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    Anna Wintour

    I have never related more to Anna. 😂
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    British Royals

    My favourite photo from the coronation. Scotland unsure what the fuss is about.
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    British Royals

    If you ask me it was never the face, it was the hair (or lack thereof). I wonder if I’ll get arrested for treason now.
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    Official 2020 Divorce Poll

    Reese Witherspoon just announced her divorce. https://people.com/movies/reese-witherspoon-husband-jim-toth-announce-divorce/
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    Official 2020 Divorce Poll

    And he’s done his usual “leave it vague enough so that when someone who fits does get divorced, I can reveal it as them” 😂
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    Official 2020 Divorce Poll

    I think I missed that “superhero movies” implies for than 1, in which case not Cate.
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    Official 2020 Divorce Poll

    I forgot Cate Blanchett! She did a Marvel film.
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    Official 2020 Divorce Poll

    We can add Emma Stone (Spider-Man) Natalie Portman (Thor) to the possibilities.
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    Harvey Weinstein

    Jane Doe has revealed her identity. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-jane-doe-victim-reveals-identity-1235333076/
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    British Royals

    My employer has just announced we’re getting an extra day of annual leave for the King’s Coronation. Even though it’s on a Saturday! Between that and the extra two days we got last year (jubilee then funeral), this is the most the royal family have ever done for me. 😂
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    Met Gala 2023

    I’m so interested to see what happens on this year’s red carpet after last year’s was ripped apart for being so so dull.
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    Presley dynasty

    I was reading a gossip item earlier that suggested she was struggling at the golden globes, how sad.
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    British Royals

    Sorry for the double post but this gives me the ick - I get that this is what the writer took from the book, but it seems wrong if Harry has picked on the women who married into the institution, not the men born into it. Seems to jive with what I’ve read about Harry being against his place in the monarchy, rather than the monarchy itself. The main villain is Camilla, who, in Harry’s telling, becomes the leaker-in-chief in order to protect herself. He rarely mentions Camilla without also mentioning how she usurped his mother. The runner-up villain is Kate. But on this topic, Harry’ resentment gets the better of him. In the way he describes interactions with his sister-in-law, he clearly wants the reader to choose Meghan over Kate. Informality over formality. The spare’s wife over the heir’s. It’s the same as the idea that everything is Meghan’s doing, it’s clearly not the case but it protects the monarchy.
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    British Royals

    I’ve experienced this at fancy functions in the U.K., I hate it. Thankfully I don’t go to many that fancy 😂
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    British Royals

    I don’t think that is right based on googling just now, sources including the Daily Mail suggest the party was 2005 and Kate and William’s break (or at least the known one) was 2007. https://people.com/celebrity/prince-william-kate-middleton-split-up/ That said, it doesn’t seem like everything was roses in 2005 https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a25661497/prince-william-said-no-when-asked-about-marrying-kate-middleton-in-2005/. That’s the thing that’s been really interesting to me on this book stuff from a pure gossip perspective - and it’s something I knew from my love of blind items, but has been even more obvious here because of the profile of the source - is how easy false narratives can be uncritically accepted on the internet. I’ve seen people insistent Harry says William went to the same party as a “native” in blackface, when I understand he actually says he went in a leotard, as a lion.
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    British Royals

    Only based on the excerpts I’ve seen, I think it’s hard to see William and Harry ever making amends after this.
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    British Royals

    Are they suggesting it would make the Queen look bad? Or are there 2 different “the royal” here? I don’t buy that Harry would have gone after Gran. Dad? Sure. Brother? Definitely. But Gran? No. She was his best hope of getting what he wanted IMO.
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    British Royals

    No one tell Hoyaheel about the bit where the Queen suddenly sits up and announces it was all a massive prank to see how long her subjects would queue for.
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    British Royals

    This was the only bit of the whole funeral shebang that brought tears for me. Emma the Queen’s pony at Windsor.
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    British Royals

    On curtsying, I was idly thinking the other day that weren’t there stories at one point that Kate had to curtesy to Beatrice and Eugenie because they were princesses in their own right and she wasn’t? I was wondering if that might have changed now because she is Princess of Wales, then I wasn’t interested enough to go and check. I love that Anne has basically done everything her brothers have. That recent change in law to give women the right of succession over younger brothers should have been applied to her IMO, but maybe she didn’t want it for what it would mean for her kids. edit - not sure if this link works overseas but the bbc is live streaming the lying in state for those who can’t travel. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62902778
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    British Royals

    I wasn’t able to go in the end. The beeb had said the cortège wouldn’t start until 5pm but it was actually earlier, and I was just finishing a work call when it went past. Could hear the helicopter overhead and managed to see the end of the nearby road on the tv LOL. It’s been confirmed by my job that we’re getting the day off on Monday to allow us to watch the funeral, but my husband’s work isn’t closing.
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    British Royals

    Andrew was heckled at a couple of points, while following the Queen’s coffin up the Royal Mile. The cortège passed near my house yesterday and will do same tomorrow. I’m debating whether to go and watch it pass, for the moment of history more than anything else.
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    British Royals

    I’m back in the U.K. now and not surprisingly it’s everywhere. Flew back with BA and it was mentioned in the pilot messages, then I flew through 2 U.K. airports and both had memorial messages on all of the e-screens normally used for advertising. I didn’t expect that.
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    British Royals

    I’d heard he would have gone with George if he’d been younger, but the idea you can pick a different name for your royal one is bonkers to me anyway. The royal family only use about 4 first names in total, they just rotate them. As such I can only get behind this idea of changing name if William decides to be something like King LouLouBelle I when the time comes. (Assuming we haven’t ditched the lot by then - there’s still a lot of hard core royalists around in the UK at least.)
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    British Royals

    I feel sadder about it than I thought I would, although PMS might be playing a part! She had a long life and was still working as of two days ago, when she appointed our latest PM. She did look frailer than ever in those pics though. I’m actually in Canada on hols, so not seeing all of the U.K. chatter…King Charles III sounds like a spaniel though.
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