Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walk out of the Hertz office after the Ms. Foundation for Women gala. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Complicated dynamics between celebrities and the paparazzi contributed to the confusion around a recent incident in New York City. “It’s a messed up business,” said Roger Wong, a freelance photographer, who on Thursday evening was among a few dozen others waiting on a step and repeat outside the Hard Rock Hotel, near Times Square....

Royalist is The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Friends of the British royal family have mocked Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s account of a “near catastrophic” car chase in New York, after photographs, videos and other participants’ accounts gave a very different—and much less perilous—impression of the evening’s events, with one friend of Prince William quipping, “Recollections may vary.” The friend added: “I thought they were leaving the royal family for a quieter life. If...

A former bodyguard for the late Princess Diana threw cold water on the narrative that the paparazzi were attempting to put Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in danger during an alleged car chase Tuesday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed they were chased by photographers for "over two hours" in a "relentless" pursuit after leaving the Women of Vision Awards – where Markle was honored for her advocacy work. Diana's previous head of security, Ken Wharfe, spoke about the alleged chase during Thursday's episode of "Good Morning Britain."...

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, were allegedly involved in a “near catastrophic” car chase this week in New York. Photographers at the scene of an alleged “near catastrophic” car chase involving Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have disputed the royal couple’s account of the incident. Celebrity photo agency Backgrid USA Inc. released a statement Wednesday defending its freelance photographers who witnessed the alleged chase and denied that the pursuit caused multiple near-collisions on the streets of New York City. Backgrid claims it has reviewed photos and videos from...

“There seemed to be chaos when they were leaving the hotel,” he told The Washington Post. “There was no delineation of barriers, press were free to roam where they want … the journey got off to a bad start. All the paparazzi want is a photograph, they aren’t out to kill people.” He said if he had been there, he would have advised Harry and Meghan to pose for a photograph before they left — “the royals might complain, they always did, but then the paparazzi have the photograph.” But...

• A photo agency has pushed back on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's papparazzi car chase claims. • Backgrid USA said that its freelance photographers say there were "no near-collisions or near-crashes." • A rep for the royal couple had alleged they were involved in a "near-catastrophic car chase" in Manhattan. A celebrity photo agency has pushed back on Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's claims that they were involved in a wild New York City car chase by paparazzi, saying that its freelance photographers reported back there were...

Police officials said the couple had attended the Women of Vision Awards and left New York’s Ziegfeld Ballroom at about 10 p.m. It was the first public event that Harry and Meghan had attended since King Charles III’s coronation, which the duchess didn’t attend. Julian Phillips, the police department’s deputy commissioner of public information, said officers “assisted the private security team protecting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.” Buda said the group pursuing them were “driving aggressively and badly.” He added that they were “following us to find out where...

• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said they were involved in a "near-catastrophic" car chase with paparazzi. • A photographer who chased them blamed their driver for making the chase a "catastrophic experience." • The photographer told Good Morning Britain it was "very tense" trying to keep up with the vehicles. A photographer involved in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's "near-catastrophic" car chase on Tuesday blamed their driver for causing the chaos. In an interview with Good Morning Britain on Thursday, the photographer — kept anonymous and filmed with his...

A paparazzi driver interviewed by British TV show Good Morning Britain has accused Harry and Meghan’s team of risking a perilous situation by making blocking “maneuvers” as they attempted to lose photographers following them after Meghan was given an award at a ceremony in central Manhattan Tuesday night. Harry and Meghan’s team have accused the paparazzi of causing a “near catastrophic” accident, but the individual, interviewed anonymously by Thursday, blamed the Sussex team.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got chased by paparazzi cars just like Princes Diana after attending an event in New York City Tuesday night. The incident happened after they left the Ziegfeld Theater, where Markle was honored by Gloria Steinem at the Women of Vision Awards in Manhattan. "Last night, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms. Ragland were involved in a near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi," the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's rep said in a statement to Page...