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@60Mins
(the Australian show) interviewed KATIE HOPKINS about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
For those who don't know, Hopkins has pushed the "white genocide" conspiracy theory, calls migrants "cockroaches" plus other vile hatred.
"Thank you for all the love and support from so many of you from all over the world. Each of you made this day even more meaningful" -- Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, posted this message on Instagram along with images from their wedding (credit: Chris Allerton)
Prince and Princess of Wales at the Earthshot Prize ceremony in Boston
Fashion note: Kate is wearing the emerald choker previously worn by Princess Di (famously as a headband). The historic piece has also been worn by Queen Mary.
“The Queen is not some sort of puppet. The Queen is the Monarch. The head of the Monarchy. The head of the Royal Family. Her Majesty is the institution. It’s not run by a sinister organisation, which is what the Sussexes seemed to be suggesting.”
'Do I need a British accent?'
@BarackObama
is interviewed by Prince Harry for his guest edit of
@BBCr4today
. In this warm-up, the prince jokingly warns the ex-president he'll get "the face" if he pauses too long between answers
#r4today
CORONATION: Only working royals and the Wales children will process out of the abbey, the Gold State Coach “will be flanked by representatives from the armed forces of the King’s other realms” and yes, there will be RCMP
@valentinelow
with all the details
Duke of Sussex told he must give due notice of intention to stay on royal estate after stopover was deemed impossible to arrange
Prince Harry denied a room at Windsor Castle during visit
Three of the Queen's grandchildren work in the private sector while also having Prince/Princess titles. How Beatrice and Eugenie are named on their company websites is noticeably different to how BetterUp introduces Harry
(h/t the Legal Monarchist
@RoyaltyandLaw
)
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump mingle with the Queen and the Royal Family at a reception for the Nato summit at Buckingham Palace.
#RoyalFamily
#NatoSummit
#DonaldTrump
"Well, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t sit on the fence and keep one foot in and one foot out. You’re either in or out. But then don’t cry about not being invited to weddings. You chose to leave, now go and live it–and be it” —Sarah, Duchess of York
“Prince Harry had received “two encrypted hard drives” comprising work documents from his staff’s shared drive, to which he originally claimed he no longer had access….Just hours before the High Court hearing on Thursday, [they were found]”
He could have corrected the impression given in the Oprah interview within 24 hours when the Sussexes followed up by informing Gayle King of CBS that the unnamed “racist royal” wasn’t the Queen or Prince Philip
Prince Harry and Meghan have allowed critics, especially in the US , to use their interview with Oprah Winfrey to accuse the Royal Family of racism for almost two years. Now he says they don’t believe the family is racist but saw unconscious bias.
‘I don’t particularly like talking about Harry and Meghan, but the interesting thing is that I knew and was with another “spare,” Princess Margaret. I never heard her criticize the queen in any way. She was so loyal to her sister.’
—Lady Anne Glenconner
“Hell hath no fury like a royal reporter scorned. Omid Scobie’s Endgame is billed as the real story of what has been going on inside the Palace walls. But what runs through its 400-odd pages is Scobie’s sense of burning indignation that he was shut out”
In the new episode of Archetypes, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau is identified as the “First Lady of Canada” — a title and position that doesn’t exist (she’s the wife of the PM)
Also, if there was a “First Lady” then that would surely be Queen Camilla as her husband is head of state
If Prince Harry hadn’t jetted to London for that 30 minutes with his father, then the first images of him after the King’s cancer diagnosis would have been of him enjoying glitzy Super Bowl festivities in Vegas
Princess Anne visits Canada from May 19-21 as colonel-in-chief of the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)
The NB-based reserve unit was formed in 1848 and is our oldest continually serving calvary regiment.
Motto: Faithful to King and country
Ahead of her 75th birthday, a new portrait of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in the garden of her country home, Raymill. And yes, those peaches are from her trees.
📷
@ChrisJack_Getty
"We’ve stolen their future. Not all of it. But we’ve got to try and pay a little of it back. And get together to try and heal some of the harm, and at least slow down climate change" --Jane Goodall talks to Prince Harry in British Vogue (📷 Chris Allerton)
“I’m just making sure that she’s, you know, protected and got the right people around her,” said Prince Harry about the Queen in a NBC interview airing tomorrow
(10 out of 12 paragraphs are about the royal family, with just one Invictus reference)
“Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months. Wishing everyone a Happy Mother's Day” — Kate, Princess of Wales
She’s with her three children in the photo taken this week by Prince William
As written, it’s Harry talking in that highlighted quote of “I lost my dad in this process” and so the “I” is Harry and “my dad” is Prince Charles
Confirmed with two veteran copy editors. I assume there is audio of the interview, which will clear up any confusion.
We could see her getting frailer. We knew the Platinum Jubilee was likely the last time we’d see her on that balcony.
And yet it’s hard to believe that photo was taken a year ago
A new set of polling data from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood regarding awareness of key actors — health visitors, school nurses etc — who support early childhood
📸 Will Warr/Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood
A royal tempest in 4 acts
1. A Vanity Fair cover
2. An excerpt in the Times from Tom Bower’s new royal book, Revenge, about that VF cover article
3. VF article writer Sam Kashner writes a letter to the Times
4. Bower responds in a Newsweek piece
Prince Philip would have been 100 on June 10.
This photo by Sophie, Countess of Wessex, of him, then 82, with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral in 2003 is one of the best. ERII may have a more prominent position but the viewer's eye is drawn to the smiling man relaxing by her side
“Although his speech was supposedly about climate change … he managed to cover a range of topics, most of which seemed to have little to do with Mandela himself.”
Prince Harry’s clunky Mandela day address | The Spectator
"The Duke of Sussex argued that he and his wife, Meghan, could not afford to pay for their own security until they could earn his own money, court documents have revealed."
(He inherited 1/2 of his mother's estate, which may have increased to $20M)
"Regardless of where this ultimately lands, the optics of today are appalling for the Sussexes; it makes Meghan (and Harry, who is being inexorably sucked into the maelstrom) look, at best, calculating, at worst, deeply hypocritical."
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have joined the rest of the royal family for the flypass at Buckingham Palace
(They were absent from the balcony when the Queen returned to the palace. my bet: Archie needed them)
For the 40th birthday of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, three new photos were taken by Paola Roversi. They will be part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, of which she is patron
#KateAt40
Royal fashion critique, Kate edition: never overshadow the bride is a maxim that she took to heart by wearing an Elie Saab gown from 2017. Kate wore a similar hue to her sister’s wedding.
The second excerpt from Valentine Low’s new book, Courtiers, focuses on the “Sussex Survivors Club”
“Everyone knew that the institution would be judged by her happiness,” they say. “The mistake they made was thinking that she wanted to be happy.”
"Books written about us by people we don't know"
Well...she apologized to a London court for misleading them about her cooperation with the biography written by Omid Scobie. She denied involvement but a former aide disproved that with emails showing detailed help by her & Harry
Her Majesty The Queen celebrates 70 historic years of service in this
#PlatinumJubilee
year.
On
#IWD2022
we celebrate her life which has been dedicated to serving the Commonwealth and its people.
“Prince Harry has dropped 45 points in United States public opinion while Meghan Markle has dropped 36 points in just more than a month”
This is a huge swing. Wonder about the effect of the timing of the Netflix-Spare 1-2 punch
The Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit has announced confirmed speakers for its New York event go on September 19, 2023 — including ambassador Caroline Kennedy and José Andrés of World Central Kitchen
Folks, it’s been a week.
By now you should know …
— The dead monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, her mother, who died in 2002, is Queen Elizabeth
— there has not been a king of England since 1702 and the last queen of England died in 1707
/1
"The moment she divorced, the moment she left the institution, she was by herself. She may have been one of the most powerful women in the world but she was completely exposed" -- Harry says
Except she *refused* police protection and also continued to live at Kensington Palace
Trying BetterUp: "Only after my first session did I receive an SMS message. 'Congrats, Laurence!' it said. 'This is a tremendous milestone. The next step is to subscribe...' The price was eye-watering: $499 (£364) per month"
When I saw the original photo on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's request for Archie's birthday, the researcher in me thought, "This looks like a stock image." It is.
It's called 'Family having fun" from Adobe Stock and has been used by a dental office in Australia and others.
The National War Memorial was fenced off this weekend, preventing people from again using it as a toilet.
A new sign attached to the fence says: “80 years ago, brave men and women went to defend it. Today we rise up to honour them.”
Protesters were posing with it for pictures.
The first joint portrait of William and Kate, painted by Jamie Coreth. Commissioned by the Cambridgeshire Royal Portrait Fund, it goes on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum
(She’s wearing the Duchess of Cambridge brooch, originally from William’s g-g-g-g grandmother)
“It appeared that BetterUp was planning to raise its rates…’what they came out with was a program that cut everybody’s pay [during] one of the greatest inflation times,’ ” said a coach
A Revolt Is Brewing at Prince Harry’s Silicon Valley Gig BetterUp
Celebrating men and women who have contributed so much to life in Scotland at this special ceremony in Edinburgh today.
Congratulations to the newest Knights and Ladies of the Order of the Thistle 🏴
A new photo of Prince William with his children, Charlotte, Louis and George, for Father’s Day. The photo was taken on their family trip to Jordan last autumn.
📸
@KensingtonRoyal
NOTE: If you live in an apartment, if you enter your apartment number in the second address line the website doesn't recognize it and treats the building address as a SINGLE household = ERROR. Include your apartment number in the FIRST address line instead to work around it.
Order of Consent comparison
While Kate was described as "Our Trusty and Well-beloved," her future sister-in-law, Meghan, gets no such superlatives. She's just "Rachel Meghan Markle."
WHY?
Kate is a subject of the Queen. Meghan is American.
Meghan and Harry are absent from the balcony as members of the royal family watch the Queen return after Trooping the Colour. Perhaps Archie needed them.
We should see everyone, including the Queen, on the balcony for the RAF flypass
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's U.S. popularity hits all-time low. The Sussex slump continues while the royals have begun to bounce back in America, new polling for
@Newsweek
by
@RedfieldWilton
shows.
Ohio toddler dresses up like the Queen, her parents send the photo to Buckingham Palace. They are stunned when they get a letter back on behalf of Her Majesty.
"There’s an increasing sense, in the U.K. if not overseas, that what on Monday looked like the biggest crisis for the monarchy in 85 years is actually nothing like a disaster on the scale of [the] Diana [interview]."
Dolly Parton gets the vaccine from her pal Dr. Abumrad.
Last year, he asked Dolly for a donation to help fund the research that led to the Moderna vaccine.
They met in 2013 after he helped her recover from an accident. They bonded over discussions about current events & science
The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled the profile of King Charles III that will appear on all coinage in Canada.
FYI: The profiles switch direction with each reign -- Queen Elizabeth II's profile faced right, so her son's now faces left
The King and Queen arrive a bit early for the Coronation concert, catching the broadcaster off guard.
Charlotte seems to want George to wave his flag, without success
The Edinburgh family (front row), with Mike and Zara Tindall (in green), Sarah and Daniel Chatto (blue)
The main interview started at 7:32 am and was ~11 minutes long (plus a 2 min chat among host after it ended)
Of those ~11 minutes, 2:35 min were on the Invictus Games while the rest — ~8:25 min — were on his family including the Queen, his mother, wife and children
NEW: Prince Harry shares how he talks to Archie about ‘Grandma Diana’ and shares how he feels his mother’s presence: “It's constant. It has been over the last two years. More so than ever before.”
Royal fashion critique, Kate edition: Kate wears a soft green Self-Portrait outfit that tones with the hues of the Wimbledon grass. The slim-fitting collared top and billowing skirt is a style she often wears. It suits her.
“Run by business, for business, the Business Taskforce will play an essential role in The Princess of Wales’ work to transform the way in which society prioritises and supports children and the ecosystems around them in their earliest years”
Kate wants to see big business leading a change in attitude in the workplace to put the social and emotional health of children in their first five years at the heart of how employers treat their staff.
I keep thinking of the timeline presented in these excerpts
“Top of the agenda were continuing negotiations with Netflix and Spotify, and the re-registration in Delaware on Oct 22, 2019 of Frim Fram Inc, the company behind her discontinued blog The Tig”
"First impression: neither the duchess nor Harry can take criticism. Second impression: for someone who doesn’t like to talk about her private life, the duchess sure does want to talk about it."
Royal fashion critique, Kate edition: rewearing an 11-year-old gown not only fits into the enviro theme of this night but ensures the spotlight is on Prince William, who created the Earthshot Prize. (Also, it's a fab dress that hasn't dated.)
Prince William and Kate arrive for the
@EarthshotPrize
. She has recycled the Alexander McQueen dress she wore to a
@BAFTA
event in Los Angeles in 2011
"A devoted family man who we will miss forever"— Mike Tindall (Zara's husband and son-in-law to Princess Anne) just shared a photo on IG of Prince Philip with his great-granddaughter Mia Tindall at Balmoral (📸Duchess of Cambridge)
The Canadian Coronation Emblem
The Governor General has unveiled the Canadian emblem for the coronation of King Charles III. It was created to mark the first crowning of a Canadian monarch in decades.
.
@JoshMandelOhio
calls MLK's daughters "race profiteers" and insists they're nothing like MLK ... who was himself denounced as a "race profiteer" by people like Josh Mandel.
Here's Walter Trohan of the Chicago Tribune in April 1967, a year before King's assassination.
See the chair piled with yellow cushions behind the Queen and PM Morrison? That's the spot in Windsor Castle where the monarch does all her virtual engagements
The false believe that Diana was stripped of protection and thrown to the wolves after her divorce is incorrect.
Diana decided in December 1993 to dispense with Royal Protection officers.
The desire to apply the “First Lady” title for spouses of political leaders goes against our parliamentary system, in which family members play no political role
(I honestly couldn’t name the spouse of our premier without google)
The cost of hosting Harry and Meghan is now a political issue in Canada. During Question Period in the House of Commons, MP Christine Notmandin of the separatist Bloc Québécois wanted assurances that Quebeckers would not have to pick up the security tab for the royals 1/2
🧵What any pageant needs is a Gold Coach, right?
It's more than 250 years old, is so heavy that the horses are specifically bred to pull its weight, and was last used by the Queen for her Golden Jubilee in 2002.
The Cambridges are “swapping their grand Kensington Palace home for a relatively modest four-bedroomed cottage on the Windsor estate, a move that will see them navigate life without a live-in nanny for their first time in their children’s lives.”
Royal fashion critique, Elizabeth II edition: The Queen showcases a classic example of her work “uniform” — a simple dress with 3/4 sleeves, triple-strand pearl necklace, fab brooches (her small Nizam of Hyderabad roses)
Bonus: she carries her purse and cane while cake cutting
There’s Prince Harry’s narrative, and then there’s the truth. There’s this 🧵re the lawsuit
Also, he wasn’t at Eton as he recounts in his book when his great-grandmother died on Easter Saturday in 2002 but on a ski trip with his father and brother in the Alps
I sometimes worry about Harry, I really do. In Spare he complains that Meghan's lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday which they announced in Oct 2019 was "barely covered at all" in the newspapers.
"Join me this Christmas Eve for a special Carol Service, as we say a heartfelt thank you to all those supporting the very youngest members of our society during those crucial early years."- Kate, Princess of Wales, ahead of the taping of Royal Carols, airing Dec 24 on ITV
📷 ITV