Peter Hunt

Former BBC correspondent and presenter. Commentator on constitutional and royal issues for outlets including @LBC, @BBCNewsnight,@ObserverUK and @theipaper.

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‘Prince Harry served in the Army for ten years, rising to the rank of Captain and undertaking two tours of Afghanistan’. (Royal website)

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@KirstieMAllsopp @NSome1ne source: https://t.co/RDYvbLTHOq

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The palace spin is failing on contact with reality.

Harry and Meghan are royals.

End of.

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@KirstieMAllsopp @NSome1ne It is important to note the calculation of the Grant uses the profits of the Crown Estate as a means of arriving at a figure, not as a source of income.

The Crown Estate makes payments each year into the Consolidated Fund ..the Treasury pays the Sovereign Grant to the Monarch.

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The cover the government needs to do what it should’ve always done - provide adequate, taxpayer funded security for Harry, Meghan and their children.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

NEW: Security arrangements for high-profile public figures will be urgently examined to ensure those most at risk are better protected amid rising threats to their safety.

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood tells MPs the independent review of the UK’s protective security system will be carried out by Sir Stephen Lovegrove.

The former national security adviser will look at whether current security arrangements are fit for purpose, in particular whether there is adequate protection for those most at risk. 

This includes high-profile individuals (including royals), government ministers, MPs, locally elected representatives and other prominent British political figures - but not individual cases.

Dedicated police support will be expanded to leaders of political parties who are not MPs, as well as peers, former MPs, former members of the devolved parliaments and political party spokespeople.

The murder of Ann Widdecombe is one of several recent events to raise serious questions about the security of those in public life.

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Alternatively…

Here’s one…Charles Rex, Tom Watson and Jim Ratcliffe walk into a bar….

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Here's one... Charles Spencer, Tom Watson and Jim Ratcliffe walk into a bar....

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Richard Kay, Daily Mail:

“….Spencer and I also spoke several times during that week and he told me certain things about Prince Charles, which he told me in confidence, which I too noted down, and they chime very much with the revelations he has made in the book.”

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“I know the King, I simply cannot believe that he could have said something like that”

Rory Stewart, who tutored Prince Harry and Prince William, says claims by Earl Spencer that King Charles, in the days after Princess Diana’s death, said "rest assured, we'll forget her soon enough” are “not his character, not his personality”.

#Newsnight

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@richardaeden @vicderbyshire @BBCNewsnight Careful - it could become addictive…

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Is there anyone left in Buckingham Palace - apart from Charles - who thinks their statement was a good idea?

As I said to @vicderbyshire on @BBCNewsnight “the content is royal gaslighting. There are times when silence is the right answer”.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

"I'm telling the truth": Earl Spencer defends Princess Diana book claims about King Charles in BBC interview https://t.co/f12Iv2dupA

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There's been no bunting and plenty of bile.
https://t.co/N6FOM6d9bR

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If King Charles is serious about reconciliation, he should invite Prince Harry to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, as he last did in 2019.

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@johnnymcintyre Thank you John!

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If you stay here @piersmorgan , Harry might make you his Press Secretary.

Rapprochement - royal and Morgan - could be the order of the day.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I may have to emigrate to the U.S.

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Crushing

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

Being a royal correspondent must be the most thankless job in journalism. Having to talk pure bollox for hours on end

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Epstein avoided; only momentarily
https://t.co/lsJsbFSxX1

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This is not a good look and is untenable.

According to the royal website, one of the focuses of Queen Camilla’s charity work is “supporting survivors of rape, sexual assault and domestic violence”.

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Rattled royals relieved.

Transparency and accountability can be abandoned.

More royal walkabouts the solution to Andrew crisis.

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This transparency lark is going to keep the royals very busy.

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The £750,000 was transferred to Prince Andrew on 15 November 2019 when he was still a full time working royal.

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One to look at, now transparency and the royals appears to be in vogue:

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Rupert Murdoch and the next constitutional head of state.

A secret deal.

A settlement allegedly involving a very large sum of money.

Not a good look.

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@LJamroziak No - it’s a screenshot from the live coverage.

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A test for the BBC.

Last year’s live coverage of the Commonwealth service made no reference to the visible republican protest outside - drummers were at the entrance to drown out the shouting.

The protesters say they’ll be there again next month.

Will the BBC find its spine?