WE IMPLORE YOU, YOUR MAJESTY! THE ROYAL FRAUDS' DAYS OF CASHING IN ON THE CROWN MUST END OR THEY WILL HAUNT YOU FOREVER. Harry and Meghan will go on haunting the Crown until the day their titles are taken away, and every week they keep them proves it. I discussed this on @GBNEWS with @Benleo last night, and I will keep saying it as often as it takes. In 2020 the late beloved Queen Elizabeth was clear at Sandringham: no half-in, half-out. Notwithstanding what their mouthpieces now argue, the pair AGREED to stop using their HRH titles and step back from royal duty, then spent the next six years selling the very royal story they claimed to be escaping. A Netflix deal, a Spotify deal, a memoir called Spare and a jam brand called As Ever all trade on a title the British people gave them for a job they refuse to do. Hollywood has already delivered its verdict. Spotify ended the partnership in 2023, and one of its own executives, Bill Simmons, famously called them "grifters" on his podcast. Netflix downgraded their deal to a first-look arrangement. With the money and the contracts drying up, the Sussexes are DESPERATE for the limelight that California no longer accords them, and Britain, with its proximity to Harry's family, is where they come looking for it. Meanwhile Harry remains a Counsellor of State, legally one of the handful of people who can stand in for the King. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have a page on the Royal Family’s official website, sitting alongside the people who actually turn up for Britain, who are its pride. The King has already shown what is possible. When his own brother's conduct brought shame on the institution, he took away Andrew's titles and honours, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor now lives as a private man. It was a hard decision about his own family, and it proved that no title is beyond the Crown's reach when the Crown's good name is at stake. The Sussexes require the same treatment: the dukedom gone, their pages taken down from the royal website, and Harry struck from the Counsellors of State list — Parliament's job, and it should do it. These are PRIVATE CITIZENS, and the record must concur. Until that happens they will keep making a spectacle of themselves, and every new grievance will land on the doorstep of a King and a Prince of Wales who are busy doing the work. Strip the titles, and the Sussex freak show loses the only thing anyone ever paid to see.

Born this day in 1919: the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Iran had a King once. Its people deserve far better than the monsters who replaced him.

I was happy to join @Benleo last night talking Crown and Commonwealth on @GBNEWS My verdict: the King is Britain's best ambassador, and the Commonwealth should only be honoured to choose Prince William to carry it on some day, though some predict Charles could be last royal head. 🇬🇧 "The King has shown himself to be an excellent diplomat and the UK's best Ambassador. Recall his visit to Washington in April? Things were pretty frosty between the White House and Downing Street, and he charmed everybody, not least President Trump, who called him "the greatest King in my book." Now, the suggestion he'll be the last royal head of the Commonwealth? I wouldn't bet on it. Not one country has ditched the Crown since Barbados five years ago. The Bahamas and Antigua, two of his three stops, still send their final appeals to London. The whole Commonwealth chose him as its head in 2018, and they can do the very same for William. But reparations? Oh, please. The Commonwealth shouldn't be sending the King a bill. They should be thanking him! Britain led the way to abolishing slavery, an abomination it did not start. But it sent the Royal Navy out to hunt down the slavers. Thousands of British sailors died doing it. Who else did it on that scale? Nobody. And as an American, I know so much I value about my country came from Britain. Commonwealth countries have enjoyed real benefits from their connections to Britain including in some cases economic development. That's the message I'd like to see the King taking with him. The President of Guyana and his comrades will be performative. They'll corner a guest who can't answer back on policy, and that's not polite behaviour towards a British King who came to celebrate Guyana in its 60th independence year." He'll acknowledge the darkest chapter of the past, but he won't apologise for things that were legal at the time, and he couldn't anyway, because it's the government's call."

AS EVER with Harry and Meghan, RECOLLECTIONS MAY VARY Even on something this serious, the Duchess's account needed fixing within a day. That is what years of shady Sussex storytelling has done to their word. On Friday Meghan revealed that a letter containing allegations against her father reached the Met in 2018. On Saturday the Met checked its records and said January 2019. Her spokesman now concedes she "may have been mistaken by a few months." So that nobody twists this: the letter is real. The Sun has seen a copy of it and the Met confirms it received one. We know nothing one way or another about her father's guilt, he denies possessing the images and nobody has been charged. And it is the Met, not Meghan, now reviewing how that letter was handled. But look at the pattern. When the Sussexes speak, the world has learned to check first, because the people who were actually in the room often tell a different story. Queen Elizabeth saw it coming in March 2021: "Whilst some recollections may vary." Succinct, as ever. Remember Finding Freedom? The Sussex camp said they "did not contribute." Then their former communications secretary told the Court of Appeal the book was "discussed directly with the duchess multiple times in person and over email." According to his evidence, Harry wrote: "we have to be able to say we didn't have anything to do with it." Meghan had to apologise to the court for not remembering. She still won the case, but the judges called the earlier denial "at best, an unfortunate lapse of memory." Then the wedding. Meghan told Oprah they got married "three days before our wedding." The Archbishop of Canterbury, who signed the certificate, said the legal wedding was on the Saturday. Oprah viewers were also told Archie was "not going to be given a title." Under a rule dating back to 1917, he became a prince the moment Charles became King. And this week Harry told GQ that "some people don't want it to work out," in an interview that landed just as the King was welcoming the Sultan of Oman to Windsor. His spokesman insists it was no swipe at William. Make of that what you will. Credibility is sacrificed every time a court, an archbishop or the police has to correct their version. The Sussexes have been spending it for five years, and now even their serious statements arrive with a question mark attached. If Harry truly wants it to work out, they can start by telling a version of the past that the people in the room would recognise. Photos: UK Home Office (Flickr), CC BY 2.0; Office of the Governor-General of New Zealand, CC BY 4.0

Imagine all of the controversy the world and certainly the monarchy would have been spared had this moment never happened. While I miss her terribly, I'm glad the late beloved Queen is at peace and spared any further anxieties.

WHO WAS SHE? Died this day in 1537. Mother of a King

HARRY: TAKE NOTE: THIS is how a REAL prince does a chat show!! One brother goes on television to champion a global issue. The other never sits on a sofa without making it all about himself. Last night Prince William became the first royal ever to take a seat on Graham Norton's famous red sofa, and what a brilliant move by the future King it was. The studio audience gasped and cheered as he walked out to join Cate Blanchett, Hannah Waddingham and Robert Irwin, all long-time champions of his Earthshot Prize, for a special edition that airs tonight on BBC One. He came to talk about the prize, and explained that years of environmental "negativity and doom" had got him down, so he decided "we could do something more powerful and more optimistic" with an awards ceremony that could "talk about urgency and optimism together". This is a mature, focused man who looks outward and sets goals he means to reach: five Earthshots, £1 million for each winner, a personal commitment to the prize until 2030, and next month he will be in Mumbai handing out the awards. And he was so clearly enjoying himself. He finished the night warm, relaxed and engaging, by every account — without a trace of self-pity. Consider the manchild. Harry's offering this month has been a MasterClass, Redefining Grief, followed by a GQ interview in which he complained that "some people don't want it to work out", a line his own spokesman then had to insist was "absolutely not intended as a swipe" at his brother. The word salad minister seems able to think only in the simplest terms, and mostly about Harry. Even now he has moved back to Britain, the whinging is CONSTANT. William is getting on with his life and giving everything he can. Harry, meanwhile, is reportedly sounding out Diana's friends and family about a documentary to mark the 30th anniversary of her death next August. Nothing is confirmed, but mark my words: the man baby will try to make his next few quid out of his mother's memory. Deep down he knows he is irrelevant with nothing left to offer, and the ghastly narcissist he married is loathed globally and will never be accepted by the great British public. The future King will be laughing on Graham Norton's sofa tonight, engaging the world on a cause larger than himself. His brother will still be selling his grief by subscription.

I don't know about you but this doesn't change my opinion of that viper one jot. She didn't lift a finger to protect children to alert authorities. WHY? Because it wouldn't enrich her pockets.

In case you need a smile today. The Queen's affection for animals (especially dogs) was one of her most delightful and admirable gifts.

ROYAL FRAUDS TAKE NOTE: THIS is what REAL royals do. One brother profits from the grieving. The other comforts those who grieve. Sixty years ago yesterday, a colliery tip came down a Welsh hillside and buried Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan on the last day before half-term. 144 people died. 116 of them were children. Yesterday the King, Queen Camilla and Prince William stood in the memorial garden on the site of that school. The King and William laid wreaths. The Queen laid a posy. Then they spent time with survivors, bereaved parents, the brothers and sisters of the children who were lost, and the retired rescuers who worked through those terrible hours and days, among them a 96-year-old former policewoman. His Majesty called it "the saddest and most tragic of days imaginable" and saluted the village's "unconquerable spirit". No one should have to bear what Aberfan has borne, he said, and no one could have borne it with greater strength. Then William unveiled the Aberfan Memorial Tree at the village primary school. That school has deep significance. Queen Elizabeth opened it herself in 2012. In 1966 she waited eight days before going to Aberfan, and it is said to have been one of the greatest regrets of her reign. So what did she do with that regret? She went back. Three more times. But, unlike her grandson and wife, not for the photo-ops. A monarch who owned her mistake and kept faith with a grieving village for the rest of her life. Yesterday her son and grandson kept that faith for her. And this morning, the Princess of Wales was in a hard hat in Ipswich. Catherine has been patron of East Anglia's Children's Hospices for over 14 years. In March 2012 she opened The Treehouse, where she gave her very first public speech. Today she went back to walk the building site of its expansion: a new hydrotherapy pool, a therapies suite and a space for teenagers, due to open in spring 2028. Then she met the families. The Treehouse supports around 185 children, young people and family members: children with life-limiting conditions, and the people who love them. Fourteen years of turning up for the same hospices — without a Netflix crew, a memoir to sell or a podcast to plug. Now look at the royal frauds. Harry's GQ interview, recorded last month, was released on the very day the King and Queen welcomed the Sultan of Oman to Windsor, and it overshadowed coverage of the state banquet. Grief, family, reconciliation — all of it laid out for a glossy magazine, alongside his new MasterClass, Redefining Grief, while the father and brother he says he wants to reconcile with were busy serving the country. Duty is not a subscription service. Yesterday it meant a wreath in Aberfan, sixty years on. This morning it meant a hard hat in Ipswich. Real duty is showing up when there is nothing to sell.