Recent content by MLIS

Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles will be resuming public-facing engagements next week (starting with a visit to a cancer centre to meet staff and patients) and hosting the Emperor of Japan for a state visit in June. Sounds like his treatment and recovery are going well!

Yes, Camilla will still continue to be Queen, just as Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), Queen Mary, and other widowed queens have been. Queen Mary explains it to someone in The Crown as she is a queen, but not the queen … in her case the queen would have been the reigning Queen Elizabeth II...

Kate is, in the tradition of mothers everywhere, damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t. For every person preferring more casual, informal, “real” pictures, there are two who would be criticizing the children and their mother if they appear anything less than perfect. Look at the criticism...

I think this all the time. If this was my daughter or sister, I’m not sure I’d be able to keep my mouth shut. Super human self control. I have some limited experience with it, I have a family member who was a high level competitive athlete and often discussed on the internet (nothing like these...

Yeah, any photo released like this is going to be touched up, at the very least. There was rumbling about photoshop errors in their Christmas card photo, Louis was missing a finger or something. So it’s got to be something more serious than a heavy hand in the photo editor. But it was released...

So weird. I thought this morning when I first saw the photo that it wasn’t going to do anything to tamp down the conspiracy theories … any one of the things could be explained (she doesn’t wear her engagement ring around the house/she took all her rings off before the surgery due to swelling...

Well, to be fair, the statement that he was focusing on work was in response to questions about speculation/conspiracy theories on social media about Kate, and they said he was focusing on his work, not social media. But I agree that the PR around this not been on point, and the pulling out of...

Just a note to those who are attending, they have announced that the state funeral for Brian Mulroney, former prime minister of Canada who died last week, will be in Montreal on Saturday, March 23. I can't find any details yet about locations or routes, but just be aware that there may be road...

Agreed. I mean, I don’t think it’s a coincidence she was suddenly seen driving around Windsor after all the insanity on social media of the last few days. Of course, the conspiracy theorists just claim it’s a double (or Pippa!), but maybe some people are reassured? I hope she is doing ok and...

I’ve also read, though, that’s she’s going away (somewhere warm) and always takes a week like that this time of year. So if that’s the case, it would imply he’s doing well, if she feels comfortable being out of the country for a week. Hard to know. Meanwhile, the king of Norway, who has been...

Harry apparently spent about 45 minutes at Clarence House yesterday before Charles and Camilla left to return to Sandringham as planned. Depending on where your sympathies lie, that can be seen as particularly cold of Charles (your estranged son flew half way around the world to see you and you...

It has been suggested over the years that Carole sent Kate to St. Andrews to catch a prince. She wouldn’t have been the only mother, enrolment went up substantially after it was announced William would go there. Unkind things have been said about both Kate and Pippa as social climbers. Snobbery...

In the grunge challenge the bands had the clue, so they had to wait until they gave it up. I would have been going crazy wanting to get out of there!

I think this is an interesting point, that Harry and Meghan have used Scobie before, but now when they might be ready to move on they’ve already let him in and given him sources and information and now they’ve lost control of him and his narrative. I do think if they want anyone to believe they...

I find this "translation error" hard to believe. How did the Dutch translator have the two names to put in there in the first place? My theory is the Dutch translator was sent an earlier copy of the manuscript that named names, and at a later date Scobie decided (or was advised) to pull them...