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 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
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Rom-Com-Drama-Reality I’m writing this at a desk while, a few feet away, my husband Jacek is in bed with his iPad, headphones on, watching Harry & Meghan on Netflix. It’s because I got up earlier than he did today to stream the first two episodes and now he wants By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 09:58 am
Royals Another Royal Tiara Night King Charles, Camilla, Prince William, and Kate had another occasion last night to bust out the tiaras. Tiara nights always make headlines because crowns and tiaras are classic royal props. The British royals have had a couple of tiara moments lately and I wonder how many tiara nights we’ll By Lainey • Dec 07, 2022 11:21 am
Royals Harry and Meghan’s New York “Date Night” As expected, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out in New York last night to accept their honour at the Ripple of Hope Gala hosted by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation. They both joked that it was “date night” for them, with Harry quipping that they don’t By Lainey • Dec 07, 2022 09:57 am
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: The Winner is Netflix Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have arrived in New York – Page Six has the photos here – where tonight they will receive the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation. It’ll be a big deal because they are a big media draw and even though By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 09:51 am
Royals Oh Harry & Meghan is GOING there Following last week’s teaser trailer, Harry & Meghan, the Netflix docuseries about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, dropped a full trailer this morning. So…they bookended the Prince and Princess of Wales’s anticlimactic trip to America with H&M. Someone in the Netflix marketing department is By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 02:19 pm
Royals Will and Kate’s (remote) Super Bowl Prior to their arrival in Boston last week for the Earthshot Prize on Friday, the event had been described as William’s “Super Bowl” – and not by the media, but his own team. They were the ones who built it up that way. Per PEOPLE citing a source “close to By Lainey • Dec 05, 2022 01:48 pm
