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Thomas Markle (left and top right, with Meghan) has spoken exclusively to Channel 5 in a new television documentary. He describes Meghan and Harry's behaviour as embarrassing, says they are 'turning into lost souls' and, in a reference to a discount American supermarket giant, adds: 'They are turning it [the Royal Family] into a Walmart with a crown on.' He tells the Channel 5 documentary: 'When they got married they took on an obligation, and the obligation is to be part of the Royals and to represent the Royals. And it would be foolish for them not to. This is one of the greatest long-living institutions ever. They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, making it shabby… they shouldn't be doing this.'

New footage (left) has been found which shows the couple talking to the film's director Jon Favreau, star Beyoncé and her rap star husband Jay-Z, and Harry, 35, again praising his wife's acting abilities at the premier in July. The Mail on Sunday last week also unearthed video of Prince Harry touting his wife's voiceover skills to Disney boss Bob Iger. Mr Iger then fills his wife in on the conversation who seems surprised at the comments (top and bottom right). It came just months before Meghan was hired by the entertainment giant to work on a Disney project in exchange for a donation to the charity Elephants Without Borders.

Royal Caribbean Cruises' filing in U.S. District Court in Miami comes in response to a lawsuit Chloe's parents filed in December, accusing the operator of negligence in her death by allowing an 11th floor window in the ship´s children's play area to be open. The filing says that surveillance video shows that grandfather Salvatore Anello leaned out of the open window holding the toddler and dangling her for 34 seconds before losing his grip and dropping her. Royal Caribbean says grandfather Salvatore Anello would only have had to use his 'basic senses' to appreciate the danger this posed to 18-month-old Chloe, who died instantly when she landed on a concrete dock in San Juan, Puerto Rico on July 7.

John Vandesquille, 30, from Manchester, has been using the gel since May last year. He signed up for the trial after his partner, 28-year-old Alex Smith (pictured left together), was told she would be unable to continue taking the Pill due to it reacting with another medication she was prescribed. Just a month in, tests showed that his sperm count had dropped. Doctors running the study reassured him that should he stop using the medication, it would recover completely. Dan Glastonbury, 32, from Stretford, Greater Manchester, has been using the gel since May (inset, other forms of contraception). He says the only symptom he suffered was a strange, unexpected new allergic reaction to a silver ring gifted to him by his wife of two years, Emily, 29 (pictured right together).

High-street baker Greggs brought us a vegan steak bake last month, following the success of their vegan sausage roll, launched this time last year. And, despite the unappealing recipe, we seem to love it. Roughly 350,000 Britons are taking up the veganuary challenge this year, more than ever before. And food manufacturers are keen to keep up with demand. Figures released last week by analysts Mintel revealed that one in four new food products unveiled in 2019 was vegan. Can they really be healthier than the natural, meat equivalent? We decided to investigate, selecting a variety of vegan offerings and scoring each for health and taste to decide whether the vegan version won, or whether you'd be better off sticking to the original (pictured, a variety of vegan alternatives).

Harry is known as a bearded warrior who wears his heart on his sleeve and campaigns for wounded servicemen. Edward is mostly remembered as the petulant Windsor who threw away the Crown. The two men were born almost a century apart and into very different worlds. Harry and Meghan are pictured above on their tour of Australia in 2018, while Edward and Wallis Simpson are seen above on holiday on the Dalmation coast in 1936. Yet it is not just their decision to marry American divorcees that the two men share. For as history - and these pictures - show, the Dukes of Sussex and Windsor have a good deal more in common than you might think. The two princes are seen with their mothers, bottom left, and as soldiers bottom right.

TALK OF THE TOWN: The Van Straubenzee boys, Thomas and Charles (right), have been close friends and confidants of the Royal brothers (left) for years. But in the aftermath of Harry's controversial decision to move to Canada (inset, Harry and Meghan) they are being pulled in opposing directions - with William turning to Tom for support during the current crisis and Harry leaning on Charlie. Not surprisingly, the situation has left the Van Straubenzees feeling very torn. Their friendship with the Princes goes all the way back to their prep school days at Ludgrove and they played prominent roles in the Princes' weddings.

After days of crisis talks following Harry and Meghan's (pictured) announcement that they would be stepping back as senior royals, Buckingham Palace said the pair will stop carrying out royal duties from the spring. Some Twitter users said they were pleased the couple will stop using the HRH title and will repay the taxpayers' millions spent on their Berkshire home.

Playing up to the camera on a girls' night out, Meghan Markle posed cheek-to-cheek on a Toronto rooftop bar with her two most influential friends. One of them, Jessica Mulroney, (together left) is married to the son of a former Canadian prime minister. The other, Sophie Trudeau, (top and bottom right) is married to the current one. The pictures, possibly from a photo booth, were taken in 2016 at the Canadian branch of fashionable private members' club Soho House.

It is the question gripping the nation: will it be a hard or a soft Megxit? And for one group, it has more resonance than most. For when Meghan Markle joined the Royal Family, she brought a small army of lookalikes in her wake - the 'Meg-Ringers', as they have been described, with the most popular commanding up to £800 a day for simply showing up. But for how much longer? Can the Meg-alikes survive the shock of Megxit? Or will it be a case of out of sight, out of work…

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has insisted Ireland is still a safe country despite the brutal murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods, who was murdered in Drogheda on Sunday. Mr Varadkar, pictured top right in Drogheda, met with senior gardai who are currently trying to determine what happened during Mulready-Woods' final hours. Already they have identified several crime scenes linked to the brutal murder, bottom right. They are looking for evidence to link the chief suspect, who is well known to law enforcement, to the brutal crime.

Her rise to the top may seem dizzyingly fast, as it was only in 2018 that she came to the public's attention in the BBC version of John le Carré's Little Drummer Girl. But as family photographs uploaded to her public Facebook page reveal, Florence has always been a consummate performer. The actress was brought up in a 'wonderfully noisy and creative' home with restaurant-owner father Clinton and mother Deborah, a dance teacher, and she attended the £10,000-a-term St Edward's School - its alumni include Laurence Olivier. Her three siblings, Toby, Arabella and Rafaela, have all gone into acting too, prompting her to joke: 'We're like the Von Trapps, but not quite as pretty or perfect.' The children used to perform in their father's restaurants, while as a teenager Florence released cover versions of hit songs on YouTube under the alias Flossie Rose. She attributes her success partly to her headstrong attitude. 'I enjoy women who have something to say,' she says about her Little Women role of Amy Marsh.

They may be poles apart sartorially but Ms Watson, 31, has developed a strong working relationship with Boris Johnson's all-powerful, idiosyncratic adviser (together left) since they worked together on Vote Leave before the 2016 EU referendum. Significantly, she is also close to the Prime Minister's girlfriend, Carrie Symonds (together right), also 31. As the rather grandly titled head of the Prime Minister's priorities and campaigns, Ms Watson runs the special taskforce that will fast-track new Northern female Tory MPs from the 2019 intake into key government roles.

Ms Nandy, 40, (left) appeared in a comic book-style photostrip (right) recording her quest to find a boyfriend in Newcastle University's Courier student newspaper. The Wigan MP's racy past came to light as fellow leadership candidate Jess Phillips, 38, was revealed as a co-author of a 'hot or not' column in her Leeds student newspaper in which she praised pop star Kylie Minogue's bottom and complained that energy drinks ruined the taste of vodka.

In a defiant riposte, she hinted that her concerns had been 'misrepresented' in a bid to damage her bid to succeed Jeremy Corbyn. Responding to a questionnaire from local Catholic churches during the General Election campaign, she said that she did 'not agree' with current rules allowing women to terminate their child on disability grounds after 24 weeks. The Salford MP has now defended her remarks and hinted at the 'Machiavellian' way the story emerged. But last night, it emerged that her own recently hired campaign communications chief - ex-Corbyn aide Matt Zarb-Cousin (inset) - had voiced doubt about people with similar views on abortion holding high office.

Mike and Geri Latham invited Jake Waton, 17, into their Hampshire home after he began talking to their daughter Grace, 14, online. They were unaware that the boy was Gemma Watts, 19, who groomed vulnerable teenage girls by posing as a boy. Earlier this month, Watts, now 21, was jailed for eight years at Winchester Crown Court as police said they fear she had tricked as many as 50 young victims. Today, Grace's family speak for the first time about the impact of inviting a sex offender into their home.

Dasha Zhukova is pictured wearing a custom-made Valentino gown left, which have cost similar clients up to £100,000. Stella McCartney is pictured second left wearing a a £1,590 faux fur coat, £170 sunglasses, and a £775 bag, all from her own collection, plus £85 Moon Boots. In comparison to other guests, model Stella Maxwell (second from right) was positively frugal in her £160 jacket and £180 ski trousers from activewear brand Volcom. The bride is pictured before the ceremony top right, while Wendi Deng, the ex-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, with a mystery friend, wears a £3,800 shearling and leather jacket by Italian brand Tod's. The temperatures might be bitingly cold, but if you're invited to a £6 million society wedding in the Swiss Alps, that's no excuse to let your fashion standards slip.

DAN HODGES: Last week - just like Laurence Fox on Question Time (pictured) - I was branded a racist. The catalyst, of course, was a tweet I'd sent about Meghan Markle. Actually, a question. Politics is my obsession and I'm not the greatest Royal watcher. The ongoing psychodrama of Meghan and Harry and Kate and William had largely passed me by. So I went on to Twitter and wrote: 'On the Meghan racism debate - I've got to be honest, I haven't followed the coverage about her until this week. Genuine question, are there any glaring examples of specifically racist articles (as opposed to a simple aggregation of broadly negative coverage).' And that was it. I'd exposed my own racism.

EXCLUSIVE: Millionaire financier David Rowland (right with Andrew in 2006) held talks with North Korean leaders in the capital Pyongyang about managing the personal fortunes of the rogue state's ruling family and helping the Communist regime set up companies abroad, according to documents seen by The Mail on Sunday. It has long been believed the Kim family has stashed billions of pounds abroad in a network of secret accounts (Kim Jong-Un is pictured left). Experts say such accounts are used to fund their luxury lifestyle and as a way of dodging sanctions, although there is no evidence Rowland was ever aware of this. Rowland's close links to Prince Andrew were revealed by the MoS last month. We exposed how the pair co-owned a company in a tax haven and how, in the years before the North Korean trip, the Duke of York had been using his position as Britain's trade envoy to plug a private Luxembourg-based bank for the super-rich owned by Rowland and his family. The MoS can also reveal that wealthy Hong Kong socialite Dr Johnny Hon, who paid Sarah Ferguson and Zara Tindall (top and bottom inset) hundreds of thousands of pounds for introducing contacts and giving advice, was the key fixer behind the controversial discussions.

CHRIS ATKINS: My cell is about 6ft by 12ft. The mattresses on the bunk beds are made from heavy-duty blue plastic, designed for the easy cleaning of bodily fluids. At the back is a hideous toilet that doesn't have a seat. There's no privacy curtain. The floor is cold concrete, and it all smells pretty bad. Sitting on the bottom bunk is a tanned bald man in his 60s. He has a thin face with wire-rimmed glasses and is eating his dinner off a chair while watching TV. Pictured: left, Christ Atkins with his child. Right: HMP Wandsworth.

Northamptonshire Chief Constable Nick Adderley has demanded an urgent meeting with the commander of the US base where Anne Sacoolas (bottom right), the woman wanted over the death of Harry Dunn (top right), was stationed after a video (left) emerged of another incident involving a car being driven nearby on the wrong side of the road. Footage of the near miss near RAF Croughton emerged as police revealed details of a separate incident in which a police vehicle was struck by a car being driven on the wrong side of the road in October. The concerning video, reported to Northamptonshire Police today, shows a blue BMW having to brake sharply on a country road near RAF Croughton.

Without fanfare or publicity, Jack, 20, pictured left with his father Gordon Ramsey, began the corps' gruelling 32-week basic training course late last year and, if he shows the hunger to succeed, will earn a coveted green beret this autumn. Remarkably, given his public school education and impressive A-level results, Jack has enlisted as a marine (with its badge and units seen inset and top right) rather than a young officer. It means he will learn military skills alongside recruits from tough working-class backgrounds, some of whom are aged 16 and have no academic qualifications. Last night, a source at the Royal Marines' Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, Devon, said Jack had made a great start and was popular. He added: 'First and foremost, he is just another marine recruit to us, a ''bod''. There's no nepotism here and no favouritism. 'He's getting his head down and delivering the goods so far. He seems fit and is well liked. Not surprisingly, there's a lot of good-natured banter when Jack and his mates sit down to eat and when they're on a field exercise about who should prepare the rations.' Proud Gordon gave his son a rare Rolex watch worth £10,000 for his 18th birthday and Jack's Instagram account, which has 282,000 followers, includes pictures of him lying on a gondola in Venice with Brooklyn Beckham and other envy-inducing images taken at idyllic locations around the world. Yet the former Dulwich College schoolboy who went on to study at Exeter University has swapped his designer clothes for military fatigues and even shaved off his blond locks to carve a career in one of Britain's toughest military units.

Beyoncé (left and right) was mocked by supermarket giant Sainsbury's on Twitter on Friday, after fans said her new Adidas X IVY PARK collaboration looked exactly the same as the supermarket's uniform. Sharing a picture of one of their workers in the iconic maroon and orange outfit, Sainsbury's wrote: 'Repping since 1869' (inset) and added the caption: 'The Original'. One fan went as far as superimposing the superstar on to a picture of the aisles of the shop (right). Bottom inset, the real uniform.

Celebrity lookalikes is a lucrative business, with successful impersonators like Camilla Shadbolt (aka Victoria Beckham) reportedly making up to £10,000 for a single job. Sarah Mhlanga, 36, from Manchester, who is the UK's leading Meghan Markle lookalike, reportedly earns around £400 for just a few hours impersonating the Duchess. Others who have turned their A-list likeness into cash include Suzie Kennedy, 40, from London, who is noted for looking like Marilyn Monroe, and Iffy Onwuachu who has been compared to Anthony Joshua. So, can anyone become a celebrity lookalike, with the help of make-up and a savvy wardrobe? Or do you have to be blessed with a natural resemblance? Here, four willing FEMAIL volunteers (pictured) undergo an A-list transformation courtesy of Blow LTD's make-up artist Rowhan Guest to see if they have the potential to become a famous doppelgänger. Here the four lookalikes have gone through a transformation to become actor Dave Franco (left), reality star Lauren Conrad (second left), actress Chloe Grace Moretz (second right) and singer Nicole Scherzinger (right).

Partygoers, who donned their best dresses and heels for a night out in Sydney, New South Wales, are now allowed to enter venues after 1.30am and order drinks late into the night. The city was once famous for its bustling and vibrant nightlife until the strict lockout laws were enforced in 2014 requiring bars and clubs to deny entry to punters after 1.30am and stop serving alcohol at 3am. The changes this weekend have also seen the scrapping of the 10pm curfew on bottle shops (off licenses).

Mr Putin's comment at a meeting with Second World War veterans in St Petersburg came days after he called for constitutional changes that could help him remain in power once his presidential term ends in 2024. When a veteran at the meeting proposed not having term limits for Russia's president, Mr Putin responded that 'it would be very disturbing to return to the situation of the mid-1980s, with the leaders of the state, one by one, staying in power until the end of their days'. Putin today shook hands with his supporters who came to watch him lay a wreath as part of commemorations for the 76th anniversary of the day the Siege of Leningrad was lifted (he is pictured shaking hands).

Furious fans have branded drag icon Ru Paul's DragCon UK convention a 'shambles' after being forced to queue for hours outside the venue (left) amid reports the event has been overbooked on Saturday. Those attending the event being held today at Olympia London have taken to social media (inset) to share their anger after waiting to enter convention for up to four hours while the star, 59, was meeting fans inside (right). Some attendees claimed that they had requested refunds due to the length of the queue but revealed that they have been told that none would be given.

These two Chinese tourists have caused outrage by posing inside the Forbidden City in Beijing with their £100,000 Mercedes G-Wagen because cars are banned from the historic palace. More than 19 million tourists a year visit the 600-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site on foot. Officials responsible for the palace has launched an investigation and has vowed to stop cars entering the area in future.

Scotswoman Kaylee Farrick, 29, photographed her seven exceedingly obedient Shetland Sheepdogs and one Alaskan Klee Kai leaping over each other, wearing wellies and prancing down a beach near their home in Scalloway, Shetland Islands, for a charity calendar. Money raised by the sell-out success has gone to an ambulance staff charity, which helps struggling employees, and a charity for training therapy dogs to help war veterans. 'The response has been overwhelming, I could easily have sold double,' said the ambulance technician and avid photographer speaking about the calendar.

Celine Dion was by her mother's bedside, surrounded by immediate family members, when she passed away at the age of 92 late Thursday night in Montreal. Not wanting to miss a performance because the family matriarch would have wanted that way, the 51-year-old superstar dedicated Friday night's concert in Miami to her mother, Thérèse Tanguay Dion. And the Canadian native didn't disappoint when she delivered an emotionally charged performance in front of a packed crowd at American Airlines Arena, that included a pause in the show to address her passing.