Royals Prince Andrew: another interview?! It’s been an epically sh-tty week for Prince Andrew. His interview on BBC Newsnight was a bust. Then he was alleged to have said the n-word during a business meeting. Yesterday former Labour minister Jacqui Smith alleged that he “made racist comments about Arabs" at a state dinner By Lainey • Nov 20, 2019 11:19 am
Royals Did the Queen know about Prince Andrew and his sweat glands? The fallout from Prince Andrew’s shambolic interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight continues. It was a unanimous bomb. A major disaster. A total sh-t show to the point where even the British tabloids can’t avoid it as, you know, they prefer another royal target. But it’s By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 10:36 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “honourable” sweat glands As noted in the previous post, Prince Andrew and Team York did a piss poor job preparing for their interview with BBC Newsnight and Emily Maitlis. It was a unanimous and unmitigated disaster. There is absolutely no one, except for Lady Colin Campbell, who can find one shred of positivity By Lainey • Nov 18, 2019 12:11 pm
Douchebags Prince Andrew and Team York: amateur hour It is the year 2019. And we are talking about the sweat glands of a member of the British royal family, the beloved second son of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England. We have already talked extensively about his fat fingers. Now we’ve moved onto his sweat glands. By Lainey • Nov 18, 2019 10:11 am
Douchebags Prince Andrew and the n-word This f-cking idiot. Before we even get to his interview with Emily Maitlis on Newsnight this weekend, we have to address another one Prince Andrew’s messes – this time his alleged use of the n-word. The Evening Standard reports that he said it at a meeting back in 2012. “Rohan By Lainey • Nov 18, 2019 09:40 am
Douchebags Prince Harry: fresh and not sweaty Prince Harry stepped out for the first ever Onside Awards on Sunday to honour young activists and the volunteers and the mentors who are helping youth who are trying to make a difference. For a change, though, he wasn’t the top royal headline this weekend. That, of course, would By Lainey • Nov 18, 2019 09:20 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “no holds barred” interview BBC Newsnight announced this morning that they’d landed an exclusive interview with Prince Andrew about his friend, the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And they clearly have enough here to turn it into a one hour special on Saturday night. WORLD EXCLUSIVE: In a #Newsnight @BBCTwo interview recorded yesterday By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 12:01 pm
TV Updates The Crown Cometh The Crown season 3 drops this Sunday on Netflix. Early reviews are really good. It’s not like I expect a drop in quality, not from one of the most lavish and meticulously crafted dramas on television. I just wonder whether or not the issues currently surrounding the real Windsors By Sarah • Nov 14, 2019 03:49 pm
Royals Prince Charles: The Happy Birthday Baby Photos Prince Charles celebrates his birthday today. The future King of England is now 71 years old. You’ll recall, it was around now, last year, as he approached his milestone 70th birthday, when all the mess started about his two sons. He covered Vanity Fair and the feature story included By Lainey • Nov 14, 2019 09:48 am
Royals House Sussex to skip Royal Christmas It’s been speculated for days that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would not be joining the Queen and other members of the royal family for Royal Christmas at Sandringham. Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement yesterday that the Sussexes will indeed be skipping it this year: "The Duke By Lainey • Nov 14, 2019 09:21 am
Royals Intro for November 8, 2019 Dear Gossips, Monday is Remembrance Day in Canada and the UK and many parts of Europe and Veterans Day in the US. Yesterday the Cambridges and the Sussexes stepped out in the first of what is expected to be a series of public appearances to observe Remembrance Day, although Kate By Lainey • Nov 08, 2019 09:12 am
Royals Intro for November 6, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Amy Robach hot mic leak yesterday kept Prince Andrew’s friendship with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the headlines. For almost six months now, Andrew has remained in the headlines because of his association with the Registered Sex Offender who died under mysterious circumstances and By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 08:57 am
Royals The Palace and a hot mic Duana and I are planning an upcoming episode of Show Your Work about The Morning Show. As I wrote last week, The Morning Show isn’t perfect – but it’s really, really watchable, it’s compelling, we burned through all of it FAST, and partly the reason we’re so By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 01:08 pm
Sports Prince Harry in the locker room Prince Harry was in Tokyo for the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final this weekend between England and South Africa. There was also time on his schedule for him to meet with local schoolchildren. This moment of him interacting with a group of girls who told him he was handsome has By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 10:13 am
Royals Prince Andrew loses an aide Prince Andrew spent the weekend at the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, promoting his Pitch@Palace initiative. Here he is posing with Mr Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Prime Minister of Vietnam. I’m including it because it reminds me of an email I got last week from a reader called Deborah who By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 09:22 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Meghan of House Sussex: Halloween, November, and Words Let’s start with the letter that was signed by 72 female British Members of Parliament earlier this week in support of Meghan Markle. The MPs were objecting to the “outdated, colonial undertones” in the stories by the British tabloids about Meghan. It was revealed yesterday that Meghan called MP By Lainey • Nov 01, 2019 09:24 am
