Britain’s Prince Andrew has begged his mother, Queen Elizabeth, to allow him to return to royal life and is seeking to reclaim some of the titles and duties stripped from him after revelations about his alleged involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex ring, the UK Telegraph reported on Sunday. …
Read More »Jamaica demands reparations from UK ahead of royal visit – media
Dozens of prominent Jamaicans have officially rejected a visit by Britain’s Prince William and his wife, calling for an apology and reparations for slavery instead. A growing number are considering breaking ties with the monarchy altogether, as fellow Caribbean island nation Barbados did last year, and sources tell UK media …
Read More »Royal backs Djokovic against Australian ‘tyranny’
Prince Philip of Serbia has slammed the ongoing saga involving Novak Djokovic’s apparently doomed attempt to defend his Australian Open title, accusing Australia’s immigration officials of ‘tyranny’. The 39-year-old Philip Karadordevic has added his voice to the chorus of disapproval from Djokovic’s native country after officials from Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s …
Read More »Brits blame ‘Russian submarine’ for Royal Navy ship collision
A towed sonar array of the Royal Navy’s HMS Northumberland was hit by a Russian submarine 13 months ago, the UK Ministry of Defence has claimed, after British media reported the incident was captured by a documentary film crew. “In late 2020, a Russian submarine being tracked by HMS Northumberland …
Read More »Romanov romance: Russia holds first royal marriage in more than a century as relative of murdered tsar ties knot in St. Petersburg
In what is expected to be an elaborate two-day affair, the country’s second city is gearing up to host the wedding of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov and his Italian fiancée, Victoria Bettarini. Last year, Bettarini took the name Victoria Romanovna and converted to the Russian Orthodox Church ahead of …
Read More »HBO’s new series ‘The Prince’ is vicious & derivative, but it deservedly cuts the British royal family down to size
HBO’s new aggressively irreverent animated series ‘The Prince’, which debuted on HBO Max on July 29, sets its comedy sights on the target-rich environment of the British royal family, and relentlessly fires a ferocious fusillade of mockery at the monarchy. The series, which is made up of twelve 13-minute episodes …
Read More »Japan’s PM dismisses claim by royal household chief that emperor is ‘very worried’ about Olympic Games spreading Covid
The prime minister said on Friday that Yasuhiko Nishimura, the head of the Imperial Household Agency, had merely “expressed his own opinion” when he told reporters that Emperor Naruhito was worried that the Tokyo Olympics could spread the coronavirus.Similarly, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said that Nishimura was sharing his …
Read More »Is Royal Academy’s failed bid to cancel ‘transphobic’ artist a welcome turning point in gender debate?
It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to see the snooty Royal Academy squirming after backtracking on its decision to take artist Jess de Wahls’ embroidered, iron-on patches off sale in its gift shop after eight people complained about a historic transphobic blog post. The RA had caved in to …
Read More »Jordan’s former royal court chief & king’s distant relative face decades in prison over plot to ‘destabilize’ monarchy
The public prosecutor of the State Security Court has ratified the charges against the former royal court chief, Bassem Awadallah, and Sherif Hassan Zaid, a distant relative of King Abdullah II, the nation’s state news agency confirmed on Sunday. The two men stand accused of inciting opposition to the nation’s …
Read More »It’s time to defund the British royal family
It’s time to get rid of the royal family. I’m not calling for a Bolshevik-style solution – no one wants to see Prince Charles in a basement in his night dress, but what’s needed is a real solution to the problem of the British class system. It cannot be solved or …
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