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Prince Harry slams ‘poisonous’ flower crown ‘scandal’ from Meghan Markle wedding

By Kristin Contino
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Harry wrote about the vicious media attacks carried out against his wife, and how a claim by the British paper sensationally accused Markle of putting Charlotte’s life at risk due to having the flower girls wear crowns containing lily of the valley to the couple’s 2018 wedding.

The flower, which can be “potentially poisonous” if ingested by kids, the duke wrote, was included in the adorable white headpieces and is a traditional choice for royal brides to use on their big day; both Princess Diana and Kate Middleton featured the flower in their wedding bouquets.

While it might sound like a scene from “Breaking Bad,” it’s true the flower can be deadly if eaten. However, Harry explained that the chances of fatal harm are slim.

Writing that the reaction to ingesting lily of the valley in most cases is “discomfort,” he shared that “very rarely” would such an incident end in death.

The paper even went on to use a picture of his “poor niece” sneezing, but appearing to be in “agony” alongside one of Markle in her wedding dress appearing serene, “ignoring the imminent death of the little angel.”

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Meghan Markle misled Oprah viewers about Kate Middleton spat, Harry says

By Snejana Farberov
During the Oprah interview in 2021, Meghan Markle said that contrary to tabloids' reports, it was Kate Middleton who made her cry during a spat in 2018.
During the Oprah interview, Meghan Markle said it was Kate Middleton who made her cry during a spat in 2018. AP

Prince Harry exposed in his bombshell memoir how his wife, Meghan Markle, misled viewers in her interview with Oprah by trying to pin a spat over flower girls’ dresses all on Kate Middleton when in reality, she had also upset her royal sister-in-law by commenting on her “baby brain.”

The self-exiled royal writes in his intensely anticipated tell-all, “Spare,” which was leaked Thursday ahead of its official Jan. 10 global release, that Markle told the Princess of Wales that she “must have baby brain because of her hormones.”

When Oprah interviewed Harry and Meghan in 2021, the former “Suits” star accused tabloids of falsely claiming that she made Kate Middleton cry during a spat over flower girl dresses for the Sussexex’s 2018 wedding.

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Taliban calls for Harry to face war crimes

By Lee Brown
Prince Harry (centre back) standing with other soldiers in his battle group in Afghanistan.
Many veterans accused Harry of shaming the military and putting veterans at risk. PA Photos /Landov

The Taliban on Friday called for Prince Harry to face trial for war crimes after he bragged about killing 25 troops in Afghanistan — which former UK military leaders fear could “incite” assassination attempts.

The fundamentalist group’s interior minister, Anas Haqqani, insisted on Twitter that leaked sections of the exiled royal’s memoir, “Spare,” were akin to him confessing to “war crimes.”

“Mr. Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return,” Haqqani wrote of the 25 Taliban troops Harry confessed to killing in a 2012 tour of Afghanistan.

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Harry’s fight with William ‘incredibly emasculating,’ Megyn Kelly says

By Thomas Barrabi
Megyn Kelly Showargued that Harry’s portrayal of the incident failed to jibe with moments of apparent bravado in the memoir.
Megyn Kelly Showargued that Harry’s portrayal of the incident failed to show moments of apparent bravado in the memoir. YouTube/Megyn Kelly

Prince Harry’s claim that his big brother, Prince William, physically attacked him during an argument over Meghan Markle was “incredibly emasculating” for the exiled royal, according to Megyn Kelly.

Kelly unloaded on Prince Harry this week after several bombshell excerpts from his upcoming autobiography, “Spare,” surfaced. In one of the more shocking allegations, Harry claimed to have suffered “scrapes and bruises” after William shoved him to the floor during the fight at his London home in 2019.

“The Megyn Kelly Show” host argued that Harry’s portrayal of the incident glossed over any role he may have played in the fight and failed to jibe with moments of apparent bravado in the memoir — such as his claim to have killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan.

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Internet roasts Prince Harry over ‘frostbitten penis’ reveal

By Ben Cost
Britain's Prince Harry gestures during training with the Walking with the Wounded team as they prepare to set off to walk to the North Pole, on the island of Spitsbergen, situated between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole, on March 31, 2011.
Britain's Prince Harry gestures during training with the Walking with the Wounded team on March 31, 2011. AFP/Getty Images

Prince Harry is being ridiculed online after revealing that he suffered a frostbitten “todger” during a 2011 North Pole trip — which made for a miserable time at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. His frosted phallus fiasco was one of many bombshells broken by Page Six after obtaining a copy of the Duke of Sussex’s much-hyped memoir “Spare” ahead of its official release on Jan. 10.

“Upon arriving home I’d been horrified to discover that my nether regions were frost nipped,” the now-38-year-old ex-royal had described of the shrinkage-inducing saga, which transpired following a 200-mile Arctic charity walk in March 2011. The prince’s penile frostbite was reportedly so bad that he was still reeling while with his older brother at Westminster Abbey on his wedding day on April 29, 2011.

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Meghan Markle asked for ‘guidance’ at Princess Diana’s grave amid backlash

By Brooke Steinberg
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their wedding day.
Prince Harry revealed that Meghan Markle went to his mother’s grave to ask for “clarity and guidance.” Getty Images

Prince Harry revealed in his upcoming memoir that Meghan Markle went to Princess Diana’s grave to ask for “clarity and guidance.”

Writing in his explosive autobiography “Spare” — which was leaked prematurely in stores in Spain — Harry, 38, described Markle’s visit to his late mother’s grave on the 20th anniversary of her death.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex rowed out to the island where his mother was laid to rest at Althorp House in Northamptonshire, where Princess Di grew up.

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Prince Harry says William wanted him to ‘hit him back’ in heated attack

By Lee Brown
William and Harry in rare appearance together after death of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Prince Harry says he saw "red mist" in brother William's face when he battered him. James Whatling / MEGA

The Duke of Sussex is going into yet more detail about getting battered by his brother, Prince William — saying the heir apparent wanted Harry to “hit him back” during the heated confrontation, which brought out a “red mist” of anger in his older sibling’s face.

In a new teaser for his interview with ITV News airing Sunday, Harry dishes about the brawl in which he claims William knocked him to the ground — and Harry valiantly refused to fight back.

It capped a period of mounting tension between the once-close brothers, which Harry blames on William’s hostility toward Meghan Markle.

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Prince Harry says he was ‘probably bigoted’ before dating Meghan Markle

By Elizabeth Karpen
60Minutes/TikTok

Prince Harry admitted to possibly being “bigoted” before his relationship with Meghan Markle began.

In a new clip of his forthcoming interview on “60 Minutes,” the Duke of Sussex acknowledged his own faults while talking about how the British press mistreated his mixed-race wife.

“What Meghan had to go through was similar, in some part, to what Kate [Middleton] and what [Queen] Camilla went through — very different circumstances,” he told host Anderson Cooper.

“But then you add in the race element, which was what the British press jumped on straight away,” Harry, 38, continued. “I went into this incredibly naive. I had no idea the British press was so bigoted. Hell, I was probably bigoted before the relationship with Meghan.”

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Prince William pointed his finger in Meghan Markle’s face during heated spat

By David Propper
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Prince William angrily pointed his finger in Meghan Markle’s face during a tense gathering that also involved their respective spouses, according to Prince Harry’s new memoir.

The confrontation came a month after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex tied the knot in May 2018. William and wife Kate Middleton invited Harry and Markle over for tea that led to an airing of grievances and then the explosive moment, Harry claimed in his new book “Spare.”

At one point, Middleton said she “was owed an apology” from Markle for a comment the former “Suits” star made before the nuptials, Harry wrote.

Middleton claimed she was hurt when Markle teased her that she had “baby brain” after she forgot a detail tied to the rehearsal timing, according to Harry’s book, US Weekly reported. The Princess of Wales gave birth to her youngest child – son Prince Louis – in April 2018.  

Middleton told Markle when her memory slipped during the past conversation, Markle replied then it was an hormonal thing, the book claims.

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King Charles begged William and Harry not to make his ‘final years a misery’

By Elizabeth Karpen
Prince Harry,
The bombshell tell-all book "Spare" -- by Prince Harry (far left), pictured with King Charles III and Prince William -- has been leaked ahead of its Jan. 10 release. Getty Images

Prince Harry got into a “duel” with Prince William and King Charles III about his decision to quit the royal family after Prince Phillip’s funeral in April 2021.

Harry reflected on the “secret meeting” at Frogmore Gardens between the three men as they tried to mend their broken relationship.

However, what was meant to be a productive conversation quickly turned sour as the two brothers started getting “heated,” prompting their father to intervene.

According to the Duke of Sussex, the King begged his sons not to “make [his] final years a misery” as they went back and forth with tempers flaring.

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COLUMN: Prince Harry wrote a bitter revenge memoir, but he’s only stabbed himself

By Dominic Green
"Spare" will be released on Jan. 10.
Prince Harry goes on the attack against brother Prince William and his father Charles III in his memoir "Spare." Getty Images for Global Citizen

Spare us, spare them, and spare yourself, Harry. “Spare,” Prince Harry’s revenge on his family, the media, the horsey older woman who deflowered him in a field behind a busy pub and anyone who has ever treated him as the spare to Prince William’s heir, is literary self-harm. Every time the half-wit prince puts the knife into his brother, the fumbling assassin falls on his own blade. Call it Harry-kiri.

Harry has already rejected his homeland and attacked his people. He has slandered the House of Windsor as institutionally racist. He has, as his Netflix exposé showed, lost his old friends without gaining any new ones. Now he has attacked his father, Charles III, and his brother, Prince William, the future king. There can be no way back from this.

Confucius said, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” One for your enemy and one for yourself. Harry is so busy shoveling on the rage and self-pity, he seems unaware he is burying himself alive.

It’s a grave matter, fighting with your own blood. Your brother is the person most like you in the world. William is the only person who knows what it felt like for Harry to lose his mother, Diana, to walk behind her coffin in front of the world, to go on alone without her and to face the same barrage of flashbulbs in the line of duty.

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Prince Harry reveals last words to Queen after arriving at deathbed too late

By Leah Bitsky
Prince Harry shared a close bond with the late Queen. The pair are pictured here in London in 2015.
Prince Harry shared a close bond with the late Queen. The pair are pictured here in London in 2015. Getty Images

Prince Harry reveals the final words he whispered to his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, upon arriving at her deathbed hours after her passing last September.

In his controversial memoir, “Spare,” Harry says he told his late grandmother in a whisper that he “hoped she would be happy” and that she would be with his grandfather, Prince Philip, who had died a year prior at age 99.

Harry also writes in the book, which comes out Jan. 10, that he told her he “admired her for having fulfilled her duties until the very end,” referencing her attendance at The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations that summer.

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