Back on November 26, 2018, The Telegraph’s Camilla Tominey wrote an article that in the lead-up to the Sussexes’ wedding, The Duchess of Sussex made The Duchess of Cambridge cry. The incident was described as having taken place at a dress-fitting for the bridesmaids, but the why or how was not included. All that was noted at the time was that Kate was particularly “emotional” because she had only given birth to Prince Louis a couple weeks before.
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Tom Bower Alleges That Camilla is the “Royal Racist”
There are a few more tidbits coming through as Tom Bower’s book on The Duchess of Sussex hits the shelves (so to speak). Of what I’ve seen, I feel comfortable waiting until I’ve had a chance to read myself…with the exception of one. Bower has claimed that The Duchess of Cornwall is the “royal racist” Harry and Meghan alluded to in their March 2021 Oprah interview.
Continue reading “Tom Bower Alleges That Camilla is the “Royal Racist””Meghan, Tom Bower & Vanity Fair
Ok, well, even before I’ve finished getting up posts on The Palace Papers, a new book is rocking the royal ecosystem. This one is by Tom Bower, a writer and former BBC investigative journalist who is famous for his notably critical biographies of major figures. Earlier in his career he published one on The Prince of Wales that was apparently rather ruthless, though I’ve admittedly never read it.
His latest is – surprise, surprise – on The Duchess of Sussex, was published today. In anticipation, The Times ran five excerpts that are pretty savage. I’m absolutely planning to read the book, but given shipping times, etc. I think getting actual recaps of it up is going to have to be an August project.
In the meantime, I want to dig into the back and forth over one of The Times’s recaps so we can level-set on how to view the conversation.
Continue reading “Meghan, Tom Bower & Vanity Fair”Let’s Catch Up With Beatrice & Eugenie
This is most emphatically not going to delve into the Andrew issue, but I do think it’s long overdue that we take a look at where the York family falls in the current royal landscape and generally catch up. After all, during what was more or less my hiatus from posting on here, Eugenie had a baby, Beatrice got married *and* had a baby, and their father has been formally pushed out of public life.
Continue reading “Let’s Catch Up With Beatrice & Eugenie”Findings from the Palace’s Investigation into Meghan’s “Bullying” to be “Buried”
Let this be a reminder that I’m an equal opportunist critic. Yesterday, The Times reported that an investigation into claims that the Duchess of Sussex “bullied” her staff during her tenure as a working royal will never be published. The inquiry was led by Buckingham Palace, conducted by an independent law firm, and paid for by the Queen herself. News of this first broke on the eve of Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey in March of last year. The timing was hardly coincidental.
Continue reading “Findings from the Palace’s Investigation into Meghan’s “Bullying” to be “Buried””The Cambridges Set to Move to Windsor
It’s official (ish) – the Cambridges are set to move to Windsor this summer. The Times reported over the weekend that William and Kate are due to move into Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor estate, with their three children enrolled in a Berkshire school this autumn.
Continue reading “The Cambridges Set to Move to Windsor”Garter Day 2022 (& Some Random Historical Musings)
In case you missed it, Garter Day was held at Windsor yesterday – an event so English it makes the Jubilee pageantry seem quaint 🙂 There’s both good and bad to cover (per usual these days), so let’s dive in…but before we do, for the good of the order, let’s quickly review the context for Garter Day since it’s been a [pandemic-induced] minute since this ceremony was held.
Continue reading “Garter Day 2022 (& Some Random Historical Musings)”Louis, Lili, and Royal Parenting
The Platinum Jubilee was ostensibly about celebrating public service that began in 1952 from a woman born in 1926, but there’s an argument to make that the House of Windsor’s children won the day on the subsequent news cycle.
Continue reading “Louis, Lili, and Royal Parenting”Let’s Touch Base on an “Abdication” (Among Other Things)
I was reading The Daily Beast’s royal coverage as I am wont to do, and came across this interview between journalists Tom Sykes and Clive Irving, the latter of whom wrote a biography of the Queen last year. There’s a few snippets I want to react to, mainly because they caught me off guard. So, let’s get into it:
Continue reading “Let’s Touch Base on an “Abdication” (Among Other Things)”The Platinum Jubilee
Happy Monday, everyone. As many of you no doubt saw, this weekend marked the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London, recognizing an unprecedented 70 years of service from Queen Elizabeth II. Instead of going event by event, I decided to wrap up major themes from the festivities in one all-encompassing post, so here we go.
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