Top Reads Will and Kate: Selfies and Trust The last time Prince William and Kate were out on an official engagement together, William was asked about his brother, Prince Harry, and about racism in his family. His response was embarrassingly bad. Because, as we have seen, the British royals’ and their comms team are embarrassingly bad at crisis By Lainey • Mar 18, 2021 01:41 pm
Top Reads Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: Gayle Gives Us a Royal Update If you’re CBS, on the downside, there’s the mess with The Talk. And the Grammys ratings. On the upside though, the ratings from the Television Event of the Year, Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are a huge win. And they’ve established themselves as By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 12:56 pm
Royals Prince William Answers Two Questions Prince William and Kate of House Cambridge were in Stratford, London today for a visit to celebrate schools reopening. They met with teachers who shared their experiences with lockdown and the challenges faced over the last year. The visit also happened to be timed with the rollout of Mentally Healthy By Lainey • Mar 11, 2021 10:23 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 11, 2021 Dear Gossips, At this point I don’t think you can overstate the impact that the Television Event of the Year is having – on the British royal family and the overall culture. And I’m not just talking about the fact that this was a monoculture moment at a time By Lainey • Mar 11, 2021 09:19 am
Top Reads The Queen of Culture Supports Meghan Markle It’s not like there haven’t been all kinds of celebrities lining up one after the other in support of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. But Beyoncé is THE celebrity whose support of Meghan Markle generates much more attention than the rest, even making headlines on CNN. Because, of By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 11:55 am
Top Reads Harry and Meghan’s “New Era” Buckingham Palace released a statement on behalf of the Queen yesterday addressing (inadequately) what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle told Oprah Winfrey about their mental health struggles and the racism they experienced as senior members of the British royal family. Basically they’re claiming they didn’t know how serious By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 10:12 am
Royals The Queen Responds to Harry and Meghan As I noted in my previous post about Prince Charles, there was word that Buckingham Palace could be coming out with a statement by EOD addressing what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said during their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Shortly after that article went live, a statement on behalf of By Lainey • Mar 09, 2021 03:11 pm
Top Reads Prince Charles: After the Television Event of the Year It’s been two days since the Television Event of the Year, hosted by Oprah and starring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Prince Charles stepped out today in London to visit a vaccine clinic and was reportedly in good spirits. And the photo op was…interesting: You guys, Prince Charles By Lainey • Mar 09, 2021 12:49 pm
Royals Prince Harry’s non-Cameo: A British Monarchy 101 That was… a very clever and deliberate misdirect, wasn’t? In the days leading up to Oprah’s special with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, most people, probably everyone, thought this was going to be Meghan going in hard on the British royals, that this would mostly be about Meghan, By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 01:36 pm
Royals Harry, Meghan, and Royal Racism Going into the broadcast, most of us were expecting a certain kind of tea, right? Maybe some sh-t about Prince William and his relationship with Harry, and yes, by extension Kate would come up too. She did come up. But as I mentioned, she came up EARLY. And I By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 10:26 am
Royals Meghan Markle, Mental Health, and the British Royal Institution This post may be triggering for those suffering with mental health issues. One of the most disturbing revelations that came out of Oprah’s interview with Meghan Markle was that Meghan’s mental health was so fragile during her pregnancy that she “didn’t want to be alive anymore” and By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 08:08 am
Royals Intro for March 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, Last week, I kept calling it the Television Event of the Year. And, well, that wasn’t an exaggeration, was it? Now that we’ve finally seen Oprah’s two-hour special with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, it was clear from the very first block that it By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 07:38 am
Top Reads Oprah Asks Meghan: Why Now Is The Right Time? Are you ready for the television event of the year on Sunday? I was talking to someone yesterday who isn’t even into royal sh-t and she was like, I need to watch this interview, and I don’t have cable, I have to figure out how I can By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 01:36 pm
Top Reads “If There’s An Active Role That The Firm Is Playing” “Were you silent or were you silenced?” is the question that featured prominently in the first teaser for Oprah’s two-hour Prince Harry and Meghan Markle special that CBS released on Sunday. As we’ve now seen, it was enough to panic the British royal family who have now By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 11:00 am
Royals Royals Investigating Royals For all the times that we’ve heard about the British royal family staying above the fray, and never complaining or explaining, the events of this week should shut that sh-t down forever, non? The British royals are out here doing the MOST right now, as we get closer By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 09:36 am
Royals Intro for March 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, “Could this whole night have been an email” is what Tina Fey jokingly asked at one point during the Golden Globes the other night. In retrospect, probably quite a few people would have preferred the email? The SAG Awards will not be an email. But by award show By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 08:58 am
