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You may be seated.
Hello, Your Honor.
Hello.
This is the case of Billingsley v. Broadnax.
Thank you, Jerome. Good day, everyone.
AUDIENCE: Good day!
Ms. Billingsley, you claim you alone
have shouldered the burden
of more than $10,000
in childcare expenses,
all because the defendant
denies paternity of your daughter
and refuses to help support her.
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: You're suing Mr. Broadnax
for half of those costs,
in the amount of $5000
and claim today's paternity results
will prove you right.
Yes, Your Honor.
Mr. Broadnax, you agree
you've not done a single thing...
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: ...for one-year-old Bailey.
You argue that it's only because Ms. Billingsley
cheated on you, and you don't believe
you are her daughter's father.
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: So Ms. Billingsley,
please explain your lawsuit.
Yes, ma'am, Your Honor.
So my daughter is now 21 months,
and I've been taking care of her since day one.
For example, for her first birthday,
um, me and Mr. Broadnax had decided
that we were going to do her birthday party,
and I had decided that we were going to... (VOICE BREAKING)
I'm sorry. Just seeing her breaks my heart.
Um, I'd decided that I was gonna take her to the zoo
and customize her cake,
customize her outfit, everything for her.
Go all out and beyond for her.
Um, when it came down to the date
of ordering those things,
Mr. Broadnax went MIA.
I couldn't find him. I couldn't get ahold of him.
Um...
Messages on Facebook...
Everything you could possibly think of
to try to get ahold of him...
BROADNAX: Your Honor.
Tell her...
BILLINGSLEY: To go ahead...
You should tell her what I have done.
Your Honor...
What he has
done for me, Your Honor,
is in the beginning of my pregnancy...
BROADNAX: I'm not gonna take care of a child that
might not be mine, Your Honor.
My first trimester,
was very difficult.
BROADNAX: I'm not a deadbeat.
I bought her a house...
When she told me that she was pregnant
I'd got her a house.
I got her a car and everything.
BILLINGSLEY: He did.
And that was the hardest thing for me,
because I've always worked.
I've always supported myself,
and when he would tell me those things,
I thought he was going to do it,
and he did.
He did it. In the first trimester of my pregnancy,
it became very difficult.
I was almost unable to walk.
It almost felt like I was paralyzed.
He did everything for me.
He served me...
BROADNAX: I would rub her feet,
I'd rub her stomach.
BILLINGSLEY: He did.
He did.
I talked to the baby through the stomach.
I'd do everything, Your Honor.
BILLINGSLEY: He did. Absolutely.
We planned this baby. She was planned.
When it came down to...
When it came down...
Your Honor. She skipped town
with, uh... With my baby...
I did.
...supposedly my child...
I did.
...and she's so quick to skip town.
I did.
I did, because of the fact
that, one, there was suspicion
that he was cheating on me
BROADNAX: There was suspicion she was cheating.
Two...
Not me. There was suspicion she was cheating.
That's why the baby might not ...
JUDGE LAKE: So wait.
I'm hearing all these
stories about you two
planning this baby,
and being together during the pregnancy.
What exactly happened that changed it?
There were rumors of cheating?
BILLINGSLEY: There were rumors of cheating.
I was three weeks pregnant
when I found out I was pregnant.
It was very early in my pregnancy.
I found out. I was excited.
The first person I called
was Mr. Broadnax to share the news.
Because I couldn't have been more happy
that I was about to have my family.
And then, it came down to
him moving back and choosing
to party constantly.
It was constant.
No, Your Honor.
And when I realized
how constant it had become,
I requested it to stop
or I was going to leave.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Mr. Broadnax.
Yes, Your Honor.
Did you hear her testimony?
BROADNAX: Yes.
Is that true? What happened?
No, Your Honor.
Okay, okay. I'm gonna start from the beginning, okay?
All right, we met and it was...
It was just a quick process.
We met, started talking,
and then, she told me she was pregnant.
Just like that, it happened.
Just like that.
So when she told me she was pregnant,
I was... I was, uh...
I wanted to man up.
Be the father or...
Know what I'm saying? Just man up.
And then, what made me start doubting,
is I see text messages...
And once I had the baby, he didn't do anything.
I see text messages...
He didn't do anything for her after that.
Because it might not be my child.
I'm not paying for another man's baby.
Look at that baby.
Look at that baby.
Are you gonna tell me she's not yours?
But there are days that he will deny her,
and there's days that he'll claim her.
When did you start doubting?
Because if you're getting houses and cars,
and going to doctor's appointments,
what changed everything?
I started doubting, Your Honor,
when I... I was just...
Just chilling at the house, just...
And then I heard her phone go off.
So I picked up her phone, and she was
messaging her ex-boyfriend.
I'd seen a message, "Hey, hey" and a "I miss you."
That's as far as it went, but "I miss you."
If you're missing your ex,
who else you missing?
And then, and then, okay.
My friend went to college, the same college
that she went to, the same school.
That's all I told her, "Go to school."
And my friend said he'd seen her in a circle
with like 3 or 4 dudes, all bubbly, laughing, "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Having a good time.
I'm sorry, I didn't know that colleges...
But then... But then...
...only consisted of females.
BROADNAX: But then... But then... Okay.
But she's all bubbly
in front of males and everything,
and then when she sees my friend,
she's just straight face...
Am I not allowed to have...
...and walks away. Okay.
...friends that are male?
Bubbly in front of males.
BROADNAX: Okay, but if... But if...
I need more doubt than that, Mr. Broadnax.
BROADNAX: No, if she's texting...
Bubbly in front of males is not gonna...
I'm bubbly. I'm bubbly.
If she's texting her ex and texting her ex,
missing her ex, being flirtatious in front of other dudes,
who else is she being...
BILLINGSLEY: An ex that I...
Who else is she talking to?
So, did you ever hear a rumor
that she was actually sleeping with someone else?
No... No, Your Honor. Just my doubt.
Was she with anyone else, to your knowledge,
during the time of conception?
Yes. Yes.
JUDGE LAKE: Really?
It was... It was just earlier.
JUDGE LAKE: What is your proof of that?
I have evidence right here, Your Honor,
stating the conception date...
JUDGE LAKE: Jerome, can I see that evidence, please.
Conception dates, mind you, Your Honor,
that are estimated.
These are estimated.
As you can see, her window of conception was between
early April, mid-April,
from the 10th to the 18th, I believe.
And then, that's my work schedule
I was out of town from the 6th to the 19th.
You were away
for almost two weeks.
BROADNAX: Two weeks.
Okay.
So when you started having doubts,
you went to a conception app.
Yes.
And so you entered Bailey's birthday
which is January 5, 2013...
BROADNAX: Yes.
...and then when you generated a
estimated conception date,
it came up as
April 10th through the 18th
which was...
When I was out of town, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: ...the exact time you were out of town.
Yes, ma'am.
BILLINGSLEY: These dates are estimated, Your Honor.
BROADNAX: Not only that, Your Honor...
Okay, so, we were together...
I've got her a house, as I said,
about 3, 4 months, it started getting rocky.
We started arguing a lot.
Her claiming I was cheating,
me feeling she was cheating.
Uh, DNA test, when I brought that up,
she would always, uh...
That is a lie, Your Honor.
BROADNAX: She would always get defensive
just like right now.
BILLINGSLEY: That is a lie.
BROADNAX: You see it right now.
When he would request...
BROADNAX: She'd always get defensive.
No. When he would request
the DNA test,
I told him,
"Absolutely, there's no doubt in my mind.
"Let's go. Let's do it."
BROADNAX: That's a lie, Your Honor.
She's always refused.
BILLINGSLEY: You wanna have DNA test?
I'd be more than happy to prove.
So Bailey's almost a year and a half.
Why haven't you had
a DNA test?
So when I told him...
When I told him to go ahead
and request the DNA, uh,
the DNA testing in court,
he wouldn't do it.
He wouldn't follow through.
So why was it that I,
if you're the one who wants the DNA test,
why don't you go request it?
I know who my baby's dad is.
I know who the father of my child is.
I don't need a DNA test.
So if you're requesting it, why didn't you go?
When he didn't...
Why didn't you go, Mr. Broadnax?
No, Your Honor. She was out of state,
and I always told her...
She never wanted to do a DNA test.
I'd always tell her, she'd get defensive.
I have been doing this on my own from the beginning.
BROADNAX: While you do this, you haven't even...
I have proof, Your Honor, that shows...
BROADNAX: Because I have doubts, Your Honor...
I have spent over... Almost $10,000
on this child alone being 21 months.
That's almost $500 a month.
I'm 21 years old and a single mother.
And you say he's done nothing.
BILLINGSLEY: He's done nothing.
BROADNAX: But I have.
When he said he would do it,
it was his mom paying.
So your testimony is he's done
absolutely nothing for this child.
No. I have proof, Your Honor. I've submitted
pictures to the court...
JUDGE LAKE: Let me see your evidence.
...showing a few basic items
BROADNAX: Okay.
...that I have purchased for her.
Thank you.
BILLINGSLEY: These are only a few photos
of the items I have sent.
I have submitted to the court
over 75 pictures
of proof of the items
that I have provided to her.
She told me on numerous occasions
that the baby is not mine.
That is a lie.
You have never told me the baby
wasn't mine?
I never told you that.
Ms. Billingsley, you've never ever in anger, anything...
You've never told him this is not your child?
No.
BROADNAX: She's lying, Your Honor.
I have a relationship now,
and that's when she really wanted...
You have a relationship,
but you sure didn't...
Yeah, I've been...
He sure didn't have a problem
laying me down the other night, did you?
She's lying, Your Honor.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
I'm lying?
JUDGE LAKE: Um...
So you're in a relationship, Mr. Broadnax?
BROADNAX: Yes, Your Honor.
But you were intimate
with Ms. Billingsley the other night?
No, Your Honor.
No, Your Honor. She just...
I'd guess its jealousy. I don't know what it is, Your Honor.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Billingsley, was he intimate with you?
Oh, I will... I will take a lie detector test on that one.
If she's...
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
If she's my baby, Your Honor,
I'm not a deadbeat. I will man up...
Jerome,
you think I should send him back for a lie detector test?
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
The "Ayes" say yes.
JUDGE LAKE: Well, all right.
BILLINGSLEY: Perfect. Good.
(SCATTERED LAUGHTER)
If Bailey is your biological daughter
do you want to try to work things out with Ms. Billingsley?
BROADNAX: Man, Your Honor, that...
That's hard 'cause...
(SCOFFS)
...I know we have past conflicts, but...
If it is my child, I would want to build a family
with... With this woman.
(SOBBING)
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)
JUDGE LAKE: Does your girlfriend know this?
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
BROADNAX: No, Your Honor.
Well, Jerome,
I don't think we need a lie detector test now, do we?
(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
BROADNAX: Man.
You can put that in the bank and cash it.
I can see it in his eyes.
Yeah.
(JEROME LAUGHING)
JUDGE LAKE: How do you feel?
(SOBBING)
Hurt.
Lied to.
And not trustworthy.
I don't trust him.
Knowing that he can
sit there and
have sex with me
while he's in a relationship with another woman.
But did you know he was in a relationship
with the other woman when you had sex with him?
I did.
JUDGE LAKE: Well, then that...
BROADNAX: Come on, Your Honor.
BILLINGSLEY: I did.
You know, truth, honesty,
they're two-way streets.
Oh, I know. Absolutely.
JUDGE LAKE: Trust...
Absolutely.
But if he's willing to do that to her,
why doesn't it make me believe that he would do it to me.
That he's standing here saying that...
Your Honor...
...he wants to be a family...
Then start doing something for your daughter.
BROADNAX: If we could work out our conflicts...
If we could work out our conflicts,
so once we get this DNA test back...
What are our conflicts
other than the fact that you won't take care of your child?
I want the DNA test.
I wanna know 100% sure.
BILLINGSLEY: And that's what I'm saying.
That's what we're here for, Your Honor.
Other than that what conflict is there?
The only way to get past
all of these doubts is to get the results.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(BILLINGSLEY SOBBING)
Mr. Broadnax, you have
a relationship on the line right now.
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: And you may, in fact, find out
you have a beautiful daughter.
Yes, Your Honor.
Ms. Billingsley...
BILLINGSLEY: (SOBBING) Yes, Your Honor.
You gave Bailey his last name.
I did.
(SNIFFLING) I did.
JUDGE LAKE: And is he on the birth certificate?
Did he sign the birth certificate?
No, Your Honor. I've submitted a picture
of the birth certificate
showing that he's not...
BROADNAX: I wasn't able to see her get born or none of that.
Because he wasn't there for the birth.
JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Billingsley,
if he's not her biological father
will you change her name?
Yes.
So is there a chance he's not her...
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
...biological father?
Since we're in court, we might as well
go on ahead and tell truth and shame the devil,
that's what I say.
BILLINGSLEY: Absolutely, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: So there is a chance?
There's... I had doubt at first
due to the fact that...
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
WOMAN: What's happening?
Due to the fact
that when he was out of town
and we were constantly fighting...
AUDIENCE: Oh.
I did call somebody,
and one thing led to another.
It was not meant to happen, but it was
not in any time frame
of the conception date.
When I had her, there was no doubt.
There is no doubt at all
that that child is not his.
They look alike.
She has traits that he does...
But when he was presenting his calendar
of when he worked versus
when the conception dates were, I see
you said...
Your testimony was, "And that's just an estimation."
BILLINGSLEY: Mmm-hmm.
So when you say
you weren't intimate with someone
during the window of conception
is that an estimation?
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
That's an honest question.
No. It's not an estimation.
It's... It would have been too far...
Too farther ahead
to have had her in January.
BROADNAX: Your Honor, she only calls for money.
I just want these DNA results.
She only calls for money.
As again... She's the liar.
BILLINGSLEY: I only call for money for you to...
Hold on, Mr. Broadnax,
before you get up on your
soapbox and start pontificating.
BILLINGSLEY: You ain't innocent.
You just said you want to be with her if the baby was yours.
So you just leave well enough alone...
BROADNAX: No, if we could work out our problems...
...and get these results,
which I have for you.
Are we ready?
BROADNAX: Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: These results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics
and they read as follows.
In the case of Billingsley v. Broadnax,
pertaining to
whether Arthur Broadnax
is the father of one-year-old
Bailey Broadnax.
It has been determined by this court,
Mr. Broadnax, you...
...are the father.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Okay, Your Honor, with that being said,
I'll man up, step up to the plate...
BILLINGSLEY: Step up.
...and start taking care of my daughter.
She needs her father.
But I need time with her.
Not just money. You need to let her stay with me for...
For time, not just send money.
(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)
JUDGE LAKE: Listen.
Before we get to
where we go from here.
You submitted expenses,
childcare expenses to the court
that total $10,444,
this court finds that
Ms. Billingsley is, in fact,
entitled to half of those
childcare expenses.
However, the maximum this court can order
is $5000.
So with that said, judgment for the plaintiff
for $5000.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Now that we've gotten the money
out of the way,
let's talk about
our bigger picture.
You all have some work to do.
'Cause just because we got the result today
and it's a favorable result,
it doesn't mean
that the hurt's gonna go away,
the mistrust's gonna go away overnight.
That doesn't happen overnight.
You create your own happy ending.
Right?
And you write your own story.
And for Bailey's sake,
I want you to make the effort
to write a positive story.
A story that may have
ups, downs, obstacles, issues,
and yet when two parents continue
and commit
to working together for the sake
of a beautiful little girl,
her story has the happy ending it deserves.
Do we understand? This court is adjourned.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
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Every Royal Marriage Has Its Thorn: Meghan Markle's Father Is Hardly the First In-Law to Plague This Family.
It's not always easy being royal, even when you're born into it, groomed for the life from day one and know what is expected of you.
So imagine the trial by fire that constitutes being born decidedly not royal and then joining the family down the road.
Meghan Markle is still in the infancy of her royalty, having just married Prince Harry on May 19,
less than two years after they first met on a blind date.
While her public life for the foreseeable future will be a blur of appearances,
protocol and calculated style decisions, she and Harry have managed to carve out time for themselves,
stealing away to an as-yet undisclosed place in East Africa for a honeymoon and joining forces to combat the mental exhaustion
that's been plaguing them from the Markle side of the family tree.
Yes, the honeymoon period has been uncomfortably shadowed by Meghan's father, Thomas Markle,
who suffered a heart attack barely a week before the wedding, rendering him unable to attend,
and since has been chatting with whomever will listen (a great many people, apparently) about his so-called concerns over his daughter's emotional state.
She looks "terrified," he surmised after looking at photos and videos of Meghan at work
(aka out and about fulfilling her new set of duties as wife of Queen Elizabeth II's rumored favorite grandson).
"Dad, I don't come to your job and judge you!"
At this point, it's hard to imagine that this man was going to be welcome anywhere in the UK in May,
let alone at the royal wedding, inside the chapel.
Add to that Meghan's half-sister, Samantha Markle, who painted an unsparing portrait of her sister before the wedding;
enough to merit an on-air dressing-down from Piers Morgan while he was interviewing her;
and just chimed in on Twitter this week to insist the new Duchess of Sussex quit ignoring their father.
"Act like a humanitarian act like a woman! If our father dies I'm holding you responsible,
Meg! @KensingtonRoyal," Samantha tweeted, per DailyMail.com's screengrabs.
OK, then.
Now, while we've never seen the queen pouring over a mobile looking at tweets,
there's no way any of this is occurring in a "let's not bother granny about this now" fashion.
The 92-year-old monarch is apprised of everything that happens among her sprawling family,
particularly when it pertains to their public image.
And she can't be pleased. Nor can Meghan for that matter.
DailyMail.com, meanwhile, is wondering whether Thomas even had a heart attack,
but was instead trying to save face after it came out days before the wedding that he had posed for staged paparazzi shots.
"He had to come up with a good enough reason not to attend her wedding and avoid any further embarrassment
after those staged photos went public," claimed a source close to Meghan.
Thomas, an Emmy-winning lighting director who had been living a previously quiet life in Mexico,
said he had a stent fitted at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center in San Diego, Calif.
Before the wedding, the royals were chided (in the media, that is) by etiquette experts who felt it wasn't right of them to not send a family representative to see Markle in person.
Among other things, the source added, "Don't feel sorry for him. If anything, feel sorry for Meghan".
Worrying about what your dad might say next certainly isn't any way to spend your newlywed days.
But Meghan, a former commoner, can at least rest a little easier knowing
that her still-commoner relatives aren't the first regular people to prove a thorn in the royals' side.
For starters, a lot of things qualify as an affront in their book, so if it wasn't this, it was going to be something else.
Just ask Kate Middleton and her sister.
Though the world appreciated the view, the royals were none too impressed by Pippa Middleton's attention-grabbing posterior that was;
in Hollywood terms, anyway—barely on display when she served as Kate's maid of honor in 2011.
There was no lingering effect on the sisters' relationship,
Kate probably being the only one who appreciated sharing the spotlight in the middle of the nuptial pressure cooker.
But it was only the beginning of the realization that the royals' proverbial leash extended to the in-laws.
With her sister's college romance really working out, Pippa too became a household name.
Her style, her affinity for sport and charity runs, and her dating life were prime subjects for the parsing—and she wisely struck while the iron was hot.
In 2012 she released a book, Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Family and Friends.
Her byline started appearing in the likes of Vanity Fair and Spectatorand she had her own column,
"Sport and Social," in the Telegraph for about nine months.
She was even rumored in 2012 to be mulling a regular gig as a Today correspondent,
after doing a reporting piece on assignment in America, but the NBC morning show said no such offer had been made.
"She is of course welcome as a guest on Today any time," a show rep told E! News.
It's not as if the lifestyle and event-planning world is the easiest market to break into, even for celebrities,
but rumor had it that it wasn't entirely Pippa's idea to not continue building her brand in favor of focusing more prominently on philanthropic work.
"It was felt by William in particular that she needed some guidance and support," a friend of Pippa's told the Mail on Sunday in 2016.
The reining-in reportedly even included no longer being the face of her parents' party-supply business, Party Pieces.
Another source said that at one point all sorts of offers in fitness, nutrition,
sports and other opportunities in Pippa's wheelhouse were coming in,
but "when it got down to signing off on any of the deals and doing any business, a line was drawn.
Pippa would always say no. She was the one driving it all and then it got to a point where she backed out and nothing would happen.
"Some of us assumed it was the Palace and I think at times it was quite frustrating for Pippa,
because there was never any progression when she wanted things to move forward".
At least Pippa, who's currently pregnant with her first child with husband James Matthews
(whose wild-card brother Spencer Matthews coincidentally dropped out of the reality show Made in Chelsea two years ago),
seems to have since found her niche in the philanthropic world.
Meanwhile, the toning down of Pippa's public profile was said to have been inspired by the desire to not have a repeat of what William's Aunt Sarah Ferguson,
Duchess of York, got up to after her divorce from Prince Andrew.
Her various post-split business endeavors, including becoming a longtime spokeswoman for Weight Watchers
and in 2009 appearing on the real estate reality show The Duchess on the Estate,
certainly upped her celebrity profile but served as a source of annoyance for The Firm,
aka the royal family. (All of this being in addition to the tabloid-friendly toe-licking scandal).
Ferguson getting caught on tape in 2010 negotiating a 500,000-pound fee from a reporter in exchange for access
to her ex-husband is said to have cost her an invitation to Will and Kate's wedding the following year.
Of course, as the mother of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie,
who's getting married in October, the original Fergie has never been too far from the fold,
and Prince Harry made sure that she was on the guest list to witness his I-dos in May.
Harry perhaps being the queen's favorite, who was she to argue?
It's her husband, Prince Philip, however, who's said to have the real issue with the Duchess of York.
Fergie and Andrew joined the ranks of the happily uncoupled and remained close friends over the years,
which meant the prince wanted her around the family business (of existing and going places, that is) more than your average ex-husband.
The duchess continued to visit the queen's Balmoral estate, for example,
and on a trip there in 2005, a friend of Fergie's told the Daily Express, Philip "avoided her like the plague.
I don't think they spoke a single word all week".
In 2015, also according to the Express, Philip and the queen had just arrived at the annual Royal Ascot
when they met Prince Andrew and his ex-wife coming out of a restaurant in the Royal Enclosure.
Andrew bowed toward his parents and, as Sarah curtsied,
witnesses said that Elizabeth smiled and waved and Philip couldn't even muster a grin for his former daughter-in-law.
While last year it was reported in Ingrid Seward's book My Husband and I:
The Inside Story of Royal Marriage that Prince Philip was the one who, on his last nerve,
furiously told his wife that she must insist Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce after their years-long separation,
other accounts suggest the Duke of Edinburgh treated his controversial daughter-in-law, who died in 1997,
with empathy after she and Charles split up in 1992. (They didn't divorce till 1996).
In the summer of 1992, Philip wrote Diana letters, the princess' friend Rosa Monckton;
who said she was privy to the correspondence—explained to the Telegraph in 2007.
"I was struck by how kind and compassionate and understanding he was of her circumstances," Monckton said.
He also affectionately signed them "Pa," the Telegraph reported.
None of which is to say that Philip was happy with all of Diana's post-split decisions,
such as her eye-opening 1995 interview with Martin Bashir for the BBC's Panorama,
in which she discussed Charles' affair with Camilla Parker Bowles and admitted to her own infidelity.
But Philip, like the queen, will never be one to go on the record with what he really thinks about the subjects
that have proved most controversial to Britain's royal family over the years.
The queen's storied reaction, or public lack thereof, to Diana's death was not mitigated by the late princess' family,
who let it be known just how shabbily they felt the royals had treated Diana in the final years of her life.
"On behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family,
will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men,
so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition, but can sing openly as you planned,"
her brother Charles Spencer said in his eulogy at her funeral.
The Guardian called Spencer "a far more gifted moment-seizer than the Windsors have ever produced".
For the record, however, the former Lady Diana Spencer was not really considered a commoner,
but rather was a member of British nobility, before becoming a royal by marrying Charles in 1981.
The future Duchess Camilla of Cornwall, however, was a commoner, though she ran in impressive, royal-inclusive social circles.
And despite all the attention understandably paid to the fallout of Diana and Charles' unprecedentedly messy broken marriage,
it's not as though the queen was in love with Camilla,
whose former husband Andrew Parker Bowles had previously dated the queen's daughter and Charles' sister Princess Anne.
(Camilla's maternal great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was also a mistress of King Edward VII, the queen's great-grandfather, from 1898 until 1910).
Charles and Camilla were nuts about each other, and perfectly well-suited, personality-wise,
but the future King of England wasn't thinking about marriage yet when they first met
and as Patricia Mountbatten says in Sally Bedell Smith's 2017 biography Prince Charles,
there were "obviously problems" with Camilla.
"You didn't want a past that hung about," said Patricia, a first cousin to Prince Philip.
Maybe not, but by the time Camilla and Charles finally married in 2005, everybody had a past.
"They have come through, and I'm very proud and wish them well,"
the Queen said at the wedding reception she hosted for them at Waterloo Chamber, according to Prince Charles.
"My son is home and dry with the woman he loves".
Every royal coin has two sides, however. Tom Bower's 2018 tome Rebel Prince:
The Power, Passion and Defiance maintains that, while the Queen did indeed make those tender-sounding remarks,
the mother of the groom barely spoke to Camilla at the wedding and spent less than a minute taking photographs.
She also went into a side room to watch a horse race with Camilla's ex-husband.
After Diana died, Bower wrote, the Queen and her mother,
the Queen Mother (who was also named Elizabeth) openly disapproved of Charles and Camilla's relationship,
which in turn prompted Charles to try and maintain a low profile with the love of his life—which subsequently frustrated Camilla.
According to Bower, when Charles finally asked his mother for at least her approval for him to live with Camilla,
the queen refused and referred to the divorcée as "that wicked woman".
At the same time, Charles' mother and grandmother were very kind to Camilla's ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles,
and had no problem receiving him at the various royal residences and other events.
It actually wasn't until the Queen Mother died, in 2002, that Queen Elizabeth II came around. Somewhat.
After Charles proposed in 2005, the Queen still had to grapple with public opinion,
which seemed firmly against the idea of Camilla one day being queen to Charles' king.
According to Bower, to assuage the people, Buckingham Palace referred to Camilla in briefings
as an "unwilling bride" who had no interest in the role—which was not at all the case.
"The best thing about the royal family is that they're so lovely," Mike Tindall, husband of Princess Anne's daughter,
Zara Tindall, told ITV's Good Morning Britain before Meghan and Harry's wedding.
While the former professional rugby player and known appreciator of a good time would seem to be a prime candidate for getting under the queen's skin,
Zara's grandmother doesn't seem to mind that he's quite the talker—mainly about himself and Zara,
of course, as spilling family secrets would be another story altogether.
But still, it appears as though Anne's decision to not give her children royal titles really paid off down the road when it came to not attracting as much ire from the monarchy.
Going by his own experience, Tindall expressed confidence that Prince Harry's future wife would do just fine on her big day, and beyond.
"I think she'll be nervous, but coming from her background in TV she's used to public spotlight," he said.
"Not quite as much probably as has gone on this week,
but she'll be fine and I think she's experienced enough to know that all she can do is enjoy the day.
And it's a special day for them both, and as long as they get a quiet moment during the day
and actually have enjoyed the day that's what I wish for them, and hopefully they'll live happily ever after".
Her dad and sister have made for a less than fairy-tale beginning, but rest assured,
Duchess Meghan, there's nothing more royal than commoner intrigue.
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Caroline Flack confirms relationship with on-off fiancé Andrew Brady is officially OVER... just - Duration: 8:06.
She has had an extremely tumultuous nine month relationship with the Apprentice star.
And now Caroline Flack, 39, has insisted that she 'won't go back' to Andrew Brady,
28, as she confirmed that they no longer live together after officially ending their volatile romance.
The pair split at the beginning of December, just as the Love Island host made her West End debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago.
So I'm sorting myself out, I'm doing what I want to do. Last week, she told The Sun: 'I'm on my own now.
I'm putting my head into this, into work and focusing on acting.
After confirming that they are now living apart, Caroline confessed that, although the split necessary,
she is still fond of her ex, and indeed wouldn't be drawn into bad-mouthing him.
But I think we're both doing what we need to do at the minute. She admitted: 'Yeah, you know I like him.
We're both looking after our own heads and doing our own thing.
Caroline also insisted that their relationship is over for good.
When asked if she will go back to her ex, she simply responded: 'I'm not going to'.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Caroline Flack and Andrew Brady for comment.
This is quite a bold statement from the presenter, who said just weeks ago that she and Andrew had a 'raw love' and needed to be happy in themselves 'before we can be together'.
Caroline told the Sun in early Decemeber: 'We have a very passionate, raw love but at the minute we just need to look after ourselves.
'We need to be happy in ourselves before we can be together, I think — and that's what we're doing. I think we want the best for each other'.
As the news broke of her decision to end her relationship with Andrew once and for all,
Caroline took to Instagram and shared a reflective post to reveal that she would be taking time off after her stint in Chicago.
Posting a photograph of herself wearing a 'Choose Love' jumper, she captioned the snap: 'It's been a crazy old year....
I've had some of the best moments of my life in 2018 ... and I won't forget it in a heartbeat...
'But as we get nearer to the new year it's a time for reflection and change.....
so gonna take me some time off after Chicago ... Have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year ...
The tempestuous couple endured a strained relationship with a string of high-profile bust ups. and remember to Choose Love'.
Caroline first got together with the reality star in January, and but split in March for the first time,
amid claims Andrew was unfaithful and fears he was using the presenter for her fame.
Soon reconciling, Caroline even had his initials tattooed on her inner wrist just weeks after the duo had met.
Following a whirlwind romance, the pair then became engaged in April (after just three months together) and broke the news on their respective Instagram accounts.
However, just one month later, in May, the showbiz couple broke things off again, but reunited days later.
In June, the pair adopted an adorable French Bulldog puppy named Ruby, but in early July Caroline announced their next break-up in a statement on social media.
It read: 'I'm sad to announce that Andrew and I have decided to part ways.
Unfortunately it was not to be. I wish him all the best.
At least there's a Villa waiting for me. It's back to the ol' grafting'.
Despite her amicable public statement, sources close to Flack said that a 'fame hungry' Brady was 'full of lies' and used her to 'increase his status'.
Just two days after their split Andrew Brady took to Twitter to confess he had met with Celebs Go Dating producers a day after his split from fiancée Caroline Flack.
It was reported before that Caroline was left 'in utter shock' after discovering her ex-fiancé was secretly planning to appear on the show before they had even announced their split.
According to The Sun, the TV presenter confessed to friends that she believes he was cheating,
and added: 'I really tried to help him and support him, but I feel he just used me. He's fame hungry'.
Amid claims of a 'messy' break-up, due to his alleged infidelities and 'fame-hungry' nature,
Andrew shared a lengthy statement about the split on Twitter in July - claiming he was 'not perfect'.
At the end of July it was reported that the television presenter had flown back from filming Love Island in Majorca to kick Andrew out of her home after their split.
But soon afterwards, Caroline and Andrew rekindled the flames of their romance when they were spotted kissing during a pizza date after a cosy 'make-or-break' getaway to Ibiza in August.
In early September Andrew moved his things back into the presenter's London home, and Caroline returned to wearing her sparkling engagement ring.
The Sun reported in October that Caroline had begun to question their future following a drunken rant he allegedly made during their holiday in Portugal.
According to the publication, the Apprentice star had been booted out of a juice retreat for bringing in alcohol before launching into an 'abusive' shouting fest at the Love Island host.
aroline was said to be 'devastated' by his behaviour which led fellow guests at the resort to complain, as management chose to evict Andrew for the incident.
But as well as a their heated argument on holiday in Portugal in the autumn, last month the pair had a row which resulted in Andrew prank-calling an ambulance.
It was claimed business entrepreneur Andrew made the call to the emergency services vindictively, insiders shared with MailOnline.
A source told Mail Online the episode as a 'non-event' and an attempt by Brady 'to embarrass Caroline.
'This is not the first time he has attempted something like this by any means,' they added.
Which it seems he has successfully achieved'.
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