Virginia Giuffre alleges that she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001, when she was 17 years old. Lawyers for Queen Elizabeth II’s son attempted to get the case thrown out on the basis of a $500,000 settlement agreement that Giuffre signed with Epstein in 2009. However, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Wednesday that the wording of the contract did not clearly demonstrate it applied to the prince....

David Boies represents 12 women exploited by Epstein and wants the Duke of York to give interviews to his team and the FBI. The prince made multiple visits to stay with Epstein and has been accused of having sex with Virginia Giuffre several times. A photograph exists of the royal with his arm around her shoulders, said to have been taken at the home Epstein’s then-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. The prince had to step back from public life after a car crash interview with the BBC over the scandal, but has so far not given a police interview....

The celebration comes after an anxious period when the Prince of Wales, 71, was diagnosed with coronavirus at the end of March. He beat the disease with only mild symptoms and emerged from isolation on March 30. The duchess, 72, was cooped up alone for longer as health advice in Britain calls for a two week seclusion for those with no symptoms who have come into contact with a known case....

The 71-year-old, who is heir to the British throne, spent a week in quarantine at his home on the Balmoral estate in Scotland. Charles remains in good health and is following government restrictions, a palace spokesperson told Newsweek. Charles’ wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, tested negative for coronavirus, but will remain in self-isolation until the end of the week, the spokesperson added. “Clarence House has confirmed today that, having consulted with his doctor, The Prince of Wales is now out of self-isolation,” a spokesperson said in a statement....

As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex celebrated Harry’s 37th birthday, the couple announced they would be included in the magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2021. The Sussexes posed for their first ever joint magazine cover photo shoot and also nominated the director general of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the top 100. Eric Schiffer, chairman of Reputation Management Consultants, told Newsweek: “Meghan and Harry landing a cover spot of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People will be seen as a stab in the heart of the Monarchy’s reputation because of the greater implicit credibility it affords them and their previous claims against the crown....

The Duke of Sussex was for the last year part of an Aspen Institute investigation into online lies. The result was an 80-page report calling for wide-ranging recommendations, including protection for certain journalists whose Facebook or Instagram research was closed down. Within the document are numerous references to Congress taking action and even finding public funding for an independent body aimed at countering misinformation. The call for political intervention is striking from a former working royal who, no longer governed by palace neutrality conventions, is continuing on a path deeper into political territory....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s long awaited debut on the streaming platform will be called Harry & Meghan and if the official teaser is anything to go by it may make uncomfortable viewing for the new Prince and Princess of Wales. Meghan appears to be crying in not one but three clips in a fast-paced montage that at one point cuts to Kate and William as the sound of broken glass plays over the top....

The close relationship between the two young royals was shattered when the Duke of Cambridge called on Charles Spencer to persuade the Duke of Sussex to slow things down, historian Robert Lacey writes. The dispute took place in the early days of Harry’s relationship with Meghan, following the first talk of marriage. William initially asked younger brother Harry to take his time and get to know Meghan, but when that failed he tried a different approach, it is claimed....

Labeled the “Sandringham Summit” by the press, the meeting was held after Harry and Meghan released a statement during a January visit to Britain announcing their plans to split their time between the U.K. and North America while working to become “financially independent.” Their intention was that this would be in tandem with performing official duties for the queen when called upon to do so. The announcement created widespread controversy in Britain, with tabloids and commentators criticizing the couple for wanting to “have their cake and eat it too....

Harry’s tell-all memoir was released on Tuesday, quickly breaking sales records in Britain to sell more copies on publication day than any other non-fiction book has. This came despite the book’s content being leaked to the media before the launch, when organizations were able to obtain unauthorized copies. Throughout Spare, Harry makes numerous intimate revelations about the realities of royal life, including a detailed account of his family’s little-known working relationships with the British press, from the prince’s viewpoint....

Author Angela Levin made the claim on the U.K.’s BBC Breakfast program this week while talking about meeting Harry, 35, at Buckingham Palace for her book, Harry: Conversations with the Prince. Levin interviewed Harry for the biography released in 2018. Levin said on the BBC program: “When I went to interview him in the palace, the first thing he said to me when he shook my hand was, ‘Are you watching The Crown?...

The Duke of Cambridge teamed up with Sir David Attenborough for the Earthshot Prize, which hands out awards of $1.3 million (£1 million) each to innovative projects aimed at saving the environment. The prince gave an interview to BBC Radio 4 plugging the initiative, in which he was asked about perceptions his father’s outspoken comments on the environment were in the past viewed as “dotty.” William replied: “I regularly wonder what my father’s banging on about and I’m sure every son thinks the same....

Playwright Kareem Fahmy’s Dodi & Diana, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt and currently playing a limited run at New York’s HERE theater, attempts to unpack the lovers’ relationship via another’s: a married couple—he a white finance guy (Peter Mark Kendall), she an Egyptian American actress (Rosaline Elbay) on the rise—who have traveled to Paris to stay in the same hotel as the tragic pair, on the same night nearly three decades later....

There are many ways in which Diana modernized the image of a princess for a new millennium, from the charities she chose to patronize (and those that she didn’t) to the way she interacted with the public and the way she dressed. These last two points combine in what has become one of Diana’s most enduring style legacies which she normalized as a way to connect with the people—a move as simple as removing her gloves....

The troops’ trip to the border, which could last 30 to 60 days, will be funded by a private donation, Noem said. The U.S. border with Mexico has seen a high volume of migrants recently, with many turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol officers as they look for legal asylum. Despite a sharp decrease in the number of parentless families and children crossing into the U.S. since March and April, the number of single adults at the border has stayed high....

This is, after all, the age of the consultant crackup. Recently, it hasn’t been the candidates under ethical scrutiny; it’s been their high-flying gurus. Who better to take them on than a glib Beltway thinker like Choate? There are plenty of targets. There’s former presidential adviser Dick Morris, forced to resign after a prostitute charged that he had revealed White House secrets to her during a yearlong affair. And Boston magazine disclosed that legendary GOP strategist Arthur Finkelstein is a homosexual, a label Finkelstein then publicly acknowledged....

The operator of the prison involved in the suit, Florida-based GEO Group, used its immigrant detainees to perform services at its Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, that State Attorney General Bob Ferguson argued in his winning case were “necessary to keep the facility operational.” These tasks included doing laundry, preparing food and cleaning the facility. Because the detainees were being held at a private, for-profit facility, the court said that GEO Group was not entitled to the protection under state law that allows “state, county, or municipal” detention faculties to pay its voluntary workers below the minimum wage....

Zaun was 25. The Association of Volleyball Professionals confirmed his death on social media. “The AVP is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Eric Zaun. … He will be deeply missed,” the AVP said, in part, on Instagram. Zaun’s body was found Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa in Atlantic City after the resident of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, apparently leapt to his death....

The Trump supporters were driving around “in a caravan of hundreds of vehicles circling Valley highways as a parade of sorts,” per the Arizona Republic. Some attendees in that caravan posted photos on social media of what appears to be Hopkins giving them two middle fingers. MORE: Kyler Murray shines in Cardinals’ win over Seahawks Hopkins has been outspoken about racism, and has increased his efforts this season. Hopkins joined Deshaun Watson this offseason in signing a petition to remove references to slave owner John C....

“Don’t be tricked into thinking, ‘Oh my goodness the vaccine’s come in, and that’s the mark of the beast,’” Hibbs said during his sermon. “It’s not the mark of the beast. It’s conditioning you for it.” Hibbs compared a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine to other types of social “conditioning” during the pandemic such as handwashing, mask use and use of plexiglass dividers which all prevent the spread of coronavirus. None of these preventative measures have been uniformly required by the federal government....