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A private conversation between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has been decoded by lip readers – and they claim it gives a telling insight on their plot to quit the Royal Family

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sent shockwaves around the world exactly six years ago when they dramatically announced they were quitting their royal roles. But it seems one telling comment between the couple has led experts to believe they had been plotting their departure from the Royal Family years before they relocated to California.

The seemingly confidential conversation occurred between the Sussexes at a Service of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in 2018, just six months after their star-studded wedding in Windsor Castle. The couple was joined in the Abbey by the entire Frim, including the late Queen Elizabeth to honour fallen servicemen and women, and to mark the Centenary of the Armistice.

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According to the Channel 5 documentary, Lip-Reading The Royals: The Secret Conversations, as Harry and Meghan sat and waited for the ceremony to begin, they started conversing and taking in the situation, with Meghan asking Harry a very serious question.

Lip reading expert Nicola Hickling decoded the conversation for the programme, as she claimed Meghan instructed Harry to “take advantage of the situation”, before she turned to look around at the sea of royals that surrounded them.

She says Harry responded to her comment by asking: “Today?”, as Meghan added: “Do it tonight.” Then, Harry poses a question to Meghan, asking: “You do realise that this is the end?” as Meghan responds: “Yeah, I do know”.

It is then suggested by royal historian Dr Tessa Dunlop that the seemingly private comments between the Sussexes could mean that the couple had been plotting their dramatic exit from the royal family years before they actually decided to call it quits.

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Despite having the cryptic conversation at the end of 2018, their first child Prince Archie was born just six months later, as they remained in senior working royal positions for a further eight months after becoming parents.

The Sussexes announced their departure from the royal family in January 2020, sharing a statement on Instagram that they would be “taking a step back” as senior working royals, adding that they would “plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America”.

Their statement also said that by leaving the royal family and relocating to California, it would give them the opportunity to raise their son Archie “with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter.”

Previously, in the couple’s controversial new Netflix show, Harry admitted they had been planning the shock move away from the UK for “a minimum of two years”.

In 2018, Harry claims they discussed moving to New Zealand or South Africa – and almost did move to South Africa before the story was leaked to the press. But Harry says they were forced to scrap the plan as it became a “public debate”, so they desperately looked to find a new home while temporarily living in Canada in January 2020.

Queen Camilla is marking the fifth anniversary of her Reading Room book club charity, which she initially founded in lockdown, with a new drive to encourage people to get into books

The Queen has described her mission to get people reading as “more urgent than ever” as reading rates are at their “very lowest”. Camilla founded The Reading Room book club charity in lockdown, and as it marks the fifth anniversary, it has reached a community of 186,000 book lovers in more than 180 countries.

However, the 78-year-old has warned that with global reading rates plummeting, the aim of her charity to get people into books has never been more important. Currently, only one in two adults in the UK reads a book in a year, while 46 per cent of people say they struggle to finish one due to distractions around them.

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The Queen’s Reading Room’s motto for its milestone year is “Make Room for Reading”, and its new drive is to encourage people to find easy ways of fitting in five minutes of reading a day – just like getting in 10,000 daily steps or five portions of fruit and vegetables.

It comes as the charity says neuroscience research showed that just five minutes reading a work of fiction can immediately reduce stress by nearly 20 per cent, improve concentration and focus by as much as 11 per cent, and reduce feelings of loneliness.

Camilla said: “Five years ago, I founded a book club in lockdown, in the hope that others might derive as much enjoyment from good literature as I do. Since those humble beginnings, that book club has grown into a global charity, supporting a community of book lovers, united by a shared belief in the power of reading.

“I am so proud of what my charity has achieved, reaching millions of people, staging remarkable events and partnering with incredible organisations to bring books to people who need them most. Its groundbreaking research has confirmed what many of us always felt: reading truly changes how we perceive, how we think and how we connect.

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“At a time when global reading rates are at their very lowest, my charity’s mission feels more urgent than ever. Books do make life better, and this is only the beginning.”

The book project started life when Camilla shared a list of nine of her favourite books, which she previously described as being “literally scribbled on a piece of paper during the first lockdown” in 2020. Her Reading Room book club officially launched on Instagram in January 2021, serving as a community space for book lovers and featuring Camilla’s recommendations and interviews with authors.

The Queen has personally recommended 76 books over the past five years, while the King, the Princess of Wales and Queen Mathilde of the Belgians have all contributed their own selections, and more than 120 authors have recommended their favourite reads.

In 2023, the book club became The Queen’s Reading Room charity and has gone on to host an annual literary festival, launch a podcast and introduce The Queen’s Reading Room Medal to celebrate unsung local heroes who champion reading, with the first recipient due to be unveiled in the spring.

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The charity has also donated more than 2,300 books to 11 grassroots locations, including 1,400 to inpatients at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, as well as supporting reading groups at St Mungo’s homeless shelters and working with domestic violence refuges.

The Reading Room’s chief executive, Vicki Perrin, praised Camilla for bringing her “special magic” to the organisation and said the Queen very much still personally chooses its books.

She said: “She founded the charity. It’s very much her baby… She still chooses all of the books that are featured on the book club, and is by far the most well-read person I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet.

“Often, when I go in to see her, the defining image of Her Majesty is in her armchair with piles and piles of books on the side table and on the floor by her feet, and she’s talking about this latest one that she’s read, and she’s got a proof of a new book that’s coming out, and that she’s really enjoying.”

Ms Perrin described current reading levels as a crisis and said the charity was “deeply concerned” about the falling rates among children. The National Literacy Trust, of which Camilla is patron, reported that just one in three children and young people aged eight to 18 in the UK said they enjoyed reading in 2025 – the lowest level since the question was first asked in 2005.

Ms Perrin said: “We, as a charity, are obviously deeply concerned about the falling reading rates among children, just as we are among adults.”

Brig Brother’s Henry Southan revealed on Instagram that he was targeted by a masked phone thief during a store robbery that took place while he was trying to upgrade his phone

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Big Brother star Henry Southan has revealed that he was targeted by masked phone thief in a shocking incident. The 27 year old took to Instagram to share that a masked man tried to steal his phone right in front of him – only to find he’d taken nothing but an empty box.

Via his Instagram Stories, Henry told his followers how he had gone to an O2 shop to upgrade his phone when the thief came in. He said the camera: “Guys, little story time, I just upgraded my phone, I’ve been in O2 like all day.

“I was doing the transfer from my old phone to the new phone in store, and this masked man came into the shop and grabbed the empty box that my new phone was in and he ran out.”

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He added that he was embarrassed for the “s*** thief”. “I felt such second-hand embarrassment for him, imagine, he’s just gonna see it’s an empty box, what a s**t thief he is.”

Henry continued to say there was another person there who called his accomplice an “idiot”. He said: “His accomplice, there was another guy in there, he was like “oh you idiot”, you just couldn’t write it. I got the ick to be honest, I was like babe you could have pulled that off a bit better couldn’t you.”

This came not long after another star of the small screen, Bridgerton’s Genevieve Chenneour, said she no longer feels safe in London after being targeted by another phone thief. Back in February 2025, Genevieve was walking her dog with her boyfriend when the thief targeted her. The two managed to drag the thief to the floor before he could take off with her phone.

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The actress told LBC that she moved out of London following the incident. She said: “The level of anxiety putting myself even in a public space now is pretty awful. I’ve left London.

“I don’t feel comfortable living in London at the moment. Had this happened two years earlier, when I was just getting my career going, this could have been the end of my career, because you have to be in town for meetings and available all the time.

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Appearing on Magic Radio, actress Rosamund Pike also shared her experiences with a phone thief. The Pride & Prejudice star admitted the crime, which happened in 2006, was “15 minutes” of hell. “I was on the phone to my mother — on a mobile phone walking along a road — and I was mugged,” she said.

“The phone was snatched so all she heard was me scream and a thud and the phone went dead.” She added that the mugger punched her on the side of her cheek as they took her phone.

A slew of celebrities are set to join Olivia Attwood for her docuseries Getting Filthy Rich to reveal how much making content for subscription site OnlyFans can make

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Katie Price, Kerry Katona and a few other celebrities are set to expose just how much you can make from OnlyFans content can add to your bank account in a new edition of Olivia Attwood’s Getting Filthy Rich.

Katie and Kerry, fresh off a national tour together, will be joined by TOWIE’s Lauren Goodger and Love Island’s Hannah Elizabeth. They are said to be going on the show to reveal their motivations for creating content on OnlyFans, what their experience has been like and the eye-popping amount of money they’ve earned from their content.

OnlyFans is a subscription based platform, where users must pay to see content. Though it is not exclusively for X-rated content, it is often used for adult and sexually explicit content.

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A source told The Sun that while Olivia’s docuseries has often looked into ordinary people and the “extraordinary” ways they make their money, particularly through “extreme acts in the sex industry”, she will now look at celebrities working in and around that field.

The source said: “It is increasingly hard to ignore the new phenomenon of celebrities earning a crust by going X-rated. Olivia saw this as an essential topic and was so thrilled by the brilliant women prepared to bare all.”

Olivia is also set to look at foot fetishes and how strong women use their muscles to make money. In another episode, she’ll focus on ‘rage bait’, where content creators purposefully make videos that would anger people for money.

Kerry Katona has recently admitted that while she does not want her children to do OnlyFans, she finds it empowering. “For me, this is all about women celebrating themselves and their sexuality without shame,” she wrote in her column.

“This is not just about young people. I get that some have a bad opinion about it – but I’m a grown-up and it’s my choice. Would I want my kids to do it? Absolutely not, haha!”

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She added that she was prepared to be making content from the platform until she was 101. She wrote: “I’m gonna get to 101. I’m going to be in my rocking chair, looking as glamorous as anything, still doing Only Fans, putting my big fat fingers up to all the women who hate me!”

This came a year after Kerry hit back at those criticising her decision to join the platform. She insisted that what she does is no different to what actors filming sex scenes do.

Speaking on the Straight To The Comments! podcast, she said: “A lot of it is smoke and mirrors, I’m not doing anything that you’ve not seen on the big screen when you go to the cinema, when you look at Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise dry riding or Natalie Portman f***** blasting herself in Black Swan, getting awards, being paid millions.

“Kerry Katona gets her nipples out and it’s ‘get those kids in foster home, those f**king kids, get them off her. She deserves to be in f***ing jail’,” she added.

Pulling into Grantchester in a racy red Triumph sports car, dishy vicar Rev Alphy Kottaram displayed decidedly un-Christian behaviour by punching DI Georgie Keating on the nose

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Wincing, as he recalls the moment he assaulted his co-star Robson Green, actor Rishi Nair says: “I was so nervous being the new kid. My first scene was punching Robson in the face and I was like ‘don’t break his nose as I will get my P45.’

“It was scary when I first joined, as they were already in season nine. You get the job and you are super excited and happy and then you think ‘oh God, don’t cancel this show after one season’.

Fortunately, Robson’s face remained intact and so did Rishi’s contract, with the 10th and penultimate series of the show airing its first episode tonight on ITV1 at 9pm.

Joining the show in 2024, former Hollyoaks star Rishi’s violent encounter came when Robson mistook him for a burglar at the Grantchester vicarage. But, in real life, Rishi, 34, says the two men – who solve weekly whodunnits together – are firm friends.

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He says: “When I joined the show there was a chemistry check. But we both love football. Robson supports Newcastle United and I support manchester-united-fc>Manchester United. When I first came in to do the chemistry check I was like ‘don’t mess this up’. But when Robson saw me he gave me a big hug and I felt so relaxed. We just started talking about football for 15 minutes. Within that 15 minutes we had great chemistry. It helped me do the best job I could.”

As Grantchester’s third priest, following in the dog collar of James Norton and Tom Brittney, Rishi laughs recalling how the producer asked him to go shirtless in an early scene, while she was passing him a plate of cake. He says: “That is true. She said ‘maybe in two weeks time?’ And I was like ‘maybe not after the cake!’”

The coveted role means Rishi is now recognised by fans in the street. He says: “I tell them if they want to kind of tell me all their sins, ‘I’m all ears.’ So I’ve heard some stories told to me, but I’m not sure I should probably repeat those.”

Series 10 of Grantchester, which is also broadcast in America on the PBS channel, kicked off on Wednesday night, with the DI and the priest faced with the murder of an old soldier at their local village fair. But Rishi says Dickens, the black Labrador retriever dog, is the real star of the show. He says: “The days when Dickens was on set were my favourite. He just brings so much joy.

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“I was in awe of Dickens, because this guy can literally just hit marks, and he knows when to leave the scene, when to come onto the scene. I remember thinking ‘man, this guy’s a better actor than I am’. This is incredible. Dickens just lights up the room when he comes in. No-one wants to work when Dickens is there, because everyone just wants to play with him.”

Grantchester has also highlighted some important issues regarding race, as Rishi plays an Indian vicar living in the mainly white Cambridgeshire community. When the London born actor joined, it was meant to be set in 1961. He says: “When Alphy first arrived in Grantchester, there’s this beautiful scene when he walks into a pub and everyone just stops drinking and they go silent and turn their heads.

“And his first response is, ‘Can I buy anyone a drink?’ He knows what people’s expectations are going to be of him when they see him and see this brown face. But he’s trying to kind of change their minds and trying to do it in a pleasant way and killing them with kindness. For me as an actor, I think it was important to show that is what life would be like. It would be wrong for me to walk into the pub and everyone be my best mate, as that is not what life would have been like in that period. Grantchester is a very white British town. Even today, it’s a bit like that. So I think he [the vicar] knows what he’s coming into and he kind of just approaches everything head on, full throttle.”

Rishi says playing the vicar in scenes set in the 1960s reminded him of stories his grandmother told him about what life was like when she first came to England. He says: “You were just suddenly in this country. You’re a brown woman and there’s just white people and you can’t speak the language. Like, what must have that been like?”

Grantchester has been an invaluable experience for Rishi, who will always be grateful for the prime time TV exposure it has given him. He says: “I just remember growing up as a kid, I loved watching movies, and every time, you know, you would kind of see the lead man on screen and I would always just think, ‘I would love to do that, I would love that to be me.’

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“When I was at sixth form college and was about 16 I had to decide what I wanted to do. I used to always love doing drama at school. It kind of felt like a bit of a cheat subject. I was like, ‘how is this on a par with like chemistry and maths?’ And then when I kind of got older and realised people do make a career out of this, I was like, ‘I would love to give that a go.’

“But I was also very conscious that the people that I was seeing on screen that were playing these lead actors that I wanted to be like, none of them looked like me. So I knew that me wanting to do this was a really high risk move. I mean, it’s a high risk move for anyone.”

The risk definitely paid off and Rishi is now looking forward to appearing in a new TV series based on the musical comedy film Bonny Chip. He will be starring alongside Rosie Fox and Deborah Jameson, in the story that follows the plight of a single mother and her pals in Northumberland, who are out to save their local chippy from a property developer.

The makers of Grantchester have expressed their openness to cut a deal with Netflix if the streaming giant wants to buy the show beyond its 2027 contract. It would certainly be a happy place to return to for Rishi, if the suggestion is taken up. He says: “I have loved Grantchester. I will miss sitting with Robson at 6.30am. That is what I am going to miss the most. Grantchester has been a family to me.

“Like anything in life, it’s the people that make it. And being on Grantchester, the group of people, the cast, the crew, all the producers, everything, made it such a lovely, family-orientated kind of working style, which was really lovely.”