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The Duchess of Sussex was accused in October 2018 of forcing two PAs out of Kensington Palace and of being “intent on always having someone in her sights.” The allegation was leaked days before the couple’s Oprah Winfrey interview was due to air in March 2021 and Prince Harry later said he woke to find Meghan “crying into her pillow.” Buckingham Palace launched a review of what took place and found enough evidence of flaws in the system to lead to a change in its internal HR policies....

The Duchess of Sussex will join Barack Obama’s former adviser Valerie Jarrett and Glamour editor Samantha Barry for the When All Women Vote “couch party.” Tomorrow’s event is run by When We All Vote, which Obama co-chairs and helped set up in 2018. Despite its links to the Democratic Party, the group describes itself as a “nonpartisan organization that is on a mission to increase participation in every election.”...

The Duchess of Sussex had worn a $300 14-carat gold chain with an “H” for Harry and an “M” for Meghan, in December 2016. However, she was left “frustrated and emotional” after a phone call with “a senior Kensington Palace aide” in which she was told she should not have worn the jewelery. The revelation comes in the latest serialization of Finding Freedom, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, this time published in People....

Royals at War claims the Duchess of Sussex has “very high standards” from working in Hollywood, resurrecting old stories which saw her nicknamed “Duchess Difficult” in the U.K. press. Authors Dylan Howard and Andy Tillett cite turnover rates among her staff and claim a police protection officer quit her service after Meghan ignored safety advice about going into crowds. The authors quote an unnamed source who told them: “Meghan can be difficult....

The Duchess of Sussex was accused of bullying two PAs out of Kensington Palace in an internal email sent in October 2018. The story only became public two-and-a-half years later in March 2021. The leak came days before Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey was due to be broadcast and earned a strongly worded clapback from Camp Sussex dismissing it as a defamatory “smear.” Valentine Low was the journalist who broke the story in U....

The Duchess of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey she was wrongly blamed for reducing her sister-in-law to tears at a bridesmaid’s dress fitting shortly before the royal wedding, in May 2018. The allegation was first published in U.K. broadsheet The Daily Telegraph in November 2018, before being repeated on the front page of tabloid The Sun. Meghan told CBS “the reverse happened” and in fact she cried. But a new biography, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors, states that “Kate burst into tears....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s second child was born on June 4, with the couple announcing the news two days later. In a trailer for Markle’s upcoming interview with 60 Minutes Australia, he said he did not receive a phone call when the baby was born. “No phone calls, I just heard it on the radio. I’ll be very disappointed that I don’t get to hold my granddaughter,” he said....

The Duchess of Sussex sued the Mail on Sunday after it published a letter she sent her father following the 2018 royal wedding. Meghan begged Thomas Markle to stop talking to the media about her. For months he kept the five-page, handwritten note private. However, in February 2019 a group of her friends spoke anonymously to People defending the duchess against the U.K. media. They mentioned the letter during critical comments about her father....

Speaking on The New York Times podcast Sway with Kara Swisher, Brown stated: “I think in England, where they hate Meghan—they think that I’ve been way too empathetic to Meghan—I understand how she found it so darn difficult and how maddening she found it.” The release of the special episode of Sway coincided with the publication of The Palace Papers in which Brown gives a forensic analysis of the lives of the modern-day members of the house of Windsor, including Meghan and Prince Harry, as well as Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Andrew and Queen Elizabeth II....

Since stepping back as a senior royal, the Duchess of Sussex has backed Black Lives Matter in a move supported by a majority in the country she left behind. Experts have told Newsweek she could not have made her speech while a member of the royal family, suggesting a new, more outspoken era. And some have suggested that a political career could await the duchess as she crafts a new role for herself....

Tom Bower, a biographer who has been vocal in his criticism of Harry and Meghan and who has been called the “Witchfinder General” by the Daily Mail for the excoriating takedowns of his subjects, has caused a media stir in the U.K. with the publication of his book Revenge: Harry, Meghan and the war between the Windsors. Among a number of sensational claims, including that Meghan made sister-in-law Kate Middleton cry at a bridesmaids dress fitting despite telling Oprah Winfrey that the opposite occurred, Bower wrote that Meghan was still living with Vitiello when she was set up on a date with Prince Harry in London in 2016....

The View host and daughter of Senator John McCain was one of a number of conservative figures to express their outrage at the news network for allowing Toobin to return to his on-air role. Toobin was fired by The New Yorker for his conduct during the video call with colleagues in October. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Toobin said in a statement after he was fired in November....

Meghan wore a white top with black trousers which visually echoed an outfit worn by the late Diana, Princess of Wales, during the last portrait sitting before her death in 1997. Famed fashion photographer Mario Testino took the pictures of Diana five months before her death in August 1997. The portraits ran in the July 1997 issue of Vanity Fair alongside a profile with the headline “Diana Reborn.” Diana was preparing to auction her royal wardrobe and donate the proceeds to charity....

Samantha Markle is suing for defamation in part over the Oprah Winfrey interview, but also based on private emails Meghan sent her former Kensington Palace communications secretary. Michael Kump, Meghan’s attorney, has submitted a court filing, seen by Newsweek, giving the green light for the case to proceed without formal, in-person service. Interestingly, he refers to the royal as “Meghan Markle,” as she is publicly known and referred to by many media organizations, including Newsweek....

“I want to take a moment and address Saturday’s successful special ops raid that brought final justice to the leader of the evil terrorist group known as ISIS, and acknowledge the courageous soldiers who carried out this dangerous operation,” Trump said during a visit Wednesday to Joint Base Charleston and an elementary school in Charleston, South Carolina. The first lady added, “Our military has never been stronger or more capable than it is now, and our nation will continue to stand strong in the face of any enemy,” according to the Charleston Post and Courier....

Harrelson joined Trump and Knauss for dinner at Trump Tower in 2002 at the invitation of his friend then-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, whom Trump was trying to convince to be his running mate for the Democratic ticket for the 2004 presidential election. “Now, at a fair table with four people, each person is entitled to 25 percent of the conversation, right? I’d say Melania got about 0.1 percent, maybe,” Harrelson told Esquire for its September issue....

The former First Lady of the United States, 52, opted for a cream-colored, floor-length dress with a simple belt, and wore her hair down in loose waves. Tiffany Trump, 29, is the fourth child of former President Donald Trump and his only child with his second wife, Marla Maples. The former couple were married from 1993 to 1999. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, 76, met Melania while she was working as a model in New York after immigrating to the U....

Bill and Winblad started dating in 1984 and bonded over a mutual interest in science. They remained close after their breakup in 1987, according to Walter Isaacson’s 1997 Time profile on Bill. “Even now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive,” Isaacson wrote in 1997. “Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach....

But it is a death that’s on a steady decline. Deaths from prostate cancer are expected to fall below 29,000 this year, according to the American Cancer Society–down from 31,500 in 2001 and about –35,000 as recently as 1993. (Women’s deaths from breast cancer, by comparison, over the same decade will go from 43,000 to a projected 39,800.) The prostate decrease is a tribute to better diagnosis and treatment; in comparison to lung cancer, for example, the risk factors for prostate cancer are mostly either unknown or unavoidable....

Typically, perimenopause begins around age 45 and can last between two and 10 years. Many people experience a variety of different symptoms during this transitional period, one of which is cramping. This article discusses the various causes of perimenopause and menopause cramps and how they can be treated. Perimenopause and Cramping When cramping occurs during perimenopause, it’s due to changing hormone levels. Prior to the transitional period, the body uses the glands known as prostaglandins to contract the uterus to help shed the uterine lining....