Royals Prince Harry’s Podcast Pitches Ever since it was announced last week that Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Spotify ended their partnership, people have been trying to get more details about what happened behind the scenes, especially after Bill Simmons decided to inflame the story even more by calling Harry and Meghan “f-cking grifters” By Lainey • Jun 23, 2023 11:28 am
Royals Intro for June 19, 2023 Dear Gossips, In a joint statement last Thursday, Spotify and Archewell Audio, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s podcast production company, had “mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together”. Much of what’s come out since, however, isn’t giving “mutually agreed”. Spotify By Lainey • Jun 19, 2023 10:22 am
Royals Intro for May 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, Meghan Markle was honoured in New York last night where she received the Woman of Vision Award presented by the Ms. Foundation and Gloria Steinem. Prince Harry and her mother, Doria Ragland, joined her at the event. Meghan was one of six honorees last night alongside Wanda Irving, By Lainey • May 17, 2023 09:06 am
Sports Intro for April 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, Meghan Markle gets talked about a lot – the UK tabloids can’t stop talking about her, and profiting from talking about her – so it may seem as though she’s out a lot, but the truth is, Meghan actually isn’t seen all that often. It just doesn’ By Lainey • Apr 25, 2023 09:10 am
Royals A One-Sussex Coronation King Charles’s coronation is now three weeks away and even though this is supposed to be the King’s day, is he really the main character in this story? Because there’s been so much energy directed at two other people and whether or not they’ll be attending. By Lainey • Apr 13, 2023 10:05 am
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 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
