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Prince Harry has ‘two different problems’ that have left him ‘broken’

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Prince Harry appeared ‘distressed’ and ‘broken’ in his latest bombshell BBC interview, claims one expert, who says this is down to having to contend with two different problems

In his bombshell BBC interview, Prince Harry was clearly distressed after losing his legal battle over taxpayer-funded security – and his demeanour has left many people worried about the toll it has taken on him.

But one royal expert who works for Canadian-based CTV News said he has two different problems – and he can’t seem to separate them.

Afua Hagan, Royal Contributor for CTV News, says Prince Harry can’t separate the issues with the Royal Family and his security. “I don’t think he can separate the issues with his family from the issues of security, because it’s all tied up,” he told True Royalty TV.

“It is all the same thing. The reason why he is in the position he is now is because of the family, because he feels that they are instrumental in taking away that security from his nuclear family, from his immediate family.”

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And the royal expert noted that, while it may have been a very emotional interview with the Duke of Sussex, he did make some good points.

“Like you said, Sarah [Hewson], he was clearly broken. He was clearly distressed.

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“You can see the toll that this has taken on him over the past five years, but there was also an element of him saying lots of the quiet parts out loud.

“And maybe he didn’t deliver it in the best way, but he made some very, very good points.”

Hagan’s comments come after Prince Harry’s jaw-dropping interview with the BBC last week, in which he said he couldn’t bring his family to the UK because it wasn’t safe after losing his legal battle.

But he also made a startling claim in relation to the tragic death of his mother, Princess Diana.

Referring to losing his legal challenge for taxpayer-funded security, he said: “I don’t want history to repeat itself – from the disclosure process I’ve discovered that some people want history to repeat itself, which is pretty dark.”

He may not have named names, but there’s little doubt that Harry was talking about the tragic death of his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997 after being chased by paparazzi.

Although he has two different problems—his family and security—the two are hard for him to separate, as the ongoing battle has led to family disagreements. The Duke of Sussex told the BBC that King Charles isn’t talking to him, saying, “He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff.”

However, he did make it clear that despite their differences, he would like to put an end to the drama, especially because of his father’s ill health.

“Life is precious. I don’t know how much longer my father has… but it would be nice to reconcile. I would love reconciliation with my family, there’s no point in continuing to fight anymore.”

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My nephew asks if he will eat meat only in heaven. I struggle to answer

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When on March 2, we heard all crossings into Gaza were closed, we thought it would not last more than two weeks. We really wanted a normal Ramadan where we could invite our surviving relatives for iftar and not worry about what food we could find to break our fast.

But it did not turn out this way. We spent the holy month breaking our fast with canned food.

My family, like most families in Gaza, had not stocked up on food or essentials, as no one expected the crossings to close again, or the famine – or even the war – to return.

In the days after the closure, food and other basic goods disappeared from the markets, and prices skyrocketed. A kilogramme of any vegetable jumped to $8 or more, sugar $22 and baby formula $11. A sack of flour previously costing $8, went up to $50; within two months, it reached $300.

Most people in Gaza could not afford these prices. As a result, families, including my own, began reducing the number of meals they eat, limiting themselves to just breakfast and dinner, and shrinking each person’s portion – half a loaf of bread for breakfast a whole one for dinner. Men, women, elderly people and children would stand in front of bakeries and charity kitchens for hours, in shame and sorrow, just to get a few loaves of bread or a small plate of food. For some families, this would be their only food for the day.

All the residents of central Gaza, where I live, relied on only three bakeries: two in Nuseirat and one in Deir el-Balah.

The crowds at these bakeries were overwhelming, blocking roads and halting movement in the area. Every day, there were cases of fainting and suffocation due to the pushing and shoving. In the end, only a small number of those who waited since morning would get bread.

My father would go to the bakery before sunrise to line up, instead of using what’s left of our flour, because we did not know how long this situation would last. But he would find the line already long, dozens having slept outside the bakery. He would stay until noon, then send my brother to take his place in the line. In the end, they would return with nothing.

On March 31, the World Food Programme announced the closure of all of its bakeries, including the three we could access, due to the depletion of flour and the lack of gas needed to run the ovens. This marked the start of true famine.

Soon, charity kitchens started closing as well because they ran out of food stock. Dozens of them shuttered in the past week alone. People grew even more desperate, many taking to local groups on Facebook or Telegram to beg for anyone to sell them a bag of flour at a reasonable price.

We live in a “lucky” neighbourhood where the kitchen still functions.

My niece Dana, who is eight years old, lines up in front of it every day with her friends, waiting for her turn as if it were a game. If she receives a single scoop of food, she comes back running, feeling very proud of herself. And if her turn doesn’t come before the food runs out, she returns in tears, complaining about how unfair this world is.

One day during Ramadan, a boy, displaced with his family to the al-Mufti School near our home, was so desperately trying to get food that he fell into the pot of hot food the charity kitchen was cooking. He suffered severe burns and later died from them.

The signs of famine began becoming apparent everywhere about a month and a half after the closure of the crossings. We see them in every aspect of our lives – sleeping on an empty stomach, rapid weight loss within, pale faces, weak bodies. Climbing stairs now takes us twice the effort.

It has become easier to get sick and more difficult to recover. My nephews, 18-month-old Musab and two-year-old Mohammed, developed high fever and flu-like symptoms during Ramadan. It took them a whole month to get better because of the lack of food and medicine.

My mother has been suffering from severe vision loss due to complications after eye surgery she had in late February. The malnutrition and the lack of eye drops she needed to recover have made her condition much worse.

I myself have been unwell. I donated blood to al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat just days before the border was closed and this seriously affected my physical health. Now, I suffer from extreme weakness in my body, weight loss and difficulty focusing. When I went to the doctor, he told me to stop eating canned food and to eat more fruit and meat. He knew that what he was saying was impossible to do, but what else could he say?

Perhaps the most difficult part about this situation is having to explain famine to little children. My nieces and nephews cannot stop asking for things to eat that we simply cannot provide. We struggle to convince them that we are not punishing them by hiding food, but that we simply do not have it.

Five-year-old Khaled keeps asking for meat every day while looking at food pictures on his mother’s phone. He stares at the images and asks whether his martyred father gets to eat all this in heaven. Then he asks when his own turn will come, to join his father and eat with him.

We struggle to answer. We tell him to be patient and that his patience will be rewarded.

I feel helpless seeing daily scenes of famine and desperation. I ask myself, how can the world stay silent while seeing children’s bodies go thin and fragile and the sick and injured die slowly?

The occupation uses every method to kill us – by bombing, starvation, or disease. We have been reduced to begging for a piece of bread. The entire world watches and pretends that it cannot even give us that.

Meghan Markle gets her ‘fresh-faced glow’ by using this radiance-enhancing facial set

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If you’re envious of Meghan Markle’s lit-from-within look, she’s shared the exact product she uses to restore her radiance for always glowing skin

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Meghan Markle gets her ‘fresh-faced glow’ by using this radiance-enhancing set(Image: Getty)

Meghan Markle has been sharing details on her favourite fashion buys and beauty products, telling fans where they can shop for the same skincare and makeup. Her enhancing skincare set is no exception, as she shares the exact kit she relies on to get her signature, luminous skin.

Available to shop at Lookfantastic and Victoria Health, Meghan’s go-to Sarah Chapman Radiance Recharge System is a ten-day radiance regimen specifically curated to restore your skin’s natural, youthful glow and promote vital luminosity.

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Meghan uses this Sarah Chapman Radiance Recharge System and it’s on sale now(Image: Victoria Health)

From the London-based facialist and founder of clinic and skincare brand Skinesis, and a good friend of the Duchess, Sarah Chapman’s set helps keep Meghan’s skin looking its best. Meghan likes to use Chapman’s carefully planned ten-day ‘Radiance Recharge System’ ahead of a big event, according to her online Fashion Closet, as it works to restore her fresh-faced glow.

This pro-inspired ten-day radiance recharge system combines a carefully prescribed series of single-dose active skincare shots into four formulas for a comprehensive radiance-boosting programme.

The ten-day programme includes key skincare steps, including a lactic micro peel, a micro-exfoliator that gently resurfaces, smooths, and brightens, and a powerful brightening formula, Radiance C20, which delivers high doses of potent antioxidant vitamin C to boost skin clarity and luminosity.

The set also includes the glow complex C B3, a blend of vitamin C, niacinamide, AHAs, and anti-inflammatory extracts that further boost the radiance regime. The last day of the regime optimises a HA Hydrator NMF, a deeply hydrating, low-molecular-weight hyaluronic formula that visibly plumps and restores a radiant glow.

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Working to revive dull and tired skin, Meghan’s beloved radiance-enhancing set also strives to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while resurfacing the skin and improving its clarity.

Beloved rock star Wilko Johnson ‘speaks from beyond grave’ amid heartbreaking final wish

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The punk genius Wilko Johnson has been seen in a new film shortly before his death talking about his pride over a new play about his life – Wilko: Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll – heading to the West End

DR Feelgood legend Wilko Johnson is heading to the West End…posthumously.

The guitarist, one of the forefathers of punk, died aged 75 in 2022. He once joked he would love to have made opening night of a play about him that was in the works.

Sadly, that was not to be, but he would be thrilled Wilko: Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll is heading to the Leicester Square Theatre. He once told the play’s writer Jonathan Maitland: “I dunno if I will make opening night? I might be brown bread but there is nothing I can do about that – but otherwise I would be there applauding like mad. I just hope you enjoy the show.”

The play has had two well received runs already at the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, East London, last year, and South London’s Southwark Playhouse this spring. It went down a storm with audiences and was snapped up for the West End by theatre bosses.

Unseen footage: Wilko Johnson opens up about his excitement over a play about his life shortly before his death(Image: Daily Mirror)

Producers say the play, which stars Johnson Willis as Wilko, “explores the extraordinary events when [he] was told he had one year to live in 2012” after being diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer.

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It adds: “Refusing all treatment, he decided to spend his last months living meaningfully. Seeing the people, places and things which meant most to him during his life until a miracle happened.”

That miracle came when, against the odds, tests showed the cancer was not as aggressive first thought.

Wilko Johnson
The legendary punk artist died in 2022(Image: Getty Images)

He had the tumour removed and was declared cancer-free. By then he had already gone on a farewell tour and bagged a role as the executioner in Game of Thrones.

Wilko, born John Wilkinson in Canvey Island, Essex, formed pub rock band Dr Feelgood with singer Lee Brilleaux in 1971. Early singles included She Does It Right, Back in the Night and Roxette. Their 1976 live album Stupidity topped the charts.

But in 1977 Johnson left the band after a bustup.

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In 1980 he joined Ian Dury’s band The Blockheads and had a lengthy career touring with the Wilko Johnson Band. His wife Irene died of cancer in 2004. They had two sons. ?

Samie Elishi breaks silence on Sam Thompson romance after steamy snog

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Former Love Island star Samie Elishi has finally opened up about her budding romance with I’m A Celeb winner Sam Thompson and claimed that it’s still ‘early days’

Samie Elishi opens up on new relationship with Sam Thompson(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Gho)

When former Love Island star Samie Elishi was pictured kissing Sam Thompson, the pair quickly hit the headlines. The couple were spotted in an intimate embrace outside the birthday party of Olivia Attwood last week, held at Mayfair’s Bacchanalia. Cupping her face in his hands, the pair appeared oblivious to onlookers as they publicly confirmed their romance.

Now, Samie has finally opened up about the new romance with the ex Made in Chelsea star. The 25-year-old was coy when discussing the potential of her new relationship with Sam, 32. Samie appeared on the podcast Chloe Mediumship and revealed that in past relationships, she always had a negative gut instinct.

Samie Elishi opens up on new relationship with Sam Thompson
Samie Elishi opens up on new relationship with Sam Thompson

She explained: “I’ve had gut feelings with guys before. I’ve had a couple of relationships where I’ve known it was never it. Like this is gonna come to an end, I’ll have something telling me every day it’s coming to an end, this isn’t for you.”

She added: “You put it to the back of your mind and then you start noticing the chaos increase. It’s like the universe saying I’m gonna blow you both up if you just do not separate.”

Samie continued: “Then I’m like if only I listened all those months ago when I got that first message.”

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Chloe then asked if she had the same gut feeling. In response, Samie said: “There’s been no bad stuff at the minute so yeah I suppose it is all positive right now. It’s early days.”

The reality TV star first found fame in 2023 when she appeared on Love Island. She later returned to the All Stars series last year.

Since Sam split with his ex Zara McDermott, the pair started to build a connection via messaging on Instagram before finally meeting in person.

A source told MailOnline: “Sam and Samie are really getting along and if early signs are anything to go by, this could turn into a long-term relationship. It may be early days still, but they do really like each other.”

The added that Sam is already introducing Samie to Chelsea, having taken her to the King’s Road over the Easter weekend.

Sam and Zara ended their relationship four months ago. And within that time, Zara had started a relationship with former One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson.

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Speaking on his podcast with co-host Pete Wicks, he revealed: “I feel like I’m ready to get out there. I feel like I’m at a stage now where I feel confident enough that I can start approaching females.”

He added: “I feel good, things are really really nice at the moment. And I feel like I’m happy. There’s no more brave faces’, causing Pete to proudly declare: ‘Sam’s ready to date!’.”

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US to fast-track investments from Middle East before Trump trip: Report

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United States President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly discussed the possibility of expediting investments by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar before his trip to the region next week.

The early-stage talks were reported first by Bloomberg News. Any such development would require the US government to reform the Committee for Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), an interagency organisation led by the US Department of the Treasury, and which also includes representatives from the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security and State that review foreign real-estate investments to evaluate if any prose a national security risk.

While it is not clear what a reform would entail, the goal would be to fast-track investments from these countries, with whom Trump had fostered a close working relationship during his first term, and bring in billions of dollars into the US economy.

The president might announce more information about the status of the changes and what it entails during his visit, which begins May 13.

Investment surge

Five of the top 10 most active wealth funds come from these three countries. Three of those five funds are in the UAE. In March, UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed met the president and later committed $1.4 trillion in investments to the US over a 10-year period.

The commitment includes investments in sectors such as artificial intelligence, energy, and aluminium manufacturing, including the first new aluminium smelter in the US in 35 years. It also includes a $1.2bn mining partnership with Abu Dhabi-based ADQ, a sovereign wealth fund, and the New York City-based investment firm Orion Resource Partners to mine for “critical minerals” in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The largest segment of the proposed investment is in artificial intelligence. An Abu Dhabi-based investment fund called MGX has promised to invest $100bn in a data centre and energy infrastructure to support AI development in the United States.

In January, in less than a week of Trump taking office, Saudi Arabia pledged to spend $600bn in the US over the next four years. Trump later said at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland, that he pushed the country to invest $1 trillion in the economy. Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have a close relationship, which the two developed during Trump’s first term in office.

Qatar already had a strong investment relationship with the US. In 2015, the Qatar Investment Authority pledged a $35bn investment and opened offices in New York and Washington to facilitate the investments. QIA later committed $45bn in 2019.

Some of QIA’s most notable investments include $200m in EatJust, an alternative meat and egg brand, and major real-estate investments in New York City, including a 10 percent stake in the Empire State Building.

Conflict of interest concerns

Despite no direct involvement of the Trump Organization — the private company housing the Trump family-owned brands, including Trump Hotels and Golf Resorts – Trump’s upcoming trip and the proposed fast-tracking of investments have raised concerns of conflict of interest.

A month after winning the US election, the Trump Organization announced it had leased its brand to two new real estate projects in Saudi Arabia.

The president’s company also has projects and developments in all three of the countries he is set to visit, and that might receive fast-track status for investments.

“This trip, where Trump will meet with foreign officials who have the ability to make decisions affecting his company and business partners, poses enormous conflicts of interest for Trump, whose company is engaged in significantly more foreign business than during his first term”, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington wrote in a note published on Thursday.

On April 30, the Trump Organization, whose real-estate development arm is led by his son Eric, announced a new luxury golf resort in Qatar. Unlike in the first Trump administration, the Trump Organization said in advance of Trump’s inauguration in January that it would not shy away from foreign property investments.