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Lady Celia was a close friend of Queen Elizabeth II and married to a trusted former member of the monarch’s staff, Sam Vestey, who was Master of the Horse. The 71-year-old was close to Elizabeth, through their shared love of horse racing, and also to Harry’s father Prince Charles. Harry has been in touch with the family since the tragedy on Saturday, a source told Newsweek, stating: “The Duke has been in touch with her children and his thoughts are with her family....

For most of the 1980s, he worked for a concert promotor, and then again in the early 2000s, and trust me: He has seen, experienced and dealt with some truly insane stuff. Most of those stories, for a variety of reasons, are untellable in spots like this, and stratifying them is almost impossible. When you’ve got crazy, personal anecdotes about Frank Sinatra and Madonna and, like, Billy Joel, how do you pick your favorite?...

The two princes reunited in London today to unveil a statue of the former Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace. Following their estrangement since Harry’s move to the United States, the brothers presented a united front for the occasion, which was held privately at the Sunken Gardens at Kensington Place. The Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex unveiled the new memorial and released a joint statement, saying they wished their mother was still with them....

Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace tackles the dramatic racism allegations at the heart of Meghan and Harry’s Oprah Winfrey interview, but shows the Duke of Cambridge dismissing the issue. The third installment of the network’s Harry and Meghan franchise shows the couple quitting their duties after experiencing racism in Britain. In one conversation, Harry asks William to speak out against racism during an exchange in the gardens at Kensington Palace....

Bernice King linked the Duke of Cambridge’s remarks to colonialism after William and Kate Middleton visited the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London to support the relief effort on March 9. Footage from the event showed Prince William said: “Everyone is horrified by what they are seeing. The news every day, it’s almost unfathomable to actually witness it, to see it. For our generation, it’s very alien to see this in Europe....

The video, which shows Charlotte on her first day of school in 2019 and Kate during a zoom call with teachers last year, has been viewed over 600,000 times on TikTok after being posted by user royalfancams, receiving in excess of 14,000 likes. The TikTok video was proving very popular as Charlotte, 7, alongside brothers George, 9, and Louis, 4, started a new school located seven miles from the queen’s Windsor Castle estate on Thursday....

Flowers, the Pro Bowl cornerback released by the Kansas City Chiefs on June 13 in an apparent salary-cap move, has agreed to sign with AFC West rival San Diego, according to multiple reports Tuesday afternoon. FoxSports.com reported that he got a one-year deal. With the 28-year-old Flowers off the market, everybody on the Sporting News top-10 list of available free agents can move up a notch. Cornerback Chris Houston, released by the Lions around the same time Flowers was let go, was No....

The Australian has stared down the world’s best surfers and won — he owns 20 world tour victories. But walking away from Sunday’s showdown in the J-Bay Open might be his biggest victory yet. MORE: British Open photos | Notable sports deaths in 2015 The defending J-Bay Open champion was just into the event’s final in South Africa when this happened: The shark — officials later called it a great white and that there were two — knocked him off his board and into the water, but Fanning escaped unharmed....

Representative Andy Biggs, a staunchly pro-Donald-Trump Republican who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, sent a letter dated September 2 to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy calling for a change to GOP Conference rules that would effectively remove Cheney and Kinzinger from the caucus. In the letter, Biggs, on behalf of his pro-Trump caucus, accused his two GOP colleagues of being “spies for the Democrats” because of their involvement with the select committee....

Applying to college is a family matter. Whether it becomes dysfunctional depends mostly on the parents, but not entirely. Marybeth Kravets, the college counselor at Deerfield High, hears it all the time from Mom and Dad: “We’re applying to ?K” She has to reply: “Pardon me, that pronoun is wrong.” First and foremost, counselors and schools suggest, parents need to enter the process with a bit of psychoanalysis of their own motives....

Mexico is one of several countries that have agreements with Russia to supply COVID vaccines, but is still waiting for sufficient quantities to be delivered. Due to the shortages, Mexico’s assistant health secretary Hugo López-Gatell said Russian scientists are suggesting giving a second booster shot six months after the first dose instead of two Sputnik V shots several weeks apart. The Russian Direct Investment Fund, which has paid to develop the Sputnik V vaccine and is in charge of marketing abroad, denied the reports....

Helmut Norpoth, a political science professor at Stony Brook University–who forecasted Trump’s 2016 win eight months ahead of the election and has accurately predicted 25 out of 27 elections–said on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle that Trump’s reelection chances are above 90 percent. “The key to the November election is the primaries,” Norpoth said, adding Trump won Republican primaries quite easily while presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had difficulty winning delegates....

The professors—Dan Smith, Michael McDonald and Sharon Austin—alleged in a court filing that the school violated their First Amendment rights through a policy that led to “stifling of faculty speech against the state,” the Tampa Bay Times reported. The lawsuit comes despite the University of Florida announcing Friday that it would reverse its earlier decision, allowing the professors to provide testimony as long as they did so on their own time and without using school resources....

And for Representative Henry Cuellar, her opponent, that’s not a good thing. With the Democratic primary results for the 28th Congressional District sitting at Cuellar with 48.5% and Cisneros at 46.8%, with 95% of the votes counted, the race is now headed to a May 24 runoff election. The runoff requirement was met when a third candidate, Tannya Benavides, received 4.7% of the vote. She will not proceed to the runoff....

“It doesn’t matter what your background is or what your pedigree is, at the end of the day you have to have the vision and the drive to get where you want to go,” Welteroth told Newsweek Conversations. In her exclusive sit-down with Newsweek Conversations, Welteroth talked about the lessons she learned growing up in Northern California, the impact fashion can have on being a force for change and how the writer and public speaker Harriette Cole became the mentor that changed her life....

I’ll reference UFCollective projections while parsing this week’s developments. Week 17 Rankings: Quarterback | Running Back | Wide Receiver | Tight End | Defense | Kicker NFL Week 17 DFS Ownership: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes ($7,100) and Ben Roethlisberger ($7,000) head the pack at UFCollective, hosting two of the 10 most-friendly defenses for quarterbacks in DraftKings scoring. Both are expected to air it out with major playoff implications at play....

CONCACAF’s announcement earlier this week of the format for the new Nations League competition revealed what had already been feared, that the United States won’t be playing a meaningful match until the summer of 2019, at the Gold Cup. The U.S. won’t begin Nations League play until the fall of 2019, meaning we have 16 months before U.S. players will return to action with something tangible on the line....

Ozil future does not depend on Wenger Bale was out of action for three months after undergoing an operation on his ankle in November and has started just two of the five games he has played since – getting sent off in the 3-3 draw with Las Palmas, rendering him suspended for Sunday. He scored twice in those 253 minutes and overall he has nine in 21 games in all competitions, but he has been absent for the recent clashes with draw with Barcelona, loss to Sevilla and first-leg tie against Napoli in the Champions League....

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel also harshly criticized the legal team of the double-amputee athlete, saying it floated more than one theory about what happened on the night that Pistorius shot Steenkamp through a closed toilet door in his home. Defense lawyers, Nel said, had argued that Pistorius acted in self-defense, fearing an intruder was in the house, but also raised the possibility that he was not criminally responsible, accidentally shooting Steenkamp because he was “startled....

Here are some of the worst offenders and how common mistakes can be avoided. Bird Droppings When bird excrement falls on your car, it leaves a nasty stain. The ammonia and nitrogen content in bird droppings can lead to discoloration of your vehicle’s finish. This is because a car’s paint lacquer warms up under heat exposure during the day then cools down and contracts at night. When it contracts, mold forms around the paint lacquer that damages the reflective properties of the car’s paintwork....