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 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, 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 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
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for May 6, 2021 Dear Gossips, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor is two years old today. At the time of this post, his parents have yet to publicly celebrate the occasion and since they don’t have public social media accounts, even if they do, it’ll be shared by someone else: a friend like By Lainey • May 06, 2021 09:23 am
Royals Will and Kate: The Royal Influencers of YouTube Remember what I wrote last week when Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge released their tenth anniversary short film? I called them influencers. They would never admit to it, because how dare we categorise them alongside the people inventing dances on TikTok and pimping vitamins on Instagram. But that By Lainey • May 05, 2021 01:22 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Meghan Markle’s Bench It was announced today that Meghan Markle’s first children’s book, The Bench, will be released on June 8th by Penguin Random House. The book is written from a mother’s perspective about the relationship between a father and son, inspired obviously by Prince Harry and Archie’s bond. By Lainey • May 04, 2021 02:21 pm
Royals A Cambridge Anniversary Music Video In the previous post, I wrote about Prince William and Kate’s tenth anniversary portraits. Those were released yesterday. Today they dropped a music video featuring the full family – Will, Kate, Big G, Charlotte, and Louis…and a dog! This is the true star of the movie, even though the By Lainey • Apr 29, 2021 01:03 pm
Royals The Cambridge Ten Today is the tenth wedding anniversary of Prince William and Kate Middleton. To commemorate the milestone, Kensington Palace has released two new portraits of the Cambridges that were taken this week: These shots are pretty intimate, by their standards. And a subtle nod to the day they announced their engagement By Lainey • Apr 29, 2021 11:38 am
Oscars 2021 Daniel Kaluuya, a Bad Question, and a Royal Connection Oscar night was a great night for Daniel Kaluuya. He won an Oscar for his performance in Judas and the Black Messiah, people LOVED his acceptance speech, and there was a party afterwards and I hope he had a great time and didn’t think much about what we’re By Lainey • Apr 27, 2021 12:24 pm
