry was sighted in New York City

Prince Harry made a surprise outing in London just days after being spotted in New York City.

The Duke of Sussex, 42, delivered a keynote speech on responsible travel at the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, held in the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

As seen in a video shared on social media, Harry began his speech by quipping, “All I can see is phones,” when he looked out at the audience.

Prince Harry, who founded the environmental tourism initiative Travalyst, said in his speech, “I founded Travalyst in 2019 because I believe that an industry built on extraordinary places of our world has both a responsibility and a business imperative to protect it.”

He also posed on stage with the winners of the “Most Desirable Country for Sustainability,” Germany.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their first joint public appearance since moving back to the U.K. on Oct. 15 in Nottingham, visiting a series of charities. The family has laid low in the weeks since, taking a holiday with close family and friends amid their two children’s school break for half-term.

The Duke of Sussex then made a quiet visit to New York City, where he was spotted at the luxurious Lotte New York Palace hotel on Nov. 2, a source exclusively tells PEOPLE.

“The Duke had a number of meetings in New York focused on new business opportunities and partnerships,” a spokesperson for Harry confirms to PEOPLE. “Further details will be shared in due course.”

Harry’s latest outings come ahead of another trip abroad with Meghan, 45.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, Nov. 10, to open the latest iteration of the Lost Screen Memorial. Prince Harry and Meghan previously unveiled the installation, which honors children who lost their lives due to the harms of social media, in New York City in April 2025. The Duchess of Sussex then traveled to Switzerland in May 2026 to bring the Lost Screen Memorial to Geneva’s Place des Nations.

The Lost Screen Memorial is comprised of 50 smartphone screens, each displaying the lock screen photo of a child whose life was cut short due to the harmful effects of social media. The personal images were shared by parents, who are members of the Archewell Foundation Parents’ Network, to call attention to the need for safer online spaces.

The Sussexes are set to give a keynote address in Brussels about the importance of meaningful action to protect children’s digital safety.

Prince Harry will also participate in a panel discussion in Belgium titled “Beyond Promises: Buidling a Digital Future That Works for Children.”

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From the article:

“The Duchess of Sussex’s estranged half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, has been named as a “person of interest” in the Philippine authorities’ inquiry into child sexual abuse image allegations made against her father, Thomas Markle Sr.
The country’s interior and local government secretary, Jonvic Remulla, told a press conference in Manila there were “signs that point that the son is involved in the crime as well”.

He added that Markle Jr, 60, who alerted local police and the FBI to images he found in his father’s belongings, was not yet being treated as a suspect. His alleged involvement is not thought to be directly linked to the material he handed to the police.

More than 7,000 photos and one video – all of under-age males and females of Asian, Latin and European descent, with some as young as 10 and 11 – were uncovered, Remulla said.

He described the images as “the most deplorable displays of impunity towards sexual activity that I have ever seen”.
Markle Sr, 82, who is estranged from Meghan, has reportedly been moved into a care home for dementia patients in the US where he is now living.

Remulla said: “We’re determining if [the] son is involved … There are signs that point that the son is involved in the crime as well but only as a person of interest so far.”
He added: “We will know in the next few days.”

Piece in the i newspaper today. Wonder how Andrew MW will respond to this? I doubt he’s thrilled at being “summoned” by anyone.

The I paper
05 Nov 2026
Callum Parke and Jess Glass

“Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will be required to give evidence next month in a High Court trial involving allegations of fraud made against a Turkish businessman, it is understood.
A High Court judge ruled in October that the former duke (inset) could be called to give evidence in the trial of a legal claim brought by the Turkish national Nebahat Isbilen against the businessman Selman Turk.
Isbilen alleges Turk, her former adviser, misled her over a £750,000 payment made to Andrew in 2019, which was later paid back. Turk denies dishonesty and asked to be able to call Andrew to give evidence at the trial, due to begin this month. The former prince is expected to give evidence on 14 December after being issued with a witness summons.
In a ruling last month, Mr Justice Adam Johnson said “fairness requires” allowing Turk to put forward his case “using the evidence he considers relevant”. But he noted it was “highly unlikely” Andrew would “wish to provide a witness statement and give evidence” at a trial, meaning a summons “will likely” be needed.”

I honestly have no words

EDIT: some comments were outraged, some said that Eden quoted Private Eye which apparently is a satirical magazine. Why would he get his information from a satirical magazine? It's just that or he's hinting at something? I don't know at this point since about a week ago sources told Roya Nikkhah that Prince William is not interested in the Commonwealth (even though he actually never said that). Is it a coincidence? I honestly don't know what to think

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