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Meghan Markle - An American actress and the wife of Prince Harry. Also known as the Duchess of Sussex.
Furore - An excited or angry reaction. It was originally an Italian word meaning "rage" or "madness".
Frogmore Cottage - A royal home close to Windsor Castle.
Earthshot prize - A global environmental award given out each year.
Piers Morgan - The British journalist was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror for running fake photographs of alleged torture by British soldiers in Iraq, and resigned from Good Morning Britain after making disparaging remarks about the Duchess of Sussex.
Pinocchio - A fictional character whose nose gets longer when he lies.
New Statesman - A left-wing political magazine dating from 1913. George Bernard Shaw was one of its first directors.
Soft power - A kind of power based on shaping the preferences of others through appeal and incentives. It is contrasted with hard power, based on simple coercion.