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Princess Diana and King Charles‘ marriage was never a fairy tale or any type of great love story. The pair wed in 1981 and a few years after tying the knot, they both engaged in extramarital affairs. Eventually, they agreed to separate in 1992, but that was about all they could agree on as their drama over the next few years was dubbed the “War of Wales.”

Those who worked in the royal household at the time witnessed firsthand how bad things had gotten between them and described working for Charles and Diana as the “job from hell.”

Former aide says Charles would ‘pick up things and launch them at staffers’ Then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana arriving at the Cannes Film Festival | Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images

Major Colin Burgess began working as The Queen Mother’s equerry in 1994 and remembered that Charles didn’t handle the aftermath of...

“How could you?” That’s the question some of the people closest to Prince Harry asked following his and Meghan Markle’s tell-all 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview. The Duke of Sussex shared how he’d responded in his Spare memoir.

Harry’s family friends and a former nanny asked about the Oprah interview

In Spare, Harry revisited the Oprah interview, writing how he’d fielded questions about it from not only some close friends of his but also friends of the royal family.

They included one of Hugh and Emilie van Cutsem’s four sons—elsewhere in the book, Harry recalled how he and Prince William would often spend time with the family on school breaks—and Tiggy Pettifer, he and the now-Prince of Wales’ “favorite” nanny growing up.

“Several close mates and beloved figures in my life,” Harry wrote, “including one of Hugh and Emilie’s sons, Emilie herself, and even Tiggy,...

There are some themes that just work on TV. Grief is one of those.

“Reservation Dogs” and “The Bear,” the first of which wrapped up its third and final season this year and the latter aired its second, began with death. FX’s “Rez Dogs,” which opened with a group of teens mourning their friend Daniel after losing him to suicide, ended with another loss — and another group of pals leaning on one another.

“The Bear,” meanwhile, launched with Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy attempting to move on after his brother’s death. In the second season, he is still coping with the loss as he manages a hectic kitchen.

Loss and mourning always look different, but the emotional theme runs through nearly every category this TV awards season — from dramas such as “Succession” and “Fellow Travelers” to miniseries “Lessons in Chemistry” and comedy “Shrinking.”

One of the biggest examples may be “The Crown,...

These days Prince Harry doesn’t have a good relationship with King Charles III. There’s a lot of blame to go around about why that is. Some believe Harry is still angry that his family didn’t do enough to “protect” him and his wife, Meghan Markle, when they were working royals. However, others think the prince is still bitter that his father cut him off financially after the duke and duchess stepped down and moved to America. On the other side, the king is said to be very upset over the allegations Harry made against the family in his interviews, the Sussexes’ docuseries, and what Harry wrote in his memoir Spare.

But their relationship wasn’t always this way and videos recently posted on social media show how things used to be. One clip that has gone viral shows Charles comforting and whipping his youngest son’s tears after an injury.

King Charles III and Prince Harry may not quite be on their way to reconciling. The king is reportedly eager to hit the “reset button” with his youngest son, the Duke of Sussex. However, it’s said to be a “quid-pro-quo” situation where Harry will have to accept not getting everything he wants.

King Charles doesn’t ‘expect’ an apology from Harry

Ready to dish out apologies isn’t apparently where King Chares stands with Harry at the moment. Speaking to the Daily Beast, a “friend” of King Charles’s said: “It has been reported that Charles wants an apology from Harry, but that’s far from the truth. [Charles] wouldn’t expect that.”

The king, they explained, knows the Windsor family is “a stubborn lot,” and the Duke of Sussex is “no exception.” So it seems, an apology from either King Charles or Harry may not be on the horizon quite yet.

A royal commentator believes Kate Middleton and Prince William may push back at King Charles over their growing list of royal duties. Their response is regarding the one thing the couple places ahead of their responsibilities to the monarchy; parenthood.

Prince George, Prince William, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, and Kate Middleton attend church in April 2023 | Yui Mok/Getty Images Kate Middleton and Prince William may push back at King Charles against royal duties over their children

Royal commentator Daniela Elser claims Kate Middleton and Prince William could push back against some of their growing list of royal duties. Elser believes the Prince and Princess of Wales are putting their children before the crown.

Elser believes King Charles’ slimmed-down monarchy leaves the bulk of formal royal duties to a handful of senior royals. Prince William and Kate Middleton are often called on to represent the crown at formal events.

There are...

King Charles III’s coronation arrives tomorrow (May 6), and networks and streaming services around the world are preparing coverage for the elaborate, generational event at London’s Westminster Abbey.

Millions will watch the pageantry, which is set to cost the British taxpayer at least £100M ($125M) despite several polls showing muted enthusiasm for monarchy both in the UK and abroad. International news channels such as BBC News and CNN will carry coverage but local nets are also clearing schedules ahead of the big day, while in territories such as Hong Kong, pop-up screenings will bring crowds together. The Royal Family’s YouTube channel may also carry the proceedings and SVOD services such as BritBox will stream them in some territories.

In Australia, one of 56 countries where Charles is still monarch through the Commonwealth, most of the main networks will broadcast the event or offer accompanying news coverage. Locally the coronation will take place at 10pm.

Queen Camilla’s son has her back.

The royal’s eldest child, son Tom Parker Bowles, whom she shares with ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, made a rare comment about his mother’s marriage to King Charles ahead of her and the monarch’s May 6 coronation where they will formally be crowned King and Queen.

“I don’t care what anyone says. This wasn’t any sort of end game,” Tom, 48, said while appearing on Thursday’s episode of “The News Agents” podcast. “She married the person she loved and this is what happened.”

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Camilla and Charles met back in 1970 and remained close over the following years, even while Charles was married to Princess Diana, whom he welcomed sons Prince William and Prince Harry with in the early ’80s.

Their romance began as...

Young Camilla Parker Bowles never shied away from her family’s ties to the royal family. Instead, she embraced them. Camilla claimed to be proud her great-grandmother was the king’s lover. After her marriage to King Charles, Camilla called herself “practically royalty” due to her family’s scandalous past.

Camilla Parker Bowles is proud of her family’s long ties to the royal family. | Eddie Mulholland/Wpa Pool/Getty Images Camilla Parker Bowles wasn’t born into a well-to-do family

Camilla Parker-Bowles wasn’t born into a well-to-do family. However, her father, Major Bruce Shand, was Vice Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex. Therefore his lofty position in society afforded young Camilla, an upwardly mobile lifestyle with a group of high-society young women.

As a child, she attended Queen’s Gate School in South Kensington, one of the country’s most prestigious schools. There, she began flaunting her family’s scandalous past,...

Camilla Parker Bowles will be crowned Queen Consort alongside her husband, King Charles III, in May 2023. However, this moment has not come without its challenges. Camilla will make history for this titular moment, but not without a scandalous legacy.

Camilla Parker Bowles and King Charles III will be crowned in May 2023 | Julian Parker/UK Press via Getty Images Camilla’s Relationship with King Charles III evolved from friend to lovers

The relationship between Camilla Parker Bowles and King Charles III began as lovers and later turned into a secret affair. They briefly dated in the early 1970s. However, During Charles’ deployment as a member of the royal navy, Camilla wed Andrew Parker Bowles in February 1973.

In 1981, Charles announced his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer. They wed in July of that year, effectively making Diana Princess of Wales. The pair welcomed Prince William in 1982 and Prince Harry in 1984. By 1986, Charles had...

BBC Chair Richard Sharp has been urged to resign by almost all the plus-1,000 respondents to a staff survey at the corporation as pressure ramps up following the Boris Johnson loan scandal.

The survey, conducted by the National Union of Journalists (Nuj) which represents hundreds of BBC journalists, found 95% thought Sharp should immediately resign. Even more (97%) said revelations over Sharp’s actions and behavior at the time of his appointment and since have caused damage to the BBC’s reputation and 91% said the scandal served to undermine trust in BBC journalism.

Nuj General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet said Sharp has “lost the dressing room.” “Journalists working at the BBC no longer have confidence in their chairman,” she added. “Revelations of Sharp’s role as financial matchmaker for Boris Johnson and his decision to keep his actions under wraps have caused anger and frustration amongst Nuj members.”

Sharp is currently subject to two separate investigations,...

In the wake of Prince Harry‘s big media tour, with the release of the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan and the publication of his (fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time!) book Spare, the public has been wondering if they can expect to hear any response from the palace. Well, according to a new report from The Mirror UK, that time may be upon us. The report maintains the BBC has made an offer to the King for an on-camera interview conducted by Jonathan Dimbleby. Dimbleby was the journalist who helped create Charles: The Private Man, the Public Role, the documentary about Charles’ life that was filmed in the early 1990s. Over 180 hours were shot for the program and Dimbley asked C-3 questions such as “Have you ever been unfaithful to Princess Diana?” An insider tells The Mirror, “Plans are already up and running for coronation coverage at the BBC, including the profile on the monarch.

King Charles III may break his silence regarding his son Prince Harry ahead of Charles’s coronation. To stand united as a family, the king could attempt a reconciliation with his son before formally ascending to the throne. However, if he does open up to the press, his statements could reveal a fresh set of scandals surrounding the British monarchy. Will Charles finally say his peace or remain tight-lipped?

Prince Harry and King Charles III | Loic Venance/Afp via Getty Images Harry made several damming allegations about his father, King Charles III, in ‘Spare’

Prince Harry discussed his feelings regarding King Charles III in his new tell-all, Spare. He put his relationship with his father under a microscope, discussing the good and bad parts of growing up royal.

Harry discussed the day Charles told him his mother, Princess Diana, had died. “He wasn’t great at showing emotions under normal circumstances.

Despite the Royal Family keeping quiet about Prince Harry’s allegations, he revealed in his memoir Spare that some people had criticized him for his decision to speak out.

After his and Meghan Markle’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey aired in March 2021, Harry explained how his former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who looked after Harry and William following their parents’ divorce in 1993 until 1999, was among those to react.

According to the Daily Mail, he said that King Charles’ close friend Emilie van Cutsem and one of her four sons, whom he didn’t name, also commented.

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The Duke wrote: “Several close mates and beloved figures in my life, including one of Hugh [van Cutsem] and Emilie’s sons, Emilie herself, and even Tiggy, had chastised me for Oprah.

“How could you reveal such things? About your family?...

The storylines in the fifth season of The Crown have provoked much backlash, from scenes showing the former Prince Charles trying to force the Queen’s abdication to others suggesting Prince Philip was unfaithful to the late monarch.

Prominent figures, including Judi Dench, have demanded that the drama carry a disclaimer to make clear that the events of the series aren’t entirely factual. While The Crown actor Jonathan Pryce, has called these reactions to the show “hugely disappointing”, claiming that viewers know it’s a drama, not a documentary.

Some of the storylines in season five are pretty close to the truth. Others, not so much.

Here’s a full rundown of what is covered in each episode of The Crown season five, and links to our articles about what’s fact versus what’s fiction in the series.

Episode one: Queen Victoria Syndrome

In the first instalment of the new series,...

Warning: contains spoilers for The Crown season 5.

The Crown and historical accuracy enjoy a fleeting rather than steadfast acquaintance. Peter Morgan’s Netflix drama concertinas history and jumps between time periods to follow emotional and symbolic through-lines rather than sticking to the recorded facts and timelines. “Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization…” goes the proviso at the top of Season Five. School pupils shouldn’t rely on it to do their history homework, is the general consensus.

That established, below is the timeline of the 1991 – 1997 period depicted in Season Five according to the TV drama, with the odd note on where episodes diverge from what we know to be the real-life sequence of events.

As a reminder, Season four covered ‘The Thatcher Years’, running from Margaret Thatcher’s election as prime minister of Great Britain in May 1979 to her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party in November 1990, after...

The storylines in the fifth season of The Crown have provoked much backlash, from scenes showing the former Prince Charles trying to force the Queen’s abdication to others suggesting Prince Philip was unfaithful to the late monarch.

Prominent figures, including Judi Dench, have demanded that the drama carry a disclaimer to make clear that the events of the series aren’t entirely factual. While The Crown actor Jonathan Pryce, has called these reactions to the show “hugely disappointing”, claiming that viewers know it’s a drama, not a documentary.

Some of the storylines in season five are pretty close to the truth. Others, not so much.

Here’s a full rundown of what is covered in each episode of The Crown season five, and links to our articles about what’s fact versus what’s fiction in the series.

Episode one: Queen Victoria Syndrome

In the first instalment of the new series,...

The storylines in the fifth season of The Crown have provoked much backlash, from scenes showing the former Prince Charles trying to force the Queen’s abdication to others suggesting Prince Philip was unfaithful to the late monarch.

Prominent figures, including Judi Dench, have demanded that the drama carry a disclaimer to make clear that the events of the series aren’t entirely factual. The Crown actor Jonathan Pryce, meanwhile, has called these reactions to the show “hugely disappointing”, claiming that viewers know it’s a drama, not a documentary.

Some of the storylines in season five are pretty close to the truth. Others, not so much.

Here’s a full rundown of what will be covered in each episode of The Crown season five, and links to our articles about what’s fact versus what’s fiction in the series.

Episode one: Queen Victoria Syndrome

In the first instalment of the new series,...

Decades before Taylor Swift sang, “Lately she’s been dressing for revenge,” Princess Diana coined the phrase “revenge dress” in 1994 with one show-stopping look. The memorable look is being recreated on season 5 of “The Crown“, and has already been featured in the show’s trailer. But how did the iconic fashion moment come to pass in real life?

The late Princess of Wales was 33 at the time and publicly separated from her husband, Prince Charles. The couple had separated in 1992, but it was two years later when the next in line to the British throne gave an ITN interview with Jonathan Dimbleby in which he confessed to not being faithful to her during their marriage.

Dimbleby asked if Charles tried to be faithful to Diana when they wed and he replied, “Yes, absolutely,” following that response up with, “until it became irretrievably broken down.”

The moment marked the first time...

Netflix has defended “The Crown” as a “fictional dramatization,” after former UK prime minister John Major called the show a “barrel load of nonsense” and railed that its depictions of his time in office were “damaging and malicious fiction.”

The former prime minister’s comments came after the show was accused of fabricating a smear against King Charles, showing him lobbying Major for a secret plot to oust the Queen.

Major’s office told The Mail on Sunday that the meeting never took place.

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“Sir John has not co-operated in any way with The Crown. Nor has he ever been approached by them to fact-check any script material in this or any other series,” read a statement from his office.

“As you will know, discussions between the monarch and prime minister are entirely...

Netflix faces a number of courtly challenges in the next couple of months, as it prepares to debut both the fifth season of The Crown, and a documentary starring the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Season 5 of The Crown is set to launch on November 5, and already there are rumblings by commentators in the UK that it doesn’t feel appropriate to bring the royals’ real-life 1990s troubles to the screen, so soon after Queen Elizabeth’s death in 2022.

Asked about the forthcoming series, Jonathan Dimbleby – one of the UK’s most celebrated broadcasters and a friend of the new King – told the Times: “I don’t have patience with that kind of garbage.”

A biographer of Charles, Sally Bedell Smith, made the point that inaccuracies are more significant now for Charles in his position of monarch. She said: “The show has become a runaway train. But I think it...

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, some of Friday’s 9 (September) TV scheduling has been changed.

The 96 year old monarch died “peacefully” at Balmoral on Thursday afternoon (8 September), according to Buckingham Palace, having spent 70 years as head of state, outlasting her predecessors and overseeing monumental changes in social and political life.

The Queen was Britain’s longest-serving monarch, and her son Charles will be succeeding her as the nation’s new king.

It has been revealed that many channels around the country have changed their schedules following the Her Majesty’s death.

Here’s what we know.

ITV to air Queen Elizabeth II – The Longest Reign at 8.30pm

This tribute will be presented by British presenter Jonathan Dimbleby, charting Her Majesty’s historic 70-year reign. The feature-length documentary will show the role that the Queen played in all areas of her life.

Channel 4 to air Hobby Man at 8pm

In today’s episode,...

Princess Diana’s life and death continue to arouse curiosity and trigger speculation around the world, 25 years after her death in tragic circumstances in Paris.

A new audiobook, ‘Diana – Remembering the Princess’, written by her former bodyguard and brought out as a tribute to the ‘People’s Princess’ on her 25th death anniversary, has breathed fresh life into the controversy over the possibility of Diana’s death being the result of a conspiracy, and how she kept hinting at people who were keen to see that “I was not around”.

Written by Inspector Ken Wharfe, Diana’s police protection officer, and Ros Coward, author of the official book by Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Trust, highlights her initial life, death and what happened after the funeral. It is narrated by Emily Pennant-Rea and Wharfe.

Born on July 1, 1961 at Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, Diana Frances Spencer was the first wife of Charles,...

The royals of The Crown suffer a huge loss in season four with the assassination of Lord Mountbatten, aka "Uncle Dickie," and no one is hit harder than Prince Charles. In real life, as on the show, Charles was particularly close to this uncle of his, and although some of the specific conversations between them were made up for dramatic purposes, their relationship was largely what is shown on screen.

Charles was actually related to Lord Mountbatten through both of his parents, albeit distantly, since the Queen and Prince Philip are distantly related themselves. As a descendant of Queen Victoria, Mountbatten was related to the Queen, whose line descends from Alice's brother, Edward VII. Technically, Mounbatten and the Queen were second cousins, once removed. His relationship through Philip's side of the family is much clearer: Mountbatten was the brother of Princess Alice, Philip's mother, making him Charles's great-uncle.

In Jonathan Dimbleby...

Pulse Films manager of non-scripted television, Roy Ackerman.

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The Australian International Documentary Conference has selected six candidates to take part in the 2016 Access@Aidc Early Career Mentorship Program..

The filmmakers were selected by Pulse Films.(UK) manager of non-scripted television, Roy Ackerman..

The six 2016 participants are: Ben Croker (Wa), Andrea Distefano (Vic), Brietta Hague (Nsw), Mark Harris (Vic), Nicole Miller (Sa), and Joao Dujon Pereira (Vic).

The program is run in collaboration with Pulse films..

The filmmakers will now have the chance to learn directly from established Australian and international industry professionals in exclusive mentorship sessions during Aidc 2016..

One Access participant will also be selected for a four-week paid internship with Pulse Films in London, including return economy airfare and accommodation, with the winner to be announced at Aidc 2016.s Closing Drinks on Wednesday March 2..

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Humans achieved record numbers for Channel 4 on Sunday night (June 14), overnight data reveals.

The new sci-fi series brought in an average audience of 3.45 million (15.6%) at 9pm, with an added 586,000 (3.7%) on +1. This is the highest-rated launch of an original drama series on Channel 4 since records began in 2002.

Earlier, The Secret World of Lego gathered 2.02m (9.6%) at 8pm (460k/2.1% on +1).

BBC One's Countryfile topped the night overall with 5.73m (30.2%) at 7pm, followed by Antiques Roadshow with 5.40m (25.7%) at 8pm and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell with 1.85m (8.4%) at 9pm.

On BBC Two, Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure interested 693k (3.3%) at 8pm, while BBC at War with Jonathan Dimbleby intrigued 1.09m (4.9%) at 9pm. Protect Our Foster Kids educated 701k (4.6%) at 10pm.

ITV's Euro 2016 qualifier coverage scored an average 4.75m (30.4%) from 4.30pm (138k/0.6%). Catchphrase entertained 2.80m (14.6%) at 7.15pm, followed by All-Star Family Fortunes with 3.53m (16.9%) at 8pm (189k/0.9%). Home Fires...

Radio 4 broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has admitted to snorting cocaine. The Any Questions? presenter also confessed that he took cannabis on two separate occasions. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, he said: "I had cannabis twice in my early 20s. And once, in America, at around the same age, I did a line of cocaine. "I sneezed it all over the place much to the dismay of the people around who saw it as this precious substance. It tickled my nose, and (more)...

Working with the founder of WikiLeaks has been like treading on eggshells. But he really has changed the world

I've always wanted a walk-on part in a Hollywood movie, but I don't suppose Steven Spielberg will indulge me. The mogul has bought the film rights to two recent books critical of Julian Assange, both of which provide racy accounts of the difficult relationship between the WikiLeaks founder, his comrades and the newspapers he worked with. Now my role as an alleged "Jewish" conspirator against him may, if I'm lucky, go celluloid.

All this would be entertaining, but for anyone who cares about free expression and freedom of information, the catfight between WikiLeaks and the organisations that were longstanding supporters is a shame. At the risk of sounding pious, it's time to refocus on the big issues.

When Index on Censorship began nearly 40 years ago, the issues were perhaps more black...

“A not very fetching leopard-spot effect.” Video screen shot via City University London. On Thursday, September 30—a month before WikiLeaks released its “Afghanistan War Logs” and two months before it roiled international relations with its “Cablegate” disclosures—I attended a debate at City University London between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and David Aaronvitch, a columnist for The Times of London. The proposition under discussion: “Too much information? Security and censorship in the age of Wikileaks.” The conversation, moderated by Radio 4’s Jonathan Dimbleby, offered a fascinating primer on the dysfunctional relationship between safety and transparency, but I confess that I was really there to take the measure of Assange, 39, the Australian-born muckraker whose exploits have earned him legions of fans—and a growing number of very determined detractors. I wanted to like him but didn't. It may have been because of his hair. Here are my notes from the evening.

Charity football match Soccer Aid 2010 pulled in over 5m on Sunday night. The programme, which was organised by Robbie Williams and featured an England team of celebrities and sportsmen taking on a Rest-Of-The-World side, averaged 5.21m (23.7%) for ITV1 between 6pm and 10.15pm. On Sky1, a double-bill finale of espionage drama 24 attracted respective audiences of 616k (2.5%) and 596k (3.1%) from 9pm. BBC One's coverage of the BAFTA Television Awards 2010 was watched by 4.14m (17.1%) between 8pm and 10pm. Earlier on the channel, Halcyon River Diaries brought in 3.62m (20.2%) in the 7pm hour, followed by Countryfile with 5.07m (23.6%). A repeat of Top Gear averaged 1.6m (6.8%) for BBC Two in the 8pm hour, and An African Journey With Jonathan Dimbleby secured 1.42m (5.7%) from 9pm. Documentary Cameron's Black Tory (more)...

A letter written by Britain's late Princess Diana sold for £640 at auction yesterday (03.03.10). The princess - who died in a car accident along with lover Dodi Fayed in 1997 - penned the letter to her reflexologist in June 1994. It was bought by an anonymous bidder at the Dominic Winter auction, which was held in Gloucestershire. The letter, which was written in the same month her former husband the Prince of Wales spoke about his private life in a television interview with Jonathan Dimbleby, revealed she believed in the healing powers of Feng Shui. In the note she explained that a Feng Shui expert had visited her Kensington Palace home, which had led to her rearranging her bedroom...

TV comedian Rik Mayall will receive an honorary degree at Exeter University this week. Other stars including Sir David Attenborough, Jonathan Dimbleby and author Ken Follett are also being celebrated by the university. Mayall will be given his honorary doctorate (more)...