Royals Sussexes in Shorts! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out for their first public in-person engagement this week in Los Angeles since the early part of the pandemic volunteering with Baby2Baby at Knox Elementary School to hand out school supplies and other family items ahead of students going back to school. When By Lainey • Aug 21, 2020 09:37 am
Royals Intro for August 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, Back in June, when I posted about Prince Philip’s 99th birthday, I noted that he didn’t get the royal bells from Westminster Abbey, and neither did the Queen. Getting birthday bells from Westminster Abbey is a royal tradition to honour the monarch and their consort and By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 09:27 am
Royals The Secret Sussex Pitch Variety reported exclusively yesterday that back in June, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were pitching media companies, including NBCUniversal, about a show idea. Variety’s sources were not able to confirm whether or not the Sussexes also met with Disney – of interest because she recently narrated the documentary Elephants. Also By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 10:18 am
Royals The Secret Sussex Pitch Variety reported exclusively yesterday that back in June, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were pitching media companies, including NBCUniversal, about a show idea. Variety’s sources were not able to confirm whether or not the Sussexes also met with Disney – of interest because she recently narrated the documentary Elephants. Also By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 10:18 am
Royals The British Royal Weekend: Virtual interviews, Oprah’s guesthouse, and Rose! Finding Freedom, the book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has been out for almost a week now – are you finished reading? Most of the juiciest bits were pretty much reported in the press. And now that the book has been released and the press around it is beginning to By Lainey • Aug 17, 2020 11:31 am
BFFs “A System to Protect the Monarchy” Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand comes out tomorrow and more and more of the book’s revelations are being released as media outlets get access to the book. Page Six reports that according to the authors, a summit took place in 2019 to talk about the growing By Lainey • Aug 10, 2020 10:31 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s Perverted Puppet This story has everything: fat fingers, defective sweat glands, a possibly bogus pizza defence, and now a perverted puppet in the likeness of Prince Andrew that was allegedly used to grope victims. Reminds me of a piece by Amanda Marcotte last year for at Salon, “Are we breeding depraved billionaires” By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 11:40 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Harry, Meghan, and Pula Sussex Finding Freedom, the book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, is coming out next week. One of the reasons why the book has generated so much interest is because the UK press in particular has taken very personally some of the book’ By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 10:51 am
Royals Prince Andrew: the unsealed documents and the pizza defence As expected, the unsealed documents that were released last week from the defamation suit between Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Roberts Giuffre have caused even more trouble for Prince Andrew and the other rich and powerful men allegedly connected to Prince Andrew’s friend, the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 09:51 am
Royals Intro for August 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, Today is Meghan Markle’s birthday. A couple of weeks ago, when the British royal family was celebrating Big G’s birthday, I wondered whether or not they’d do social media posts for the next royal birthday. The question has been answered: all three senior British royal By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 08:58 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: “Hey Boo” and The Secret Engagement PEOPLE Magazine is the American media outlet where the publishers of Finding Freedom, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, have chosen to place advance excerpts of the book ahead of its release on August 11. The British counterpart to this was The Sunday Times. To me, PEOPLE’s coming through By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 10:03 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: The Tiara Drama As part of the advance promotion for Finding Freedom, the new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, excerpts were released to the Sunday Times and the Times in the UK last weekend and in the United States, PEOPLE Magazine is the American outlet By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 09:33 am
Royals Harry and Meghan: The Finding Freedom Rom-Com and Ghost Emojis Finding Freedom, the new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, was excerpted in the UK this past weekend, resulting in all kinds of outrage from most UK press outlets. It’s been interesting to see what parts of the excerpts people By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 12:58 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Prince William: The Podcast Prince Ahead of the FA Cup Final this weekend in England, Prince William showed up on BBC Radio Live Five’s That Peter Crouch Podcast to talk about football and mental health. William is the President of the Football Association and this year’s event has been renamed the Heads Up By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 11:12 am
Shoes Intro for July 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sorry to make it about me but the Daily Mail did it first. So hello to those of you who are visiting this site for the first time because you read a headline referring to me as a “pal” of Meghan Markle. This is not true, which probably By Lainey • Jul 28, 2020 09:30 am
Royals Prince Andrew and the Unsealing While most of the British royal headlines the last few days and probably in the days to come will be about the rom-com known as Finding Freedom, about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, don’t sleep on another potential royal story that’s expected this week that is much By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 01:00 pm