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<\/p>\nThe random naming of two royals allegedly accused of racism could make King Charles’s task of holding on to overseas thrones more difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Barbados no longer a kingdom, other Commonwealth countries Jamaica, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda face growing republican sentiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Plans are already under way for a referendum in Saint Kitts and Nevis. The monarch will not welcome this added headache from a Sussex cheerleader.<\/p>\n
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The random naming of two royals allegedly accused of racism could make King Charles’s task of holding on to overseas thrones more difficult<\/p>\n
William and Kate not only drew the short straw for last night’s Royal Variety Performance but inflicted the show on Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and husband Prince Daniel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The event has become an annual chore adroitly dodged by the King after his mother sat through 38 of them, taking herself off the rota as a Diamond Jubilee present to herself in 2012.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Charles and Camilla hoped they had done their last stint in 2016, leaving William and Kate to turn up in alternate years with Harry and Meghan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the end, the Sussexes made just one appearance in 2018. Haven’t the Waleses suffered enough?<\/span><\/p>\n William and Kate not only drew the short straw for last night’s Royal Variety Performance but inflicted the show on Sweden ‘s Crown Princess Victoria and husband Prince Daniel<\/p>\n The shelving of a plan in the Scottish parliament to pardon the hundreds of witches condemned centuries ago would have disappointed the late Queen Mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n She befriended Doreen Valiente, the ‘mother of modern witchcraft’, summoning her to Balmoral in the 80s to warn her of plans to outlaw witchcraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n It had been banned in the 16th Century by Henry VIII and was punishable by death. To the relief of HM, no ban was introduced. Did Doreen work her magic?<\/p>\n Rishi Sunak’s adviser Frederika Mitchell reveals the PM’s dog Nova has worked out how to use the lift in No 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He has mastered the art of getting up on his hind legs to push the ‘call’ button with a paw. With such talent, shouldn’t the labrador join the rest of Rishi’s boobies in Cabinet?<\/span><\/p>\n For Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire, the BBC butchering of her programme is a case of deja vu following the 2020 axing of her own show, when she described herself as ‘absolutely devastated’.\u00a0<\/p>\n Former anchor Emily Maitlis, pictured, refers to the Eagles’ hit, announcing: ‘Newsnight is our Hotel California. All of us who checked out never really left.’\u00a0<\/p>\n Canny Emily jumped ship from sinking Newsnight in February 2022, landing a lucrative podcast contract over at Global.<\/p>\n For Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire, the BBC butchering of her programme is a case of deja vu following the 2020 axing of her own show, when she described herself as ‘absolutely devastated’<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/00\/78449541-12812373-image-a-74_1701391901953.jpg\")
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