09/06/2024 - Luxury Marketplace

Britney Spears shares ‘cursed’ video from horror movie

Britney Spears has shared the entire contents of a “cursed” videotape that features in horror movie, The Ring. The 2002 supernatural horror stars Naomi Watts as a journalist named Rachel Keller, who discovers a creepy videotape that kills the viewer seven days after watching it.

On the recording are strange and scary images which come to life as the movie progresses, until dead girl Samara crawls out of the screen with long and bedraggled wet hair. Spears, 42, shared the whole contents of the scary tape as a reel to her Instagram page, which boasts 42 million followers, on Wednesday (5 June).

“Does anybody remember this movie where they hold this little girl captive too long and she finally comes out of the TV walking on her hands and knees and destroyed half the nation?” she wrote in a caption alongside the eerie footage.

Issues with Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have ‘brought King Charles and William closer’, with royal sources saying any sense of ‘rivalry’ between the monarch and future heir are now behind them

King Charles III and Prince William are closer than ever amid friction with other members of the royal family, sources have claimed. The King is said to have dispelled any notion of a rivalry with his elder son, who was front and centre at D-Day commemorative events this week as both the monarch and Kate, the Princess of Wales, continue with their respective cancer treatments.

Duties are being spread amongst an increasingly small number of working royals due to health issues, the departure of Harry and Meghan from the UK for the US after and the withdrawal of Prince Andrew from public life amidst scandal. As a result, William has found his diary full of public engagements, not least in France this week where he joined leaders from across the world including US president Joe Biden to remember the D-Day fallen.

Sources have suggested that Charles might once have disliked allowing his son to be more visible in public – but with cancer treatment and the ever-smaller number of working royals to hand, he has been happy to change his thinking. A friend of the King says that in recent years, Charles has consulted his son on tricky family issues involving the likes of Prince Andrew and Harry and Meghan. Their joint efforts to tackle these issues is said to have boosted both their personal and working relationship.

The liberal party of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo OpenVLD lost dramatically in Belgium’s regional, national and EU elections on Sunday. The right-wing New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) emerged as the biggest winner of elections in Belgium on Sunday, with the extreme-right pro-separatist Vlaams Belang in second place.

The country voted in regional, national and European elections, dubbed “super Sunday”. At the national level, the nationalist N-VA led by Bart De Wever received 18.6% of votes, up by more than 2% compared to 2020, while Vlaams Belang, at 15.4%, saw a 3.5% jump, according to the preliminary results published by broadcaster VRT.

De Wever, who held a speech celebrating his party’s win, said that his party is “the leading people’s party [of Flanders]”.

“Flanders has chosen to preserve prosperity. More than ever, Flanders has opted for autonomy. Self-government is the best cure.”

There was a big gap between the far-right and the smaller parties: the far-left Pvda/PTB, left-wing Vooruit and the Christian-Democrats CD&V are all expected to get around 9% of the vote. Liberal OpenVLD of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo – who took office in 2020 – lost dramatically: it’s now expected to get 5.8%.

De Croo, speaking on election night, said it is a “difficult night” for his party.

“We have lost this election. I was the face of the campaign. This is not the result that we hoped for. I take full responsibility,” he said.

Flanders and Wallonia: miles apart

Both Flanders and Wallonia have their own governments, parliaments and budgets. N-VA remains the biggest party in Flanders with 24.5% of the vote, despite polls in the past weeks which suggested that it might be overtaken by Vlaams Belang, which scooped 22.8% of the vote in the Flemish-speaking northern region of Belgium. In Wallonia, which is traditionally more left-wing than the north, the liberal MR party polled almost 30% of the votes, followed by the Socialist Party at 22.6% and centrist Les Engagees at 21%. The French-speaking green party Ecolo has lost significantly. In Wallonia it got 7.5% percent of the votes: compared to 15% at the last election. Government formation in Belgium is often complicated by the need to find compromise on a national level. This process took a record 541 days after elections held on 13 June 2010.