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Stephen Pond/Getty ImagesAt least 21 stories hinting at an alleged affair between Prince William and Rose Hanbury have been deleted from U.K. media outlets, a new investigation has found.An extensive report by Vulture’s Ellie Hall, which revealed the shocking information cull, has triggered a new round of speculation that the British royal family are acting in cahoots with British newspapers to crush unflattering reporting about baseless rumors of a liaison between the couple.Hall argues that the “mysterious individuals” responsible for the attempted clean-up have made a poor fist of their work, saying: “Broken links to these vanished stories still exist in each publication’s royal coverage from this timeframe and, in many cases, on these outlets’ official social-media accounts.” Hall reached out to all the newspapers concerned for comment, and only one returned her request—the Guardian, who said they had decided to alter a story themselves.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Aaron Chown/ReutersPrincess Anne still has no memory of the incident which led her to be hospitalized, a friend in her local equestrian set has told The Daily Beast.The source added that her family, while “deeply shaken,” support her planned return to public duties next week.The friend added that “nobody would bother” trying to urge Anne—who suffered amnesia and concussion after being either kicked or butted in the head—to slow down when it comes to her hectic work schedule.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyHow do you get around the house when it’s literally millions of square feet big?Prince William has the answer; he has been filmed speeding through the hallowed grounds of Windsor Castle on an electric scooter.The footage was apparently filmed by a member of the public and uploaded to tik-tok and has now been reproduced on other social media.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Dan Kitwood / GettyClive Alderton, King Charles’s private secretary who was memorably nicknamed “the wasp” in Prince Harry’s memoir, has been in Australia in recent days, preparing the ground for his master’s forthcoming visit to that country, expected to take place in mid-October this year.The absence of an Alderton sighting in New Zealand, however, has served as yet more evidence that Charles has now all but cancelled his tour of that country, which was to be bolted on to the Australia trip. A proposed trip to Fiji has also, reportedly, been shelved.Buckingham Palace has not yet confirmed the cancellation, although even the prime minister of New Zealand came close to conceding the truth of the worst kept secret in diplomacy when he said this weekend that Charles had an “open invitation” to visit the country. Another lawmaker said, “If the royal visit is cancelled, New Zealanders will be typically reasonable about it.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Isabel Infantes/Getty ImagesEmpress Masako of Japan, visiting the U.K. as part of a state visit with her husband Emperor Naruhito Tuesday, surprised onlookers when she rode into central London in a carriage with Queen Camilla wearing a face mask.However, before full-blown pandemic PTSD set in, an official source at Buckingham Palace told The Daily Beast Tuesday that the Empress was wearing the mask due to an allergy to horse hair rather than for pathogen-related reasons. The horse-drawn carriage ride into London saw the Empress and Camilla take one carriage while King Charles, who appeared determined to brush off the minor inconvenience of his cancer diagnosis, travelled with the Emperor.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesLONDON—The royal family’s goal was clear: present the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, to the world, crush the conspiracy theories, and reset the royal narrative ahead of the summer break.Reading the euphoric coverage on British news websites Saturday after Trooping The Colour had concluded, palace operatives are no doubt satisfied enough to declare the mission accomplished.One friend of Kate’s told The Daily Beast: “Catherine has been absolutely amazing. Her statement was extraordinary, and her appearance today was graceful and elegant, and has filled people with hope.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Royal News/XMeghan Markle’s new range of American Riviera Orchard dog biscuits and a new jam flavor—raspberry—were unveiled on Instagram Saturday, just hours before her sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales Kate Middleton, returned to the public eye.Meghan immediately faced criticism online and from Kate’s supporters that she was attempting to detract from Kate’s big appearance at Trooping the Colour, the king’s official birthday parade. It was Kate’s first public appearance since Christmas, after which she withdrew from public life, following abdominal surgery and a devastating cancer diagnosis.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Millie PilkingtonKate Middleton’s ill-health was spotlighted again Monday, after she and her husband decided not to issue a new photograph to mark the anniversary of their wedding.Instead, the couple marked their 13th wedding anniversary by issuing a previously unseen photograph taken on their wedding day.The reluctance to issue a new photograph came as little surprise, Kate has asked for privacy as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy while recovering from cancer, although the decision may concern royal watchers hoping for a positive update on her health. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Samir Hussein/GettySarah Ferguson has said she is “resting with family at home” as she expressed her “shock” at receiving a malignant melanoma skin cancer diagnosis just months after she underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer.Writing on Instagram, Fergie, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, said she had been “taking some time to myself” following her “second cancer diagnosis within a year.”She said it was thanks to the “great vigilance of my dermatologist that the melanoma was detected when it was.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty ImagesWere it not for the extraordinarily detailed account of his own, self-confessed, raging jealousy of his brother, as detailed in his memoir Spare, it would be an easy allegation to dismiss.However these are no ordinary times, and given that Prince Harry at one stage noted in his book that his brother had a nicer bedroom than him with “a cabinet with mirrored doors” (not top of most 12-year-olds wish lists), a claim that Harry was jealous of William getting more sausages at breakfast than him when they were children must be given serious credence.The suggestion that pork products played a part in Harry’s childhood trauma was made by Princess Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell, who said that he once witnessed Harry being given two sausages by a nanny while William got one more.Read more at The Daily Beast.