Prince Harry reignited tensions with his family on Tuesday as his latest public intervention coincided with a major State Visit in Windsor.

His first interview since returning to Britain risked eclipsing a significant day for King Charles and the Prince of Wales, who hosted the Sultan of Oman at Windsor Castle.

Although Harry said repairing relations with his family was “the most important thing” to him, the Duke of Sussex appeared to criticize his estranged brother by suggesting that “some people don’t want it to work out.”

The timing of Harry’s latest comments prompted visible skepticism in royal circles.

Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace declined to comment, but senior royal figures are understood to have grown tired of Harry’s repeated appeals for “peace.”

“Does he really think everyone has collective amnesia after the last few years?” one source said last week, following the first public appearance in Britain by Harry and his wife, Meghan, since their unexpected return.

The 42-minute conversation with GQ magazine was published as King Charles, Queen Camilla, William and Kate met the Sultan at Windsor Castle for a private lunch after his formal ceremonial welcome to Britain.

Yet Harry quickly became the focus of attention after saying that, “with everything else going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile.”

Harry told interviewer Zach Baron that “sibling disagreements” and fractured relationships between children and their parents were “massively relatable” subjects that frequently arose in conversations with members of the public.

“People look at us and go, ‘How are you going to work it out?’” he said. “Some people don’t want it to work out. I want it to work out.”

Harry and William have not spoken for four years. The rift deepened after Harry and Meghan stepped down as frontline royals in 2020 and later accused members of the Royal Family of racism during their interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Relations deteriorated further after the publication of Harry’s 2023 memoir, Spare. In the book, he described his brother as his “archnemesis” and alleged that William, whom he referred to as “Willy,” pushed him to the floor during an argument over Meghan being “difficult.”

On Tuesday, Harry, 42, acknowledged that “scars stick around forever” but called for people to “let go of the past.” He added: “That’s something that I would encourage everybody to do. For me, there’s enough drama in the world and enough drama in people’s lives than to continue with issues with family.” The duke said he was grieving his “complicated relationships” with the King and the Prince of Wales, while making clear that he still wanted reconciliation.

Hours after the interview appeared, a spokesman for the Sussexes said Harry had not been referring to William when he remarked that “some people” did not want reconciliation. The clarification came as speculation intensified over the target of the apparent criticism.

The spokesman said: “It was absolutely not intended as a swipe at his brother or any other member of his family.

“The comment was made in a general context and was not directed at his family in any way.”

Harry’s call for reconciliation came as the King and Queen, William and Catherine, the Prime Minister and other dignitaries gathered in Windsor for a lavish state banquet honoring the Sultan of Oman on Tuesday night.

The Duke of Sussex is on speaking terms with the King, and said in the interview regarding Charles’s battle with cancer: ‘He’s getting better.’

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Harry said he still misses his mother, Princess Diana, every day but does not ‘sit there and go really deep into how I’m feeling’.

He said: ‘It’s just a quick, ‘Well, I miss you. I wonder what the world would be like if you were still here. I wonder what my family would be like if you were still here’.’

He revealed he sometimes asks her questions, ‘looking for some kind of response – and sometimes, I do get a response’.

Harry said: ‘There is a connection still with my mum that I do feel her energy at certain times.’ Reflecting on her death when he was 12, Harry said: ‘Back then, I didn’t know myself. The grief, the trauma, the loss, the fact that I was 12, I had no idea who I really was.’

The duke insisted he ‘certainly doesn’t want any sympathy’, telling his interviewer: ‘Why? Because I’m a prince. I’ve got a support network around me, I’ve done different forms of therapy, and I put in the work.’

On Tuesday night the Princess of Wales arrived at the state banquet wearing one of Princess Diana’s favourite tiaras – the Lover’s Knot.

It is one of the Royal Family’s most famous headpieces, originally created for Queen Mary in 1914.

The tiara was passed down to the late Queen Elizabeth before she reportedly loaned it to Diana as a wedding gift.

Kate also donned diamond earrings and a bracelet from the late Queen on Tuesday night. The princess chose a flowing yellow Elie Saab dress coupled with a gold box clutch for the event in honour of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said.

She wore the King Charles III Royal Family Order and her Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Sash and Star.

Prince William was no slouch in the style stakes in white tie and the Windsor tail coat, his Most Noble Order of the Garter Sash with the Lesser George and other medals and decorations.

Queen Camilla was regal in royal blue and jewels, while the King sported the Sash of the Order of Al Said – an honour given to him by the Sultan earlier in the day.

In his speech, Charles spoke of the importance of the friendship between Britain and Oman at a time of ‘painful’ conflict in the Middle East.

And amid the continuing drama around Prince Harry, he told the Sultan of Oman of his pride that both ‘our sons’ – Prince William and the Crown Prince of Oman – had been joint patrons of the Jewel of Arabia expedition, a cultural and environmental trek through the region last year.

Harry’s interview, which was recorded in late September but released on Tuesday, focused on grief, a subject on which he recently released an online MasterClass, for which some estimate he may have been paid up to $100,000 (£75,000). The Royal Family traditionally dislike speaking out about anything personal, and the fact that Harry is continuing to do so will do little to soothe family relations.

The duke said it was ‘nice to be back’ after he and Meghan’s shock return to the UK six years after fleeing to North America.

He said the move ‘wasn’t something that we planned for a long time’ but it was an opportunity to ‘be outside of the US for the next few months’.

At the magazine’s New York office, in Manhattan, he told how the couple’s children, Archie and Lilibet, were ‘loving’ their new school in Britain, adding: ‘It’s just giving them a whole different experience.

‘For kids at seven and five, to be able to have that comparison, and to have two completely different cultural experiences, is so important today.’

Prince Harry also said he wanted to ‘draw a line’ after his battles with the Press.

In July, he and others lost a £50million court case after a judge threw out allegations they had made against Associated Newspapers, the Daily Mail’s publisher.

Harry now said he was ‘doing the best that I can, doing everything I can, to try to uplift and support journalism.’

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Former White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was seen in Los Angeles after her five-day spell in the administration ended abruptly.

The 41-year-old was asked to resign on Friday, following a widely criticized first press briefing and revelations that she had never passed the bar exam, despite presenting herself as an attorney.

On Monday, the mother of four stepped out in Los Angeles, California, wearing a blue-and-red workout outfit that highlighted her toned abs and bore a striking resemblance to the costumes associated with Superwoman and Superman.

The outing marked her first public appearance since she was dramatically removed from the position on Friday.

Over the weekend, reports claimed Zacharia had been speaking with a Wall Street Journal reporter when a colleague pulled her aside.

She excused herself, telling the reporter she would be gone for only a few minutes, but never returned.

Soon afterward, her new boss, President Trump, answered questions from reporters at his new helipad and said he had asked Zacharia to reconsider taking the job.

‘I said, “Is this for you Katie? Because honestly, you don’t need this,”‘ Trump told reporters.

Asked whether he still had confidence in her, the president replied: ‘I don’t know. We’ll see. I’m gonna let her make that decision.’

Trump’s comments signaled the end of what became the shortest tenure by a White House press secretary in US history.

Her time in the position was even briefer than Anthony Scaramucci’s notorious 11-day run as White House communications director in 2017, during Trump’s first term.

Earlier this year, Zacharia had spent only six weeks as a communications adviser at the Department of Homeland Security.

Her week-long stint as press secretary was both swift and turbulent. The sole briefing she held lasted just 14 minutes and was widely ridiculed online.

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Even typically Trump-friendly Fox News hosts questioned her performance, which stood in sharp contrast to that of her predecessor, Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt resigned in August after a successful 18 months in the role.

Zacharia struggled with her prepared remarks, repeatedly stumbling and stuttering. At one point, she referred to the president as her husband.

Her appointment as press secretary had surprised many. Her background included six weeks at Homeland Security, appearances on conservative media, a position at Trump Media and a legal career that soon faced scrutiny.

When asked earlier in the week whether she had passed the bar exam, Zacharia said she had taken it in China, where she worked after graduating from Pepperdine University Law School.

That baffled reporters since the test isn’t offered there, and US citizens typically cannot take Chinese legal exams.

She later cleared up that she never passed the bar exam since it wasn’t necessary for her job in China, where the US qualification would not have carried water.

In a tense interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, she acknowledged that she failed the California bar exam in 2011, never retook it and considered the results inconsequential.

As the segment ended, she promised Hannity she would be very prepared going forward and would step up to the duty the President had given her.

In an interview on Friday morning with Fox News about her ‘tough week,’ Zacharia was pressed unusually hard by the hosts once again about why she’s described herself as an attorney in the past.

‘It’s not an easy job to be the press secretary, and you never want to be the story,’ Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones said. ‘But I have to ask, do you wish you would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar?’

‘Well, Lawrence, those questions weren’t asked,’ Zacharia shot back.

‘I’m being hired as White House press secretary and not White House counsel. The conversations and the reason I was hired was to represent the President in the press.’

The President made the decision to hire Zacharia during a 72-hour period last week without consulting his chief of staff Susie Wiles, The Daily Mail previously reported.

Residents in care homes were treated as an “afterthought” during the Covid pandemic and effectively sacrificed in the effort to “protect the NHS”, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has concluded.

More than 43,000 care home residents died after infected hospital patients were discharged into facilities without adequate safeguards, allowing the virus to spread “like wildfire”.

The inquiry chair, Baroness Heather Hallett, said there was no evidence to support former health secretary Matt Hancock’s claim that ministers had placed a “protective ring” around care homes “right from the start”.

Many homes lacked the space and resources to isolate new arrivals safely. Testing was insufficient, while care workers were left without enough personal protective equipment (PPE), forcing some to use bin bags and waterproof ponchos instead.

Measures to protect residents and staff were introduced “too late”, the inquiry found, with “devastating consequences”.

Between March 17 and April 15, 2020, about 25,000 patients were moved from hospitals into care homes as officials sought to free up beds for the expected surge in Covid cases.

As infections raced through the country, visiting bans also left care home residents feeling “isolated, abandoned and alone”. In some cases, they were separated from their families for months.

Restrictions meant people were often unable to sit beside dying relatives or friends in their final moments, leaving families “grief-stricken”.

The Daily Mail campaigned for care home residents to be reunited with their families during the pandemic, calling it “shameful” that “cruel” restrictions had cut them off from loved ones.

MPs later praised the campaign in Parliament. The Government eventually permitted visits ahead of Christmas 2020, with testing and PPE introduced to reduce the risks.

Baroness Hallett said the visiting rules caused “enormous harm”, contributing to a “significant decline” in the wellbeing of some residents, particularly those living with dementia.

Although she welcomed the partial easing of the restrictions, she said the benefits of family contact should have been recognised much earlier.

She concluded: “Many [relatives] remain racked by a guilt that they do not deserve to carry.”

The inquiry found that the Government had been aware before the pandemic that care home residents were “extremely vulnerable” to respiratory viruses. Despite this, they received “insufficient protection at the time they most needed it”.

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The failures were rooted in inadequate planning before the pandemic began.

Exercise Cygnus, a pandemic preparedness programme carried out in October 2016, warned that more work was needed to guarantee sufficient surge capacity in care homes. That work had not been completed when Covid-19 arrived.

The report said completing those preparations might have “helped ensure the safe isolation of all people admitted to care homes”.

Baroness Hallett said: “The adult social care sector as a whole appeared to be something of an afterthought, where the mantra of ‘protecting the NHS’ sometimes came at the expense of the users and providers of care.”

‘The failures set out in this report created environments in care settings in which the virus could spread like wildfire.’

The inquiry examined concerns about ‘Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation’ decisions. 

It found some were made inappropriately or without proper consultation, based on a person’s age, health condition or learning disability.

The failure to give staff adequate PPE was ‘wholly unacceptable’ and the care sector’s role in society has been ‘undervalued and under-recognised’ for too long, it added.

Established in June 2022, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, which has cost more than £200million, is expected to publish its final report in the summer of 2027.

The report into the care sector, the sixth of ten modules, has eight key recommendations.

They include better planning for the safe isolation of care home residents, financial support for staff so they can afford to isolate if infected, new guidelines on visiting restrictions and mandatory end-of-life training for health and social care workers.

Professor Martin Green, chief executive of trade body Care England, said: ‘Pressure in hospitals must never again be relieved by transferring unmanaged risk into adult social care.

‘The inquiry’s recommendations are essential, but the real test now is implementation.’

Health Secretary Yvette Cooper said the Government would respond fully to the report ‘in due course’. 

She added: ‘My thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones in the pandemic, and especially those who endured the immense distress and harm of visiting restrictions in care homes, which meant they could not be with loved ones even as they died. 

‘I also pay tribute to all those who work to protect the most vulnerable in very difficult circumstances, from care workers to family members.’

Halle Berry appeared composed and in good spirits as she arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse Tuesday for the latest hearing in her custody dispute with ex-husband Olivier Martinez.

The Oscar-winning actor has firmly rejected Martinez’s allegations that she physically abused their 13-year-old son, Maceo.

Berry was seen smiling outside the courthouse during the increasingly contentious legal battle involving her former spouse.

She wore a restrained charcoal trouser suit over a checked blouse, completing the look with a coordinating scarf.

Her court appearance came shortly after her fiancé, Van Hunt, testified that Maceo allegedly shoved his mother during a heated confrontation at their home, according to court documents exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Berry’s representative and attorney for comment.

Hunt, the only identified eyewitness to the September 26 incident involving Berry and her son, said in a public court declaration obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail that Berry shouted, “So, you’re going to fight me now?!” after Maceo allegedly refused to remove his Oculus virtual-reality headset.

In the declaration filed with Los Angeles Superior Court, Hunt said the teenager “aggressively resisted” when Berry attempted to take off the device. Maceo then allegedly threw the headset and shoved his mother, prompting Hunt to step in.

The Grammy-winning musician said Berry and Maceo were shouting at one another and appeared “on the verge of tears” before the teenager began calling his father and gathering his clothes.

Martinez, 60, is seeking sole custody of Maceo, claiming Berry “physically abused” their son in a bombshell filing submitted October 1.

A judge granted Martinez a temporary domestic-violence restraining order against Berry covering both him and their son. The order requires Berry to remain at least 100 yards away from Martinez.

Berry also temporarily lost her 50/50 custody arrangement on October 1. Under the current terms, she may see Maceo only during court-ordered visits twice a week and on alternating weekends.

Berry’s attorney, Marina Beck, told the Daily Mail that Martinez’s filing was “entirely meritless,” saying her client is “used to this kind of outrageous conduct” from him.

A judge has since approved Maceo’s testimony in the custody dispute later this month. Berry has repeatedly and vehemently denied the allegations against her.

Hunt alleged that Martinez had “emboldened” Maceo by allowing the teenager too much control over his own life.

In his declaration, Hunt described his fiancée as a “loving, attentive, highly engaged, forbearing mother” and said she had never been abusive.

He added that he and Maceo had formed a “close relationship” since he began dating Berry six years ago, including five years living together.

On September 26, the day of the alleged incident, Hunt said that Maceo was in ‘great spirits’ and that he and his mother went shopping for birthday gifts; he celebrated his 13th birthday on October 5.

They were back at home when Maceo when Berry went to the boy’s room with Hunt close behind her.

According to his statement, Hunt said he heard Berry say ‘Maceo,’ to which the boy gave a ‘monotone’ reply of ‘Yeh.’

Soon after Maceo called out Hunt’s name ‘playfully,’ which he took to mean his mother was tickling him, Hunt claims.

But then Hunt heard Berry tell Maceo twice that ‘you don’t have anything to prove’ – the second time with a ‘pleading’ in her voice that made Hunt go into the room, he said in the statement.

Hunt added: ‘Halle instructed Maceo to remove the Oculus and asked, ‘So, you’re going to fight me now?!’

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‘Maceo ignored her. Halle reached to remove the headset from over Maceo’s head, but Maceo aggressively resisted and then threw off the headset himself and shoved Halle. I immediately jumped in between them.

‘They started yelling at each other with me standing between them. Maceo began threatening to call Olivier.’

According to Hunt, this was the first time he had ever heard Maceo make such a threat.

He said in his statement: ‘I could also see that both Maceo and Halle were on the verge of tears – they both appeared like they wanted to work things out but didn’t know how; which was heartbreaking to see.

‘Maceo started calling Olivier [his father] and began packing some clothes. Halle did not want Maceo leaving home late in the evening or removing his belongings, but to de-escalate the situation, I encouraged Halle to allow Maceo some space and to take whatever belongings he wanted with him’.

Martinez arrived and took Maceo away. The boy came back to his mother’s house two days later, during which time, Hunt said, their interactions were ‘normal, positive and loving.’ 

According to Hunt, Berry and Martinez have long argued over how best to attend to Maceo’s ‘educational and mental health needs’ which include ‘behavioral challenges and impulse control issues.’

He also claims in the statement that Martinez has ’emboldened’ the boy by giving him too much control over his own life. 

Hunt said he has tried to mediate between Berry and Martinez, having ‘multi-hour conversations’ on the phone with the two.

But, according to Hunt, Martinez would not back down and once said: ‘When she [Berry] stops, I will stop.’

Hunt claimed Martinez resisted all of the suggestions to get help for his son and then changed his tune, claiming that Maceo should be the one to decide, even though he is still a minor.

After Maceo learned of this, he became ’emboldened’ and, after coming back from a visit to his father, he told Berry: ‘I should be the one to decide.’

In his declaration, Hunt also gave fresh insight into Berry’s relationship with Maceo and said they often wrestle with each other, adding that they like roughhousing together.

‘Their interactions are always loving and playful,’ Hunt said.

‘I have never witnessed Halle choke Maceo, place him in a headlock, put her hands around his neck, restrict his breathing, force him to “tap out” or make statements such as: “Who is dominant now?”‘ – a reference to Martinez’s claims.

The only time Hunt heard anyone use the word ‘dominant’ was Maceo when describing his performance after a soccer game.

But this became a source of frustration for Martinez, who chided Hunt for agreeing with Maceo’s concern that he wasn’t strong enough.

According to Hunt, Martinez told him he should ‘have let Maceo dream.’ 

‘I told him that Maceo has plenty of dreams, what he doesn’t need, especially from me – a person who really cares for him – is insincerity,’ Hunt said in the court papers.

Berry and Martinez finalized their divorce in 2023 after a bitter eight-year battle.

The Monster’s Ball star was ordered to pay Martinez $8,000 a month in child support and 4.3 percent of any income she received over $2 million in additional support.

The judge overseeing the case has imposed a restraining order against Berry and will determine if it will stay in place permanently.

Berry’s daughter Nahla Ariela, 18, has already submitted a declaration saying she had never seen her mom being abusive.