Harry and Meghan latest news: Omid Scobie attacks royal family as palace silent on car ‘chase’

Not one member of the Royal Household reached out to Prince Harry following information of a automobile chase in New York Metropolis on Tuesday night, royal biographer Omid Scobie has claimed.

Throughout an interview on BBC Newsnight, Mr Scobie stated: “It’s unattainable not to consider Princess Diana after we hear about automobile accidents and this sort of aggressive paparazzi chase and so I used to be actually shocked to listen to from sources that not one member of the Royal Household, together with King Charles and Prince William who have been clearly closely affected by Princess Diana’s demise, had not reached out to Prince Harry hours after this information had damaged.”

“Sadly that sort of exhibits the state of disrepair that that relationship is. It’s laborious to not overlook that Harry was right here simply a few weeks in the past for King Charle’s coronation.

“You’ll have thought that which will go in direction of constructing some sort of path in direction of reconciliation ultimately, nevertheless it looks as if that’s not felt on the opposite facet.

“That will have little doubt been a disappointing addition to what has already been a traumatic 12 hours for the couple.”

PA information company additionally reported that no members of the royal household had reached out to the couple as of 10pm on Wednesday.

Pictures of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle taken on the evening they have been chased by paparazzi in New York Metropolis briefly appeared on British tabloid web sites earlier than they have been taken down amid stories that the pursuit led to “close to collisions.”

The spokesperson stated the pursuit was “close to catastrophic” and concerned “different drivers … pedestrians and two NYPD officers.”

The NYPD advised The Impartial in an announcement on Wednesday that the division assisted within the couple’s “difficult” transport, however no collisions, summonses, accidents, or arrests have been reported.

A paparazzi driver reportedly concerned within the allegedly excessive velocity New York automobile chase of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has stated that it was “very tense” making an attempt to maintain up with their automobile.

Talking anonymously to ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Thursday, the driving force stated: “Final evening after leaving the theatre, there have been hopes from me and some different photographers that possibly they might go to a restaurant.

“For essentially the most half, I used to be driving and it was very tense making an attempt to maintain up with the autos. They did quite a lot of blocking and there was quite a lot of totally different kind of manoeuvres to cease what was taking place.”

He claimed that Harry and Meghan’s driver made the pursuit “a catastrophic expertise”.

“Their driver was making it a catastrophic expertise… in the event that they have been going 80mph, I’d in all probability have been going 20mph behind them and hoping to maintain sight of them,” he stated.

“So if it was harmful and catastrophic, it was greater than seemingly based mostly on the person who was driving.”

The mayor stated he has not acquired a full briefing in regards to the incident but however was particularly involved about stories after an announcement from the couple’s spokesperson described: “a number of close to collisions involving different drivers on the street, pedestrians and two NYPD officers”.

“It’s clear that the press, the paparazzi, they wish to get the appropriate shot,” Mayor Adams stated on Wednesday, the morning after the chase. “However public security should at all times be on the forefront.”

Mayor Adams was particularly involved that “two of our officers might have been injured” and stated whereas he discovered it “laborious to imagine that there was a two-hour high-speed chase,” even an incident lasting 10 minutes might have been “extraordinarily harmful”.

“New York Metropolis is totally different from a small city someplace. You shouldn’t be dashing anyplace however it is a densely populated metropolis,” he added, noting the quantity of visitors and motion and other people on the streets.

The Duke of Sussex’s safety ought to have been “correctly stage managed”, his former bodyguard has stated.

Chatting with ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Thursday, Ken Wharfe stated: “The safety group he has acquired in the meanwhile has by no means handled such a high-profile superstar as Harry and Meghan.

“To them, I’ve some sympathy. The entire level is it’s important to take recommendation on this, and I don’t know to what extent the New York Police Division have been concerned, however mainly it’s one thing that must be correctly stage managed.

“I’ll make the purpose right here from my very own expertise … the paparazzi, at greatest, will be talked to, however at worst they’re a nuisance.

“However they’re not out to trigger the demise of anybody particular person. So, I feel we now have to be a bit of bit cautious there.”

Harry and Meghan briefly took refuge at a police station earlier than being whisked away in a yellow taxicab, it was reported.

Harry and his spouse, Meghan, have been trailed of their automobile by photographers as they left a New York Metropolis charity occasion Tuesday evening, briefly taking refuge at a police station earlier than being whisked away in a yellow taxicab.

The cab driver who drove them from the police station stated he immediately acknowledged his passengers and that paparazzi “have been following us the entire time,” although he stated wouldn’t name it a chase.

“They’d this look on their faces,” the driving force, Sukhcharn Singh, stated. “Unexpectedly paparazzi got here out and began taking photos.”

The taxi driver who drove Prince Harry and his spouse Meghan Markle and her mom by means of New York Metropolis throughout a automobile chase has spoken out.

Sukhcharn Singh picked up the Sussexes from the New York Metropolis Police Division’s nineteenth precinct on Tuesday night, the place they’d gone to in an try to lose paparazzi.

He advised NBC the Sussex’swere adopted by paparazzi however their description of the automobile chase as “close to catastrophic” was “exaggerated”, and he by no means felt as if he was in peril.

He stated: “I feel that’s all you already know, exaggerated and stuff like that. So don’t learn an excessive amount of into that, you already know.

“New York Metropolis is the most secure place to be. There’s police stations, there’s cops on each nook, so there’s no purpose to be afraid in New York.”

Mr Singh additionally advised the Washington Submit Meghan and Harry’s safety requested him to drive again to the station out of concern their location can be shared with extra folks.

“I don’t assume I’d name it a chase,” he stated. “I by no means felt like I used to be in peril. It wasn’t like a automobile chase in a film. They have been quiet and appeared scared nevertheless it’s New York—it’s protected.”