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The choice of interviewer makes a lot of sense; Cooper is a veteran (like Harry) and has also won praise for helping break the taboo around suicide, speaking out about mental health issues. He has disclosed that his brother took his own life in 1988.
Harry’s book is due to be published two days later on January 10.
Anderson Cooper attends CNN Heroes at the American Museum of Natural History on December 08, 2019 in New York City.
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A television source told the Mail On Sunday: “Mr. Cooper has won Harry’s trust. This would be a coup for Mr. Cooper and fits well with Harry’s campaign to promote mental health.”
While there has been a general sense of relief at the palace that the Netflix documentary appears to have not damaged the royals, there is greater anxiety that Harry’s memoir could yet make damaging revelations.
In 2018, Cooper said: “I was at the royal wedding, covering it for CNN. Our correspondent Max Foster said, ‘You should wave at Harry because Harry is going to look up at the bright lights and I bet he’ll wave at you.’ The carriage makes a turn. I start waving. Harry looks up at the tower, we make eye contact and he waves. I almost died.”
“Megxit” reportedly damaged Queen’s health
The stress of Harry and Meghan leaving the royal family had a “detrimental effect” on the late queen’s health, a “well-placed source” tells the Mail on Sunday.
The source says the queen’s health was already declining “for reasons that had nothing to do with Megxit,” but added: ‘It really affected the Queen’s health. It had a detrimental effect on her health. Yes she was elderly and there were other issues with that but nevertheless all the Harry and Meghan claims certainly contributed to that. I’m just so glad the queen isn’t around to hear all about this latest program. It is the very opposite to duty, unity and sacrifice—everything that she was brought up to believe in and which she embodied.”
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Jeremy Clarkson pens extreme attack on Meghan Markle
British outrage specialist Jeremy Clarkson has penned a vicious, misogynistic column for the Sun (unlinked to here) about his hatred for Meghan Markle.
“At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her,” he wrote in one of the more insane passages.
Jeremy Clarkson seen leaving his West London home on March 16, 2015 in London, England.
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There has been much condemnation of Clarkson’s comments, which appear to be a riff off a Game of Thrones scene—which was itself deeply misogynistic.
Clarkson has a penchant for inciting controversy, but the decision of the Sun to publish a column inciting violence against women is yet more grist for Meghan and Harry to make their case about the disgusting extent of the abuse she has suffered at the hands of the British media.
As biographer Omid Scobie was quick to point out, Clarkson was at lunch earlier this week with a famed domestic violence campaigner named…Camilla Parker Bowles.
Royal friends gather with William at ex Rose Farquhar’s wedding
Prince William brushed off the troubles of the week by attending the wedding of his old girlfriend Rose Farquhar, Saturday. Attired in classic black tie, the Prince of Wales “looked relaxed,” the Mirror said, as he arrived at the snow-dusted nuptials, not far from his father’s home in Gloucestershire.
Rose wore a stunning satin wedding dress with a luxurious fur collar to keep out the winter chill for her marriage to George Gemmel, the heir to a construction fortune.
Rose dated William in 2000, the two having met at the Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire, the Mail says, adding they were once “caught by a farmer canoodling in a field.”
Of yesterday’s nuptials, the Mail reported: “Things almost went awry when their wedding car broke down en route, but Rose and her father Captain Ian Farquhar managed to arrive on time in an Audi instead.”
The Mail adds that Ian was formerly equerry to the Queen Mother and “was once arrested for crashing his car as he left the wedding of Princess Margaret’s son Earl Snowdon.”
Another William ex, Olivia Hunt, was also present as was Harry’s old friend Tom ‘Skippy’ Inskip, who is understood to have been excised from Harry’s inner circle after he advised Harry to not rush into marrying Meghan.
This week in royal history
On December 19, 2019, the royals gathered for the queen’s traditional Christmas lunch, with William and Kate bringing all their kids, then-Prince Charles and Camilla, Princess Anne, Zara and Mike Tindall and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. And Prince Andrew.
Unanswered questions
What is in Harry’s memoir that could be damaging to the royals? What will King Charles say in his first Christmas Day speech a week today?
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