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Prince Charles biographer Jonathan Dimbleby accuses Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of “vicious, cruel and horribly selfish” behavior during their interview with Oprah Winfrey

• Jonathan Dimbleby called the couple’s interview with Oprah a “great shame”
• He said it had done “great damage” during an address at the Buxton International Festival
• He interviewed the Prince of Wales in 1994, in which Charles admitted his affair

By Richard Marsden for the Daily Mail

Posted: 10 p.m. BST, July 23, 2021 | Updated: 01:14 BST, July 24, 2021

Prince Charles’ biographer accused the Duke and Duchess of Sussex of ‘vicious, cruel and horribly selfish’ behavior during their infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Jonathan Dimbleby said it was a “great shame” that the couple continued the broadcast earlier this year.

Speaking at the Buxton International Festival in Derbyshire this week, the veteran broadcaster, 76, said: “I think the interview was a very big disgrace.

“I think it caused great damage of an undeserved kind to the royal household and in particular to the Queen and her family.”

Prince Charles biographer Jonathan Dimbleby (who went to Highgrove House to film the 1994 interview with the Prince of Wales) accused the Duke and Duchess of Sussex of ‘vicious, cruel and horribly selfish’ behavior during their infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey

Mr Dimbleby, whose father Richard became the first reporter to interview a member of the royal family on a 1961 Panorama show with Prince Philip, said he had met Harry “in the past when he was young”.

He said his memories of Harry were of a “charming and very kind” man “who had served very well in the armed forces”.

But he said he was “very disappointed” with his subsequent behavior, adding: “I felt he was being led a bit by the nose by his wife.”

Oprah’s cat, which drew a global audience of over 50 million people, was “vicious, cruel and horribly selfish,” the historian said.

‘Harry’s remarks about his father, I just don’t understand. I think there are some things you should say and do in private, ”he added.

“I believe a lot of innuendos he made were inconsistent with the facts.”

Jonathan Dimbleby said it was a “great shame” that Prince Harry and his wife Meghan continued the broadcast earlier this year.

Mr Dimbleby conducted the explosive 1994 television interview with the Prince of Wales in which he admitted his affair with Camilla and also wrote Prince of Wales: A Biography the same year.

In Charles’s interview, which took place the year before Princess Diana’s interview with disgraceful BBC reporter Martin Bashir, the prince was asked if he was trying to be “loyal and honorable” to Diana.

He said, ‘Yes, absolutely.’ But, on further questioning, Charles added: “Yes … until it broke down beyond repair, we both tried.”

Oprah’s cat, which has attracted a worldwide audience of over 50 million people, was “vicious, cruel and horribly selfish,” Mr Dimbleby said.

Mr Dimbleby, who was launching a new story volume, Barbarossa, on Hitler’s failed WWII invasion of Russia, said he decided to ask Charles about his infidelity during the interview of 1994 because of “huge speculation”.

He said “the whole project” would have been in jeopardy “if I had not asked whether he had been unfaithful” to Princess Diana.

Mr Dimbleby, whose interview with the Prince of Wales was part of an ITV documentary Charles: The Private Man, The Public Role, said: “It was part of a 90-minute documentary on his public life .

“There was huge speculation about his relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.”

Without a doubt, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s performance in Game 6 on Tuesday was unprecedented. For fans, offloading 50 points against the Phoenix Suns in the 2021 NBA Finals arguably cemented his place among the best international players in NBA history. But an expert is not yet convinced.

Best-selling author Roland Lazenby, 69, – who has written numerous books on professional basketball and covered NBA greats such as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Earvin “Magic” Johnson – recently weighed in on the Antetokounmpo’s performance and whether he ranks among the greatest players of all time. Play the game.

In an exclusive interview with a Filipino journalist Brian yalung from Sports Bytes PH, Lazenby was asked if he thinks Game 6 performance made the Milwaukee Bucks star one of the best international players in NBA history.

“Giannis is on the verge of making a name for himself as a great international player,” Lazenby told Yalung.

“Will he be able to lead his team to more titles?” If so, then maybe. His performance was spectacular in Game 6. Has he learned to do things on a new level? Can he still win? Everything is to be seen, ”he added.

Lazenby was also asked if he thought the series would have ended any differently if he had been forced into Game 7. He stressed that it was important for the Bucks to close Game 6 at home. The author also credited Antetokounmpo for his free throw area, believing it wouldn’t have been the same if the NBA Finals had moved to Phoenix.

“It was very important for the Bucks to conclude at home, where they had the advantage. Their victory in Game 5 in Phoenix was a remarkable game, as a team. What Giannis did in Game 6 was mind-blowing. Getting into that free throw area probably wouldn’t have happened to Phoenix, ”Lazenby said.

As for the Bucks who clashed, Lazenby said he thought it would be a huge challenge. There are factors to consider, including the COVID-19 situation. Other than that, it will also depend on what happens during the next crazy offseason, which was covered in a previous one. report.

“Back to back is a huge challenge. The season has fallen behind and the Bucks played until July. The following season reverts to the old schedule, though [COVID-19] don’t steal it anymore. There are a lot of factors there, including how other teams are reacting to their failures this season, ”said Lazenby.

Giannis Antetokounmpo # 34 of the Milwaukee Bucks holds the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP Award and the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy after defeating the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 to win the 2021 NBA Finals at the Fiserv Forum Photo: Getty Images | Justin casterline

“It may be controversial, but he sees it as a return to society. If you build a presence in space, he would say, it keeps the world from being stuck in its own stasis. Of course, you can argue that it is more urgent to invest in the protection and replenishment of Earth’s resources, but all his life Jeff Bezos believed that the future was in space.

And if that makes him sound like a supernatural space geek, Stone issues a warning. “It’s a man with his feet planted on the ground. One of his superpowers proven by the growth of Amazon is his ability to look around corners and see into the future. When he takes off today, in his mind, he’s about to do it all over again. “

Viewing space geeks as eccentrics, he insists, is outdated. “Nerds now run the world, the boys who read science fiction have become the men who built multi-billion dollar tech companies in Silicon Valley. Where do you think Amazon’s Alexa came from? Being called a space geek is a mark of respect for Bezos.

Women, of course, also read sci-fi and start tech companies, but there seems to be something uniquely masculine about the three billionaires currently competing to outdo themselves on their rise in space. Richard Branson in Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity beat Bezos’ New Shepard by nine days. And Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Space X isn’t far behind.

“The Branson project is about space tourism,” suggests Stone. “Although Bezos also likes the idea of ​​tourism, he takes a broader view and builds an orbital rocket and a lunar lander. In this, his real battle is with Musk.

And it is against Musk that Bezos is measured. They’re both geeks, Stone says, “but Musk has this ability to turn his admirers into fans in ways that Bezos just couldn’t do. Yes, Musk has controversial views and can be unruly on social media [he has criticised Covid lockdowns as dumb and accused governments of manipulating the death toll], but that seems to make it more popular.

As part of a new group of In their own words specials profiling eminent personalities, PBS is tackling Pope Francis July 20. One of the featured experts is Austen Ivereigh, a British Catholic journalist, commentator and biographer of the pontiff.

Pope Francis joined Chuck berry (July 27) and Diana, Princess of Wales (August 8) in the eclectic trio of summer offerings. Coming up this fall are profiles of the former president Jimmy carter, Tesla head Elon musk and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

More of the same about Pope Francis

Not sure for the others, but the one on Pope Francis resurfaces already well covered in previous projects, more recently the documentary Francois on Discovery + (which I covered here).

As Francois, this special draws heavily on the pope’s views on the environment, poverty, migrants, sexual abuse scandals and LGBT issues. Pope Francis also avoid the same as Francois fact: the problems of life (abortion, euthanasia and contraception) and all the supernatural aspects of the Christian faith.

Calling from his farm in England – where he really enjoys the new Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s farm, calling him “hysterical” (I thought so too) – Ivereigh says:

In fact, the most interesting thing, in many ways, about Francis’ pro-life testimony is how he brought life together with, say, ecology, and challenged … Catholics to be ecological and environmentalists to be pro-life, using the same logic is that life is a gift. It’s sort of a big breakthrough of his pontificate

What’s going on with these TV profiles is they’re trying to target a very general audience, and they think those kinds of issues will turn people off.

Of course, discussing these things probably won’t deter Catholics, but I don’t think these kinds of films are aimed at believers. As Francois, Pope Francis is generally positive and complementary – on the topics that producers choose to discuss, ie.

Francis’ media story

The narrative from traditional documents like this is that Pope Francis is revolutionizing the Church and will change his basic teachings, such as, for example, those on sexual morality, the problems of life described above and the priestly ordination of women.

The fact that, so far, he hasn’t really changed those teachings doesn’t deter filmmakers.

Ivereigh wrote two books about the Pope: The great reformer: Francis and the formation of a radical pope (2014) and Shepherd wounded: Pope Francis and his struggle to convert the Catholic Church (2019). He also collaborated with François on Let us dream: the way to a better future, released in 2020.

Inevitably, there is always a media narrative surrounding the popes. This narrative is established quite early on, and it is usually a distortion. …

So I think, who is Francois? In many ways it’s a radical, but it’s a radical in that sense of, it’s a spiritual radical, like Jesus was. And his reforms are all aimed at enabling people to access the goods of God, to open hearts and minds to the grace of God and, so to speak, to get rid of all those things in the Church that are prevent.

His war against clericalism really comes from there. It is the same as Jesus’ opposition to the Pharisees and Sadducees and other religious elites of the day who sought to claim control over the goods of religion and denied them to the people.

So in this sense, Francis is an evangelical radical because he reaches out to the people. He has a very, very strong notion of the Spirit speaking through the people of God.

This is what makes him a radical. But like I said, he’s a traditional Catholic radical, not just any other type of radical.

Ivereigh adds, noting both the personal and spiritual backgrounds of the Argentine Pope:

He’s a Latin American intellectual, but he’s also a Jesuit intellectual, which is a very practical sort of intellectual. But I think he’s an amazing thinker.

What I have tried to bring out in my books is the depth of his intellectual understanding, which is not just intellectual, it is spiritual wisdom in the Ignatian way.

He really sees behind what is going on. He sees the movement of spirits in the story which is actually extraordinary. There is a prophetic quality to this which he encounters in Let us dream.

Speaking of Jesus, we are discussing “the chosen one”

Besides talking briefly about our mutual love for Clarkson’s farm, we also touched on the gospel-based scripted series The chosen.

Created by Evangelical Dallas Jenkins but produced in a very ecumenical way, The chosen weaves biblically inspired but imaginative stories around major incidents in Jesus’ ministry, the lives of disciples and others Jesus meets along the way (watch this space for interviews with Catholic Jonathan Roumie, who plays Jesus, and Elizabeth Tabish, who plays Mary Magdalene).

The chosen is free to view on many platforms. More on that here.

Says Ivereigh:

I really like it. First of all, the idea of ​​giving stories to disciples is great. Second, I think they beautifully capture the way Jesus interacts with people – and it’s extremely difficult to capture. They passed quite close.

The other thing I really like about it, I like the Jewish attention to detail. I mean, I didn’t know enough – I’m not a scholar – but it feels very genuine.

The other thing that I really love about it is the way you feel like this is a movement, the excitement it gets – these young people caught up in this thing. Here is a man with the power of God and how exciting it is.

All of this is captured very well. There are nice details in it.

In their own words: Pope Francis Airs Tuesday, July 20 at 8 p.m. ET / PT (check local listings for the time and channel in your area). More about the show here.

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When Jenkins, Rodgers, David Owen, and Shirley Williams went their separate ways to found the SDP, Leonard went with them, playing a largely behind-the-scenes role.

He spent more time in Brussels, before settling there as a visiting professor at the University of Brussels, European correspondent of The Observer (from 1989 to 1997) and correspondent of the magazine Europe. He worked freelance in Brussels until 2009, and after the 2016 referendum, wrote a column titled: ‘How Labor Could Still Win – And Cancel Brexit’.

From 1992 Leonard produced The Economist Guide to the EU, translated into 10 languages. But his legacy is his trilogy, A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair (2004), 19th Century Premiers: Pitt to Rosebery (2008) and 18th Century Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt (2010). He followed that up in 2013 with the famous movie The Great Rivalry: Disraeli and Gladstone.

His other books include Elections in Britain (1968), which ran for five editions; The Backbench and Parliament (1972); Paying for Party Policy (1975); The BBC’s Guide to Parliament (1979); The Socialist Agenda (1981); Replacement of the Lords (1995); Eminent Europeans (1996); and Anthony Crosland and New Labor (1999).

Leonard chaired the Library Advisory Council and was Senior Advisor at the Center for European Policy Studies and Senior Research Associate at the Foreign Policy Center.

In 1960, Dick Leonard met Irène Heidelberger, a future expert in post-war German literature, on the croquet ground during a summer school at the Beatrice Webb House; they married in 1963. She survives him with their daughter and son.

Dick Leonard, born December 12, 1930, died June 24, 2021