Sundance Empty Seats, Harry vs Trump, and the Most Brutal Fight Yet. The week in royal news with Mark Francis

Harry/Meghan at Sundance for Cookie Queens screening—Page Six reports 150 seats reserved for high-paying pass holders left unclaimed, 60 seats unoccupied throughout. Insider: "For Harry to go from the hearing—and pleading for privacy—to then go to Sundance just days after is nuts." Previous day's screening (Olivia Wilde's The Invite) turned away 100 ticket holders after selling out.

Harry rebuked Trump over Afghanistan NATO comments—Trump claimed allies "stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines." Harry: "I served there. I made lifelong friends there. And I lost friends there. UK alone had 457 service personnel killed. Those sacrifices deserve to be spoken about truthfully." Trump walked back remarks after King Charles intervened. Kate's Rose Hanbury affair wounds reopened—Radar Online: "When rumors first began circulating, Kate was deeply shaken. Any time Rose surfaces at an event connected to royal world, it reopens old emotional wounds."

Camilla "hopping mad" about Kate's tiara, "panicked about where she'll stand." Charles pressuring Kate as "last viable bridge" between brothers: "Everyone needs to grow up." Harry/Meghan locked in "most brutal fight yet" over children's visibility—sources fear "could be thing that finally breaks marriage." Deep Crown: "I remain entirely convinced Duke will not leave his children. Institution lost him; children will not." As Ever Valentine's flop—$42 trio sets, candle with no wick, no new products.

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