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Prince William and Prince Harry have found yet another reason not to sit down for a nice family reunion.
With the 30th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death approaching in 2027, the brothers are reportedly headed in completely different directions when it comes to honoring their late mother.
And according to Piers Morgan, William is not exactly thrilled about it.
“Absolutely incandescent with anger” is how Morgan described William’s reported feelings toward his younger brother, arguing that years of Harry publicly criticizing the royal family have left the future king with little interest in repairing their relationship.
“Well, they don’t speak to each other and haven’t done so for years,” Morgan told Fox News this week.
Morgan pointed specifically to Harry’s memoir, Netflix projects and podcasts, as well as his criticism of King Charles, Queen Camilla and Catherine, Princess of Wales.
“Harry took out the spray gun,” Morgan declared.
Needless to say, that doesn’t sound like the sort of family dynamic that makes for a heartwarming Diana documentary.
William has reportedly declined multiple offers to participate in projects about his mother ahead of the anniversary. Friends say the milestone will be particularly difficult for him, and he remains deeply emotional about Diana’s death.
Rather than revisit those memories publicly, William is reportedly leaning toward commemorating his mother privately.
That decision could also help him avoid another round of competing royal narratives with Harry.
Harry, meanwhile, is reportedly exploring ways to honor Diana himself. According to People, he has spoken with friends and people who knew his mother while considering potential projects for the anniversary, although no documentary has been officially confirmed.
The situation is a stark contrast to 2017, when William and Harry worked together on the documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy to mark the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death.
At the time, William indicated that they probably wouldn’t revisit their memories of Diana so publicly again.
Apparently, a lot can change in nine years.
Harry has repeatedly expressed a desire to reconcile with his family. But when it comes to William, that olive branch hasn’t exactly resulted in a brotherly embrace.
And now, with Diana’s 30th anniversary looming, the royal brothers could once again find themselves dealing with the same painful memories — only this time, very much on separate sides of the family feud.
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If reality TV doesn’t work out, Jessi Draper could find work as a wedding officiant.
Fans are buzzing after the The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star oversaw nuptials that included blood-drinking.
Following her own divorce from Jordan Ngatikaura, Jessi has now helped her sister tie the knot.
Can she also help her fend off the haters who aren’t loving the unorthodox ritual of it all?
Jessi Draper officiated a bloody beautiful wedding ceremony
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Draper officiated her sister’s destination wedding late this summer.
On August 26, Kiera Draper Lewis and Payton Lewis married in Tuscany, Italy.
(They previously held their legal marriage — often a formality — on August 1.)
As you can see on the Instagram video below, during the ceremony, Kiera and Payton pricked each other’s fingers.
They each added a drop of blood to a silver goblet before drinking from it.
“By the deepest covenant two souls can make, the sharing of blood,” Jessi state as officiant.
“Blood has been recognized as the sacred carrier of spirit,” she acknowledged.
“It holds your history, your ancestors, and your very essence,” Jessi described.
She advised the bride and groom: “Your individual lives have entered this cup.”
Jessi instructed: “Drink and receive the life, love, and truth of one another.”
There was also handfasting
The ceremony also involved in Jessi Draper walking the couple through a handfasting ritual.
Hand-fasting is an ancient marriage ceremony involving using a length of cord or ribbon to link the hands and forearms of newlyweds.
Like the blood-drinking, these are not Mormon rituals.
A number of religious traditions might include one or both of these acts, but they can also be done for their spiritual meaning or for their purely symbolic meanings.
Two people have chosen to combine their lives. That’s beautiful. And so was the ceremony that Jessi officiated.
The video did, unfortunately, receive some odd hateful comments — some of which were extremely colorful and dramatic.
Some accused the couple’s nuptials of being witchcraft, which they seemed to mean as a negative. (Could Trump’s acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao have a whole bunch of sockpuppet accounts?)
Even for those of us who might prefer more bloodless ways to symbolically (or spiritually) link our lives, it was a lovely ceremony.
Jessi’s life has transformed dramatically since viewers first got to know her just a couple of years ago.
It’s great to see that she became such a beautiful part of her sister’s nuptials while Hulu cameras (presumably) were not running. We hope that she and the newlyweds can tune out the weird haters.
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Ken Paxton is less than a month out from the conclusion of a D.C.-outsider campaign for a Texas U.S. Senate seat that he privately admitted is being run by Washington.
“I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign and, like, what issues are going to matter because it’s all coming — you know — from D.C.,” Paxton said during a small fundraising event last month, according to an audio recording obtained by POLITICO from a person in the room who does not support Paxton, and verified by another attendee.
“I don’t control message or what we’re doing.”
The lunch, hosted Sept. 24 in Washington by Chris Brinson and Susan Hirschmann of the D.C.-based lobbying firm Williams & Jensen, was attended by about a dozen people including Scott Kopple, VP of government relations at defense contractor BWXT.
“Texas is a big state, and some of these issues obviously resonate with real — I’ll call real people — you know, like back home,” Kopple, who did not respond to a request for comment, said to some chuckles in the room. “I know you need money to get the message out and stuff, but how does this stuff translate?”
Paxton replied saying: “I miss the days when I could go to, get around with all the people. But we have 32 million people, so let’s just say for the next 40 days I’m in front of 1,000 people a day — which I’m not — and that’s 40,000 people. Ten to 10.4 million people are gonna vote.”
“But then it comes down to your messaging,” he continued, “which in a federal race comes from other people a lot of times, which you don’t control.”
One attendee granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting said that Paxton never explicitly said he was referring to Trump’s team controlling his campaign, but “everybody knew what he was talking about.” The person said Paxton’s comments came amid a broader discussion about the national political environment.
“I don’t have ability to change anything,” Paxton went on. “So I have to live with whatever I’ve got. So it is a challenge.”
Paxton campaign adviser Nick Maddux said, “Campaigns don’t coordinate with super PACS and that’s obviously what AG Paxton was referring to,” in a statement to POLITICO. “AG Paxton is thankful for the support and knows how important Texas is to keeping the majority which is why he’s on the ground every day talking to Texas, raising money, and taking his message directly to the people including with his statewide television buy that started over this past weekend.”
Neither Hirschmann nor Brinson responded to a request for comment.
In an audio recording of the same meeting obtained by The New York Times, Paxton told attendees the midterm convention hosted by Trump in Texas last month “dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.” Maddux described the article as “manipulated nonsense.” Playbook hasn’t heard the contents of the rest of the hourlong meeting.
The most recent New York Times/Siena poll has Paxton running 6 points behind Democratic challenger James Talarico.
The private comments follow a bitter primary campaign waged against Republican incumbent John Cornyn, whom Paxton framed as a “Washington insider” and “RINO” while publicly aligning himself with Trump.
“His money is coming from the D.C. establishment,” Paxton said of Cornyn while campaigning in Texas before the primary, the AP reported. “That’s how they always try to convince us from Washington with their money that we should select their person. Well, I’m not their person and I’m never going to be their person.”
Paxton maintains a cash advantage heading into November and announced a $20 million ad buy last month. The Senate Leadership Fund, a top GOP super political action committee closely aligned with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, pledged millions to back Paxton earlier in September.
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