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Scottish Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Meghan's kids will be SO annoyed when they grow up & realise how they were used by her on Instagram, experts say
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) MEGHAN Markle's children will be so annoyed when they grow up and realise how they were used by her on Instagram, experts have said. The Duchess of Sussex, 43, will suffer a 'terrible revenge,' according to royal watchers who appeared on The Sun's Royal Exclusive show. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 6 Archie and Lilibet featured in a social media post during a family day out to Disneyland Credit: Instagram 6 The Sun's royal editor Matt Wilkinson, right, talking to Hugo Vickers and Samara Gill on our royal exclusive show Credit: The Sun 6 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also posted images on social media of the couple attending a Beyonce concert Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk Discussing how Prince Harry and Meghan's children Lilibet and Archie had been featured in social media posts, with their faces obscured were author Hugo Vickers and Samara Gill, a presenter and journalist. Mr Vickers told the paper's royal editor Matt Wilkinson: 'I just think there's gonna be a terrible revenge when those children grow up. 'I mean, I don't know about you but I would be very annoyed if I found that I'd been used in all these posts in a strange way by my parents.' The prince and princess were recently featured in a social media post during a trip to Disneyland. Mr Vickers added: 'Equally they're also going to grow up at one point and discover that they never knew their grandparents, their grandfathers. 'I mean Mr Markle, of course he's a broken man, but he's a rather sweet man actually and he did a lot for that girl when she was growing up don't you think?' Ms Gill said: 'I spoke to him a couple days ago actually and he's just absolutely still distraught about the fact that he still doesn't have contact with Meghan.' Mr Vickers said: 'And then of course they will also wake up to realise that they could have been the cousin to Prince George, a future king and they could have been over here having a nice time and with the other children their cousins they aren't gonna know them.' Talking about the apparent change in social media strategy from the Sussexes, Ms Gill said: 'I mean it's pretty interesting this new Instagram PR strategy though I must say. 'I know we talk about the backs of the children's heads. How dare Meghan lecture the royal on 'truth'? Her whole brand is built on LIES 'The children's faces were front and centre of those videos, so it seems like this new PR team has just chucked everything that she previously had out the door and said no we want you twerking we want the kids faces and we want everything out there and we want the public to be able to dissect it. 'So that's a very interesting sort of shift for that brand Meghan and Harry and I really think that it's tragic that the King and Thomas Markle senior were not included at all and not in the children's lives. 'It's really a tragedy.' Elsewhere in our exclusive chat, Matt noted how he was stunned at Meghan's latest podcast interview where she asked people to "tell the truth about her". Samara added that perhaps the "revolving door of staff" the Sussexes have employed may shed more light on "truth". Countless staff members have joined a long list of people who over the years no longer wish to associate with the mum-of-two. Samara also referenced bullying allegations levelled at her from staff during her time at Kensington Palace. The royal expert added: "I don't want to listen to this woman about truth. "The fact of the matter is that she is a constant liar." The Duchess of Sussex recently appeared on her podcast alongside friend Emma Grede, CEO of Good American, where she seemed to take several digs at the Royal Family. On the podcast, Meghan revealed that she wanted people to "tell the truth" about her, when asked "if you you could rewrite your public narrative from scratch, is there anything you would do differently?" The Duchess went on to share advice that she had received from Serena Williams regarding how she was viewed in the public after falling love with Prince Harry. "My dear friend Serena, she told me years ago: 'A lie can't live forever,'" said Meghan. But Hugo, agreed with Samara on the issue and questioned how accurate Meghan's accusatory comments actually were. He said: "I think Samara and I, as well as others, do tell the truth about her and I don't think she likes it very much." The royal expert added: "No one would actually listen to Meghan Markle if it wasn't for the fact she married Prince Harry. "It's because she's married to Harry it gives the soap opera quality that seems to appeal to everyone. "Otherwise would not really care about her, a lot of other people are doing stuff similar to her on social media anyway." It comes after the Duchess broke her silence on her cringey twerking video after it sparked wild conspiracy theories. The Duchess of Sussex, 43, posted the footage earlier this month showing her and Prince Harry dancing in a hospital room as she tried to induce daughter Lilibet's birth in 2021. 6 Harry and Meghan's children featured in a number of photos posted to social media Credit: Instagram 6 Meghan has been pushing her podcast Credit: YouTube
The Irish Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Meghan's kids will be SO annoyed when they grow up & realise how they were used by her on Instagram, experts say
MEGHAN Markle's children will be so annoyed when they grow up and realise how they were used by her on Instagram, experts have said. The Duchess of Sussex , 43, will suffer a 'terrible revenge,' according to royal watchers who appeared on The Sun's Royal Exclusive show. 6 Archie and Lilibet featured in a social media post during a family day out to Disneyland Credit: Instagram 6 The Sun's royal editor Matt Wilkinson, right, talking to Hugo Vickers and Samara Gill on our royal exclusive show Credit: The Sun 6 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also posted images on social media of the couple attending a Beyonce concert Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk Discussing how Prince Harry and Meghan's children Mr Vickers told the paper's royal editor Matt Wilkinson: 'I just think there's gonna be a terrible revenge when those children grow up. 'I mean, I don't know about you but I would be very annoyed if I found that I'd been used in all these posts in a strange way by my parents.' The prince and princess were recently featured in a social media post during a trip to Disneyland. Read More on Meghan Markle Mr Vickers added: 'Equally they're also going to grow up at one point and discover that they never knew their grandparents, their grandfathers. 'I mean Mr Markle, of course he's a broken man, but he's a rather sweet man actually and he did a lot for that girl when she was growing up don't you think?' Ms Gill said: 'I spoke to him a couple days ago actually and he's just absolutely still distraught about the fact that he still doesn't have contact with Meghan.' Mr Vickers said: 'And then of course they will also wake up to realise that they could have been the cousin to Prince George, a future king and they could have been over here having a nice time and with the other children their cousins they aren't gonna know them.' Most read in Royals Talking about the apparent change in social media strategy from the Sussexes, Ms Gill said: 'I mean it's pretty interesting this new Instagram PR strategy though I must say. 'I know we talk about the backs of the children's heads. How dare Meghan lecture the royal on 'truth'? Her whole brand is built on LIES 'The children's faces were front and centre of those videos, so it seems like this new PR team has just chucked everything that she previously had out the door and said no we want you twerking we want the kids faces and we want everything out there and we want the public to be able to dissect it. 'So that's a very interesting sort of shift for that brand Meghan and Harry and I really think that it's tragic that the King and 'It's really a tragedy.' Elsewhere in our exclusive chat, Matt noted how he was Samara added that perhaps the "revolving door of staff" the Sussexes have employed may shed more light on "truth". Samara also referenced bullying allegations levelled at her from staff during her time at Kensington Palace. The royal expert added: "I don't want to listen to this woman about truth. "The fact of the matter is that she is a constant liar." The Duchess of Sussex recently appeared on her podcast alongside friend Good American, where she seemed to take several digs at the Royal Family. On the podcast, Meghan revealed that she wanted people to "tell the truth" about her, when asked "if you you could rewrite your public narrative from scratch, is there anything you would do differently?" The Duchess went on to share advice that she had received from Serena Williams regarding how she was viewed in the public after falling love with Prince Harry. "My dear friend Serena, she told me years ago: 'A lie can't live forever,'" said Meghan. But Hugo, agreed with Samara on the issue and questioned how accurate Meghan's accusatory comments actually were. He said: "I think Samara and I, as well as others, do tell the truth about her and I don't think she likes it very much." The royal expert added: "No one would actually listen to Meghan Markle if it wasn't for the fact she married Prince Harry. "It's because she's married to Harry it gives the soap opera quality that seems to appeal to everyone. "Otherwise would not really care about her, a lot of other people are doing stuff similar to her on social media anyway." It comes after the Duchess broke her silence on her 6 Harry and Meghan's children featured in a number of photos posted to social media Credit: Instagram 6 Meghan has been pushing her podcast Credit: YouTube 6 The family put on Mickey Mouse ears for their fun day out at Disneyland Credit: Instagram
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Riverside County sheriff's deputy crashes in Indio while chasing ‘suspicious' vehicle
A Riverside County Sheriff's deputy rear-ended a vehicle during a high speed chase Sunday night, sending two people and the deputy to local hospitals. At around 10:06 p.m., Sunday, deputies searching for a 'suspicious' vehicle in the 51000 block of Avenida Cortez in La Quinta found that vehicle at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Jefferson Street, three miles to the east, Lt. Deidre Vickers said in an email. Vickers said the vehicle failed to yield to deputies, who initiated a pursuit. During the pursuit, the sheriff's deputy rear-ended a white Toyota Corolla that was uninvolved in the chase, according to Indio Police Sgt. Abraham Plata. The driver and passenger of the Corolla were sent to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs with non-life threatening injuries, Plata said. The deputy was sent to JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio for minor injuries. Little other information was available. No arrests had been made as of Monday morning and the investigation remained ongoing. Sam Morgen covers the city of Palm Springs for The Desert Sun. Reach him at smorgen@ This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: Riverside County sheriff's deputy crashes in Indio while chasing car
Auto Car
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
Built like a throne, powered like a BMW: the Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph is the forgotten and flawed flagship with rising values
Just before BMW and Volkswagen had their fight for ownership of Rolls-Royce and Bentley, the small Crewe-based subsidiary of the Vickers engineering company had been attempting to design the latest version of the best car in the world. It was a bit like asking a yacht-maker to build a destroyer. But producing underfunded contenders for the 'best car in the world' title had long been the company's task. Rolls-Royce had been saddled with this mission ever since it really had made the best cars in the world, 60 to 70 years previously, and had proudly proclaimed the fact. By the late 1990s, the Spirit of Ecstasy had been flying aboard the radiator grille of essentially the same car – the Silver Spirit – for almost two decades. Vickers, a somewhat troubled aviation and shipbuilding company, struggled to pay for a replacement, the project occasionally stalling for lack of funds. The result was an almost decade-long development period. The Silver Seraph and the identically bodied Bentley Arnage appeared in 1998, equipped with only some of the technology needed to compete with the best from Mercedes and BMW. That they had any of this kit at all was because some of the best of BMW could be found aboard the new Seraph. The Munich company supplied help and hardware that included its 5.4-litre V12 engine, the 5-speed automatic that came with it, an electrical architecture, and plenty more. Disappointingly, given the Seraph's price, some of the BMW-sourced components were visible inside, where the crisply formed matt black switchgear of a 7 Series' electric window and seat controls jarred against the chromed baroque extravagance of Rolls-Royce's toggles, knobs, and organ-stop switches. The Seraph was thus the first V12 Rolls-Royce since the 1939 Phantom III, the company abandoning its 6.75-litre pushrod V8 from the early 1950s. It was an advance that seemed great in theory, the BMW V12 vastly more modern and efficient. Trouble was, it was built for cars of sporting temperament, doing its best work at revs unseemly for a chauffeur-driven Rolls. The five-speed auto didn't help either. Ambling in fifth might have been more economical, but if an instant gobbet of thrust was required to overtake a serf in a Ford Fiesta, you were going to have to wait for the transmission and engine to respond before imposing your authority. The Seraph powertrain was undeniably modern, but not so effective in a car of old-fashioned requirements. These needs were rather too evident in the chassis department. The Seraph's quest to ride without rippling the open pages of the Financial Times caused it to teeter uncertainly through turns. Familiarity and a certain amount of reckless abandon would uncover a chassis more able than it first appeared, but this was a car that you'd happily leave your chauffeur to conduct.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca sues to stop Utah law expanding access to discounted drugs
Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, is pictured on the first day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is suing Utah's attorney general and insurance commissioner over a law passed during the legislative session aimed at stopping drug manufacturers from limiting where hospitals and clinics can buy discounted medication. Filed in May in federal court in the District of Utah, the company accuses the law of being unconstitutional and in conflict with prior court rulings. Sponsored by Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, SB69 deals with the federal 340B program, a decadesold provision in the Public Health Service Act that aims to supply hospitals and health clinics with drugs at a discounted price. The program requires drug manufacturers to provide discounts on certain outpatient drugs for entities covered under the program, like hospitals, clinics, or Native American tribes. According to the American Hospital Association, hospitals can pass savings from the 340B program along to patients by offering health care to uninsured patients, providing free vaccinations, or expanding mental and community health programs. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX But Vickers, who owns and operates a pharmacy in Cedar City, said the program is not popular among drug manufacturers, who have tried to limit where the entities covered under 340B can obtain the discounted drugs. Speaking on the Senate floor earlier this year, Vickers said manufacturers have been enforcing a 'one pharmacy rule,' where certain drugs can only be obtained from certain pharmacies. 'From their perspective it's expanded more than they would like, so they've tried to limit the access of drugs,' Vickers said. 'Essentially, you could have a patient being able to get a product at a discounted price in one town but not the other.' SB69, which passed in March during the final week of the legislative session, tries to prevent this. The bill is relatively simple at just 53 lines, and states that drug manufacturers cannot restrict pharmacies from contracting with entities covered under the 340B program. It also restricts manufacturers from preventing the delivery of a 340B drug to any location authorized to receive it. 'I don't stand here professing that the manufacturers are happy with this, I will tell you they're not,' said Vickers earlier this year, telling his Senate colleagues that states that have passed similar legislation have been targeted by lawsuits. 'But what we're looking at is providing access to medication at a discounted price.' Vickers was right. AstraZeneca, the global pharmaceutical company that generated more than $54 billion in revenue in 2024, is now suing Utah Attorney General Derek Brown and Utah Insurance Commissioner Jon Pike to stop the enforcement of SB69. The Utah Attorney General's Office did not provide comment on the active litigation. In the complaint, attorneys for AstraZeneca point to prior court rulings that supersede Utah's law. 'Apparently dissatisfied with the scope of federal law, the State of Utah has enacted a statute seeking to achieve under state law precisely the same result that federal courts have resoundingly rejected,' the complaint reads, accusing SB69 of requiring 'discounted pricing for sales at an unlimited number of contract pharmacies.' According to AstraZeneca, the requirement in SB69 goes beyond the original intent of the 340B program, putting state law at odds with federal law and violating the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Plus, the lawsuit alleges, SB69 violates the Contracts Clause of the Constitution because it interferes with agreements between drug manufacturers and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Constitution's Takings Clause, which protects private property from being seized for public use, since SB69 requires AstraZeneca to transfer its private property (prescription drugs) to entities covered under 340B. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
