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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will step back as "senior" royals and work to become financially independent.

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In a statement, Prince Harry and Meghan also said they plan to split their time between the UK and North America.

The BBC understands no other royal - including the Queen or Prince William - was consulted before the statement and Buckingham Palace is "disappointed".

Senior royals are understood to be "hurt" by the announcement.

In their unexpected statement on Wednesday, also posted on their Instagram page, the couple said they made the decision "after many months of reflection and internal discussions".

"We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen."

They said they plan to balance their time between the UK and North America while "continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages".

"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity."

A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said discussions with the duke and duchess on their decision to step back were "at an early stage", adding: "We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through."

The couple's announcement on Wednesday comes two months after the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.

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Harry and Meghan to step back as senior royals

No other royals were consulted before the couple's announcement, the BBC understands.
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The Sun newspaper apologises for Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan Markle column​

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Britain's The Sun newspaper on Friday apologised for publishing a column by television presenter Jeremy Clarkson about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, days after the opinion piece became the UK press standards regulator's most-complained-about article.

Key points:​

  • Jeremy Clarkson's column has received a record number of complaints — more than 17,500 — to UK's press standards organisation
  • The Sun said the column had been removed from its website and archives
  • Earlier this week, Clarkson apologised for "causing so much hurt"
"We at The Sun regret the publication of this article and we are sincerely sorry," the UK newspaper said in a statement, adding that the column had been removed from its website and archives.

After the controversial column was published last week, the UK's Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) regulator said on Tuesday that it had received more than 17,500 complaints, the most about any article since it was established in 2014.

Clarkson — who gained worldwide fame as one of the three presenters of popular motoring show Top Gear — has since apologised.

More than 60 politicians signed a letter written by Caroline Nokes — chair of parliament's Women and Equalities Select Committee — to the editor of The Sun, warning such articles contribute to a climate of hatred and violence against women.

In a statement posted on Twitter on Monday, Clarkson said he was "horrified to have caused so much hurt" and would be "more careful in future".

The column came out the day after the release of the final three episodes of the Netflix documentary series Harry & Meghan, where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex both spoke out against their treatment by Britain's tabloid media.

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Over 17,500 complaints about Jezza's opinion piece makes it the most complained-about article... in the world.
 
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Pee Cola said:

The Sun newspaper apologises for Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan Markle column​

Posted 32m ago
[ original | archive ]

Britain's The Sun newspaper on Friday apologised for publishing a column by television presenter Jeremy Clarkson about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, days after the opinion piece became the UK press standards regulator's most-complained-about article.

Key points:​

  • Jeremy Clarkson's column has received a record number of complaints — more than 17,500 — to UK's press standards organisation
  • The Sun said the column had been removed from its website and archives
  • Earlier this week, Clarkson apologised for "causing so much hurt"
"We at The Sun regret the publication of this article and we are sincerely sorry," the UK newspaper said in a statement, adding that the column had been removed from its website and archives.

After the controversial column was published last week, the UK's Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) regulator said on Tuesday that it had received more than 17,500 complaints, the most about any article since it was established in 2014.

Clarkson — who gained worldwide fame as one of the three presenters of popular motoring show Top Gear — has since apologised.

More than 60 politicians signed a letter written by Caroline Nokes — chair of parliament's Women and Equalities Select Committee — to the editor of The Sun, warning such articles contribute to a climate of hatred and violence against women.

In a statement posted on Twitter on Monday, Clarkson said he was "horrified to have caused so much hurt" and would be "more careful in future".

The column came out the day after the release of the final three episodes of the Netflix documentary series Harry & Meghan, where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex both spoke out against their treatment by Britain's tabloid media.

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Over 17,500 complaints about Jezza's opinion piece makes it the most complained-about article... in the world.
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Do you have a license for dat Opinion?
 
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British media has always been ruthless about their royals and celebrities.

I guess they should have said they were part black.
 
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Gunter Hatherer said:
Seriously? Are there any white women who wish they'd married Harry?
Any at all anywhere?

Racism could be a plausible accusation, but not if this assertion is the basis for it.
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Oh, I'm sure there are; but the author wildly overestimates how desirable Harry is to white women (or, really, any woman).

Honest opinion, if it wasn't for being born into the royal family, he's got NOTHING going for him: not looks, not smarts, not charisma or personality. Not to mention, he was never gonna be king. Who really cares who marries The Spare?

And for a woman so eager to call out racism, how convenient that we forget about the Nazi costume:
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Gunter Hatherer said:
Seriously? Are there any white women who wish they'd married Harry?
Any at all anywhere?

Racism could be a plausible accusation, but not if this assertion is the basis for it.
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If that's the case, then why don't women hate that other son's wife, the one who is actually attractive.

Everyone seems to be happy for those two.

Oh, and White women don't care, Harry married one of them. Markle isn't black.
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She's a mulatto (half white, half black) her children are quadroons (a quarter black and 3 quarters white).
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That's assuming her mother is 100% African. (She's not).
 
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but the old one drop rule seems to live on somehow, at least in the USA.
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Only among deranged, yankee leftists, and only when it benefits them in some way. I've gone to school with White people who had darker tans than Markle.
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Here's a pic of Ben Jealous (yes that's his real name)
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That would be a great name if he was actually black, since they're very jealous, envious people by nature.
 
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Prince Harry: 'I want my father and brother back'

He also says "they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile", but it is not clear who he is referring to.
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His face looks flatter every time I see it. Maybe he gets it done at the same time Meghan is flattening his dick.

Prince Harry: 'I want my father and brother back'

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Prince Harry has said "I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back" in an interview ahead of the release of his book Spare.

He also says "they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile," although it is not clear who he is referring to.

He made the comments during a sit down with ITV's Tom Bradby and has also given an interview to US broadcaster CBS.

Buckingham Palace has declined to comment.

Both interviews will be broadcast on 8 January, two days before the autobiography is published.

Speaking to CBS News 60 Minutes journalist Anderson Cooper in a chat the broadcaster described as "explosive", Prince Harry claims he was "betrayed" with "briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife".

He said: "The family motto is 'never complain, never explain', but it's just a motto.

"They will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.

"But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.

"So when we're being told for the last six years, 'we can't put a statement out to protect you', but you do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal."

ITV said its interview will cover Prince Harry's personal relationships and "never-before-heard details" surrounding the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

Filmed in California where the Sussexes live, the ITV interview will also see Harry refer to "the leaking and the planting" of stories, before adding: "I want a family, not an institution".

"They feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains," he adds.

Prince Harry's autobiography Spare, which is anticipated to give details about disagreements with his brother the Prince William, will be released on January 10.

Publisher Penguin Random House calls it "a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief".

The autobiography follows the release of Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan, in which Prince Harry said it was "terrifying" to have his brother "scream and shout" at him during a summit to discuss the couple's future in the Royal Family. Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the claims made in the programme.

The Sussexes also talked about why they decided to give up royal duties and move to the US, criticising the British press and the inner workings of the royal institution.
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He also says "they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile," although it is not clear who he is referring to.
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Harry, you absolute moron.

You insulted your father, your brother, the institution they represent, and you continue married to the woman who not only has zero respect for any of those, but keeps implying they have mistreated her, mocked your father's mother, and threw shade at your brother's wife... and they are the ones with no willingness to reconcile?

At some point, we need to wonder if the family has already considered whether Harry should be or not inside the car when the accident eventually happens.
 
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