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A peace summit held with senior aides of King Charles and Prince Harry’s is said to be a “significant” step in reuniting the feuding father and son, sources have claimed

So called ‘peace talks’ were held between aides of Prince Harry and King Charles

Prince Harry has opened the door to a possible reconciliation with his father after senior aides for the Duke of Sussex held private talks with King Charles’s most trusted adviser.

Two of Harry’s top staff – Meredith Maines, his chief of staff in Montecito, and Liam Maguire, who runs the Sussexes’ UK PR operation – were spotted meeting with Tobyn Andreae, the King’s communications secretary, for drinks at the Royal Over-Seas League in London last week.

Sources close to the Palace were quick to stress there was “no formal agenda, just casual drinks”. But royal watchers believe the meeting could be the first step towards repairing the rift between Harry and his family after years of tension.

They are said to have discussed how to end the conflict, and matters like not trying to steal the spotlight with schedule clashes. However, a return to royal life for Harry was reportedly not touched on.

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A meeting between King Charles and Prince Harry's secret aides have sparked rumours of an end to their feud

King Charles is said to want to move forward with his youngest son(Image: Getty Images)

A source told The Sun: “The meeting was with Harry’s blessing,” while Buckingham Palace is said to have agreed to the get-together within the last two weeks. Harry is next due back in the UK in September for the annual WellChild events, prompting speculation that he and Charles could meet then. So how did the milestone meeting play out and what is the story around it?

Harry’s ‘motive’

The meeting comes amid growing speculation that Harry, 40, is seeking a way to rebuild ties with the monarchy, with cynics accusing him of seeking to ‘replenish his royalness’ because that’s his ‘only real currency’.

“Truth is, if you strip away his royal status there’s not an awful lot left to work with,” said MailOnline columnist Sarah Vine. “Harry hasn’t exactly distinguished himself as a ‘civilian’. Every single project he’s undertaken has been predicated on his titles… It’s a rich resource he has ruthlessly mined, but without contact with the source, the well is beginning to run dry.

“Prince Harry needs to replenish his royalness – and making nice with Pater is the quickest and easiest way of reminding the world of that profitable connection.

Harry’s multi-million-pound deals with Netflix and other platforms have relied heavily on his royal connection. Some insiders believe he now risks losing that relevance if he remains cut off from his family.

William’s role

William is said to be particularly hurt by his younger brother’s actions(Image: Getty Images)

Any reunion would also need to address the deep hurt felt by Prince William and the Princess of Wales.

“The King can’t just allow Harry to waltz back into the fold without acknowledging how destructive and hurtful his behaviour has been towards his brother and his brother’s wife,” Vine added..

However, it has been said that the talks would never have happened without the approval of the Prince of Wales and his wife Kate, although there is reportedly no hope of a reunion between the brothers at this point.

While Prince William’s team were reportedly not invited to the shock summit, experts have revealed the hidden role he will have likely played behind the scenes as the future of the monarchy. They claim that while William is far less inclined to reconcile with his estranged brother, whom he’s reportedly not spoken to in years, the meeting would have never happened without his ‘support and understanding’.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told Mail Online: “The King would never have made these moves without William’s support and understanding. William and Catherine are the future of the monarchy. He has undoubtedly been furious at the way the Sussexes have behaved and undoubtedly regards Harry’s behaviour as treason of a sort. They reportedly have not spoken in over two years.’

And royal author Phil Dampier said: “The King is more anxious to patch things up than William, who I believe will never be close to his brother again.”

Harry’s next move

King Charles, who has only met Harry and Meghan’s youngest child, Princess Lilibet, once, is thought to be keen to see more of his grandchildren. But insiders say any rapprochement will take time and require “genuine commitment” from Harry to mend relations.

A Royal source told the Mirror: “The King has consistently shown he loves both his sons and as he has done in the past is prepared to meet Harry when their diaries allow such an occasion. It’s not unusual for aides from different households to meet, especially when there is a new influx of staff starting their roles, but of course this is a significant moment.

“Senior members of the family have in the past said to Harry that he must both stop his attacks on the family as well as giving endless rounds of broadcast interviews as his only way of communication. If there is a period of calm and reflection on the part of the Duke of Sussex, then there may be a way forward for him to begin along the road of repairing his relationship with his father.”

Harry is due back in the UK on

Leak row

Details of the meeting leaked, with the staff pictured enjoying drinks in the sunshine. Speculation soon started over which camp had leaked the details, with social media suspicion immediately falling on the Sussexes, who have been know to share intimate details of family matters in the past.

Sources close to the Sussexes have since denied that they are to blame, while Buckingham Palace declined to comment when approached by The Telegraph.

Harry and Meghan are said to be frustrated that the story was leaked, and acknowledge that it’s not an ideal start to peace talks.

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July 14, 2025

Buhari: Katsina Govt Declares Monday Work-Free Day

By 234Radio in News, Nigeria News

Many streets in Katsina State look deserted hours after Governor Dikko Radda declared Monday, July 14, 2025 as a work-free day in the state following the death of Nigeria’s former President, Muhammadu Buhari.

Although some students were unaware of the holiday, they were seen returning from their various public and private schools.

During a visit to Modoji, Kwado, Kofar Kaura, Kofar Kwaya and Kambarawa areas of the state, residents were seen in a remorseful and sorrowful mood following the sad news.

The work-free day was made by the Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Faskari, in a statement on Sunday.

Faskari noted that the holiday is intended to enable workers and residents of Buhari’s home state to join the rest of the country in mourning the loss and offering prayers for the late leader.

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The statement noted that Governor Radda expressed profound condolences to the family of the late President, the people of the state, and the entire nation, describing the former President Muhammadu Buhari as a great leader, a hero, a true democrat and a patriotic elder statesman whose life was dedicated to the service of Nigeria.

He prayed to Almighty Allah to grant mercy to the gentle soul of the late President, forgive his shortcomings, and reward his good deeds with Jannatul Firdaus.

July 14, 2025

Boos And Applause For Trump At FIFA Club World Cup Final

By 234Radio in News, sport-news

Donald Trump experienced the agony and the ecstasy of football on Sunday as he was booed at the final of the FIFA Club World Cup — even as he joined in some high-spirited celebrations with champions Chelsea.

The US president was front and centre as the winners took to the stage, grinning broadly in his red tie and clapping and jumping with the players as the jubilant Blues lifted the gleaming trophy, which he had presented to captain Reece James.

But moments earlier, loud booing could be heard among cheers and applause as Trump walked onto the pitch for the presentation with FIFA president Gianni Infantino — before the music in the stadium was turned up.

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(L-R) US First Lady Melania Trump, US President Donald Trump, FIFA President Gianni Infantino and his wife Leena Al Ashqar attend the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 final football match between England’s Chelsea and France’s Paris Saint-Germain at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 13, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Earlier, the Republican billionaire was also applauded as he and First Lady Melania Trump arrived for the match at the MetLife stadium in New Jersey, just outside New York City.

But when a jumbotron screen briefly showed Trump saluting to the US national anthem, yet more boos could be heard in the giant stadium, before the camera quickly cut away.

The scorn did little to dampen the president’s spirits as he handed out trophies to the star players including the Golden Ball for best player to Cole Palmer, followed by handshakes and medals to the defeated Paris Saint-Germain.

He later called the crowd “tremendous.”

US President Donald Trump holds up his fist after attending the award ceremony following the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 final between England’s Chelsea and France’s Paris Saint-Germain at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 13, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

“We had a great time,” he told reporters as he landed at Joint Base Andrews outside the US capital Washington after the match.

The Republican’s appearance at the game also came on the first anniversary of the assassination attempt that he survived at an election rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump has made no secret of his desire to use this year’s club championship and next year’s 2026 World Cup as symbols of the “Golden Age of America” during his second term in the White House.

Next year’s World Cup, the final of which will be held at the same stadium, will coincide with the 250th anniversary of America’s independence.

Trump has even set up a White House task force to ensure next year’s championship — hosted jointly with Canada and Mexico — goes smoothly.

‘He loves it’

FIFA President Gianni Infantino (L) and US President Donald Trump carry the trophy during the award ceremony for the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Champions, following the final football match between England’s Chelsea and France’s Paris Saint-Germain at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 13, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Trump has fostered a close relationship with Infantino, who has been a frequent visitor to the White House.

The president has kept the Club World Cup trophy next to his desk in the Oval Office since the FIFA president dropped by in March.

Infantino, who is no stranger to dealing with hard-nosed world leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin ahead of the 2018 World Cup, thanked Trump for his support on Saturday.

He said Trump had “embraced immediately the importance of the FIFA Club World Cup, and of course of the World Cup next year.”

Infantino also joked that Trump “certainly loves as well the trophy” — whose gold-plated curves match the gilded makeover that the president has given the Oval Office.

But Trump’s fondness of football, or soccer as he would say, is also personal.

The president’s 19-year-old son Barron is a fan, as Infantino pointed out in a press conference at FIFA’s new office in Trump Tower in New York on Saturday.

Asked if Trump liked the game, Infantino replied: “Well I think he does. In his first term as president of the United States, there was a soccer goal in the garden of the White House.

“He then explained to me that his son loved football, and that he loved the game. And of course when you are a parent, you love what your children love, so I think that he loves it.”

As a boarding school student at the New York Military Academy, Trump himself also reportedly played the game for a season.

‘Go home’

US President Donald Trump greets Chelsea’s Ecuadorian midfielder #25 Moises Caicedo during the award ceremony at the end of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 final football match between England’s Chelsea and France’s Paris Saint-Germain at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 13, 2025. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)

But in typical form, Trump has also mixed political controversy with his football fandom.

Hosting Italian side Juventus in the Oval Office in June, he delivered a diatribe on transgender people in sports before asking the players: “Could a woman make your team, fellas?”

Most of the players looked bemused before Juventus general manager Damien Comolli replied: “We have a very good women’s team.”

“He’s being very diplomatic,” said Trump.

Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown — part of his “America First” policy — has meanwhile sparked fears that football fans will be discouraged from coming to the United States for the 2026 World Cup.

July 14, 2025

Australia boy wonder Suaalii carries hopes of a nation on his back

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It was the hit heard round Auld Reekie, a collision so ferocious that it lifted Sione Tuipulotu clean off his feet and left him feeling like somebody had “climbed through my body”.

November 2024 at Murrayfield. Scotland hosting the Wallabies, who had just taken Wales to the cleaners following on from beating England at Twickenham. Shoots of green and gold coming through the weeds of previous regimes. Hope under Joe Schmidt.

Until they got to Scotland, where they got a bit a doing. Revival cancelled, but that collision was quite something.

Tuipulotu, the home nation’s adopted son, versus Australia’s wunderkind – the tall, dark, handsome, athletic, outrageously talented poster boy, the 21-year-old Joseph Suaalii, one of the country’s hottest sporting tickets.

Joseph Suaalii slams into Scotland's Sione Tuipulotu sending him backwards

In the re-telling of the story, the Scot leaves bits out – what did he say to Suaalii as the Wallaby, on just his third cap, stayed down with a damaged wrist after his howitzer, what words did he use that seemed to drive the young man so scatty on the pitch before he had to go off injured?

“I’m not a fan of repeating stuff that’s said,” was how Tuipulotu side-stepped it. And neither, as it turns out, is Suaalii, who spoke to us at lunchtime on Monday in Brisbane at the start of Test week.

Does he remember the contretemps at Murrayfield? Oh yes. Does he wish to elaborate? Oh no.

“There’s been a lot of recounting of that day,” he said. “I feel like there’s been a lot of talk around that moment. At the end of the day, like I said, it’s a game of footy. Whatever’s said on the field stays on the field. I’m ready to go. I’m ready to play. Not too much to say about that.”

He didn’t really need to say a whole lot because, on his face, you could tell that something lingers about that coming-together.

Next time might be this Saturday. There’s a reasonable chance that Suaalii and Tuipulotu might come face-to-face again in the first Test in Brisbane, one with the 13 on his back and the other wearing 12. Different positions but close enough to each other to do damage.

There’s pressure everywhere, of course, but when you scan the internet and find endless commentary about how Suaalii is the “salvation of Australian rugby” then you start to learn about the expectation on this guy’s shoulders.

He’s five games into his Test career, but the eulogies have flown indiscriminately.

The great Tim Horan talks about his size, speed, his talent in the air and his incredible power.

“He tackles like a leaguie [rugby league player], leaps like a basketballer and marks like an AFL player,” Horan said. “The Wallabies need pace, agility and deception with a ‘no backward step’ mentality and he embodies all that.”

Kurtley Beale talks about his aura. Former Sydney Roosters team-mate Victor Radley calls him a “freak”.

The director of rugby at his former school says that at 13, Suaalii was 6ft tall and a man playing against children. He’s 6ft 5in now. A physical specimen on a deal worth a reported A$5m (£2.4m) over three years.

Amid a cross-code bidding war to tempt him away from the NRL, the Australian Rugby Union did not break the bank for Suaalii just to play well for the Waratahs in Super Rugby. His impact has to be way bigger than that, way more profound.

Joseph Suaalii pictured on debut for Sydney Roosters in May 2021, accelerating away from a Brisbane Broncos players who tries to tackle him

So, pressure, yes. But does he feel it? Behind his almost other-worldly mature demeanour, it’s really hard to tell. He’s the most frighteningly-together 21-year-old you’re going to see in rugby for a long, long time.

Family is huge to him, his music is important – he’s in a band called Dreamyourz – and meditation plays a major role in who he is.

He’s a rugby player who has crossed into celebrity. Relationships, public appearances – Suaalii sells. He’s helped drive the sale of tens of thousands of tickets since he moved to rugby union.

So, we get into the Lions Test week with him. Has he seen Henry Pollock’s comments about a targeted 3-0 rout of the Wallabies? “Yeah, I’ve heard about it,” he replied, in a way that suggested he wasn’t a fan of the remark.

“We’re just focused on ourselves, to be honest. We know there’s going to be a lot of talk externally, but our biggest thing going into these big games is just focusing on ourselves and our team-mates.”

The thought of playing the Lions and how it influenced his decision to move from league to union? “That was probably the biggest carrot for myself. I always knew that I wanted to be a part of something so special.”

‘I’m a pretty weird person… a lot of people know that’

Joseph Suaalii breaks through the England defence during Australia's win at Twickenham in November

Suaalii has this pre-match routine which has captured the imagination – walking on the pitch without boots, some meditation, some juggling.

“I’m a pretty weird person,” he said. “I think a lot of people know that. I just like to take in the crowd.

“These are the things you dream about as a kid. My biggest thing is just enjoying every single moment – seeing my family, embracing them, embracing team-mates and just trying to stay in the now.”

And no boots? “I do like to connect with the ground. I don’t want to look too far ahead or look too far back, it’s all about being as present as I can. That’s how I want to play the game of footy. I just try to practice that as much as I can off the field.”

And the juggling? “That’s just hand-eye. Just getting my stuff going. Peripheral vision. You’re going to get all these different pictures on the footy field. It’s just all part of my process leading into the game.”

There was another attempt to get him to revisit Murrayfield but he was steadfast in his resistance.

“I’m not going to speak on it, to be fair,” he added. I’m sure it’s going to be a great challenge and a great battle. I don’t give too much energy to the opposition. I respect the opposition, but at the same time, I’m just focusing on myself and what I can bring.”

Millions of Australians are focusing on what he can bring, too. And they’re hoping it’s the kind of thing that saw the downfall of England in the autumn.

He plays down the pervasive view that he carries the hopes of a nation, but he’ll know that this is his status now, this is what is expected of him. At 21.

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Archive July 14, 2025

Charles and Harry talks in full – Sussex ‘motive’, William’s role and leak mystery

A peace summit held with senior aides of King Charles and Prince Harry’s is said to be a “significant” step in reuniting the feuding father and son, sources have claimed

Harry’s ‘motive’

William’s role

Harry’s next move

Leak row

Buhari: Katsina Govt Declares Monday Work-Free Day

Boos And Applause For Trump At FIFA Club World Cup Final

‘He loves it’

‘Go home’

Australia boy wonder Suaalii carries hopes of a nation on his back

‘I’m a pretty weird person… a lot of people know that’

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The Love Island host’s makeup artist has been dishing out details on the product she used to create Maya Jama’s recent look that was praised for it’s ‘absolutely stunning glow’