Royals Harry and Meghan are invited In these months leading up to King Charles’s coronation in May, there’s been speculation about whether or not Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be invited. Last week the big story about H&M was that they’d been asked to vacate their home, Frogmore Cottage, even By Lainey • Mar 06, 2023 12:39 pm
Royals Harry and Meghan: The Eviction Dinner Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen together for the first time in months last night. Page Six has the photos. I know for some people it seems like Harry and Meghan are always up in our faces… because the British tabloids can’t stop talking about them but they By Lainey • Mar 01, 2023 12:36 pm
Royals Intro for December 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, At the time of my post yesterday about Jeremy Clarkson’s abhorrent comments about Meghan Markle in the Sun, his article was still up on the Sun’s website. Shortly after, the piece was taken down and replaced by a note explaining that Jeremy had asked them to By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 09:09 am
Douchebags The Sun and Jeremy Clarkson prove the point of Harry & Meghan The British tabloid media is the main villain in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s docuseries, and while there are definitely parts of the show that aren’t as strong as others, they do a great job of establishing how closely the British Monarchy is tied to colonialism and the By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 11:18 am
Royals Harry and Meghan: Titles and Futures Ever since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior members of the British royal family there have been people trolling for them to be stripped of their titles…even though Prince Andrew is, like, RIGHT THERE. Not surprisingly, now that their Netflix documentary has been released, with Harry By Lainey • Dec 16, 2022 10:24 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: The Leaks, Briefs, Reveals, and Screams There is a LOT to unpack in volume two of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan. And a LOT of it is new – which was what some people criticised after volume one dropped last week: that a lot of what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle talk about in the first three By Lainey • Dec 15, 2022 01:12 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 15, 2022 Dear Gossips, Netflix released volume two of Harry & Meghan today and… well… that’s the big story. I’m almost finished the final episode and I’ll have more to say later but right now, let’s just talk about my favourite part. Which is… The Beyoncé part, OBVIOUSLY. By Lainey • Dec 15, 2022 09:35 am
Royals Meghan & Harry: On the “Freedom Flight” from “Institutional Gaslighting” Back in late November, Merriam-Webster announced that their Word of the Year for 2022 is “Gaslighting”. Let’s give credit where credit is due though because the word really started picking up cultural use exactly around this time six years ago, in December 2016, with Lauren Duca’s piece in By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 01:07 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Doria's regret We’re halfway through Harry & Meghan on Netflix, and when Lainey wrote that there’s something for everyone, she wasn’t lying. With six total episodes set to air in the series, the first three so far have been riveting. Maybe not for critics, some of whom have said By Stephanie • Dec 12, 2022 12:08 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Volume One and Villain One Volume One of Netflix’s docuseries Harry & Meghan targets the British media, particularly the tabloid media in the UK, and the relationship between the royal institution and the royal rota, which is the press pool that covers the royal family. It’s a more detailed explanation of the “invisible By Lainey • Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Rom-Com-Drama-Reality I’m writing this at a desk while, a few feet away, my husband Jacek is in bed with his iPad, headphones on, watching Harry & Meghan on Netflix. It’s because I got up earlier than he did today to stream the first two episodes and now he wants By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 09:58 am
Royals Harry and Meghan’s New York “Date Night” As expected, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out in New York last night to accept their honour at the Ripple of Hope Gala hosted by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation. They both joked that it was “date night” for them, with Harry quipping that they don’t By Lainey • Dec 07, 2022 09:57 am
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: The Winner is Netflix Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have arrived in New York – Page Six has the photos here – where tonight they will receive the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation. It’ll be a big deal because they are a big media draw and even though By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 09:51 am
Royals Oh Harry & Meghan is GOING there Following last week’s teaser trailer, Harry & Meghan, the Netflix docuseries about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, dropped a full trailer this morning. So…they bookended the Prince and Princess of Wales’s anticlimactic trip to America with H&M. Someone in the Netflix marketing department is By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 02:19 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: The Trailer The title of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s upcoming Netflix docuseries, premiering this month, was originally supposed to be called Chapters. At some point they changed the name – and we’ve learned today that it’s simply called Harry & Meghan. Much better. To the point. And also probably By Lainey • Dec 01, 2022 10:51 am
Royals Harry and Meghan: New Games and New Validation Earlier today I posted about Lady Susan Hussey, one of Queen Elizabeth’s favourites and the godmother to Prince William, racialising Ngozi Fulani at the Buckingham Palace reception yesterday. Hussey has since stepped down, or was asked to step down, from her position as Lady of the Household. As mentioned By Lainey • Nov 30, 2022 11:40 am
