I despise the fact that Angela Levin is regarded as any kind of “royal expert” or someone who speaks with any kind of credibility or insider knowledge. While Queen Camilla apparently considers Levin an ally – enough for Levin to write a somewhat authorized biography of her – make no mistake, Levin is a complete joke and an utter lunatic. Speaking of, Levin recently made some truly bonkers comments about Omid Scobie’s Endgame and how it would affect the Duchess of Sussex’s work with her WME representation. Truly, one of the most delusional stories I’ve ever read.

Meghan Markle might soon be dropped by her talent agency as the furor over Omid Scobie’s new book continues to unfold, a royal expert has warned. The Duchess of Sussex signed with William Morris Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and his team in April and has recently teased several “exciting” projects she’s got in the works.

But it seems as though her return to Tinseltown might be short-lived after all, as royal expert Angela Levin claims that WME is “horrified” about what repercussions Scobie’s book could have for the Sussexes’ rebrand.

“They said they were ‘horrified’, that can’t just be about the two names that were mentioned, it must be about their client, Meghan,” Levin told GB News. “It seems to me that they will think very carefully what they do next. I have never heard such a well-known agency be clear about how they feel.”

Levin claimed that reigniting the royal race row could have damaging effects on Markle’s Hollywood plans.

“Meghan needs to be very careful. A lot of people have dropped her. The agency has told her to ‘stop moaning,’ because people are ‘getting fed up’ with it,” Levin continued. “If they now feel they have an even harder job to do in order to get her famous, it’s going to be difficult. It is going to be very difficult to get the glamour she wants.”

Levin added that Markle “is someone who needs to be adored all the time by the public.”

[From The NY Post]

“They said they were ‘horrified’” – who is THEY? The voices in her head? Is Angela Levin claiming that WME’s executives told HER and not the trade papers that they were very upset that Omid Scobie wrote a book about the Windsors? That WME insiders told Angela Levin – and not Deadline or the Hollywood Reporter – that Meghan could be dropped over Scobie’s book? I get why no one even bothers to fact check Levin’s delusional rants at this point, but I honestly wish more people would call her out. Her comments are being picked up and presented as factual by other American and British outlets. (Also: Meghan hasn’t uttered one word in public since September, so I would recommend that Angela Levin is the one who needs to “stop moaning.”)

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When then-Kate Middleton finally got the ring after a decade-long wait, we quickly discovered that Kate and her mother had only planned that far, to get the ring and nothing beyond. It took seven years and a Black sister-in-law for Kate to finally get off her ass and try to find some big project (the fakakta Early Years). I bring this up because I’m trying to give Queen Camilla a compliment, in my backhanded way – once she became a duchess, at least Camilla assembled a team of PR professionals who quickly put together an issue portfolio which is still above reproach. In fact, Camilla’s work with victims of domestic violence, women’s shelters and victims of sexual violence is arguably one of the “best” issue portfolios of any of the working royals.

Does it matter that Camilla basically only took on this work to soften her image and improve her PR? I mean… it does matter, but I also give her some (begrudging) credit – it probably would have been easier for her to just stick with flower shows and dog charities. Look at how long Kate has been allowed to coast, doing the bare f–king minimum. So yeah, I give Camilla some credit. Maybe her heart isn’t in it, but what she does (for the wrong reasons) actually helps people. And if these women appreciate her and her work, who am I to yell about it?

On Wednesday, Camilla had two big events – she visited one of the refuges in Ashiana Network, which is a group of (secret) women’s refuges used to protect women fleeing domestic and sexual violence, forced marriages and financial abuse. Camilla heard one woman’s story and the woman sobbed in front of her, while Camilla comforted her and told her she was very brave. It appears that Camilla only brought one or two photographers with her. Do we think that Camilla timed this specifically following all of the racist-royal crisis meetings? For sure. But as I said… it still counts. It still matters to these women.

In addition to that event, Camilla also hosted a small party at Clarence House and she invited children being supported by the Helen & Douglas House and Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity. She asked the kids to help her decorate one of the Clarence House main rooms for Christmas and then she took the kids outside to meet Santa and one reindeer. The reindeer photos are *chef’s kiss* – I really don’t know why they keep making Cam do photos with horses, elephants and reindeer, but it’s amazing.

In any case, this just goes to show that Camilla still has millions of tricks up her sleeve. I’m truly gagged by the brilliance of this one-two punch as the “royal racism” drama was still percolating. Like, Kitty and Bill really don’t stand a chance against her.

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Pippa Middleton (Matthews) made a rare public appearance last night at the British Heart Foundation’s Heart Hero Awards. This is one of Pippa’s annual events, she usually attends the big gala or whatever for the British Heart Foundation. Pippa and her Terribly Moderately Wealthy husband moved out of London a few years ago and they now base themselves in Berkshire, not too far from Pippa’s parents and her brother. This was a rare night out in London for Pippa, that’s my point.

Pippa wore a very Christmas-y ensemble – a green lace Self Portrait dress paired with red heels and a red clutch. I get the idea – “Christmas!” – but the execution was pretty bad. The lace dress isn’t great and designers really need to phase out puffy sleeves and pirate sleeves. The nude slip underneath the dress is too short as well – overall, not the best “December in London” look. It would have looked cuter if she had gone with shades of green for her accessories too. One nice thing: her hair looks great. It’s refreshing to see a Middleton woman style her natural hair, rather than wear extensions, falls or wigs.

Meanwhile, I cannot wait to see if the Middleton clan shows up for Kate’s piano recital on Friday. If Carole and Michael come out for it, it will be their first public appearance since the collapse of Party Pieces and since they were exposed as frauds. Which is why I think Kate will probably just have Pippa and James there, but we’ll see.

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Taylor Swift knew it was a big deal to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2023. She understood the significance and she delivered one of the better interviews I’ve ever read from her. She does not come across as a girl-woman gossiping cryptically about who did what. She names names, calls people trash and creates a heroine’s narrative for herself. She also talks about Travis Kelce and some of the “fun” stuff – her tour, her tour film, how much she loves Beyonce. I thought this line from Time was important: “She’s the last monoculture left in our stratified world.” It’s probably true. Some highlights from Taylor’s Time POTY cover interview:

The breakthrough moment: “I’ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times in the last 20 years. I’ve been given a tiara, then had it taken away. It feels like the breakthrough moment of my career, happening at 33. And for the first time in my life, I was mentally tough enough to take what comes with that.”

Recovering from her Eras shows: “I do not leave my bed except to get food and take it back to my bed and eat it there. It’s a dream scenario. I can barely speak because I’ve been singing for three shows straight. Every time I take a step my feet go crunch, crunch, crunch from dancing in heels. I know I’m going on that stage whether I’m sick, injured, heartbroken, uncomfortable, or stressed. That’s part of my identity as a human being now. If someone buys a ticket to my show, I’m going to play it unless we have some sort of force majeure.”

Her success this year happened because of all of the bad sh-t: “It’s not lost on me that the two great catalysts for this happening were two horrendous things that happened to me. The first was getting canceled within an inch of my life and sanity. The second was having my life’s work taken away from me by someone who hates me.”

1989 was her “imperial phase”: She didn’t realize it would also give her much farther to fall. Public sentiment turned—sniping about everything from her perceived overexposure to conspiracy theories about her politics. “I had all the hyenas climb on and take their shots.”

The Canceling, aka the Kanye-Kim issue in 2016: She felt it was “a career death. Make no mistake—my career was taken away from me. You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar. That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”

On Scooter Braun: “With the Scooter thing, my masters were being sold to someone who actively wanted them for nefarious reasons, in my opinion.” Swift rallied her fans against the deal, but still felt powerless. “I was so knocked on my ass by the sale of my music, and to whom it was sold. I was like, ‘Oh, they got me beat now. This is it. I don’t know what to do.’”

The Taylor’s Version albums: “I’d run into Kelly Clarkson and she would go, ‘Just redo it.’ My dad kept saying it to me too. I’d look at them and go, ‘How can I possibly do that?’ Nobody wants to redo their homework if on the way to school, the wind blows your book report away.” She began rerecording subtly different versions of her old albums, tagging them “(Taylor’s Version)” and adding unreleased tracks to redirect listenership to them. She frames the strategy as a coping mechanism. “It’s all in how you deal with loss. I respond to extreme pain with defiance.”

Kanye’s been canceled now & Scooter is losing clients: “Nothing is permanent. So I’m very careful to be grateful every second that I get to be doing this at this level, because I’ve had it taken away from me before. There is one thing I’ve learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art. But I’ve also learned there’s no point in actively trying to quote unquote defeat your enemies. Trash takes itself out every single time.”

Going to Chiefs games: “I’m just there to support Travis. I have no awareness of if I’m being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads. Football is awesome, it turns out. I’ve been missing out my whole life.”

When she & Travis Kelce started: “This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell. We started hanging out right after that. So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other. By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date. When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care. The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

She knows her life can be chaotic, but whatever: “Over the years, I’ve learned I don’t have the time or bandwidth to get pressed about things that don’t matter. Yes, if I go out to dinner, there’s going to be a whole chaotic situation outside the restaurant. But I still want to go to dinner with my friends. Life is short. Have adventures. Me locking myself away in my house for a lot of years—I’ll never get that time back. I’m more trusting now than I was six years ago.”

[From Time]

I don’t want Tree Paine on my ass, but Taylor is addicted to trying to rewrite what happened between herself, Kanye and Kim and that’s all I’ll say. Now, Taylor has every right to gloat and “trash takes itself out every single time” is one of the most terrifically bitchy lines to use in this situation. Although… while Kanye has effectively taken himself out like the Nazi trash he is, Kim is actually thriving. Scooter is still a mega-successful music industry professional as well, although it’s clear that he’s not going to be a hands-on manager anymore.

As for the rest of it – I’m glad she clarified that she and Travis were spending time together long before she turned up at her first Chiefs game. I’m also glad that her mindset is “I’m going to live my life and do what I want to do, chaos be damned.” The self-aware queen has turned into the IDGAF queen.

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The Telegraph’s royal editor Hannah Furness’s original headline was “Why this is the most important picture of the royal family since Queen Elizabeth died,” referencing the photo of King Charles, Camilla, William and Kate standing together at Tuesday evening’s Diplomatic Reception. That headline was changed to: “Is the Royal family’s message of unity enough to save the monarchy?” Which is better? I actually like the second version – it’s more open-ended, less of a bold statement “this photo is important” versus “is this photo that important?” Anyway, the point of this piece is: where do the left-behind Windsors go from here? The answer is “???”

The photo from the Diplomatic Reception: It could be, observers noted, the most important image since the death of Elizabeth II more than a year ago. Or, said a palace insider present at its taking: “It’s [just] a nice up-to-date picture of the four of them.” In other words, there were no frantic phone calls to assemble the 2023 royal “Fab Four” especially for the occasion. “This was them getting on with the job,” another shrugged. “There was no change to the schedules in reaction to anything. This was when the diplomatic reception was happening – it’s a key event in the royal calendar. What it shows is an unwavering commitment to duty and service and that is the plan today, next week and long into the future.”

The influential Sussexes: The influence of the Sussexes’ version of life in the Royal family persists, despite their pointed silence over the latest allegations which began in their own Oprah Winfrey interview and have never quite gone away. Endgame, with its portrayal of Prince William as an angry, jealous, power-hungry heir and the palace staff as omnipotent master manipulators of the media, tallies remarkably with Prince Harry’s autobiography, Spare, and the Sussexes interviews to date. The storylines on The Crown, broadcast on Netflix – which signed the Sussexes up for a multi-year, multimillion-dollar deal – have been influenced by Harry’s version of events.

The Crown also predicts the monarchy’s endgame: Perhaps most uncomfortable of all is the theory, pressed home in multiple scenes during the final episode, that without the late Queen, the monarchy cannot survive. The rest of them are “not remotely ready”, says Philip. The ghost of the young Queen, rather improbably, tells the elderly version of herself that the rest of her family always “make such a mess of it”. That doom-laden thesis has not yet come to pass.

The whole operation hinges on Charles & William’s ability to work together: The King has been warmly received by a public who have largely embraced him as his mother’s son. The Prince of Wales, still the more popular in the polls, is planning for a future reign that he knows will have to look different to the monarchs who have come before him. Their success rests on their ability to work together. “The King and Prince have massive areas of life in which they overlap and support each other,” said a palace source of their current working relationship. “They also have their distinctive interests. On their support for the monarchy and the institution, they are totally in agreement.” Another noted: “They are talking regularly about issues around their work and the institution.” On the challenges outside the royal households, aides are – or at least try to be – sanguine.

Palace aides bitching about The Crown & Omid Scobie: “Everyone stopped caring about The Crown long ago,” said one palace source. “It’s lost whatever qualities it once had. I think everyone has got the message it’s make believe. And Endgame is about as credible as The Crown. It is a vanishingly small minority of people that believe it, they’re not going to change their minds, but to everyone else it’s wholly unreliable.”

[From The Telegraph]

I never get tired of palace seething with a thin veneer of performative apathy. “Scobie isn’t credible, neither is The Crown,” meanwhile Charles was in emergency-mode for YEARS over a Netflix show and the monarchy had to hold emergency crisis talks over yet another racism outbreak documented by Omid Scobie. The real point of this, for me, was the acknowledgement that in the immediate future, the whole thing hinges on William not stabbing his father in the back. Hilarious. Of course, that’s well-documented in Endgame as well – the fact that Charles and William aren’t actually close at all and they’d both sell each other out for one sliver of temporary power, or even just one good 24-hour newscycle.

Also, with all of the talk about the importance of Tuesday night’s photo, I think people are forgetting the other “Nu Fab Four” photo where they were smiling like horses’ asses just days after QEII died.

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Between the extended hiatus forced by the WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes and Kevin Costner not even wanting to return, Yellowstone hasn’t aired any new episodes since January. So what has Taylor Sheridan — Yellowstone creator, writer, showrunner, director — been doing with himself this year? Coffee. Specifically, launching Bosque Ranch Craft Coffee, named after his production company. The only hitch is, a new coffee cowboy has strolled into town, and it’s Yellowstone cast member Cole Hauser. So now Sheridan is suing his show’s star, Hauser, over Hauser’s Free Rein Coffee logo looking too similar to Bosque Ranch’s logo. I’ll give him credit, this is a plot twist I did not see coming.

“Lawyers are the swords of this century,” a young John Dutton once told his son in Yellowstone. “Words are weapons now.” The man who wrote those words wasn’t kidding. Taylor Sheridan, scribe and creator of the popular western drama, has had his legal sword unsheathed all year. Due to behind-the-scenes contract disputes between Sheridan and leading man Kevin Costner, Yellowstone hasn’t had a new episode since January. Now, the Dutton progenitor’s camp is in another legal tussle with another one of his stars. This time? It’s over coffee.

Earlier this fall, Cole Hauser, who plays the fan-favorite cattle rancher Rip Wheeler, launched Free Rein, his very own coffee company. The company sells an espresso blend titled “American Dirt” — and the packaging boasts that it’s the drink of choice for early risers and hard-working cowboys. “I am American Dirt,” Hauser told Esquire when Free Rein first launched this fall. “So, I just wanted to do something that sounded original, patriotic, and filthy.”

Around the same time — during the SAG-AFTRA strike and Yellowstone’s indefinite hiatus — more Yellowstone-adjacent coffee companies hit the market. Costner partnered with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Paramount released a line of coffee and steak rubs with on-screen chef Gabriel “Gator” Guilbeau, and Sheridan launched a Bosque Ranch Craft Coffee collaboration with Keurig. For the Yellowstone creator’s empire, this town, apparently, wasn’t big enough for all four of ‘em.

According to the Northern District of Texas’ federal court, the Sheridan-owned Bosque Ranch sued Free Rein for trademark infringement shortly after its launch. The complaint alleges that the “FR” brand logo for Free Rein is strikingly similar to Bosque Ranch’s “BR” design. According to San Angelo Live, “This resemblance, Bosque Ranch contends, is likely to cause consumer confusion.” Neither Free Rein nor Bosque Ranch have commented publicly on the filings.

As the future of Yellowstone remains up in the air, it’s quite an interesting move from Sheridan to sue what loyal stars he has left. The series will already most likely end without Costner’s involvement, according to Hollywood insider Matthew Belloni. That fact alone may have already been the final nail in the coffin for Yellowstone fans to diminish the upcoming series finale next November. But now, a strike against Hauser as well? The fall of the house of Dutton may just be a war waged off-screen.

[From Yahoo! Entertainment]

Do the “BR” and “FR” logos look alike? Yes, they do, and you can check them out here. But there are clear differences when you compare them side by side. I’m not sure how literally trademark law gets applied to logo graphics in these cases. Cole Hauser probably should have done better due diligence to make sure that Free Rein’s logo looked more distinctive. He’s kind of offered up this lawsuit to Taylor Sheridan on a silver platter (or cardboard coffee cup, if you will). For his part, Sheridan could probably do with less caffeine and more chill pills. But he must soldier on! Not for himself, but for the legions of Bosque Ranch coffee drinkers who expect quality brews, the kind that only Sheridan can deliver. Much the same way that only he can write authentic Western soap operas. Bosque Ranchers know great coffee when they taste it. They just don’t know a “B” from an “F,” LOL.

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Kim Kardashian took Saint to a Lakers game. [Just Jared]
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Tiffany & Co’s Christmas ornaments are very sweet. [Tom & Lorenzo]
I do not want to see these Sebastian Stan photos. [Hollywood Life]
A warrant has been issued for the son of RHOSLC’s Mary Cosby. [Starcasm]
Weird things you’ve seen at rich people’s houses. [Buzzfeed]

In October, we learned that Lupita Nyong’o broke up with Selema Masekela. She deleted the (few) photos she had of Selema on her social media and she was posting through her pain – whatever Selema did, he really f–ked her up. She was really heartbroken, to the point where she adopted a big orange tomcat to help her heal. As we learned about Lupita’s breakup, she was photographed with Joshua Jackson at a Janelle Monae concert. We were told, at the time, that they are longtime friends and nothing more. It felt notable though, given Joshua’s also-recent split from Jodie Turner-Smith. Well… it looks like Joshua and Lupita might really be helping each other through their respective splits, because they were seen out together yet again.

Joshua Jackson and Lupita Nyong’o clearly don’t want anyone to know they’re spending a whole lotta time together — going to great lengths to avoid being snapped together during a joint grocery run.

The Oscar winner made a valiant attempt — albeit unsuccessfully — to duck out of view when arriving with the “Dawson’s Creek” star to Erewhon in L.A. Monday. Lupita ducked in the passenger’s seat, but was still spotted.

Despite their foiled plan, Joshua continued to maintain the illusion of a solo outing as he headed into the store first … with Lupita following suit minutes later.

While the pair have yet to confirm their relationship, their shenanigans suggest their relationship is beyond friendship.

Joshua and Lupita have known each other for years … with their connection seemingly heating up in October at Janelle Monáe’s concert. While there was no PDA at the show, the outing raised eyebrows … especially considering Lupita called it quits with her BF, Sal Masekela, the same day … and swiftly deleted all traces of him from her IG.

[From TMZ]

I’m coming at this story as someone who loves Lupita and thinks Lupita can do no wrong – if she needs to cry on Joshua’s shoulder, so be it. If she needs to rebound with Joshua, that’s cool. If they’re getting serious, that’s fine with me. I just want what’s best for her and I genuinely hope that Joshua isn’t the next guy to break her heart. I also hope Joshua gets along with that orange tomcat.

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The lunatics at the far-right-wing Heritage Foundation have been targeting Prince Harry for the entire year. Heritage, an American “think tank,” is populated with neo-conservatives and neo-fascists from America and the UK, and it’s clear that the hard right-wing in America and the UK have agreed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex must be targeted, they must be subjected to a transatlantic hate campaign, they must be made to feel unsafe. Heritage has repeatedly sued the American government in a deranged attempt to get their hands on Harry’s visa application. They have been repeatedly blocked. Heritage’s lunatics have explicitly said that their goal is to have Harry deported back to the UK. Homeland Security has explicitly and repeatedly said that Harry (and every visa applicant) has a right to privacy. That’s where we are. Now Heritage is throwing another hissy fit:

Prince Harry has been accused of “bragging and encouraging illegal drug use” in the latest court filing calling for the Duke’s US visa application to be released. In his controversial memoir, Spare, The Duke of Sussex described taking cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms, saying “psychedelics did me some good.”

Following its publication, think tank the Heritage Foundation sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), questioning why the Duke was allowed into the US in 2020, and why he has been allowed to stay. The Biden administration has pushed back with lawyers arguing visa applications are “private personal information”.

But the Heritage Foundation has said the former royal waived his right to privacy when he “sold every aspect of his private life for, in some estimates, over $135 million”, adding that his claims of his right to privacy have been “met with widespread public ridicule”. In a court filing, the think tank claims the Duke had “voluntarily—and for immense profit—admitted in writing to the elements of any number of controlled substance violations. (Indeed, some say HRH has approached the point of bragging and encouraging illegal drug use.)”

They said he had made the revelations “despite the fact that it is widely known that such admissions can have adverse immigration consequences for non-citizens and despite employing preeminent legal advisors on both sides of the Atlantic.”

The “case is further bespoke in that HRH—again for immense profit—detailed his immigration decisions and manner of entry in writing and via Netflix video”, they added, Newsweek reported. The think tank said the Duke’s status as a public figure “significantly reduces his privacy interests”.

“The Duke of Sussex must take the good with the bad. Having sold all manner of private matters for profit—including specific details on his taking up residence in the United States and every detail of his years of illegal drug use to the point of braggadocio—HRH must accept a substantially diminished privacy interest,” the filing adds.

[From The Telegraph]

This is a targeted hate campaign being waged by one of the most prominent ultra-conservative think-tanks in America. As I’ve covered this mess throughout the year, I’ve grown more and more unsettled by Heritage’s increasingly deranged claims and their disturbing legal strategy. They know that they have no chance of actually acquiring Harry’s visa records, so their goals are: to bring more hate and danger to Harry’s door, to put an even bigger target on his back, and to provide “content” to the British media. The Telegraph, the Mail, the Sun, all of those outlets breathlessly report on Heritage’s barrage of unhinged filings and lawsuits. There’s real money behind this too. It’s so disturbing.

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Over the weekend, several British outlets claimed that King Charles would hold “crisis talks” with Prince William and Kate, all about the “mistranslation” of Omid Scobie’s Endgame. The mistranslation, as Piers Morgan announced on live television, named Kate and Charles as the two “racist royals” discussed in Charles and the Duchess of Sussex’s 2021 letters. According to the Express, some kind of crisis meeting was held on Monday evening, a meeting between Charles, William and Kate. There’s no mention of Camilla’s inclusion in the crisis talks, which is weird, right? The way Camilla has completely avoided being named in any analysis of this situation is so odd. In any case, the results of the crisis talks are: no official statement, it doesn’t look like the palace will sue anyone, and the racist royals are currently on a “charm offensive.”

Senior members of the royal family have “no official response” after Piers Morgan claimed that Omid Scobie’s Endgame stated King Charles III and Kate Middleton made allegedly “racist” comments about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son, Archie.

“The royals have all held strategy meetings regarding how to handle the accusations of racism,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly, noting that royal family members plan to “respond through their actions.”

Multiple reports claimed that the Dutch version of the book was published with the names printed, which the author denied. Morgan, 58, for his part, alleged during a November 29 episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored that Charles, 75, and Kate, 41, were the names printed in the Dutch version. The British people “who actually pay for the British royal family” are “entitled” to know, Morgan stated on his show.

The insider told Us, however, that Kate “has made no such comments” and “Kate feels that she has been unfairly dragged into this.”

A separate source told Us last week that Kate “was 100 percent not one of the people who discussed it.” The insider added, “She is saddened that her name got pulled into this because she had nothing to do with it.”

Morgan echoed similar sentiments, during his broadcast, saying that he doesn’t “believe any racist comments were ever made by any of the royal family.”

[From Us Weekly]

Family members plan to “respond through their actions.” As in, more diversity props, more photo-ops with people of color, more “we’re not racists” charm offensives. They did the same thing after Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview. I suppose this is their new normal, how miserable. I actually feel sorry for all of the people of color who will get dragged into photo-ops with the Windsors – it’s obvious that in many cases, these are basically hostage situations – you must pose with Kate or William or you will be destroyed by the palace machinery.

As for Kate apparently denying it – lol. I mean, she’s absolutely a f–king Karen and I would imagine she’s said and done a lot of racist sh-t for years. But I’ve always been open to the possibility that Kate wasn’t the person named in Meghan’s letter to Charles. I’ve always believed that out of everyone, the most likely culprits are William and Camilla.

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