Royals A Royal Pandemic Promenade How lovely! The lights are so beautiful this time of year, aren’t they? I really, really love holiday lights. And in London especially, they really do know what they’re doing with the lights. I’ve been in London a couple of times during the holiday season and the By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 10:43 am
Royals House Cambridge and the Royal Tea… literally! PEOPLE revealed its new cover story yesterday featuring Kate of House Cambridge, the “royal mom behind the scenes” with her friends and other sources telling the magazine what she’s really like: she’s “not a pushover” and she’s casual, no blowouts only ponytails, when she’s with her By Lainey • Dec 17, 2020 01:38 pm
Royals Serenity’s Haircut is NOT Serene Holy sh-t. This might be the most exciting hairstyle of the year – mostly because of the person with the haircut. Check out Charlene Serenity, aka Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco with her kids, Princess Gabriella and Prince Jacques, giving out gifts today. Normally the babies are the By Lainey • Dec 16, 2020 03:31 pm
Royals Kate Cambridge is “no pushover” Kate of House Cambridge covers the latest issue of PEOPLE, just in time for the Christmas break. As we’ve been discussing the last couple of weeks, the timing with Will and Kate has been interesting after The Crown controversy and their three day royal train tour that was…medium- By Lainey • Dec 16, 2020 12:28 pm
Royals Sussex + Spotify Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are shutting down the year with all kinds of new developments. Yesterday we learned that Meghan’s invested in Clevr Blends and got an assist from Oprah to promote it. Today it was announced that House Sussex has partnered with Spotify to produce podcasts – not By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 11:15 am
Media Manipulation House Cambridge: A Well-Timed Holiday Outing Prince William and Kate were at The Palladium in London the other night for a special pantomime performance in honour of frontline and essential workers for their service this year. They were joined by their three children, Big G, Charlotte, and Louis. Of course any time the young Cambridges are By Lainey • Dec 14, 2020 11:18 am
Royals Will and Kate’s Royal Tour Money Shot The final stop on Prince William and Kate’s royal train mini tour yesterday was Windsor Castle. All week we’ve seen them travelling around the UK to thank people for their service during the pandemic – and, also, to generate some good headlines about the family after almost a month By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 11:59 am
Royals Will and Kate’s Medium Mini Tour What’s in between a bomb and a hit? That’s the word I’m looking for to describe Prince William and Kate’s royal train mini tour of the UK to visit frontline and essential services workers who’ve given so much during the pandemic. Royal tours like this By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 11:13 am
TV Updates Netflix and The Crown: No Disclaimer For almost a month now, Netflix’s The Crown has been a major headline, not just in entertainment news but even outside of the entertainment section of coverage because of all the angsting over it from royal supporters, politicians, and the British royal family themselves – even though they won’t By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 12:34 pm
TV Updates A Different Royal Christmas For the British royal family, the tradition since 1988 has been for the Queen to gather with her family at Sandringham and on Christmas Day, they all walk to church together. That will not be happening this year because of COVID and it’s now been confirmed that Her Majesty By Lainey • Dec 03, 2020 03:30 pm
TV Updates Netflix’s The Crown “Disclaimer” As you may have heard, the royals and royal supporters and royal reporters have been pearl-clutching over season four of The Crown, which is the season when Lady Diana Spencer joins the story. And it’s basically the most-talked about show on television right now, considering the series’ By Lainey • Nov 30, 2020 12:41 pm
Royals Intro for November 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, In a piece for The New York Times, Meghan Markle has revealed that she suffered a miscarriage in July. She writes in her essay that through the experience, she and Prince Harry learned that “in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 09:29 am
TV Updates The Crown: Missed Lesson Almost all of the coverage about season four of The Crown has been focused on the introduction of Princess Diana and Prince Charles and how their marriage was doomed, and the ways in which the British royal family failed their youngest and most popular member at the time. Over the By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 10:09 am
Top Reads Meghan Markle: The Letter, The Friend, The Book A brief summary: Meghan Markle is suing the Mail on Sunday for publishing parts of a letter she wrote to her father, Thomas. The lawsuit is officially about whether or not the paper violated her privacy and if their publishing the letter was copyright infringement and a breach of data By Lainey • Nov 19, 2020 11:51 am
TV Updates The Five Filthiest Reads in The Crown The Crown season four introduces Princess Diana and brings the drama, giving the show a new lease on life, but it also delivers some sick burns on the royal family. More than any of the previous seasons, The Crown season four is the least interested in the myth of the By Sarah • Nov 18, 2020 09:47 am
TV Updates The Crown is better than ever, thanks to Diana In season three, The Crown began to show some wear, being not as engaging as the first two seasons—especially season one—and not as well-balanced in its storylines. But in season four, The Crown comes roaring back, reenergized by the arrival of Princess Diana, much as the real By Sarah • Nov 17, 2020 10:31 am
