Royals The Duchess Wars Earlier this month, it was reported that there was some tiara drama before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. Supposedly Royal Meghan wanted to wear a certain tiara and she ended up with another one, even though Harry insisted that “what Meghan wants, Meghan gets”. If you recall, in By Lainey • Nov 27, 2018 11:05 am
Royals The new Sussex residence Kensington Palace confirmed the other day that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be moving out of Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace in London to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, on the Windsor Estate. Frogmore House is where they had their wedding reception. Frogmore Cottage faces Frogmore House By Lainey • Nov 26, 2018 10:57 am
Royals Royal Kate in burgundy too Princess Kate also stepped out today for a visit at the Developmental Neuroscience Lab at University College London to meet with researchers working on infant brain development. Royal Meghan was out earlier in burgundy. As you can see, Kate’s in a similar outfit – the colour, mostly, but also the By Lainey • Nov 21, 2018 11:31 am
Royals Royal Meghan’s burgundy Thanksgiving Meghan Markle visited the Al Manaar Community Centre today to visit with members of the Hubb Kitchen. Earlier this year, they partnered to launch Together: Our Community Cookbook to raise awareness and support for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire served by the Hubb initiative. It also happens to be By Lainey • Nov 21, 2018 11:15 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Harry & Meghan at the Royal Variety Performance Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attended the Royal Variety Performance last night in London. It was her first time at the event. They sat in the royal box and met with some of the performers, including Gary Barlow and the cast of Hamilton. There was a lot of belly-cupping. There By Lainey • Nov 20, 2018 10:24 am
Royals Prince Charles’s 70th birthday party The Queen hosted a party to celebrate Prince Charles’s 70th birthday last night at Buckingham Palace. It was a private event so the only photos available of the royals you care about were the ones of them arriving. We’ll get to the young royals later. Here’s a By Lainey • Nov 15, 2018 09:27 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Prince Charles’s birthday family portraits Prince Charles is 70 years old today. To commemorate the milestone, Clarence House has released two new family portraits featuring Charles, with Camilla, joined by his children and his grandchildren – his Dynasty. These were taken in September. Here’s the first, more formal shot, although the Sussexes still managed to By Lainey • Nov 14, 2018 09:44 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Royal Baby advantage Prince William and Catherine were at The Tusk Conservation Awards last night. Also last night, the Prince Charles 70th birthday documentary on the BBC. With a cameo that everyone’s talking about. But first…let’s recap. As we’ve been analysing over the last few weeks, during Prince Charles’ By Lainey • Nov 09, 2018 10:17 am
Royals Harry & Meghan’s tiara drama A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that Prince William and Prince Harry are considering creating “separate courts”. For years now, William, Kate, and Harry have shared a court at Kensington Palace. If you’re a royal junkie, you know that “royal courts”, competing “royal courts” in particular, are By Lainey • Nov 09, 2018 09:39 am
Royals Prince Charles’s media month Prince Charles’s 70th birthday is next week. As we’ve seen, he’s picked up his PR game ahead of the milestone – there’s the Robert Jobson biography in which he seemingly checks his sons and the Vanity Fair cover story in which he and Camilla pose side by By Lainey • Nov 08, 2018 12:45 pm
Girlcrushes Dame Emma Thompson Emma Thompson is in my top three. When people ask me about my favourite celebrities I’ve ever produced – a question I get often – Emma Thompson is always in my top three. She’s one of those legendary actors you describe as a “national treasure.” Which nation’s treasure is By Kathleen • Nov 07, 2018 03:16 pm
Royals Show Your Work: Harry and Meghan’s report card and how to pitch Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kicked off their first overseas tour when we recorded the first episode of this season of Show Your Work so we gave them a checklist. It’s time to grade their performance. Did they hit the specific targets that we set for them? And about By Lainey • Nov 06, 2018 11:14 am
Royals Prince Charles at work Yesterday Lainey wrote about Prince Charles’s Vanity Fair profile and how it is a rebranding, showing him in a kinder, more familial light. Sure, yeah, all of that. But did you catch the work shade?! One of the phrases lobbed at Prince William and Duchess Kate a lot is By Sarah • Nov 02, 2018 10:33 am
Royals Belly-cupping by Prince Harry Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wrapped up their first overseas tour on Tuesday and reportedly flew back to London yesterday. By all accounts, it was a smash hit. They kicked it off with a major announcement, they hit up as many destinations as possible, there were huge crowds at the By Lainey • Nov 01, 2018 03:22 pm
Royals Rebranding Prince Charles Whoa. We’ve been talking about Prince Charles quite a bit this week, especially as excerpts from Robert Jobson’s biography on the future king have been leaked. In brief – Robert Jobson has been a royal reporter for three decades and travelled on official tours with Charles for 18 months By Lainey • Nov 01, 2018 11:45 am
Royals Prince William: “a little grand” As mentioned in the previous post about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, royal reporter Robert Jobson has written a new biography about Prince Charles (Charles at Seventy: Thoughts, Hopes, and Dreams) and remember, he researched the book over 18 months while travelling on official tours with the future king of By Lainey • Oct 30, 2018 12:18 pm