QUEEN’S PHIL GOOD FACTOR
Prince goes back to Windsor after a month in hospital
PRINCE William had an “unproductive” chat with Prince Harry after his brother and wife Meghan Markle made damning allegations about the Royal Family.
They spoke at the weekend for the first time since the Sussexes’ interview with Oprah Winfrey, claims the chat-show queen’s best friend.
US presenter Gayle King yesterday also revealed Harry, 36, spoke to his father Prince Charles.
On her This Morning show, she lambasted the Royal Family by claiming Meghan thinks they are continuing to smear her by leaking stories to the media.
King said: “I did actually call them (the Sussexes) to see how they were feeling and, it’s true, Harry has talked to his brother and his father, too.
“The word I was given was that those conversations were not productive. but they are glad that they have at least started a conversation.”
She said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are upset that false stories disparaging Meghan are coming out even though the palace keep saying they want to work it out privately.
King said: “No one in the Royal Family has talked to Meghan yet. All they wanted all along was for the royals to intervene and tell the press to stop with the unfair, inaccurate, false stories that definitely have a racial slant.” King is a very close friend of Winfrey and, in recent years, Meghan.
She spoke as Michelle REFUTE Wills hit back at claim
Obama urged Harry and Meghan to heal their rift with buckingham Palace. Speaking to Access Hollywood, ex-first lady Mrs Obama, 57, said: “When I think about what they’re going through, I think about the importance of family and I just pray that there is forgiveness and there is clarity and love and resolve at some point in time. because there’s nothing more important than family.” Harry and Meghan, 39, claimed to Oprah they had been cut off financially, Archie was prevented from being made a prince and there were “concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie’s] skin might be when he’s born.”
Meghan also said her treatment while in London left her feeling suicidal.
Last week William hit back against claims his family are racist. His rebuttal came after the Palace issued a statement on behalf of the Queen saying issues they raised, particularly that of race, were very concerning.
DENNIS was born when beano editor George Moonie heard a music hall song called “Dennis the Menace from Venice”. His surname is actually Menace. His mum and dad are Sandra and Dennis Menace. Dennis arrived in beano issue No452, dated March 17, 1951. His dog, Gnasher, is an Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound. A comic strip of the same name debuted in US newspapers in exactly the same week. Dennis lives at 51 Gasworks Road, Beanotown. His birthday is March 17 – but he is always 10 years old. Dennis’s first comic-strip appearance showed him walking into the park with his dad, where a sign tells visitors they should “Keep Off the Grass”. It was his first brush with killjoy grown-up rules. The CbbC CGI-animated series Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! first aired on TV in November 2017 and is now in its second series. Dennis didn’t wear his iconic red-and-black jumper in the first comic – he wore a shirt and tie. Dennis’s fan club has more than one million members – including Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films. The first three artists to draw Dennis were all called David. Dennis found Gnasher wandering the streets of beanotown in 1968. The instruction to the artist first tasked with drawing Gnasher was to “take Dennis’s hair then give it a face and four legs”.
CARTOON character Dennis the Menace turns 70 today and remains the nation’s best-loved 10-year-old. Instantly recognisable with his red-and-black striped jumper and spiky black hair, the character
Dennis was billed as the “World’s Wildest Boy”.
When Moonie wanted to introduce more rebellious characters, he started with Minnie the Minx – “a female version of Dennis”. Dennis got his striped jumper in April 1951. His gran knits them. The jumper is red and black as those were the two strongest colours of ink available to printers in the 50s. It was revealed in 2015 (issue 3932) that Dennis’s father was the Dennis the Menace from the 80s. Dennis replaced biffo the bear as beano’s cover star in 1974. On the cover of Beano No2674, Dennis used a hosepipe to spray the cast of the comic with technicolour paint, marking the first Beano to be printed in full colour throughout. Dennis’s first cover story involved him using the issue’s free gift, the Happy Howler, to torment people at an opera. He has a little sister, Bea, who arrived in issue 2931, on September 19, 1998. She got her own comic strip – Beaginnings – in issue 2935. In the first teaser trailer revealing Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor Who, Dennis can be seen on the cover of the 1981 beano Summer Special she is reading.
Dennis and Minnie first appeared together in the same comic strip in 1954.
COUSIN Minnie the Minx first appeared in a Beano strip on March 17, 1951. A commemorative issue of the comic – guest edited by TV star and prankster extraordinaire Joe Sugg – is out now and honours seven decades of Dennis’s adventures. Here are some things you might not know about the loveable rebel... terrier, which hasn’t appeared since.
Dennis proved an immediate hit with kids, leading to the introduction of more rebel kids to the beano – including The bash Street Kids and Roger the Dodger. In 1986, Gnasher disappeared. Distraught, Dennis asked readers to join him on a “Gnational Gnasher Search”. After seven weeks, it turned out Gnasher had fallen in love with a beagle and had become a father. Dennis can talk to Gnasher just once a year – at Halloween. When Dennis met the Prince of Wales in 2012, he broke with protocol by offering to shake Charles’s hand. When the prince reciprocated, Dennis cheekily withdrew his hand and thumbed his nose at the surprised royal.
SISTER Little Bea
Gnasher’s name was added to the story’s title in 1970.
In the first-ever Dennis strip, the family had a pet
Dennis’s pet pig, Rasher, debuted in 1979.