Jock Smut Prince William and Adele: England to the Finals As I’ve been saying all week, royal drama is not the headline this week in England, not when Three Lions are the top story. England advanced to the semis a few days ago and yesterday won their match against Denmark which, before we get into the celebrity angle here, By Lainey • Jul 08, 2021 11:38 am
Siblings Intro for July 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was not a quiet long weekend in gossip, and it’s still the long weekend in the US as today Americans are observing Independence Day. In particular, there are a lot of couples updates – couples we always knew about, couples we suspected about, and possible new ones By Lainey • Jul 05, 2021 09:29 am
Royals Show *Your* Work: Chrissy, Royals, Bennifer It’s the final episode this season of Show Your Work and we asked listeners last time to set the lineup – thank you for participating! And thank you for this agenda, as it hits on so many of the work themes that we explore on this podcast even though the By Lainey • Jun 30, 2021 03:15 pm
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
Top Reads Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the London Police Channel 4 News in the UK yesterday aired a report on Jeffrey Epstein and his accused sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the whole point of the piece was to question why investigations in their alleged criminal operation are ongoing in America, Europe, and the Caribbean, but there’s been By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 11:03 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
Baby and Bump Obsession The Still Never-ending Royal Baby Name Drama Can you believe that there’s been such a stink about the name of a beautiful, innocent six-day-old baby?! As I posted yesterday, the British tabloids and royal courtiers can’t seem to stop bitching about whether or not Prince Harry and Meghan Markle properly informed the Queen about naming By Lainey • Jun 10, 2021 10:10 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Never-ending Royal Baby Name Drama Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born last Friday, June 4, 2021. She was named after her great-grandmother, the Queen of England, who was called by the nickname when she was young, and her late grandmother Princess Diana. We have been told by her parents, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, that she By Lainey • Jun 09, 2021 11:14 am
Royals Lilibet Diana, Royal Congratulations, and Excellent Timing Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on Friday, June 4. Archie now has a sister. Archie and Betty! LOL. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already told us what Lilibet’s nickname will be, a nickname from a nickname – Harry and Meghan’s daughter will be called Lili, at least for By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 11:43 am
Baby and Bump Obsession On ‘Lilibet Diana’ When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle named their son Archie Harrison – no ‘Archibald’, no long strings of historical names nodding to ancestors (or grandparents) – I crowed that they had chosen a name that was overtly about giving Archie his own life, his own path, unencumbered by the albatross of royal By Duana • Jun 07, 2021 10:30 am
Royals The Royals Complain…and They Explain “Never complain, never explain” is a familiar royal refrain. This is supposedly the motto they adhere to where the media is concerned – to rise above it, to not acknowledge, and this is what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said they were told when they were targeted (and still are) by By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 01:48 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession House Sussex: The Month Ahead It’s the first day of June 2021, Pride Month, and also a big month ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So while we’re in this brief moment of calm, let’s look ahead to what we might expect from House Sussex in the weeks to come. Meghan By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 11:17 am
Douchebags Prince Andrew has a laugh Of course he’s laughing. For all the energy the British media has put into criticising Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for what they consider to be besmirching the royal institution, there hasn’t been anything even resembling that towards Prince Andrew for legitimately hurting the reputation of the British By Lainey • May 31, 2021 12:58 pm
Royals Diana, William, and Harry: Past and Present Man, what a collision of royal news the last 24 hours, all of it connected and complicated, with the past coming back to haunt the present and the present folding itself into the past. Let’s start there with the release of the Dyson report that found that Martin Bashir By Lainey • May 21, 2021 11:23 am
Royals Prince Harry on Armchair Expert Thanks for all your emails last week about Prince Harry’s appearance on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman’s podcast Armchair Expert. It was over an hour and a half so I banked it for the weekend and probably it was the same for others, so now that people have By Lainey • May 17, 2021 02:17 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