Top Reads Meghan Markle’s Birthday Video As noted in the previous post, Meghan Markle is celebrating her 40th birthday today and like Jay-Z is doing the 40/40 thing. Obviously not a bar franchise – instead Meghan’s 40x40 club is about asking 40 of her friends to committing 40 minutes of their time to mentor and By Lainey • Aug 04, 2021 12:16 pm
Royals Meghan Markle’s Birthday Wishes Today is Meghan Markle’s 40th birthday. As mentioned yesterday in What Else?, there are reports that she and Prince Harry are hosting a 65-person party at their home in Montecito. This, however, is coming from UK tabloids and we know now that sourcing on the Sussexes from the British By Lainey • Aug 04, 2021 10:55 am
BFFs The Clooneys and Harry’s True Story The big royal story this week has been the announcement that Prince Harry has a publishing deal with Penguin Random House to release his first memoir. While the official statement from the publisher did not mention a ghostwriter, Page Six, which broke the story, reported that Harry is working with By Lainey • Jul 22, 2021 11:01 am
Royals Intro for July 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, No surprise that the news about Prince Harry’s memoir is a major fixation for the UK tabloids. And no surprise that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next year is coming up by association. As this tweet suggests… https://twitter.com/PaganTrelawney/status/1417518125378113536?s=20 Harry’s By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 09:35 am
Top Reads Harry: His True Story The big royal headline of the week landed yesterday afternoon ET – Prince Harry is writing his memoir, to be published through Penguin Random House, “tentatively scheduled for late 2022”. As I wrote yesterday in What Else? , I’m not convinced that they’d always intended to make the announcement when By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 09:26 am
Siblings Intro for July 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was not a quiet long weekend in gossip, and it’s still the long weekend in the US as today Americans are observing Independence Day. In particular, there are a lot of couples updates – couples we always knew about, couples we suspected about, and possible new ones By Lainey • Jul 05, 2021 09:29 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Still Never-ending Royal Baby Name Drama Can you believe that there’s been such a stink about the name of a beautiful, innocent six-day-old baby?! As I posted yesterday, the British tabloids and royal courtiers can’t seem to stop bitching about whether or not Prince Harry and Meghan Markle properly informed the Queen about naming By Lainey • Jun 10, 2021 10:10 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Never-ending Royal Baby Name Drama Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born last Friday, June 4, 2021. She was named after her great-grandmother, the Queen of England, who was called by the nickname when she was young, and her late grandmother Princess Diana. We have been told by her parents, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, that she By Lainey • Jun 09, 2021 11:14 am
Royals Lilibet Diana, Royal Congratulations, and Excellent Timing Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on Friday, June 4. Archie now has a sister. Archie and Betty! LOL. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already told us what Lilibet’s nickname will be, a nickname from a nickname – Harry and Meghan’s daughter will be called Lili, at least for By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 11:43 am
Baby and Bump Obsession On ‘Lilibet Diana’ When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their son Archie Harrison – no ‘Archibald’, no long strings of historical names nodding to ancestors (or grandparents) – I crowed that they had chosen a name that was overtly about giving Archie his own life, his own path, unencumbered by the albatross of royal By Duana • Jun 07, 2021 10:30 am
Baby and Bump Obsession House Sussex: The Month Ahead It’s the first day of June 2021, Pride Month, and also a big month ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So while we’re in this brief moment of calm, let’s look ahead to what we might expect from House Sussex in the weeks to come. Meghan By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 11:17 am
Top Reads Prince Harry and the Success of The Me You Can’t See Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s Apple TV+ docuseries, The Me You Can’t See, premiered last week and since then there’s been headline after headline about how Harry talks about his past, about his family, and about breaking the cycle of silence with respect to mental health. Critics By Lainey • May 26, 2021 12:56 pm
Royals Diana, William, and Harry: Past and Present Man, what a collision of royal news the last 24 hours, all of it connected and complicated, with the past coming back to haunt the present and the present folding itself into the past. Let’s start there with the release of the Dyson report that found that Martin Bashir By Lainey • May 21, 2021 11:23 am
Royals Prince Harry on Armchair Expert Thanks for all your emails last week about Prince Harry’s appearance on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman’s podcast Armchair Expert. It was over an hour and a half so I banked it for the weekend and probably it was the same for others, so now that people have By Lainey • May 17, 2021 02:17 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for May 6, 2021 Dear Gossips, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor is two years old today. At the time of this post, his parents have yet to publicly celebrate the occasion and since they don’t have public social media accounts, even if they do, it’ll be shared by someone else: a friend like Misan By Lainey • May 06, 2021 09:23 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Meghan Markle’s Bench It was announced today that Meghan Markle’s first children’s book, The Bench, will be released on June 8th by Penguin Random House. The book is written from a mother’s perspective about the relationship between a father and son, inspired obviously by Prince Harry and Archie’s bond. By Lainey • May 04, 2021 02:21 pm
