Top Reads Royals and Celebrities at Euro Big day in England yesterday as England played Germany in the round of 16 at Euro 2020 and it was a historic win. As I’ve said in the past, football is the primary sport of our household and my husband is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur so, since Harry By Lainey • Jun 30, 2021 11:22 am
Royals Dr Biden Meets Duchess Kate The G7 Summit is happening in the UK today and leaders of all seven member countries posed for a photo by the sea and I have a question about standing. Since I’m Canadian, my eyes go first to the Prime Minister of my country, Justin Trudeau, and you’ll By Lainey • Jun 11, 2021 01:09 pm
Royals A House Cambridge Staffing Change A big headline today because of a staffing change at House Cambridge. Jason Knauf has been a longtime aide to Prince William and Kate and his most recent role was CEO of the Cambridges’ Royal Foundation. Prior to that he was a member of their comms team. So he’s By Lainey • May 12, 2021 02:44 pm
Royals Will and Kate: The Royal Influencers of YouTube Remember what I wrote last week when Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge released their tenth anniversary short film? I called them influencers. They would never admit to it, because how dare we categorise them alongside the people inventing dances on TikTok and pimping vitamins on Instagram. But that By Lainey • May 05, 2021 01:22 pm
Royals A Cambridge Anniversary Music Video In the previous post, I wrote about Prince William and Kate’s tenth anniversary portraits. Those were released yesterday. Today they dropped a music video featuring the full family – Will, Kate, Big G, Charlotte, and Louis…and a dog! This is the true star of the movie, even though the By Lainey • Apr 29, 2021 01:03 pm
Royals The Cambridge Ten Today is the tenth wedding anniversary of Prince William and Kate Middleton. To commemorate the milestone, Kensington Palace has released two new portraits of the Cambridges that were taken this week: These shots are pretty intimate, by their standards. And a subtle nod to the day they announced their engagement By Lainey • Apr 29, 2021 11:38 am
Top Reads Archie in Jeans and Hollywood Sussex Meghan Markle was papped yesterday with Archie. Page Six has the exclusives, which you can check out on their website and their Twitter. As we’ve seen, Meghan, Harry, and especially Archie are not papped very often. This is the first time Archie’s been photographed by the paparazzi in By Lainey • Apr 23, 2021 11:37 am
Royals Prince Philip’s Funeral Due to the circumstances of the times, the British royal family announced last week that Prince Philip’s funeral would be a “scaled-back” situation, which is how it is widely being described. “Scaled-back”, by royal standards, though, is still quite a spectacle. I mean, just look at these pictures. As By Lainey • Apr 19, 2021 10:47 am
Royals The Royal “Spin Doctors”? It was reported a couple of days ago that the British senior royals have hired new staff – specifically communications staff. Which is interesting because for the last few weeks, much of my posts about them have been about their piss poor comms strategy and their need for effective crisis management By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 12:25 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate: Selfies and Trust The last time Prince William and Kate were out on an official engagement together, William was asked about his brother, Prince Harry, and about racism in his family. His response was embarrassingly bad. Because, as we have seen, the British royals’ and their comms team are embarrassingly bad at crisis By Lainey • Mar 18, 2021 01:41 pm
Royals Prince William Answers Two Questions Prince William and Kate of House Cambridge were in Stratford, London today for a visit to celebrate schools reopening. They met with teachers who shared their experiences with lockdown and the challenges faced over the last year. The visit also happened to be timed with the rollout of Mentally Healthy By Lainey • Mar 11, 2021 10:23 am
Top Reads A Royal Ratings Battle A week ago today, CBS announced that it had secured Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, their first sit-down, together, since their engagement. This followed news that the Sussexes are expecting their second child. The week ended with the Queen’s confirmation that Harry and By Lainey • Feb 22, 2021 11:39 am
Royals British Royals: Staffing Issues? A couple of interesting developments about the British royal family this week. You know how celebrities have been known to dump announcements late on Friday afternoons in the hopes of burying the story on the weekend so as not to be as big a headline? For the last few days, By Lainey • Jan 20, 2021 12:05 pm
Royals Will and Kate: The Train Must Go On Back in December, when COVID-19 cases were surging in the UK (which was a prelude to what we’re seeing there now with beyond-alarming case numbers and hospitals overwhelmed) and people were being advised to stay home and stop the spread, Prince William and Catherine embarked on a train tour By Lainey • Jan 12, 2021 01:42 pm
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 House Cambridge and the Royal Tea… literally! PEOPLE revealed its new cover story yesterday featuring Kate of House Cambridge, the “royal mom behind the scenes” with her friends and other sources telling the magazine what she’s really like: she’s “not a pushover” and she’s casual, no blowouts only ponytails, when she’s with her By Lainey • Dec 17, 2020 01:38 pm
