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On 4/9/2020 at 11:03 AM, Wordsworth said:

 

 

Thanks all. Testing for Covid is happening but due to underlying conditions, a Do Not Resuscitate decision is unfortunately likely. 

but apologies -  I did not mean to derail the thread. :) 

Prayers for peace, strength, and calm during this time for you.  

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Thank you again. My relative has pneumonia but keeps testing negative for covid, so it’s a strange one, but the main thing is he’s still with us ?

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ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 04/30 **7**
The official outlet for royal leaks who prints only what they are told to by the monarchy says that the expatriate wants to come home and get back to work for the people of his country. Is it homesickness or a major crack in the foundation?

 

For what it's worth.

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On 5/8/2020 at 10:35 PM, princess said:

ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 04/30 **7**
The official outlet for royal leaks who prints only what they are told to by the monarchy says that the expatriate wants to come home and get back to work for the people of his country. Is it homesickness or a major crack in the foundation?

 

For what it's worth.

It’s a big change of lifestyle for Harry so I can see him having trouble adjusting to it, but let’s be honest, no one in the media is reporting the unvarnished and unbiased truth about these two. 
 

I noticed the pro-Meghan blogs “strangely” let the news that a lot of her case against the daily Mail was thrown out by the judge pass without comment....

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I have no opinion about the veracity of the item, but I imagine it is such a weird place to be. You are about to begin a life altering change of lifestyle just as the entire world begins a life altering change of lifestyle, which in some ways, prohibits you from getting up and running your initial large change. Nothing feels normal for me right now and Harry probably has no idea what normal is or should be. I would imagine it’s some form of weird limbo. Lots of time to feel like you’ve screwed up royally.

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14 hours ago, dixiedoodah said:

Lots of time to feel like you’ve screwed up royally.

6 hours ago, fykeylicious said:

nice work there ;)

 

Well played!! :mellow:

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Another sleazy Prince Andrew story - he & Fergie defaulted on their payments for a chichi chalet in Verbier (I think). 18 something Million $. COuldn't make December payment of  5 or 6 million so had to sell/default. Not sure what actually happened. But in any event - where the fuck did they get the money to buy that???!!! When around the same time he was cuddling up to Epstein to get $ from him and Fergie was doing lord knows what to get more money.....

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I have no idea why people will throw money at folk just because of their position, or that of their parents. It’s obscene! 
 

Andrew’s always been a money grabbing twat so pleased he’s getting his comeuppance. 

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ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 05/02 **1**
Royal Gossip: The alliterate one (Meghan Markle) is rumoured to be using their fame as leverage to get lower prices on houses and/or reduce or very low rent. A friend who sells reality show ideas also has heard rumours She's angling for a reality show. Desperation! The top of the heap (Queen Elizabeth) is rumoured to just want all of this to go away. She's rumoured to have offered to help with money from her personal funds on the condition that they remain out of the spotlight. Apparently an agreement was made with monies paid and which they have already gone back on. Not surprising. Senior courtiers are calling them Mr. and Mrs. Davidson (alluding to David the Duke of Windsor). Ouch! Another credible source has said that the upcoming nuptials (Princess Beatrice) will be canceled. Rumour is that the fiancee (Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi) can't keep it in his pants. As if she didnt know. Rumour from my friends is that the top of the heap (Queen Elizabeth) is also regularly meeting with the recent anniversary celebrator (Prince Williams and Kate Middleton celebrate 9th wedding anniversay). The older one really likes (Prince William) her and is grooming her big time. Lots of jealousy from other family members. More rumours and talk about the next in line (Prince Charles)/rumours about dementia and him being hard to handle. One story I was told is that due to the dementia male care giving staff have to work with him exclusively because sexually inappropriate acting out behaviours have happened with female carers. This is not uncommon with dementia. Sad.

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I will say, it does feel like the grooming of William and Kate has ratcheted up a great deal recently. I know the queen is stepping back a lot, but it really does seem like Charles has almost disappeared other than being positive for Coronavirus. Maybe it’s just me though. My media consumption has had a different focus lately.

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Eh. it's Fakey.  There's a good possibility that Charles is not suffering from dementia at all.

I really have no feelings about Charles one way or the other, but it really doesn't bother me if he is being downplayed in favor of William.  The BRF may not want to put all of their eggs in the basket of a 71 year old with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis in These Trying Times.

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Charles was live on UK tv laying a wreath with Camilla for VE Day last week. He looked fine. If he has dementia (and I don’t think I believe that TBH), it must be very, very early on.

My other half’s dad has it, and even in the early stages it was noticeable, so it would be tricky to hide IMO. 

We are still supposed to be staying inside as much as possible at the moment and over 70s in particular, though cracks are showing in people’s patience with it - it would probably look worse if Charles tried to go out and about! One rule for him, etc - he already got backlash for travelling to Scotland while positive for covid. On which note I also think he might still be at Balmoral, I’m not sure. 

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Much of my royal gossip comes from Omid Scobie on twitter or Lainey's site. So, limited, but I'm American, so... ;-) I recall there was a big "Charles" push around his 70th birthday, the new biography coming out, lots of Lainey discussion about how Charles' "viper courtiers" [Lainey's favorite term] throwing William and Harry to the sharks a bit to make Charles look better etc. I do wonder if his explicit desires to shrink the size of the royal pay list (I can't remember the term right now - basically, as few royals as possible who are paid by the "taxpayers", parliament, whatever) also includes sizes of households - who are paying those "viper courtiers" and that's why they're a little bitchy about him? There have definitely been Will & Kate glow-ups over the past couple years, and I'm ok with that - as long as it's not building them up by knocking others down....

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my understanding is Omid and Lainey are both heavily pro Harry/Meghan - I think the former is actually writing their “nominally unofficial but obviously cooperated with” biography that’s due out soon? - so I’m at the point where I take their thoughts with as much salt as I do that of the British tabs. They are basically the vipers in Harry’s court now if you ask me. 


The pettiness on both sides is giving me much entertainment in this trying time; one of the British tabloids is apparently now passive aggressively refusing to mention Harry and Meghan by name and putting black bars across their eyes in photos to “protect their identities”. it’s so childish! 
 

I do think Charles actually his has quite a good grasp of the way the U.K. has changed and what’s acceptable, as you say re the size of the “core” family - possibly because he was forced to after Diana exposed how out of touch he was. But essentially if they don’t glow up the nexts in line, we might all start wondering why we have royalty at all and that would never do. ;) 

after all, what would we do without Charles recipe for cheesy eggs? ?

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a32445575/prince-charles-cheesy-baked-eggs/

 

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Yes, Omid did the biography ;-) Def pro Harry & Meghan

Lainey also leans pro-Harry & Meghan (esp around anything racist - she calls that shit out fast) buuuuuuuut she' still a gossip columnist so she can't be TOTALLY biased. When they do offsides stuff, she'll mention it. She'll talk about the Disney money or the mess-ups with social media and things like that.....

HOnestly - for ALL of them - I prefer the happy stuff. I don't wanna read bad things. I won't (and can't easily) read the british tabloids because they're so mean. So I'm aware my media/news/gossip consumption is biased too, but I'm ok with it :-) [to be fair, I was this way back when Duchess of Cambridge was "Waitey Katie" too....]

 

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ALso, the cheesy baked eggs recipe looks pretty good (I'm sort of partial to Ina Garten's but this is close - I like the spinach addition!) But there's a type (I don't have Insta so I just mean there's a typo in the good housekeeping article - says to "butter a butter proof dish" when obviously should be an oven proof dish....)

I'm really happy it's "Charles' recipe" and not Camilla's or another woman. Makes sense as Charles is always out promoting various English produce & cheese & organics & whatnot, but I appreciate the attempt to moderate the sexism....

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I’m less convinced about Lainey - I do agree with her at times, but at other times I think she stretches so hard to try and show Harry and Meghan in a good light/others in a bad light* that I’m amazed she still has working hamstrings. I think she may be influenced by her knowledge of the Mulroneys - and even if she isn’t in fact, it’s a potential conflict of interest she hadn’t addressed to my knowledge (and I do think she otherwise owns her biases). 

on the other side there are gossip sites in the U.K. that twist so hard to present them in a bad light, it’s almost sociopathic. Imagine trying to start a marriage against that backdrop! 

I don’t generally read the tabs because they are awful but it bleeds onto Twitter and is really hard to avoid in my timeline, given most of the British minor celebs I have a passing interest in like to express an opinion. Then the “sensible” news sources pick it up. I am really disliking twitter in general at the moment, actually, it’s misery and/or anger porn. Just give me the Instagram pics of food. ?

*not including Andrew - present him in as bad a light as you like! 

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ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 05/25 **5**
Apparently the expatriate royal wants to return home for several months this summer, but is meeting a lot of resistance from his wife who knows that would be the beginning of the end if they spent that much time apart.

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ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 05/24 **8**
The former actress turned royal now has approximately double the security personnel she had north of the border. Massive security bills every month being paid by taxpayers in two countries but with no actual benefit for the countries involved. This will go on month after month and year after year forever. The son is still officially in the line of succession which means until his death he will also need to be protected at taxpayer expense of two countries.

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Controversy over the Tatler Duchess Kate cover ;-) https://www.laineygossip.com/tatler-releases-statement-defending-catherine-the-great-cover-after-kensington-palace-claims-story-false-and-inaccurate/66329

Though my favorite teaser that I read yesterday is the story of how Meghan made Kate cry at the wedding rehearsal or wedding morning getting the bridesmaids ready - it was over hosiery. Oy vey. It was hot so Meghan said they didn't need to wear any. Kate wanted to follow protocol, no matter the heat/discomfort.....

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The Tatler article that Lainey references was rich. I don’t even know what the author’s intent was. Clearly, they wanted to expose Meghan and to a lesser extent Harry for being terrible people but it’s not clear what they meant to do with Kate. Was that supposed to be a flattering article? In some respects it was and in others it wasn’t. Very odd. 
 

https://www.tatler.com/article/the-duchess-of-cambridge-is-the-julyaugust-cover

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I agree with Lainey's summary - it was supposed to do for Kate what the People article with 5 of Meghan's friends did for her - give insight etc. But some of Kate's friends went too far, things came out that did NOT sound good. Like how she just wants to be at home with the kids but has to get dressed up and go out and do the work because Meghan & Harry left.....

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