Stay Visible “Children are four times more likely to die in a pedestrian motor-vehicle accident on Halloween than any other day of the year,” says Alan Korn, director of public policy for the nonprofit Safe Kids Worldwide, a network of organizations. Halloween trick-or-treating and rush hour fall at the exact same time, he explains, and then this year, because of daylight savings time falling before Halloween, “it’s going to get darker all the sooner....
Father Alexander Goryachev, along with local bishop Metropolitan Savva, marked the annual All-Russian Sobriety Day on September 11 by dousing the city with more than 18 gallons of holy water in order to “protect the city afflictions befalling it, from all accidents and social adversity”, Savva told Tver News (via the BBC). Since 2006, Goryachev has been marking the sobriety day celebrating the beheading of John the Baptist by flying over Tver along with the “Inexhaustible Chalice,” icon, which Orthodox Christians believe can help those suffering from drug and alcohol addiction, reports The Moscow Times....
There are also subtypes of PCD like Kartagener’s syndrome (situs inversus totalis), which has PCD but also has hallmark features of having organs on the opposite side of the body. For example, instead of the spleen being on the left side of the body, it is on the right side of the body. Other organs commonly affected by Kartagener’s syndrome include the: heart, liver, and intestines. Kartagener’s syndrome is even rarer with an incidence of about 1 in 32,000 people....
Queen Elizabeth II’s son previously claimed to “deeply sympathize” with Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who want “some form of closure.” However, having been sued by Virginia Giuffre on rape allegations, his attorneys have now claimed a law that gave hope to child abuse survivors is “unconstitutional.” Victims were previously required to file any civil claim by the age of 23—leaving abusers free from liability after that point. New York used the Child Victims Act (CVA) to create a temporary window in which historic claims could be brought....
Widespread media coverage of the Duke of York’s case, along with the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, may be “very distressing” for survivors who are not involved in the cases. It comes as Prince Andrew waits to learn whether he has been successful in getting his Jeffrey Epstein-related rape lawsuit thrown out. The Duke of York had been dogged for several years by allegations he had sex with a 17-year-old trafficking victim....
Medical experts have told the royal household the earliest the 71-year-old heir to the British throne could have been contagious is March 13. The Prince of Wales saw his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, just a day earlier on March 12, when he conducted an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. If so, that will be a huge relief to staff keen to protect the monarch, 92, and her husband Prince Philip, 98....
Set to the Coldplay song “Clocks,” the Instagram video is a montage of footage and images of the trio from the past year as they toured around conducting their official royal duties as well as personal family moments, including introducing Archie to the world back in May. There was also a previously unseen picture of Archie, who is wrapped up warm in a knitted beanie hat and fur-lined boots and held by his father Prince Harry as they stand next to a lake....
The Duke of Sussex said the constitutional right to free speech was “a huge subject and one which I don’t understand” but also indicated he had a lot he wanted to say about it. Harry and Meghan Markle have sparked debates about freedom of expression in Britain through lawsuits and complaints about privacy. However, he did not outline why exactly the First Amendment had provoked his reaction. The prince told the Armchair Expert podcast: “I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers....
The Duke of Sussex and Johnson are believed to have had a one-on-one with each other for around 20 minutes at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London. According to the Daily Mail, the pair met in a room at the Intercontinental Hotel in the Greenwich area of London after Harry had a number of other meetings with African heads of state. As noted by Sky News and political correspondents from The Guardian and the Press Association newswire, neither Harry nor Johnson had any aides with them during the meeting, so it is not known what they discussed....
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles both appear as characters in the TV special of Thomas and The Royal Engine. But the Duke of Sussex, 35, is there in the flesh, reclining in an armchair by a fireplace with a copy of the book, addressing a new generation of fans of the show. He tells the audience: “This year Thomas & Friends is celebrating 75 years of friendship and teamwork....
Dr. Jane Goodall claims Harry, 35, said “he’s not growing up like that” after she tried to teach the monarch’s famous gesture. She also believes the prince will give up hunting because wife Meghan Markle is against it. The primatologist and activist, 86, said she has been in touch with the prince, who began a new life in Los Angeles at the end of March. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to America from Canada as they left the royal family but their future plans are officially on hold amid the coronavirus pandemic....
The pair met behind the scenes at the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium where they separately watched the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals. The royal smiled and shook the stand-up comedian’s hand, suggesting he took the September 2021 skit in the light-hearted spirit it was intended. At the Emmy Awards, host Cedric said during his routine: “As great as The Crown is, it pales in comparison to the real monarchy…...
The Duke of Sussex praised his mother’s work on HIV in a podcast for the Tackle HIV campaign with Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas. It comes after Queen Elizabeth II announced on Saturday, February 5, her desire for the Duchess of Cornwall to be known as queen consort when Prince Charles becomes king. At the time of the couple’s marriage in 2005 it was said Camilla would instead by known as “Princess Consort” out of respect for Diana’s memory eight years after her death....
The Royal Foundation once brought together the good causes of the two brothers and their wives, Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton, until the Duke and Duchess of Sussex broke off on their own. Anti-monarchy campaign Republic has asked the U.K. Charity Commission to investigate $366,000 (£290,000) of funds that moved between the Royal Foundation and two of Harry’s projects. The first is the now-defunct Sussex Royal, which was closed after Queen Elizabeth II ruled they could not trade off their royal connections....
The Duke of Sussex is due to publish his autobiography toward the end of 2022 and there has already been fierce debate about whether it will take a sledgehammer to the Sussexes’ relationship with the royal family. Richard Kay, a journalist and former close confidant of Princes Diana, said conversations Harry had with friends of his mother’s at around the time of the 20th anniversary of her death are causing particular concern....
The royal couple has been in the Bahamas as part of a three-stage Caribbean tour celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee. Protesters stood outside the Sybil Strachan primary school in the capital Nassau, on the New Providence island, with signs reading “Freedom, Redemption and International Reparation Now,” according to a video posted on Twitter by Jared Higgs, assistant broadcast editor at The Nassau Guardian. As the group was kept some distance from the school, the royal party drove past them on their way to begin their scheduled event in which Kate was due to give a speech to schoolchildren....
The Duke of Cambridge, 38, told ITV environmental documentary A Planet for Us All of of his pride in his own father, Prince Charles, and grandfather, Prince Philip. And speaking of his own career as a royal and experiences as a parent, he also said that he hopes Prince George will feel the same way. Sky News reports how in the film, the prince said: “My grandfather, my father, have been in conservation, the environmental work for many years....
The Duke of Cambridge had a jokey chat with Vkeveen Martinez, 15, as he met the Garifuna community in Hopkins on Sunday, March 20. Quoted by People, Martinez, a member of the Light of Hopkins dance group, said she asked what it was like to live in a castle. She said: “He said ‘it’s tricky—my grandmother lives there.’” The teenager added: “It was amazing. It was a lot to get a prince out to dance, and I held his hand....
Historians are likely to judge that Diana’s reign—and reign she did—owed its brilliance to the tranquillity of the times. With no global wars or cataclysm, no Hitlers or Churchills to dominate the public realm, we could turn our full attention to diversions of gossip and fantasy. We now routinely view image and spectacle as large with meaning, with old-fashioned substance suddenly the boring trifle. The irony is that with the end of her short life, Diana may well achieve a political goal more substantial than that of all but a few politicians....
The footage, showing images of Diana from her earliest public engagements to the final years of her life, was uploaded by user princess.diana.spencer and has received more than 420,000 likes. The images all show the princess adopting what has become known in recent years as the “duchess slant,” a way of sitting while wearing a skirt, with knees together and feet offset to one-side. The term “duchess slant” was popularized by the American-English etiquette coach Myka Meier in 2020 to describe the posture now faithfully adopted by the then-duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton (now the princess of Wales), and Meghan Markle, the duchess of Sussex....
