Top Reads The Sussexes of Notting Hill As many people have pointed out, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s second baby announcement was a lot like the end scene in Notting Hill, when a pregnant Anna rests her head on William Thacker’s lap as the two enjoy an afternoon on a park bench. https://twitter.com/ By Lainey • Feb 15, 2021 10:43 am
Royals Happy New Lunar from… Sarah Ferguson Of all the Lunar New Year well-wishes from celebrities and other notables I thought I might see when browsing social media, I did not expect this. I did not expect that it would be Sarah Ferguson celebrating Lunar New Year. Fergie! Have you looked at this yet? If not, well, By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 03:57 pm
Royals Meghan Wins A decision has been made in Meghan Markle’s lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the parent company that publishes the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail. She and her legal team made the case that her privacy and copyright had been violated when the Mail published contents of a letter By Lainey • Feb 11, 2021 03:03 pm
Royals The Queen’s Obscured Wealth The Guardian published an article this weekend about how the Queen, back in the 1970s, “successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents”. Buckingham Palace has denied this, but their wording is interesting. Buckingham Palace By Lainey • Feb 09, 2021 10:07 am
Royals Prince Harry’s Carpool Karaoke …Anniversary Prince Harry was seen with James Corden shooting on a double decker bus reportedly for an upcoming episode of Carpool Karaoke the other day. Harry and James have known each other a long time, and James was invited to Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. So it’s no surprise By Lainey • Feb 08, 2021 12:02 pm
Royals The Royal Name Change Drama …continued Meghan Markle’s given names were removed from Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth certificate a few weeks after he was born. The Sun reported on the change a few days ago, suggesting that Meghan made it happen because she wanted to be petty, or something. Meghan has since issued a By Lainey • Feb 02, 2021 11:20 am
Douchebags The Royal Name Change F-ckup This weekend, the Sun, which is one of the British tabloids that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are suing, published an article about the change on Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth certificate. There’s been a lot of controversy about this so let’s break it down. Archie was born By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 02:20 pm
Top Reads Prince Williams denounces racism If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you may have read a post or two about how I am married to an English Premier League fanatic. Jacek is Canadian and hockey is not his favourite sport. Over the last decade or so, football or soccer (depending on where By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 01:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, You may have noticed a headline this week about Gillian Anderson after she appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers and they played a behind-the-scenes video from the set of The Crown when, during a break from filming, she and Olivia Colman, along with other cast and crew, By Lainey • Jan 29, 2021 09:05 am
Top Reads The Real Queen It’s quite a choice that PEOPLE Magazine has made for their cover story this week: What the Queen is REALLY like. And the image that was selected to front the issue – the Queen, not in regal monarch style but just about as casual as we’ll ever see her. By Lainey • Jan 27, 2021 01:53 pm
Royals British Royals: Staffing Issues? A couple of interesting developments about the British royal family this week. You know how celebrities have been known to dump announcements late on Friday afternoons in the hopes of burying the story on the weekend so as not to be as big a headline? For the last few days, By Lainey • Jan 20, 2021 12:05 pm
Legal issues Meghan Markle vs the Mail Happening right now in court in London – Meghan Markle’s legal team is seeking “summary judgment” against the Mail on Sunday. Basically they’re arguing that there doesn’t need to be a trial because the Mail hasn’t been able to present an acceptable defence for publishing a private By Lainey • Jan 19, 2021 10:10 am
Books Sarah Ferguson Brings the Romance Did you blurt out a “huh?” when you read that title? It is a statement of fact though. I haven’t lured you here on false pretenses. Sarah Ferguson is bringing the romance, this is what’s happening. And I think… if you haven’t seen it yet…you might By Lainey • Jan 13, 2021 01:45 pm
Gossip Nostalgia The One Year Anniversary of the Sandringham Summit If you’re a regular visitor here, you know I have a thing with dates. A year ago today, on January 13, 2020, Prince Harry went to meet the Queen at Sandringham; they were later joined by Prince Charles and Prince William. This gathering is now known as the Sandringham By Lainey • Jan 13, 2021 09:32 am
Royals Will and Kate: The Train Must Go On Back in December, when COVID-19 cases were surging in the UK (which was a prelude to what we’re seeing there now with beyond-alarming case numbers and hospitals overwhelmed) and people were being advised to stay home and stop the spread, Prince William and Catherine embarked on a train tour By Lainey • Jan 12, 2021 01:42 pm
Top Reads Rob Lowe, the Gossip – about Prince Harry I have always said that celebrities, who we gossip about, are often the biggest gossips. They gossip about each all the f-cking time. For the most part, when in public, they’re quick to disparage it and accuse media outlets and tabloids and paparazzi and Twitter or whatever of too By Lainey • Jan 12, 2021 12:48 pm
