Powerful speech from the Duchess of Cornwall tonight on the epidemic of violence against women.
Camilla speaks how “one women is killed by a man every three days. Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Wenjing Lin, Geetika Goyal and Bennylyn Burke are names which…must never be forgotten.”
Camilla also said spoke about the shocking rape figures: 144,000 women were victims of rape or attempted rape … This equates to roughly 16 of the most serious sexual offences every hour. Sixteen every hour.” #ViolenceAgainstWomen
Camilla also said survivors of violence and sex assaults need support to feel shameless.
She said “rapists are not born, they are constructed. And it takes an entire community…to dismantle the lies, words & actions that foster a culture in which sexual assault is seen as normal”
WATCH: Camilla’s speech on #ViolenceAgainstWomen
Camilla said: “Each one of these women endured unimaginable torment – and their loved ones who are left behind continue to suffer in the wake of their deaths”.
She read an extract from the statement by Sarah Everard’s mother 👇
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JUST ANNOUNCED: The Queen has been forced to pull out of @COP26
Buckingham Palace says she has "regretfully decided that she will no longer travel to Glasgow" for the world leaders' reception on Monday.
She is "disappointed not to attend" but will deliver a video message
The Queen's decision to pull out of the big UN summit on such an important issue as climate change is a blow.
She was a big draw for the world leaders.
We are told that she hopes no other leader will use her absence as a reason not to attend 🌍
The Queen is following doctor's orders to rest and do only light duties.
The video message to delegates on Monday will be filmed later this week.
The Queen recently expressed her own "irritation" that many world leaders had yet to commit to attending @COP26
For the second time this year, the Met Police decide to take no further action on claims about Prince Andrew.
Officers reviewed the matter after the Prince’s accuser Virginia Giuffre filed her lawsuit in August claiming she had been sexually assaulted in London in 2001.
Full story on Met Police confirming they will not make any further criminal investigations into the claims made against Prince Andrew (it’s the third time they’ve looked into it). Here 👇 itv.com/news/2021-10-1…
A source close to Prince Andrew responds to the Met Police decision: “It comes as no surprise that the Met Police have confirmed that, having reviewed the sex assault claims against The Duke for a third time, they are taking no further action.”
Court is underway.
Prince Andrew lawyer, Andrew Brettner has told the New York court that he is "appearing for Prince Andrew, the Duke of York".
The Prince's accuser Virginia Giuffre's is represented by her attorney David Boies.
Virginia Giufree lawyer David Boies told court: We proceeded to serve papers on "Prince Andrew in several ways" pursuant to the Hague Convention including delivering the complaint to the "usual last known address of the Defendent" and sent by Royal Mail.
David Boies: I understand that Prince Andrew is to challenge our service [of papers on him]. We would ask the court to grant an alternative means of service in the interests of moving the lawsuit along. #PrinceAndrew
Yes another High Court hearing today in Meghan v Mail on Sunday case (which she won on privacy grounds recently).
These arguments concern outstanding issues of copyright of Meghan's letter to her father.
A contested issue because her former Palace press secretary had seen a draft
In Meghan's submission, Jason Knauf - former Comms Sec at Kensington Palace - states:
- he "was not an author of the Electronic Draft"
- he "does not own any copyright in the Electronic Draft"
- he "had no wish, and did not consent, to being joined as a party in the proceedings"
Additionally, lawyers for Buckingham Palace have submitted - via the Keeper of the Privy Purse "acting on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen" - that they "do not consider the Crown to be the copyright owner of the Electronic Draft" of Meghan's letter to her father.
The Mail on Sunday has been told it can publish a smaller front page apology than the one Meghan's legal team had demanded. Meghan wanted an apology similar in size and scale to the original story about her letter to her father, Thomas Markle, on the newspaper's front page.
There will a FURTHER hearing to decide the account of profits that the Mail on Sunday should pay Meghan in damages for breaching her privacy by publishing her letter to her father.
The Mail on Sunday must publish its apology to Meghan either this Sunday or the following Sunday depending news on the day.
(There was also much discussion about font size and pixels on Mail Online - but I really won't bore you with that)
First up, Meghan says she will reveal whether they are having a boy or a girl when Harry joins Oprah later 👶
Meghan: I didn’t understand what the job was. What does it mean to be a working royal. What do you do?
She also says “I didn’t do any research” before I dated Harry