Royal Wedding 2018 Intro for May 21, 2018 Dear Gossips, I’m not over the Royal Wedding yet, are you? Today is a holiday in Canada – it’s Victoria Day, honouring Queen Victoria, which always lands on the Monday preceding her birthday, May 25th. This seems fitting. A statue of Queen Victoria stands on Castle Hill in Windsor, By Lainey • May 21, 2018 08:17 am
Royal Wedding 2018 The Royal Carriage Ride I was assigned to cover William and Catherine’s wedding in 2011. My position was along the Mall, by the Duke of York. It was definitely a sight to see, the carriage approaching Buckingham Palace and thousands of people lining the road, majestic and grand. That said, now that I’ By Lainey • May 19, 2018 09:43 am
Royal Wedding 2018 Just Royally Married! Holy f-ck, Duana and I are going to Show Your Work the sh-t out of this wedding. There’s a lot to break down. And we will. But today, let’s have some fun with it. Because that was too good. And my heart hasn’t recovered from By Lainey • May 19, 2018 09:13 am
Royal Wedding 2018 Intro for May 19, 2018 Dear Gossips, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. That’s one mystery solved. One major mystery to go. Good morning! Welcome to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding day! We’ll post photos of the arrivals and the dress and the moments of the day as soon as we By Lainey • May 19, 2018 05:16 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) The Queen & Guy My favourite royal story of the week! As you know, the Queen had tea with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle yesterday at Windsor Castle. Prince Charles, Camilla, Will, and Kate were also there for rehearsal. Right now it’s 230pm in England. As I’m writing this, the Queen is By Lainey • May 18, 2018 09:56 am
Royals Meghan’s wedding dress rumours Meghan Markle’s wedding dress has been kept at Windsor Castle. As I mentioned yesterday, Stella McCartney’s name has been coming up this week, emerging as a possible dark horse as the designer of Meghan Markle’s wedding dress. The odds favourite is still Ralph & Russo but I’ By Lainey • May 18, 2018 08:11 am
Royals Prince Charles to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle Royal wedding week did not get off to a good start with all the Thomas Markle drama. But, as I’ve been saying, the royals know how to carry on…and put on a show. And did they ever turn it around this morning. At around 10am local time here By Lainey • May 18, 2018 07:16 am
Royals Intro for May 18, 2018 Dear Gossips, They’re calling for a pretty perfect day weather-wise tomorrow in Windsor – no rain in the forecast, lots of sunshine, cool in the morning and warming up right when it matters, around noon, when Meghan Markle will walk down the aisle at St George’s Chapel to By Lainey • May 18, 2018 06:56 am
Royals Harry & Meghan carry on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the royals are now moving past the Thomas Markle Zone drama of the last few days and moving ahead with the big show. Harry and Meghan left Kensington Place this afternoon. Prince Charles and Camilla also left by helicopter. And Prince William and Princess By Lainey • May 17, 2018 09:51 am
BFFs Serena at the wedding? Serena Williams was supposed to play in the Italian Open this week but she ended up pulling out of the tournament as her coach says they need more time to prep for the French Open at the end of the month. Which, conveniently, frees up her weekend. And, well, we By Lainey • May 17, 2018 09:22 am
Royals Thomas Markle Zone TMZ stands for Thirty Mile Zone which measures the Hollywood studio perimeter. This week, however, TMZ is the Thomas Markle Zone. Because this is Meghan Markle’s father’s preferred media outlet. As you know, Thomas Markle was supposed to be in England by now and, along with Meghan’s By Lainey • May 17, 2018 08:55 am
Maple Leaf Harry & Meghan’s wedding kids I wrote earlier about the British royal family’s ability to “carry on”. And this is what they’re doing, even though there may probably be eight new Thomas Markle developments between now and Saturday. There’s a wedding to focus on. There are plans in place. They are moving By Lainey • May 16, 2018 09:29 am
Royals Thomas Markle not attending royal wedding Like I said yesterday, every few hours there’s a new development. And we are getting every new development from Thomas Markle directly…via TMZ. Yesterday afternoon, Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas, told TMZ that despite the fact that he’d changed his mind earlier in the day and does By Lainey • May 16, 2018 09:13 am
Royals Thomas Markle doesn’t want to “miss history” By the time you read this, it’ll be end of business day in London. So far, Kensington Palace has not released any updated information about the wedding and it doesn’t look like they will. Meghan Markle’s father, however, has given us an update on his situation, through By Lainey • May 15, 2018 12:58 pm
Royals Royals and rogue relatives TMZ first broke the story yesterday afternoon that Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Sr, who’d been confirmed to walk her down the aisle, was pulling out of the wedding because he was embarrassed about being busted for setting up his own pap shots. Which… I mean… it’s By Lainey • May 15, 2018 08:59 am
Royals Holy royal pre-wedding drama I posted earlier about Meghan Markle’s father’s paparazzi drama. To recap: Thomas Markle Sr gets papped, then he gets busted for working with the paps to get papped, then his other daughter, Samantha, admits that she was the one who arranged for him to get papped. And now By Lainey • May 14, 2018 04:16 pm