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The broadcast led with Meghan Markle saying a handwritten letter sent to the Metropolitan Police in 2018, containing allegations about her father, was passed to her by police shortly after her marriage to Prince Harry and led her to cut off contact with Thomas Markle. She said the letter made troubling and disturbing allegations and that she had been assured they were being investigated, adding that her distance from her father and decision not to allow contact with her children was to protect them. The report said the letter's existence emerged after allegations that child sex abuse images had been found at Thomas Markle's home in the Philippines; Philippine authorities were looking into the claims, which the 82-year-old strenuously denied as sick lies, and he was believed to be in a US rehabilitation centre after surgery.

Fresh weather warnings were in place as Storm Bulow began to affect the UK, the second named storm of the season after Storm Austin left tens of thousands of properties without power in south-west England. The Met Office extended an amber warning for wind in Scotland to parts of northern England and Northern Ireland, with forecast gusts possibly exceeding 80 mph, and issued a new yellow rain warning for southern and western England and all of Wales.

Israel closed off large areas of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, blocking roads in and out of the city and reportedly forcing dozens of families to evacuate their homes after two Israeli soldiers were killed near Hebron by suspected Palestinian gunmen. In France, protesters clashed with police as the country braced for renewed unrest, with tear gas fired in Lyon, another march expected in Paris and more than 70,000 police officers deployed. Prince William later made a surprise appearance on The Graham Norton Show to discuss the Earthshot Prize and revealed childhood ambitions to become a policeman or a DJ, with the award winner due to be announced in Mumbai in November.