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Elaph: Kensington Palace “did everything in its power” to quash a rumor that Prince William cheated on Kate Middleton with girlfriend Rose Hanbury, a new book claims.
Royal expert Omid Scobie wrote in his book Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival that press secretary Christian Jones repeatedly tried to persuade The Sun — the first outlet to try to inquire into the betrayal allegations — to stop researching the story.
“Christian was very desperate to stop the rumor and put all his effort into it,” a former courtier told Scobie.
The author claims that Jones even told him that the whole ordeal was “stressing him” and eventually promised a journalist from The Sun another exclusive news related to the royal family “in exchange for retracting the rumours.”
By June 2019, Scobie writes, “the Sun had withdrawn the journalists assigned to cover the story,” and a high-ranking courtier allegedly told him that “Christian had helped bring the matter to a close.”
It is also claimed that the newspaper has shifted its focus to writing a “series of revealing stories” about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Scobie told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday that he was “very careful” about how he handled allegations that William cheated on Middleton with Hanbury while his wife was pregnant with their third child, as well as the estrangement that marred the Princess of Wales’s relationship with the couple’s former friend.
He added: “For legal reasons, there are many things that one cannot go into, but I think they are really important, even if they are common.” “And I really don’t see evidence that there’s more to it than just gossip.”
Scobie speculated that these rumors have been circulating for years because William and Middleton “never addressed them,” adding: “These rumors will never go away even though there is no fact to suggest they are true.”
However, William’s lawyers put the infidelity allegations to rest in April 2019.
Lawyers at London law firm Harbottle & Lewis told British publications at the time, “In addition to being false and highly harmful, publishing false speculation regarding our clients’ private lives also constitutes an invasion of their privacy pursuant to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Who is Rose Hanbury?
Rose Hanbury is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley. She and Prince William move in the same circles, as Hanbury’s grandmother – Lady Elizabeth Lambert – was Queen Elizabeth’s maid of honour. Hanbury has been a guest at numerous royal events, including William and Kate’s wedding in 2011, President Trump’s state visit, and most recently Prince Philip’s memorial service. It’s also rumored that Hanbury and Middleton were very good friends, until Kate started to see Hanbury as her “rival” – they look rather similar.
The Marchioness is a former model and was under contract with Storm Models, the same agency that discovered Kate Moss. In 2016, she shared a photo on Instagram of herself and Amanda Seyfried modeling for Vogue’s Miu Miu. She was also briefly a researcher for Conservative MP Michael Gove.
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Hanbury married David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, in 2009, after they first met on holiday in Italy in 2003. The pair have an age gap of 23 years, according to Hello! magazine, and they tied the knot after an engagement of just two days. They also had three children: Alexander, Earl of Roxavage; Oliver, Lord Cholmondeley; And Mrs. Iris.
During the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Cholmondeley – also known as David Rocksavage – held the title of Lord Great Chamberlain. According to the Daily Mail, part of his role was to walk backwards in front of the Queen during the official opening of Parliament. However, after the Queen’s death, he was replaced by Lord Carrington VII. Although some may link the change of role to the rumors of the aforementioned affair, Cholmondeley lost his position due to a long-standing tradition of awarding the title to another aristocratic family upon the death of a king.
Is Prince Harry referring to this issue in his Netflix documentary series?
On December 8, Netflix released the first part of Harry & Meghan, a six-episode docuseries about the couple relinquishing their royal titles. While the first three episodes focused largely on their love story, how the duo supported each other, and Meghan’s family; Part 2 delved into how the British media and the royal family treated the couple up until the moment they left. In the short trailer for part two, Harry discussed the disparity between himself and William, saying: “They were happy to lie to protect my brother. “They were never willing to tell the truth to protect us.”
Although Harry did not explicitly mention Hanbury, some have pointed out that the Duke of Sussex appears to be referring to rumors of the affair. William and Hanbury’s alleged affair made headlines in March 2019, around the same time that Meghan was pregnant with Archie, and as a result faced harsh and racist headlines. In the same promotional clip, Meghan said she was not “thrown to the wolves”, but was “fed” to them, perhaps speaking about how the royal family protected Prince William and worked to put an end to rumors of an affair, without showing the same zeal in stopping the slander she was subjected to. for him.
