As an actress, Meghan Markle gave the performance of her life when she spoke to Oprah Winfrey. Whether the royal family will comment publicly on her allegations, I don’t know. There is another very important side to this saga that must be told, however. American audiences—no doubt influenced by supportive messages from Joe Biden and various West Coast celebrities—seem to have had no difficulty in accepting the narrative of victimhood expressed by Meghan and Harry....

The new book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors describes how Prince Harry’s “contempt” for Prince William and Kate Middleton had “some equivalence” with Meghan’s feelings towards her own family, notorious for their hostile interviews. Author Tom Bower wrote Meghan was envious of Kate and hated being compared to her sister-in-law, who “appeared to be perfect.” The book also described how “Charles and perhaps also the Queen” were irritated by Meghan’s excuses for not patching up her fraught relationship with father Thomas Markle....

The Duchess of Sussex had been out of the limelight for months since taking time off following the birth of daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor. Kate Middleton also had a quiet summer, as the royals always do during their summer break at Balmoral in August. However, new photos of both women have come out in September treating fans to a parade of new outfits. Kate Middleton at the James Bond ‘No Time to Die’ Premiere The Duchess of Cambridge lit up the red carpet in a dress by Jenny Packham as she joined Prince William, Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at the James Bond premiere....

When Kate joined the royal family on her marriage to Prince William the fashion press waited with baited breath to see whether she would fill a gap left vacant since Princess Diana’s death 14 years earlier. That of a royal fashion icon. Kate trod carefully in the early years of her marriage in an attempt to remain stylistically neutral. As she developed a confidence in her royal duties however, a greater appreciation for her clothing became apparent....

Finding Freedom was rumoured to have had significant input from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, though their spokesperson denies they contributed to it. It is out in August but has been serialized in The Times and Sunday Times, with a flurry of dramatic claims about life behind palace walls. Authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand reveal the two words Prince William used to describe Meghan which infuriated Harry, and Queen Elizabeth II’s devastation at the way the couple quit royal duties....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left Archie at home as they visited a shop near their Santa Barbara home. A member of their team arranged a quiet time with staff when they would be able to make a discreet visit without being mobbed by fans, according to an employee. They then picked up their favorite of the trees on offer before heading home. In an account confirmed by Newsweek, Twitter user James wrote: “Meghan and Prince Harry came into my work today and we sold them their Christmas Tree....

However, not everything was included in the two-hour interview on Sunday night and Oprah made an appearance on CBS This Morning early on Monday where new footage was exclusively aired. The Queen ghosted the couple In one clip, Prince Harry says his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II ghosted him and his wife for a week as he tried to discuss their plans to leave the royal family. The Duke of Sussex spoke about how the couple flew into Britain in early January last year having been told they were to meet with the queen....

The Duchess of Sussex urged aspiring young women to “craft a world that you know is just and kind” in an impassioned speech for the Girl Up campaign. Her words come less than a year after a tearful interview in which she acknowledged her pain at critical media coverage and said she tried to respond with the British stiff upper lip but could not. Meghan told the 2020 Girl Up Leadership Summit: “There will always be negative voices and sometimes those voices can appear to be outsized, and sometimes they can appear to be painfully loud....

The Duchess of Sussex took her firstborn to meet his great grandmother in May 2019, immediately after the couple introduced a two-day-old Archie to the media. Prince Harry and Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland were with her as they posed for pictures with the queen and Prince Philip. New biography Finding Freedom says Meghan felt proud of the moment because it brought “much-needed visibility around race and inclusion at the heart of the monarchy....

Much of the British media’s attention has been on Prince Harry’s memoir, expected by the end of 2022, amid speculation that it might be critical of the royal family. However, Meghan has a new project in the pipeline too: her Archetypes podcast, which is slated for summer but has yet to drop. On Twitter, fans have been speculating that it could land on Spotify on her birthday, although there has been no official confirmation....

The Duchess of Sussex spoke to Constance Wu, Jenny Slate and Deepika Padukone for an episode of Archetypes that aired Tuesday, titled “The Decoding of Crazy.” Meghan said: “Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called ‘crazy’ or ‘hysterical,’ or what about ’nuts,’ ‘insane,’ ‘out of your mind,’ ‘completely irrational’? Okay, you get the point. “Now, if we were all in the same room and could see each other, I think it would be pretty easy to see just how many of us have our hands up?...

Trump has been an outspoken critic of the Duchess of Sussex since 2019, when he learned that she had said she would move to Canada if he won the 2016 presidential election. “She said she’d move to Canada if you got elected. It turned out she moved to Britain,” Tom Newton Dunn, then the political editor of The Sun, told Trump before his state visit to Britain in 2019....

The Braveheart actor, 65, has been involved in a number of controversies over racist and antisemitic outbursts in the past, with some movie fans believing that he shouldn’t be supported in his career as a result. Gibson confirmed the news of Lethal Weapon 5 at a fan event in London, An Experience with Mel Gibson on Saturday, November 13. The Australian actor has starred in the much-loved action franchise as Martin Riggs alongside Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh since 1988....

Biden issued two executive orders on Thursday requiring vaccination against COVID for federal workers and contractors who work for the federal government. He also asked the Department of Labor to issue an emergency order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested on a weekly basis. However, Biden’s order on federal workers applies to employees of the executive branch. The House of Representatives and the Senate belong to the separate legislative branch, and the courts to the judicial branch of the federal government....

There aren't any talking points to take away from this game. But there is a highlight that will keep this contest relevant for the rest of the season. MORE: CBB coaches then and now | Fab Four Freshman | Grant dismissed from Notre Dame If only college hoops could be like this all the time. You had a over-the-head outlet pass from Michael Dixon, a behind-the-back pass from Geron Johnson, and an alley-oop pass from Chris Crawford to Shaq Goodwin....

The United States will face Canada in a 2010 gold-medal game rematch, and rivals Sweden and Finland will meet in the Sochi Games hockey semifinals on Friday. The NHL and the NHL Players' Association have refused to commit to going to South Korea in 2018, leaving open the possibility that the best hockey players in the world might not play in the Olympics after Sunday's finale. In the meantime, though, the stage is set potentially for a pair of fantastic games at the Bolshoy Ice Dome....

It’s around 5 p.m. on the Clarkston, Mich., stop of the tour, and the dude-heavy audience flocks to Kittie like moths to a pretty purple bug zapper. Tattooed Godsmack fans and longhaired Ozzy worshipers squeeze into the small area around the second stage as singer Morgan Lander greets them with a Kittie hello: “Ready, motherf—–s?!” She unleashes a primal roar while her sister, drummer Mercedes Lander, kicks in a gut-pummeling beat....

The Brake Assist reduces stopping time in a panic. Projectors flood the road with invisible infrared beams, which pick up moving objects even in pitch dark. And the naturally aspirated (nonturbo) 518-horsepower V-8 engine goes from zero to 95kph in four and a half seconds.

In an announcement, the pharmaceutical company said that the vaccine candidates were well tolerated by subjects, but didn’t produce an immune response stronger than what has been reported for people naturally infected with COVID-19 and other vaccines. “We are grateful to our collaborators who worked with us on these vaccine candidates and to the volunteers in the trials,” Dean Y. Li, MD, PhD, president of Merck Research Laboratories, said in the company’s press statement....