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Celebrity Deaths: 2025’s Fallen Stars
The Royal Family are mourning a valued work member.
Graham “Crackers” Craker, who served arsenic a bodyguard to Prince Harry and Prince William astatine the clip of Princess Diana’s death, has died, his sons confirmed. He was 77.
Craker’s sons confirmed his decease connected societal media, according to the BBC, describing him arsenic "an unthinkable man" who "lived his beingness truthful selflessly.”
Craker served arsenic bodyguard to the royal household for 15 years aft serving 35 years successful the U.K.’s Metropolitan Police earlier his status successful 2001. He was besides with Harry, past 12, and William, past 15, astatine Balmoral erstwhile they learned of their mother’s 1997 death, with the defender telling The New York Post in 2017 the quality was “difficult to instrumentality in.”
“From determination on,” helium added, “it’s the policeman’s instinct to measure the concern and transportation on."
Craker walked with the 2 princes down Diana’s hearse during her funeral—a representation Harry recounted successful his memoir Spare.
“The operator had to support pulling implicit truthful the bodyguard could get retired and wide the flowers disconnected the windscreen,” Harry wrote. "The bodyguard was Graham. Willy and I liked him a lot.”
He added, “We ever called him Crackers, arsenic successful Graham Crackers. We thought it was hysterical.”
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Craker besides rode successful the hearse that carried Diana’s assemblage to Althorp House, her family’s estate, wherever she is buried. During the drive, the hearse drove by King Charles, Harry and William.
It was a representation that ever stuck with the bodyguard 2 decades later.
"I was lasting astatine the rear of the hearse and William looked up and acknowledged me,” Craker told The New York Post. “I looked toward him and nodded. William was comforted that I was with his mum connected her last journey.”
Following Craker’s passing, Southern Maltings creation halfway successful East Hertfordshire, wherever the erstwhile work subordinate spent clip volunteering pursuing his retirement, paid tribute.
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“While to the astir important radical successful his beingness Graham was a father, and grandfather, to america helium was a valued person and colleague,” Southern Maltings wrote connected Facebook April 3. “He was the lone unpaid to person a acceptable of keys to the building, specified is the measurement of however trusted and respected helium was.”
The enactment added, “For those of america who worked events, helium volition beryllium remembered for his laugh, his warmth and the mode helium ever conscionable wanted to assistance people. From a vocation successful the police, arsenic a subordinate of the extortion squad, a immense driving unit successful the rotary and yet a cardinal unpaid astatine the Southern Maltings, truthful galore radical are going to miss our precise ain James Bond.”
E! News has reached retired to reps for Harry and William for remark but has not yet heard back.
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The Duke and Duchess of Westminster Expecting Their First Baby
Hugh Grosvenor, who is King Charles III’s godson, and his woman Olivia Grosvenor announced March 12 that she is large with their archetypal baby.
“The duchess is expecting a babe successful the summer,” a spokesperson told The Telegraph. “The mates are delighted with the quality and are precise overmuch looking guardant to starting a household together.”
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Luxembourg's Prince Fredrik Dies astatine 22
Prince Frederik—the lad of Prince Robert and his wife Princess Julie—died March 1 astatine 22 years old aft a conflict with PolG mitochondrial disease, a uncommon familial disorder.
"Frederik knows that helium is my Superhero, arsenic helium is to each of our family, and to truthful precise galore bully friends and present successful large portion acknowledgment to his PolG Foundation, to truthful precise galore radical the satellite over," Robert said successful a statement. "Part of his superpower was his quality to animate and to pb by example."
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Prince Harry Reaches Settlement successful U.K. Tabloids Lawsuit
The Duke of Sussex reached a colony with News Group Newspapers—which is liable for The Sun as good arsenic the present defunct News of the World—on Jan. 22 after suing the enactment successful 2019 over alleged unlawful actions connected the portion of journalists and backstage investigators moving for the newspapers to get accusation connected the royal family.
The woody included the institution paying "substantial damages," arsenic good arsenic issuing a "full and unequivocal apology" to Harry and nationalist acknowledgement of "the extended sum and superior intrusion into his backstage beingness arsenic good arsenic the backstage beingness of Diana, Princess of Wales,” per NBC News.
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Kate Middleton Is successful Remission After Finishing Chemotherapy for Cancer
The Princess of Wales announced connected Jan. 14 that she's in remission aft implicit crab treatments.
"It is simply a alleviation to present beryllium successful remission and I stay focused connected recovery," she wrote successful a connection connected X, formerly Twitter, Jan. 14. "As anyone who has experienced a crab diagnosis volition know, it takes clip to set to a caller normal."
"I americium nevertheless looking guardant to a fulfilling twelvemonth ahead," she continued. "There is overmuch to look guardant to."
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Meghan Markle's Longtime Dog Guy Dies
The Duchess of Sussex mourned the decease of her beloved rescue beagle, who she adopted successful 2015 earlier gathering hubby Prince Harry.
She wrote connected Instagram Jan. 7, "I person cried excessively galore tears to number - the benignant of tears that marque you get successful the ablution with the absurd anticipation that the moving h2o connected your look volition someway marque you not consciousness them, oregon unreal they’re not there. But they are. And that’s good too."
"Thank you for truthful galore years of unconditional love, my saccharine Guy," Meghan added. "You filled my beingness successful ways you’ll ne'er know."
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Prince William Mourns Death of Former Nanny's Stepson
Edward "Ed" Pettifer—stepson of Prince William and Prince Harry's erstwhile nanny Alexandra Pettifer, besides known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke—was one of the victims of the New Year's Day violent attack successful New Orleans.
"Catherine and I person been shocked and saddened by the tragic decease of Ed Pettifer," William said successful a connection posted connected Kate Middleton's Instagram Stories Jan. 4. "Our thoughts and prayers stay with the Pettifer household and each those guiltless radical who person been tragically impacted by this horrific attack."
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Meghan Markle Rejoins Instagram to Reveal New Netflix Show
The Suits alum—who unopen down her idiosyncratic societal media accounts soon earlier her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry—debuted a solo Instagram page connected Jan. 1.
A time later, she announced a caller Netflix bid titled With Love, Meghan, which "reimagines the genre of manner programming, blending applicable how-to’s and candid speech with friends, caller and old," according to a property release.
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