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
Baby and Bump Obsession Harry & Meghan Day 15: “What Meghan wants” Almost there. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have just completed their second-to-last day of events on their first overseas tour. They visited the Northshore Riding Club where they competed against each other in a “wellie wang” (tossing rainboots), and planted a tree for the Queens Canopy, and met By Lainey • Oct 30, 2018 11:39 am
Royals William & Harry: separate courts? The Times reported this weekend that we are about to see a major change in the young royal ecosystem. They have long appeared to be the closest of brothers, bonded in tragedy and an inseparable element in the worldwide appeal of the royal family. Yet the pressures of monarchy, marriage By Lainey • Oct 29, 2018 11:54 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Harry & Meghan Days 12, 13, 14: Feminism, photography, and another walk on the beach Two more days to go. As you know, by all accounts, the Sussexes’ first overseas tour has been a smash hit. Exactly two weeks ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived in Australia and announced that they’re expecting their first child. From there it’s been an ambitious schedule By Lainey • Oct 29, 2018 11:09 am
Royals Harry & Meghan Day 11: back to Sydney Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are now back in Australia where they will close the Invictus Games tomorrow before heading off to New Zealand. Before returning to Sydney, they had a meeting at the St George Government Building with the Prime Minister of Tonga and other government officials and visited By Lainey • Oct 26, 2018 10:16 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Harry & Meghan Day 10: the “extra seam” Is it Day 10? I can’t keep track anymore. And they probably can’t either. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle departed Fiji today for Tonga. There were three outfits. Let’s start with the final outfit because that’s the meat of the story. After landing in Tonga today, By Lainey • Oct 25, 2018 11:29 am
Royals The Cambridges at the ball The Queen hosted a state banquet last night in honour of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima. Can we call it a ball? It was totally a ball. A super royal ball. Royals everywhere, including Prince William and Catherine. Earlier this week, I referenced Tom Sykes’s piece in The By Lainey • Oct 24, 2018 12:24 pm
