5 days agoWorld LeaksComments Off on Inside haunting ‘Island of the Devil’ near Greek holiday hotspot left with a single eerie building with a dark past
THE GREEK island of Gyaros, dubbed the “Island of the Devil’, has sat deserted in the Aegean Sea for almost 50 years.
The only mark of human civilisation on its rocky shores is an enormous abandoned prison that used to hold thousands of exiled people.
The island, some 9 square miles big, sits isolated in the Aegan sea and is being touted as a potential new holiday hotspot.
In the early days of the Roman Empire it was used as a place for high-ranking people sent in exile, when they defied their rulers.
It was later used by the Greek Junta – a right-wing military regime – between 1967 and 1974 to punish political rebels.
The government used it for target range with the Hellenic Navy until 2000, but it is off-limits to the public and largely untouched.
The Greek Reporter describes it as a place of “exile and torture”.
Those imprisoned were tortured and made to do forced labour, with some referring to Gyaros as the “island of the devil”.
Now visitors are banned unless part of a sanctioned visit and the island is mostly home to the Mediterranean’s largest population of monk seals.
The eerie red brick prison perched on the cliffs of the island held some 10,000 men in custody between the years of 1948 and 1953.
North of the prison are the ruins of different camps where people would have to sleep year-round on the island.
Once a year, those who used to be imprisoned on Gyaros come to pay tribute to those exiled there for their political views.
Footage filmed there shows the stone relics left behind by the people who used to inhabit it.
Some stand in a cemetery with ancient stone grave markings and headstones.
The waters around the island, not far from Mykonos in the northern Cyclades, are a crystal-clear blue.
Greek authorities are looking at turning it into a tourist destination, a mammoth project involving electricity, water, architecture and all other key infrastructure.
The World Wide Fund for Nature launched a campaign some 10 years ago to prevent trawler fishing and irreversible environmental damage to the island – home to many species of fish.
They said: “Gyaros is a unique place, an island where nature meets history.
“We wanted this island that was a place of exile and death to become an island of life and hope.”
Some Greeks are reluctant to see it turned into a holiday spot given the sensitive history of the island.
Roman senator Silanus, who ruled in 10 AD, was accused of treason and set to be banged up behind bars in the prison on Gyaros.
But because the island was considered “harsh and devoid of human culture”, he was sent instead to the nearby isle of Kythnos.
A Roman poet once described it as a place of exile for “particularly vile criminals” and a place of “claustrophobic imprisonment”.
Many were held there by the Junta because of their role in a political resistance.
Jehovah’s Witnesses were also sent there because of their objections to war.
Cell block in the prison complex[/caption]
The front entrance leading to the gaurd house of Gyaros political prison[/caption]
Sentry tower and buildings in the prison[/caption]
Luke Littler lifted Raymond van Barneveld’s hand aloft after beating him in the World Series of Darts[/caption]
Van Barneveld previously told the youngster to ‘f*** off’ in an interview[/caption]
The teen sensation seems to still hold that sentiment as he raised Van Barneveld‘s hand aloft to elicit an applause from a home crowd in the Netherlands for the experienced pro.
And it’s an even classier moment when you consider that Van Barneveld had told Littler to “f*** off” in an interview earlier in the year.
The 57-year-old had been left peeved that Littler hadn’t responded to his WhatsApp message after the youngster won the Belgian Darts Open.
Speaking to Sportnieuws.nl, he said: “The other day I walked up to him to shake his hand. Then he took out his earphone for a moment and only said the most necessary thing.
“He told me: ‘Yes, I only respond to text messages. Whatsapp I’m actually not on’.
“Well fine, I sent a text message saying ‘Congratulations with Wieze’, and then nothing. Fine. I’m a bit done with it. The next time I get asked if I want to do something for him, I’ll pass.
Speaking immediately afterwards, he said: “You are up against a Dutch guy in Holland, it’s always massive to beat them.
“I’m just overwhelmed to get over the line. The crowd were very good whenever I tried to go ahead. There’s nothing negative to say about them.
“Raymond kept hitting 180, 140, so it put pressure on my finishing. But I’m just glad to take the shots and get over the line.
“It made me step my game up even more. I think I hit a 105 average.
“As soon as I broke Ray’s throw and got two legs ahead, I just thought hold my throw and I’ll win.
“I just say to myself it’s never over until it’s over. I’ve learnt you’ve just got to keep going and don’t show any emotion of being down, fight to the end.”
5 days agoWorld LeaksComments Off on Prince Harry has always felt inadequate compared to William – there were signs even when he was tiny
PRINCE Harry has always felt inadequate compared to William, even from a young age, a royal pro has claimed.
Editor-in-Chief of Majesty Magazine and Royal Biographer, Ingrid Seward, said that the late Princess Diana ‘worried’ about the Duke, 40, and ‘wasn’t sure which way he was going to go.’
Royal Biographer Ingrid Seward has claimed that Prince Harry has always felt inadequate to William, even as a child[/caption]
The Editor-in-Chief of Majesty Magazine expressed Diana’s concerns about the Duke[/caption]
Ingrid claimed that Diana shared her fears on ‘which way’ Harry ‘was going to go’[/caption]
Harry stepped down as a royal and left the UK in 2020[/caption]
Ingrid told The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show that Diana would ‘hate’ that Harry has fallen out with Prince William, 42, even though he used to ‘bully’ his younger brother as a child.
Speaking to The Sun’s royal editor Matt Wilkinson, the royal expert explained: “[Diana] was very concerned about [Harry’s] feeling of inadequacy with William.
“Even when they were very little, when Harry went to Miss Minors, which was the baby school, after William had been there, the teacher there said to him ‘here Harry, play with this clay, William used to be really good at making model figures’.
“Harry threw it down and said ‘no!’, so from a very young age, Harry felt inadequate.
“It was nothing to do with Diana, nothing to do with Charles, but it was just there.”
Ingrid suggested that this feeling of inadequacy may have arisen from behaviour of royal nannies.
She continued: “Maybe it was to do with the nannies, I’m not talking about Barbara Barnes who was completely brilliant, but sometimes the nanny will focus on the more important child, it’s just a matter of what happens. It happened when Charles was young, and Prince Philip actually fired the nanny.
“It could’ve been that but he was always very conscious of being second in command.”
The Royal Biographer claimed that Diana was ‘worried’ for Harry and ‘conscious’ of his sensitivity.
She added: “I think she worried much more for Harry because she just wasn’t sure which way he was going to go.
“When William was a little boy, he would bully him quite a lot, which was perfectly normal, and Harry would always take the blame for the scrapes they’d get into. Again, perfectly normal for young boys.
“But Diana was very conscious of Harry being a very sensitive child and she wondered what he was going to do, was he going to follow his love, which was the army, even as a little boy.
A timeline of Prince Harry's family feud
The first hints of friction reportedly came after William was introduced to Meghan when she was staying at Kensington Palace.
Once she’d returned home to Canada, William and Harry sat down for a brother-to-brother chat.
He knew Harry was already head-over-heels for her but it has been claimed he advised him to take it slowly.
The younger prince reportedly didn’t take too kindly to the advice, with one royal source saying he “went mental”.
The Royal Foundation will be divided between the Sussexes and Cambridges as the couples focus on their own separate charitable endeavours.
Prince William and Prince Harry first established the Royal Foundation in 2009 before Kate joined two years later shortly after their engagement was announced.
The trio would often appear together at events and the Foundation had huge successes with projects like the Invictus Games for injured veterans and the mental health Heads Together campaign.
The Royal Foundation said the decision was made following the conclusion of a review into its structure – but added both couples will continue to work together in the future.
Harry and Meg were living in close proximity to Kate and Wills within the Kensington Palace estate, but they switched to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor before baby Archie was born.
The move further increased rumours of a fallout.
Harry also hinted in his ITV documentary “Harry and Meghan, An African Journey” that he and his brother had grown apart.
In 2021, Harry and Meghan give their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey where Harry accused his dad of cutting him off financially.
Harry then jetted back to UK to join William in unveiling a statue to their mother Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But sources claimed William didn’t want to attend the memorial amid their ongoing rift.
In Spare, Harry said William branded Meghan “rude” and “difficult” during a row.
Harry alleged William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor”.
He said he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
Harry flew back to the US the following day – without seeing Wills.
In May he visited the UK for a three-day visit without seeing King Charles or Prince William.
“It was planted very, very young, that seed of William having the privilege. And Harry of course didn’t really understand. In a way it’s better to be the spare than the heir.”
[Diana] wouldn’t be at all happy that Harry had fallen out with William
Ingrid Seward
Relations between William and Harry have been strained for years, but their rift became even more apparent when Harry and Meghan spoke out against the Royal Family during their interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 – where they claimed Kate had made Meghan cry ahead of her 2018 wedding in an argument over bridesmaid dresses.
Harry then made a string of bombshell claims about William in his controversial memoir, Spare, last year, claiming that William had once ‘knocked him to the floor’ in a physical fight and that he had also pointed his finger in Meghan’s face and branded her ‘rude’.
William and Harry are no longer on speaking terms, and it’s thought that they kept their distance when they recently attended the funeral of their uncle, Lord Robert Fellowes, in Norfolk.
When it comes to Harry’s fall-out with his brother, Ingrid suggested: “What [Diana] wouldn’t like is this fall out from the family. She would really hate that.
“She wouldn’t be at all happy that Harry had fallen out with William. She always said to them ‘please, please remember, don’t ever forget that you’re brothers and I want you to be friends’. That would worry her about Harry.”
Ingrid claimed that it was planted at a very young age that William had privilege[/caption]
She suggested that Diana would ‘hate’ that the brothers are no longer speaking[/caption]
According to Ingrid, the late princess would ‘worry’ about Harry[/caption]
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