ROYAL fans are convinced Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could be stripped of their royal titles within weeks.

With coronavirus raging, insiders had said there's simply no way the Queen's long-awaited 12 month review of the pair's so-called Megxit can go ahead as planned in March.

But while covid means the couple can't meet with the Queen face-to-face, some royal watchers are convinced that the meeting will not actually be postponed and could now be held over a video call instead.

When the pair fled the UK, initially for Canada, they claimed they are understood to have told the Queen the were abandoning royal duties in order to escape "unwanted" attention in the UK.

But they have since relocated to California, where they have signed numerous multi-million attention-seeking media deals with the likes of Netflix and Spotify and even dragged son Archie onto a recent podcast.

The Queen is unlikely to have much sympathy for that kind of hypocrisy and royal experts around the world have questioned why she would allow the pair to cash-in by using their titles while shirking their royal duties.

Stripping the pair of the Duchy of Sussex would once and for all sever their ties to the royal family and leave them free to earn money however they choose.

Follow our Meghan and Harry live blog below for the very latest news on the couple and the Royal Family

• Katie Davis3 minutes ago

  PSYCHIC PREDICTS TWO ROYAL DIVORCES THIS YEAR

  A psychic who uses asparagus to predict the future claims 2021 will see two royal divorces.

  Mystic Veg, Jemima Packington, made the bold claim when she appeared on This Morning today with new Friday hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary.

  When quizzed about the royals, Jemima said: "In June the Queen is going to make an announcement coinciding with her official birthday; we've also got to remember that William, Duke of Cambridge, his birthday is in June, so I think that is very significant."

  She added: "There’s going to be a couple of royal divorces."

  Dermot responded: "That's quite a bombshell."

• Katie Davis29 minutes ago

  REUNION OF BROTHERS COULD BE 'AWKWARD'

  If Prince Harry and Prince William reunite this year it could be "very awkward", according to a royal author.

  With a number of special events taking place this year, it is possible the brothers could soon be back together.

  "I think it’s going to be very awkward if they do meet up,” Phil Dampier, author of Royally Suited: Harry and Meghan In Their Own Words, told The Sun Online.

  “From what I am told the rift is not a lot better at the moment – they are not talking a lot.

  “I think they will put on a united front for the unveiling of Diana’s statue and I’m sure they will put on a united front for the birthday celebrations but behind the scenes I think there’s going to be a lot of tension."

• Katie Davis46 minutes ago

  ROYAL EVENTS HAPPENING THIS YEAR

  A number of special royal events will be taking place this year – which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will miss if they are unable to travel to the UK.

  On April 21, the country will celebrate the Queen's 95th birthday.

  It is also a landmark year for the monarch's husband, Prince Philip, who will turn 100 on June 10.

  Meanwhile, a statue of Princess Diana is set to be unveiled in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace on July 1, which would have been her 60th birthday.

  

• Katie DavisToday, 11:45

  MEGHAN AND HARRY 'HAVE ALREADY DEALT WITH' BIGGEST ISSUES AHEAD OF MEGXIT REVIEW

  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have dealt with the four biggest issues ahead of the 12-month Megxit review, a source has revealed.

  When Harry and Meghan stepped down as working royals last year, it was on the condition that the prince would meet with the Queen at a later date to discuss how the arrangement was working.

  That was due to be on March 31 this year, but as a terrifying mutant Covid strain ravages the UK a ban on non-essential travel has been imposed.

  However a source told Newsweek: "The 12-month review was mostly a period of time when the transition could take place.

  "The biggest things that were part of it were around financial independence, household support and staff, security and housing – all of which have been dealt with."

• Katie DavisToday, 11:24

  QUEEN TO MISS ANNUAL TRADITION

  The Queen will not be able to carry out an annual tradition due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

  The 94-year-old monarch usually spends Christmas at Sandringham and stays there until after the anniversary of her father King George VI's death.

  The Queen has always stayed at her estate in Norfolk to mark the anniversary in private.

  King George VI died on February 6, 1952.

  Due to Tier 4 restrictions in place at the time, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh instead remained at Windsor Castle for the festive period.

• Katie DavisToday, 10:54

  IS MEGHAN MARKLE CANADIAN OR AMERICAN?

  Meghan Markle was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents Doria Ragland and Thomas Markle.

  She’s American, but spent a lot of her working life in Canada, where she filmed Suits playing the character of Rachel Zane.

  Meghan attended Immaculate Heart High School, before she graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago with a double major in theatre and international relations.

  She’s since travelled all over the world for work and for her charity and humanitarian pursuits, such as to Rwanda for the Clean Water Campaign.

• Katie DavisToday, 10:30

  MEGXIT BRANDED 'DISASTROUS' ON ANNIVERSARY

  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's shock decision to step down as senior royals has been branded "disastrous" one year on.

  Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told the Express the pair "precipitated a crisis" with their Megxit announcement.

  He told the paper: "It was brutally sudden and ended with the Sandringham agreement which led to them stepping down – with which they were unhappy.

  "Their plan was impractical and would have led to conflicts of interest as they wanted to become financially independent and this meant commercial ventures, which might have been inappropriate if they had remained senior working royals.

  "The Royal Family had to contend with losing three senior working members in two months and obviously, considering the high hopes after Meghan joined it, this was disastrous".

• Katie DavisToday, 10:05

  WHEN DID PRINCE HARRY MARRY MEGHAN MARKLE?

  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle married on May 19, 2018.

  As the ceremony took place at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, more than 100,000 people crowded the streets to celebrate.

  An intimate reception with just 200 guests followed at Frogmore House, which the newly-weds drove alone to in an electric Jaguar sports car.

  The marriage came just months after Prince Charles announced the couple's engagement on November 27, 2017

  

   

• Katie DavisToday, 09:38

  WHERE DO HARRY AND MEGHAN LIVE?

  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle live in a mansion in the Montecito neighbourhood in Santa Barbara, California.

  The Sussexes are not short of star-studded company in Montecito, with a large number of famous and wealthy neighbours.

  Meghan's friend Oprah Winfrey is among those in the area, along with fellow chat show star Ellen DeGeneres.

  There are enough actors to go round as well with Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, John Cleese, John Travolta, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin nearby.

  And then if Meghan, Harry or Archie want some professional sporting training and advice, they could call upon golf legend Fred Couples or tennis aces Mike Bryan and Jimmy Connors.

• Katie DavisToday, 09:23

  PRINCE HARRY SCRAPS UK RETURN FOR MEGXIT REVIEW

  Prince Harry has scrapped a planned face-to-face meeting with the Queen for the 12-month review of Megxit, it has been claimed.

  When Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down as working royals last year, it was on the condition that Harry would meet with his grandma at a later date to discuss how the arrangement was working.

  A 12-month review was due for March 31 this year.

  But the prince has been forced to cancel the plans as a terrifying mutant covid strain ravages the UK – with a ban on non-essential travel imposed.

  Royal sources told The Mirror Harry is yet to re-arrange with his gran, but is expected to do so in the coming weeks.

• Katie DavisToday, 08:59

  COUPLE FORKED OUT '$400 AN HOUR TO MAKE PODCAST'

  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry "forked out $400-an-hour to record a mental health podcast at a luxury beachfront mansion" instead of their own £11m home, it has been claimed.

  In October, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined Californian high school students on their "Teenager Therapy' podcast" to mark Mental Health Day.

  To promote the episode, the hosts shared a photo of the royal couple taken during the recording – where they're sitting in front of a stone fireplace and wearing face masks.

  Although royal fans initially questioned whether the couple had shared another glimpse inside their "forever home", the Daily Mail claims the podcast was actually recorded at a beachfront mansion a short drive down the road.

  Described as "On the sand in Montecito", the beachfront house can be rented for a minimum of three hours – costing at least £900.

• Katie DavisToday, 08:41

  WHEN DID HARRY AND MEGHAN MOVE TO AMERICA?

  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, along with their young son Archie, spent six weeks in Canada between November 2019 and January 2020.

  The couple left Archie with a nanny to briefly return to the UK to sort a deal for their relinquishing of royal responsibilities, before heading back to Vancouver Island.

  Yet, the coronavirus pandemic pushed up their plans to settle, moving to Malibu in Los Angeles in March to avoid the borders between USA and Canada closing for all non-essential travel.

  In June 2020, the couple splashed out more than £11.5million ($14.65m) on a beautiful mansion in the Montecito neighbourhood in Santa Barbara, California.

• Katie DavisToday, 08:27

  ONE YEAR ON FROM MEGXIT

  This time last year – January 8, 2020 – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they would be stepping down as senior royals.

  A meeting – dubbed the "Sandringham Summit" – followed between senior members.

  It forced the Queen to issue a rare first-person statement, in which she said she was "entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan's desire to create a new life as a young family".

  On January 18, it was announced an agreement had been reached whereby Meghan and Harry would "no longer be working members of Britain's royal family".

  The couple's position within the royal family is due to be reviewed by the Queen in March.

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 23:11

  HOW IS ARCHEWELL PRONOUNCED?

  There appears to be some confusion to how Harry and Meghan's new non-profit organisation Archewell is pronounced.

  According to experts it might not be how you would expect.

  Most people believe it is pronounced with a ‘ch’ sound like in the name Archie, but the Greek word ‘Arche’ is actually pronounced with a ‘k’ like in archetype.

  Ann Gripper, who hosts Pod Save the Queen, said that a commentator has written on the podcast's Instagram page: “If it’s based on the Greek word Arche, as in archetype, then ‘ch’ would be pronounced like a ‘k’ as in archetype, not ‘ch’ as in Archie.”

  The host said: “That’s an interesting thing, we need to find out whether it’s Arche-well, Arch-e-well, Ark-e-well…”

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 22:46

  MEGHAN'S FACE MASK OF CHOICE

  Face masks have become an essential item to have on you before leaving the house, just like your keys, wallet and phone.

  Meghan has previously been snapped wearing a chic blue and white, striped face mask.

  The £11 mask was by NYC boutique Royal Jelly Harlem.

  It's called the 'blue seersucker' and is made in New York from 100% cotton.

  

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 22:04

  MEGHAN IS AWARE HER AND HARRY ARE NO LONGER 'THE GOLDEN COUPLE', INSIDER CLAIMS

  The Duchess of Sussex has taken on two new publicity experts in a desperate bid to bolster her ailing image, The Sun has exclusively revealed.

  Meghan has appointed the US-based pair to head-up an urgently revamped press team following several embarrassing PR blunders.

  A source said: “Meghan is well aware that she and Harry are no longer the golden couple.

  “Prince William and Kate can do no wrong now as far as the UK is concerned, whereas she and Harry are seen as a self-interested couple who quit the Royal Family to pursue their own interests.

  “Meghan hopes to turn things around and show people how committed to doing good she is, and for them to see a different, more positive side to her.”

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 21:17

  HARRY WAS BLOWN AWAY BY PIC OF MEGHAN BEFORE THEIR FIRST DATE

  Prince Harry was blown away by Meghan Markle after a friend showed him a picture of her in a slinky silver dress, it has been revealed.

  The Duke of Sussex was set up on a blind date with the former actress at Soho House's Dean Street Townhouse in 2016.

  In biography Finding Freedom, it says: “A friend had shown him an Instagram photo of Meghan in the slinky silver mini dress at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards.”

  It stated the prince “liked what he saw” – with “newly single” Meghan likewise keen after having joked she wanted to find a “nice English gentleman to flirt with” on the trip to London.

  

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 20:10

  INTEREST IN MEGHAN'S WARDROBE PEAKED IN 2018

  2018 was a BIG year for Meghan Markle.

  In May, she married into the Royal Family and by October, it was announced that she was expecting her first child with Prince Harry.

  But it was also a winning year for her wardrobe – and in December, fashion bible Vogue named her one of the best-dressed stars of 2018.

  Royal umbrella makers Fulton Umbrellas has analysed Google searches around Royal fashion from 2017 to 2020.

  And in 2018, Meghan's outfits resulted in over 250,000 searches as shoppers tried to snap up her outfits.

  But last year, that number drastically dropped to 48,000 – which the researchers believe is a result of Megxit.

  

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 19:36

  FINDING FREEDOM BIOGRAPHY ON SALE FOR JUST 99P

  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive book Finding Freedom is now being sold for 99p, just five months after it was published.

  The biography was initially priced at £20 when it was released in August.

  But punters are able to buy the ‘unauthorised’ memoir on online book shop Hive and get change out of £1.

  The book by Royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand is also failing to attract bidders on auction site eBay.

  Proving that interest in Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, is waning, one seller is offering it for £2.50 but it has yet to receive offers while another has it at £1.98 to buy it now with free postage. And a cheeky eBayer has put it in the fiction category.

  

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 19:11

  MEG LOVES SENDING HAND-WRITTEN NOTES

  In her lifestyle blog The Tig she gave followers tips on the art of penmanship.

  She wrote: “I’m admittedly a Luddite (ironic considering I’m now the girl with a lifestyle website, I know), but if given the option between fingers to keyboard, or pen to paper, I will always choose the latter.

  “Because amongst the throwback things that I love (a ’62 Porsche speedster à la Dylan McKay in 90210, a bevy of Vargas girls, a Busby Berkeley film, or cooking over a charcoal grill), what trumps all is my love of writing (and receiving) a handwritten note.”

  

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 18:50

  THE QUEEN WAS TORN BETWEEN ‘LOVE AND DUTY’ OVER MEGXIT

  Speaking to Sky News, royal author Robert Lacey admitted that Her Majesty was torn between her love for her grandson and her duty as the monarch – but ultimately valued Prince Harry’s happiness.

  He said: “We know that she loves Prince Harry as a grandmother.

  “We know that early March [last] year she deliberately invited Harry for a private lunch right in the middle of all the trouble.

  “She did this to talk to him and tell him anytime he wanted to come back he would be very welcome.”

  However, The Queen did make clear that the couple COULDN’T use their Sussex Royal branding to make money in the future.

  Robert added: “She has a job to do, she has a Royal Family with standards to uphold.

  “At that stage, she did not feel the commercial plans that the Sussexes were putting forward were dignified or royal.”

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 18:17

  MEGHAN'S NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS ARE TO STOP SWEARING AND BITING HER NAILS – AND THEY'RE THE SAME EVERY YEAR

  On her now-defunct lifestyle blog, The Tig, the Duchess of Sussex revealed her struggle to give up the two "unladylike" habits back in January 2016, according to the Daily Telegraph.

  She wrote: "These make my New Year's resolution list nearly (AKA actually every) single year.

  "The swearing comes in lulls triggered by being overworked or feeling mighty cheeky after a couple drinks.

  "And when it comes to the biting of the nails — well, it still happens with a turbulent flight or a stressful day.

  "It's unladylike. But then again, so is the swearing. Dammit."

  

• Carly Bass7th Jan 2021, 17:52

  WHEN DID HARRY AND MEGHAN MEET?

  Meghan and Prince Harry met on a blind date in July 2016, which was arranged by “a mutual friend,” the prince revealed in a BBC interview.

  In November 2016, Kensington Palace confirmed the Suits actress was the Prince’s girlfriend, with a statement adding that Harry was concerned for her safety due to high media attention.

  

• Katie Davis7th Jan 2021, 16:51

  PRINCE HARRY 'SADDENED' AFTER ARTICLE CLAIMED HE SNUBBED MARINES

  Prince Harry was "frustrated and saddened" after an article claimed he snubbed the Royal Marines when he stepped down as a senior royal, his lawyers said.

  The Duke's ability to help veterans and serving military by attracting public support were "seriously" hampered by allegations in the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, according to the legal papers lodged with the High Court.

  After the articles appeared in October, Harry began legal proceedings before Christmas against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline.

  The Mail on Sunday has since issued an apology to Prince Harry and made a donation to the Invictus Games fund.

  The article, published on October 25, claimed that "informed sources say the prince has not been in touch by phone, letter nor email since his last appearance as an honorary Marine in March, prompting exasperated top brass to start considering a replacement".

• Katie Davis7th Jan 2021, 16:31

  COUPLE IN 'VERY GOOD PLACE' A YEAR ON FROM MEGXIT

  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are "happy with their new life in the US" a year on from Megxit.

  The pair are in a "very good place" and feel their Archewell organisation is doing "amazing things".

  A source has said: "After a very turbulent 12 months for everyone in the world and massive changes of moving country and all the rest of it, they have also been very vocal about what they have gone through in their own personal life.

  "They have a house. They have created the financial independence that they were after.

  "They have launched their organisation and their organisation is under way doing amazing things already. And so I think that they are in a very good place."

  

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