Douchebags Oprah Gets the Meghan Treatment Since Monday, when CBS announced that it will air the 90 minute Oprah Winfrey in conversation with Meghan Markle special on March 7, there’s been a lot of angst about it over in the UK. The tabloids, as usual, are accusing Prince Harry and Meghan of hypocrisy; they’re By Lainey • Feb 17, 2021 11:16 am
Royals Oprah and the Sussexes Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have dominated the headlines with their pregnancy announcement on Valentine’s Day, revealing their happy news a few days after Meghan’s legal victory over the Daily Mail. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of saltiness happening. Even more so since it was By Lainey • Feb 16, 2021 10:49 am
Top Reads The Sussexes of Notting Hill As many people have pointed out, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s second baby announcement was a lot like the end scene in Notting Hill, when a pregnant Anna rests her head on William Thacker’s lap as the two enjoy an afternoon on a park bench. https://twitter.com/ By Lainey • Feb 15, 2021 10:43 am
Royals Meghan Wins A decision has been made in Meghan Markle’s lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the parent company that publishes the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail. She and her legal team made the case that her privacy and copyright had been violated when the Mail published contents of a letter By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 03:03 pm
Royals The Queen’s Obscured Wealth The Guardian published an article this weekend about how the Queen, back in the 1970s, “successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents”. Buckingham Palace has denied this, but their wording is interesting. Buckingham Palace By Lainey • Feb 09, 2021 10:07 am
Royals Prince Harry’s Carpool Karaoke …Anniversary Prince Harry was seen with James Corden shooting on a double decker bus reportedly for an upcoming episode of Carpool Karaoke the other day. Harry and James have known each other a long time, and James was invited to Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. So it’s no surprise By Lainey • Feb 08, 2021 12:02 pm
Douchebags The Royal Name Change F-ckup This weekend, the Sun, which is one of the British tabloids that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are suing, published an article about the change on Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth certificate. There’s been a lot of controversy about this so let’s break it down. Archie was born By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 02:20 pm
Gossip Nostalgia The One Year Anniversary of the Sandringham Summit If you’re a regular visitor here, you know I have a thing with dates. A year ago today, on January 13, 2020, Prince Harry went to meet the Queen at Sandringham; they were later joined by Prince Charles and Prince William. This gathering is now known as the Sandringham By Lainey • Jan 13, 2021 09:32 am
Top Reads Rob Lowe, the Gossip – about Prince Harry I have always said that celebrities, who we gossip about, are often the biggest gossips. They gossip about each all the f-cking time. For the most part, when in public, they’re quick to disparage it and accuse media outlets and tabloids and paparazzi and Twitter or whatever of too By Lainey • Jan 12, 2021 12:48 pm
Royals Harry & Meghan: One Year Later Today is the one year anniversary of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s visit to Canada House in London. They’d spent several weeks at the end of 2019 on Vancouver Island and upon their return to England, they wanted to thank Canadians for their hospitality during their stay. Here By Lainey • Jan 07, 2021 11:16 am
Top Reads Buckingham Palace’s Happy New Year to Harry and Meghan Did you watch Death to 2020 on Netflix this weekend? Tracey Ullman plays Queen Elizabeth and, well, I wouldn’t say it’s a flattering portrait of Her Majesty and the British royal family. The film is satire so, you know, if you’re a real person who’s been By Lainey • Jan 04, 2021 10:19 am
Royals Archie says Happy New Year! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s podcast deal with Spotify for Archewell Audio was confirmed a couple of weeks ago. Sussex + Spotify launched today and in the first episode, Harry and Meghan ask dozens of special guests to record audio diaries with their thoughts on what they learned this year, By Lainey • Dec 29, 2020 11:18 am
Royals House Sussex: The 2020 Christmas Card When I posted about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle last Tuesday, December 22, I noted that in 2019, they released their Christmas card on December 23 through the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust and wondered if they’d maintain the same schedule and rollout for 2020. They did indeed. I also By Lainey • Dec 28, 2020 09:53 am
Royals Harry & Meghan Before the Holiday Card Prince Harry and Meghan Markled were papped in Beverly Hills on Sunday (Page Six has more photos) heading into an office building. It is not known specifically which business they were visiting. It was 27˚C/81˚F in Beverly Hills that day. Harry is dressed for it. Meghan, however, By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 11:16 am
Royals A Royal Pandemic Promenade How lovely! The lights are so beautiful this time of year, aren’t they? I really, really love holiday lights. And in London especially, they really do know what they’re doing with the lights. I’ve been in London a couple of times during the holiday season and the By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 10:43 am
Royals Sussex + Spotify Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are shutting down the year with all kinds of new developments. Yesterday we learned that Meghan’s invested in Clevr Blends and got an assist from Oprah to promote it. Today it was announced that House Sussex has partnered with Spotify to produce podcasts – not By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 11:15 am
