Royals Her Royal Highness at the garden party Today is the first time that Meghan Markle’s been out on royal duty for a public engagement where she’s officially an HRH, Her Royal Highness. They are now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. But, seriously, how often are we going to be calling Prince Harry not Prince By Lainey • May 22, 2018 01:53 pm
Royals Intro for May 22, 2018 Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those of you returning from long weekend in Canada. We were open for business yesterday so if you were offline, please scroll down to get caught up on Royal Wedding and Billboard Music Awards posts. Almost 30 million people watched Meghan Markle marry Prince Harry By Lainey • May 22, 2018 08:34 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: three wedding portraits As mentioned in the previous post, Kensington Palace has released three official wedding portraits taken by Alexi Lubomirski at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Here’s a black and white shot of the royal couple sitting on some steps at Windsor Castle: The Duke and Duchess would By Lainey • May 21, 2018 10:45 am
Royals Meghan’s wedding dresses If my inbox and Twitter mentions are any indication, Meghan Markle’s wedding dress, by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy, was not a total slam dunk. It wasn’t for me either but, as I wrote on Saturday, while I didn’t love the dress, I did love the look, By Lainey • May 21, 2018 10:05 am
Royals A Black Royal Wedding “Two young people fell in love and we all showed up.” That was Bishop Michael Curry addressing the newly-minted Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their wedding day. Leading up to the royal wedding, I wanted desperately to just show up and watch two young people in love. I By Kathleen • May 21, 2018 09:29 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) The Queen & Guy My favourite royal story of the week! As you know, the Queen had tea with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle yesterday at Windsor Castle. Prince Charles, Camilla, Will, and Kate were also there for rehearsal. Right now it’s 230pm in England. As I’m writing this, the Queen is By Lainey • May 18, 2018 09:56 am
Royals Meghan’s wedding dress rumours Meghan Markle’s wedding dress has been kept at Windsor Castle. As I mentioned yesterday, Stella McCartney’s name has been coming up this week, emerging as a possible dark horse as the designer of Meghan Markle’s wedding dress. The odds favourite is still Ralph & Russo but I’ By Lainey • May 18, 2018 08:11 am
Royals Prince Charles to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle Royal wedding week did not get off to a good start with all the Thomas Markle drama. But, as I’ve been saying, the royals know how to carry on…and put on a show. And did they ever turn it around this morning. At around 10am local time here By Lainey • May 18, 2018 07:16 am
Royals Intro for May 18, 2018 Dear Gossips, They’re calling for a pretty perfect day weather-wise tomorrow in Windsor – no rain in the forecast, lots of sunshine, cool in the morning and warming up right when it matters, around noon, when Meghan Markle will walk down the aisle at St George’s Chapel to By Lainey • May 18, 2018 06:56 am
Royals Harry & Meghan carry on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the royals are now moving past the Thomas Markle Zone drama of the last few days and moving ahead with the big show. Harry and Meghan left Kensington Place this afternoon. Prince Charles and Camilla also left by helicopter. And Prince William and Princess By Lainey • May 17, 2018 09:51 am
BFFs Serena at the wedding? Serena Williams was supposed to play in the Italian Open this week but she ended up pulling out of the tournament as her coach says they need more time to prep for the French Open at the end of the month. Which, conveniently, frees up her weekend. And, well, we By Lainey • May 17, 2018 09:22 am
Royals Thomas Markle Zone TMZ stands for Thirty Mile Zone which measures the Hollywood studio perimeter. This week, however, TMZ is the Thomas Markle Zone. Because this is Meghan Markle’s father’s preferred media outlet. As you know, Thomas Markle was supposed to be in England by now and, along with Meghan’s By Lainey • May 17, 2018 08:55 am
Maple Leaf Harry & Meghan’s wedding kids I wrote earlier about the British royal family’s ability to “carry on”. And this is what they’re doing, even though there may probably be eight new Thomas Markle developments between now and Saturday. There’s a wedding to focus on. There are plans in place. They are moving By Lainey • May 16, 2018 09:29 am
Royals Thomas Markle not attending royal wedding Like I said yesterday, every few hours there’s a new development. And we are getting every new development from Thomas Markle directly…via TMZ. Yesterday afternoon, Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas, told TMZ that despite the fact that he’d changed his mind earlier in the day and does By Lainey • May 16, 2018 09:13 am
Royals Thomas Markle doesn’t want to “miss history” By the time you read this, it’ll be end of business day in London. So far, Kensington Palace has not released any updated information about the wedding and it doesn’t look like they will. Meghan Markle’s father, however, has given us an update on his situation, through By Lainey • May 15, 2018 12:58 pm
Royals Amal Clooney’s wedding fitting I posted yesterday about Amal Clooney’s hairstylist confirming that he’s doing her hair on Saturday for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. Even though the Clooneys’ reps themselves will not comment on whether or not they’re going, it’s pretty much a guarantee. However, if you By Lainey • May 15, 2018 09:19 am