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As you know, the Queen hosted the Trump Administration at Buckingham Palace last night after a day of joint British and American activities. Prince William and Catherine were there too. Kate wore her favourite Lover’s Knot tiara and a white Alexander McQueen dress and made her entrance with US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin aka the person John Oliver jokes is his better-looking doppelganger Full Story

Kristen Stewart was in Seoul yesterday for the Chanel Metiers d’Art show. I love everything about this look. I love the length of her hair right now. I love the bright green eyeliner. I don’t know if hers is liquid but they’re coming out with really fun neon liquids right now that don’t cake and split as much as they used to. Full Story

In support of the RHS Back to Nature Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, Princess Kate released several photos and a video of her family yesterday, which also happened to be the one year anniversary of House Sussex Full Story

Taylor Swift covers the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. This is basically a takeover. Taylor is a huge get for EW. They’ve dedicated several features in addition to the cover story to Swift content. And it’s a proper magazine interview – not an essay she’s written about herself, not another celebrity interviewing her, it’s conventional, it’s a departure from her “no comment” pose during the reputation era or, rather, a return to how it was before the reputation era. Full Story

A reader, Elisabeth, sent me a great theory yesterday. It has to do with Princes William and Harry and the role of Head of the Commonwealth. The Queen was the Head of the Commonwealth and last year Prince Charles became the Head, but it wasn’t an automatic. The role isn’t hereditary which is why the Queen worked behind the scenes to secure smooth transition for Charles to succeed her. Full Story

Earlier this morning, after we’d wrapped the Show Your Work podcast, #BeyoncéHomecoming special episode, Duana, Kathleen, and I were still high off of what we’d just watched and talked about and Kathleen kept saying, “What a time to be alive”. Duana and I kind of giggled – but it’s not like we disagreed. Full Story

Over the last few weeks, any headlines about Prince William and Catherine in the English countryside have involved turnips and drama. For months now, the upper class in Norfolk has been gossiping about why Kate isn’t friends with Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, anymore. And there are rumours that there may have been an affair. Full Story

Chris Evans showed up at the Avengers: Endgame press conference last weekend looking hot in green velvet pants and brown boots but while some of the others were in the UK yesterday he was at home in Massachusetts working on Defending Jacob, the Apple series based on the book by William Landay that’s already been ordered for eight episodes. Full Story

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle launched their Instagram account two days ago. Every day since there’s been a new post. Once again, it speaks to the strategy behind their social media independence, picking a week when they’d have new content to consistently capture people’s attention. Full Story