Royals Intro for January 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, My first thought when the news broke yesterday was that, oh, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle can present at the Oscars now. You’ll recall, it was a thing that was considered a couple of years ago and logistically they weren’t able to make it happen. But By Lainey • Jan 09, 2020 08:36 am
Royals Intro for December 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, Welcome back from Christmas and Boxing Day. Earlier this week, when Buckingham Palace released an advance photo from the Queen’s Christmas message, to be broadcast in the UK on Christmas Day, many noted that House Sussex was not included among the photos that were placed on her By Lainey • Dec 27, 2019 09:39 am
Royals The Queen’s Christmas message By the time you read this, Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas address will have aired in the UK. Ahead of the broadcast, Buckingham Palace released a photo of Her Majesty taken at Windsor Castle, touching on some of the themes she’d be speaking to in her message: View this By Lainey • Dec 24, 2019 10:25 am
Royals The Royal Pudding Prince William and Big G arrived at Buckingham Palace together, without the other members of House Cambridge, at the Queen’s Christmas lunch last week and now we know why. Will and Big G joined Her Majesty and Prince Charles for a photo shoot in support of the Royal British By Lainey • Dec 23, 2019 11:05 am
Royals Buckingham Palace pumps the brakes on Prince Charles Prince Andrew, the British royal family (sweat) stain, has been the Queen’s biggest problem in years – so much so that her handling of the Andrew scandal has led to doubts about her leadership. Which is why there’s been so much talk about Prince Charles and whether or not By Lainey • Dec 06, 2019 10:41 am
Royals Prince Andrew: an eviction and a birthday cancellation Amazingly, though some reporters here and there have tried it, the UK tabloids haven’t let up on Prince Andrew to resume their attacks on Meghan Markle. Probably because the public isn’t having it. It’s now been just over a week since Andrew’s interview about his friend, By Lainey • Nov 25, 2019 11:18 am
Royals Intro for November 21, 2019 Dear Gossips, Everyone is still talking about Prince Andrew announcing yesterday that he would be stepping down for the “foreseeable future” from public duties on behalf of the British royal family. In the letter that was released confirming the decision, Andrew says that he was the one who decided to By Lainey • Nov 21, 2019 09:26 am
Royals Did the Queen know about Prince Andrew and his sweat glands? The fallout from Prince Andrew’s shambolic interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight continues. It was a unanimous bomb. A major disaster. A total sh-t show to the point where even the British tabloids can’t avoid it as, you know, they prefer another royal target. But it’s By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 10:36 am
Royals House Sussex to skip Royal Christmas It’s been speculated for days that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would not be joining the Queen and other members of the royal family for Royal Christmas at Sandringham. Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement yesterday that the Sussexes will indeed be skipping it this year: "The Duke By Lainey • Nov 14, 2019 09:21 am
Queen Elizabeth II Intro for October 29, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Queen’s dressmaker, Angela Kelly, has published a new book, The Other Side of the Coin, the Queen, the dresser, and the Wardrobe. Excerpts from the book have been published in HELLO! and making headlines today is the story Angela shares about doing a photoshoot with the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 09:11 am
Royals The Queen’s Skin The Queen returned to London earlier this week after her summer break. She’d probably been hoping to have a quiet one but two buffoons, Boris Johnson and her second son, Prince Andrew, f-cked with that plan. Why aren’t the British tabloids more pissed about the fact that Andrew, By Lainey • Oct 11, 2019 09:57 am
Royals Prince Andrew: Mummy’s Protection Over here in North America, people are still looking into the Jeffrey Epstein situation. Last week in The New Yorker, Ronan Farrow reported on how the M.I.T. Media Lab deliberately concealed how much money Epstein contributed to the research centre resulting in the resignation of the lab’s By Lainey • Sep 16, 2019 09:12 am
Royals Intro for August 29, 2019 Dear Gossips, A few days ago, the Daily Mail published an article about Queen Elizabeth’s “August horribilis”, a play on a speech she gave in 1992 when she referred to it as an “annus horribilis” (terrible year). What’s happening now, of course, is her second son is making By Lainey • Aug 29, 2019 08:40 am
Royals House Cambridge’s backfired environmentalism For days and days and even more days, the British tabloids shouted about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s private jets – first to Ibiza and then to Elton John’s in the South of France. Elton then clarified that he sent his own plane to pick them up and paid By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 12:06 pm
Royals Meghan, Harry, and Andrew: dinner party etiquette After news broke this weekend about Jeffrey Epstein’s death, which coincidentally (or conspiratorially, depending on how you see it) happened following the unsealing of court documents containing allegations that he ran an underage sex ring, the Daily Mail published an article about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s dinner By Lainey • Aug 12, 2019 10:23 am
Queen Elizabeth II Intro for July 26, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Sun has a story on its website today about how the Queen will be giving advice to Meghan Markle about all the “PR blunders” that have happened over the last few months. That makes it sound like this is something the Queen is actually planning, right? But By Lainey • Jul 26, 2019 09:22 am
