Royals Intro for January 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, Two days ago, the day that Prince Harry’s book came out, certain royal reporters in England, most of them associated with the British tabloids, were tweeting photos from booksellers, fully stocked with copies of Spare, suggesting that it may not have been selling as well as hoped. By Lainey • Jan 12, 2023 09:32 am
Royals Late Night Prince Harry When it was announced last week that Prince Harry would appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, I wrote that I was curious to see how he would perform in that format. We’ve seen him in a docuseries, we’ve seen him interviews with Oprah and on ITV By Lainey • Jan 11, 2023 11:33 am
Royals Intro for January 10, 2023 Dear Gossips, I started reading Prince Harry’s Spare last night, I’m about 70 pages in and, so far, it’s not the flaming book of dark curses that the British tabloids have made it out to be. The tone is not mean at all, at least not during By Lainey • Jan 10, 2023 09:10 am
Royals The Prince Harry Media Bonanza All the details coming out of Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, are creating a content bonanza for the media. The last I checked, Page Six had at least a dozen articles related to the revelations in the book; over at the Daily Mail, it feels like Spare has basically taken By Lainey • Jan 06, 2023 10:41 am
Royals Prince Harry: The Spare and his “Archnemesis” So there’s the book, Spare, which comes out on Tuesday, and then there’s the promotion for the book and earlier this week we learned that Prince Harry will be featured on Sunday on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper and in a 90 minute special on ITV in the By Lainey • Jan 05, 2023 11:41 am
Royals Harry’s Spare: The First Reveal For a long time now there have been rumours that Prince William has a very bad temper and perhaps some anger issues. It’s been reported that he blows up in rage, yelling at his father to the point where Camilla, allegedly, once told close friends and family that she By Lainey • Jan 05, 2023 10:44 am
Royals Intro for January 5, 2023 Dear Gossips, The big story today is The Guardian’s Prince Harry book exclusive and Harry revealing that Prince William attacked him and we’ll get to that later but first… how did the publication manage to break the story before everyone else? The Daily Mail seems to be particularly By Lainey • Jan 05, 2023 09:03 am
Royals Prince Harry: One week to Spare In one of my last Prince Harry posts of 2022, I wrote about promotion for the release of his upcoming memoir, Spare, and the publisher’s presumed expectation for him to go out and drive sales. A book deal is a business deal. They paid him a lot of money, By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 10:02 am
Royals Report: King Charles to pay for Andrew’s security Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been telling people for years that they are at risk from attack by white supremacists who’ve been encouraged by the tabloids spreading disinformation about them. Neil Basu, the former head of counter terrorism for the Met Police, recently confirmed that those threats were By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 10:22 am
Royals Intro for December 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, At the time of my post yesterday about Jeremy Clarkson’s abhorrent comments about Meghan Markle in the Sun, his article was still up on the Sun’s website. Shortly after, the piece was taken down and replaced by a note explaining that Jeremy had asked them to By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 09:09 am
Douchebags The Sun and Jeremy Clarkson prove the point of Harry & Meghan The British tabloid media is the main villain in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s docuseries, and while there are definitely parts of the show that aren’t as strong as others, they do a great job of establishing how closely the British Monarchy is tied to colonialism and the By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 11:18 am
Royals Harry and Meghan: Titles and Futures Ever since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior members of the British royal family there have been people trolling for them to be stripped of their titles…even though Prince Andrew is, like, RIGHT THERE. Not surprisingly, now that their Netflix documentary has been released, with Harry By Lainey • Dec 16, 2022 10:24 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: The Leaks, Briefs, Reveals, and Screams There is a LOT to unpack in volume two of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan. And a LOT of it is new – which was what some people criticised after volume one dropped last week: that a lot of what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle talk about in the first three By Lainey • Dec 15, 2022 01:12 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 15, 2022 Dear Gossips, Netflix released volume two of Harry & Meghan today and… well… that’s the big story. I’m almost finished the final episode and I’ll have more to say later but right now, let’s just talk about my favourite part. Which is… The Beyoncé part, OBVIOUSLY. By Lainey • Dec 15, 2022 09:35 am
Royals Meghan & Harry: On the “Freedom Flight” from “Institutional Gaslighting” Back in late November, Merriam-Webster announced that their Word of the Year for 2022 is “Gaslighting”. Let’s give credit where credit is due though because the word really started picking up cultural use exactly around this time six years ago, in December 2016, with Lauren Duca’s piece in By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 01:07 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Volume One and Villain One Volume One of Netflix’s docuseries Harry & Meghan targets the British media, particularly the tabloid media in the UK, and the relationship between the royal institution and the royal rota, which is the press pool that covers the royal family. It’s a more detailed explanation of the “invisible By Lainey • Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am
