Byline Times’ exclusive cover story is all about the connections between Dan Wootton, the Windsors, Kensington Palace and the Sussexit. Wootton worked at the Sun in 2019-2020 when he apparently struck some kind of deal with Kensington Palace, and Wootton began bribing Prince William’s private secretary Christian Jones and Jones’s partner for information about the Sussexes. The Christian Jones stuff is insanely complicated, but Byline seems to have extensive sourcing and evidence to back up their reporting. Jones ended up leaving his position as William’s private secretary in January 2021, a year after he likely leaked the Sussexit exclusive to Wootton. Going back to 2020, Harry already had a good idea about who was leaking from his brother’s office as Harry was preparing to remove his wife and son out of the country. Harry believed that he had negotiated a deal with the Windsors at the Sandringham Summit – a year to cool off and figure out their next moves, with royal protection and £700K in funding from Harry’s father. Then, just a few months into that “year-long breather,” Charles cut off the funding and removed the Sussexes’ royal protection, all over Harry’s refusal to back down off the leaks in Kensington Palace. Some highlights from one “well-placed source with knowledge of the matter” who spoke to Byline:

“They threatened the removal of the funding to try and protect the royal household from a potential courtroom scandal with Jones and Wootton very publicly at the centre. The actual removal of the funding weeks later was about control, and designed to force Harry and Meghan to come back to the senior royal family in the UK where their security would be assured.

“The greater truth is that Harry and Meghan make better headlines than the King and Camilla or William and Kate. The idea of them still being in public service but abroad and out of the control of the institution and dominating the media narrative just couldn’t happen. Senior members of the family wanted them back after the transition period and were ready to continue playing dirty to make this happen. They never thought the trial period would work and tried everything to make it fail, starting with the removal of security and then signing off on a 12-month assault by the UK press on Harry and Meghan and everyone in their orbit.”

“As far as the institution of the monarchy went, the Sussexes had either to be safely in the tent in Britain or cast away and castigated as comprehensively as possible in order to reduce the threat of them eclipsing the rest of the family. It’s no surprise they have endured such a degrading time from such a willing British media, when the same just isn’t true elsewhere in the world.”

“[Harry suing tabloids & newspapers] was deemed highly undesirable by the offices of Prince Charles and Prince William because there was always lots of horse-trading going on with the editors and their correspondents to ensure favourable coverage and protection when scandals broke,” the source continued. “No one wanted that stuff to end up in a courtroom. Harry and Meghan were expendable, but the heirs and their wives were not. It sent a chill through Clarence House [for the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall] and Kensington Palace [for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge]. But the Sussexes – particularly Harry – were very keen to get to the bottom of it all. He wanted to know how their private information kept being spun into negative headlines in the biggest newspapers.

“A view was quickly taken within the royal households that everything needed to be brought under control. The removal of the transition funding, which Prince Charles knew was his son’s only lifeline to keeping safe, was considered a very effective way of trying to bring Harry and Meghan to heel in the UK. But it didn’t work.”

[From Byline Times]

While Byline and their sources insist that the objective was bringing both Harry and Meghan “to heel” back in the UK by putting them and their son in mortal danger, I’ve never believed that anyone in the institution wanted Meghan “back” whatsoever. Pre-Sussexit, the institution’s objective was to force Meghan (and only Meghan) out by any means necessary. They wanted to force a divorce or (worse yet) force Meghan to unalive herself. When it was clear that Harry would do anything to protect his wife and son, including flee the country, the objective was (in my opinion) the same: to create a situation where a broke, divorced/widower Harry crawled back to the UK, begging for help. I also think that Charles and William both would have rather seen Harry dead than thriving in America. That’s also clear from their actions. Anyway, thank god for Tyler Perry.

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Steve Coogan is a British actor and comedian best known (to me) for Philomena (which co-wrote and produced) and his character acting in movies like Night at the Museum and Tropic Thunder. He’s worked consistently for decades and he’s known as a talented working-class guy who moves easily from dramas to comedies. Well, Coogan is currently promoting his role as Jimmy Savile in the BBC’s The Reckoning, and he spoke to the Off Menu podcast. He ended up blasting the Windsors and their supporters.

Fans of the Royal family are flag-waving idiots, Steve Coogan has said. The actor, best known for his role as Alan Partridge, accused royalists of supporting a “power structure” that holds back working-class people. He said he thought the late Queen Elizabeth II was “alright”, but believes the other members of the family are “problematic”.

Speaking on the Off Menu podcast, he said: “Most people who are into [the Royal family] are flag-waving people who, I think, are kind of idiots because they support a power structure that keeps a foot on the throat of working-class people and I’m just not really keen on that type of people. But having said that, the Queen worked very hard so she was alright – the rest of them, they’re problematic for me.”

His comments come months after the King’s Coronation was watched by more than 18 million people across the country. Thousands lined the streets of London to catch a glimpse of the King on the day, with some royalists turning up a week early in order to secure their spot.

Coogan, who portrays Jimmy Savile on BBC drama The Reckoning, said he was “a bit torn” on the King. He added: “I do like King Charles’s Duchy of Cornwall produce even though I am an anti-monarchist. It’s interesting because I buy that stuff and I go ‘I don’t like having a Royal family but I do like his produce’ so I feel a bit torn.”

[From The Telegraph]

To be fair, I’ve heard that the Duchy Originals food line is pretty good quality, but that’s hilarious. “I hate the monarchy but the king does make a good biscuit so I’m torn up about it.” As for the rest of it, yeah, I agree – stop supporting your oppressors, stop being sycophantic towards these tax-dodging, elitist, shallow-gene-pool freaks. The Telegraph’s huffiness about how many people watched the coronation is particularly hilarious too, given that the coronation had significantly fewer viewers than QEII’s funeral and Diana’s funeral.

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I haven’t read every single part of Byline Times’ cover story about Dan Wootton, Kensington Palace, and the Christian Jones fiasco, but what I’ve read already is pretty explosive, and it’s telling that the British media has clammed up entirely about Byline’s story, just as they refused to cover much of the unfolding Wootton scandal several months ago. Most of the British papers don’t want to touch this because they’re too intimately involved with the trading of royal stories and every single tabloid knew that Clarence House and Kensington Palace would give away negative stories about the Sussexes to protect Charles, William and their wives. For Dan Wootton, the shift in allegiance came in the spring of 2019, right after he reported the now infamous “rural rival” story, linking Rose Hanbury to William and Kate. From Byline:

On 13 March 2019, Wootton published an article in The Sun about an alleged falling out between Prince William and Kate and the Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, David Rocksavage and Rose Hanbury, whom the paper dubbed Kate’s “rural rival”. For reasons that are not clear, the article was subsequently removed from The Sun’s website, but remained widely
reported elsewhere.

A former friend of Wootton’s told Byline Times that the journalist’s allegiance appeared to quickly shift from one prince to another. “Dan hated Prince William until around May 2019,” they said. “Behind closed doors, he didn’t have a good word for him. He was always talking about his attitude. But Dan never criticised Harry, really. He never seemed to have much interest at all. Then, suddenly in the summer of 2019, he switched. Basically, he was hating on Harry and Meghan. He had previously been obsessed with Prince William. And then he switched to the Sussexes.”

[From Byline Times]

Yep. That spring, Kensington Palace sprang into action as they attempted to contain the Rose Hanbury story and stop the bleeding. William/KP followed two paths of action. One, legal threats, bullying, undercover gag orders, invisible contract stuff. Two, William openly “struck bargains” with media outlets to feed them negativity about the Sussexes. Remember those James Palmer tweets? He was at Foreign Policy at the time (I think he still is.) It was common knowledge within British journalism-circles. And it was obvious from Wootton’s reporting that he had struck some kind of deal with William, not only to get Sussex exclusives, but to embiggen William.

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This year, there have been several Sussex outings which have not sparked too much discussion in the British media. That’s called “seething” and “ignoring any evidence to the contrary of their preset narratives.” The British media wants to pretend that Prince Harry and Meghan didn’t get invited to Kevin Costner’s first responder fundraiser in Santa Barbara, where Costner invited the Sussexes on stage to present awards, and the Sussexes hung out with A-listers and wealthy people. The British media wants to pretend that Prince Harry wasn’t really invited as a guest of Mercedes to the United States Grand Prix in Austin. The British media wants to pretend that Harry wasn’t hanging out with celebrities and A-listers at an Inter Miami-LA Galaxy game. And the British media absolutely wants to forget that Meghan went to Beyonce’s special birthday concert in LA, and that Meghan hung out with Ted Sarandos, Jeff Bezos and Beyonce’s inner circle, like Kerry Washington and Kelly Rowland. Well, Hello Magazine asked Kelly Rowland about it and Kelly is a big Meghan fan. I don’t imagine that these quotes will be picked up by many British outlets:

Legends only! As previously reported, Meghan Markle celebrated Labor Day at the Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles, taking in Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour concert on September 4 with some very famous seatmates: Kerry Washington and Kelly Rowland, with dazzling pics of the trio to prove it. For Kelly’s part, the singer and actress was impressed by the Duchess of Sussex, she told HELLO! at a WaterWipes event in Brooklyn on Saturday.

“It was my first time meeting her,” the Destiny’s Child alum said. “It was just nice being there with other great women and being able to just simply talk.” It turns out Kelly and Meghan, both 42, and Kerry, 46, have more in common than a love of Beyoncé: all three women have spent a considerable amount of time in the public eye, and are married moms to two young kids each.

“I don’t know what people expect to see or to know, but she just felt very cool and very down to earth. She is very warm,” the “Motivation” singer enthused — and added that Meghan had a regal bearing independent of her very famous husband and in-laws.

“She was royal before she was in that family,” she told HELLO! “I think that we are royalty before anything. And we have to hold ourselves in that regard as humans, as people.”

[From Hello]

YES! “She was royal before she was in that family” SAY IT LOUDER. Of course, Kelly softened it a bit with “I think that we are royalty before anything. And we have to hold ourselves in that regard as humans, as people.” The Windsors aren’t going to like that but it’s especially true in Meghan’s case. She was royal before was part of that family. She has a regal bearing regardless of her title.

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Various royal reporters, royal historians and royal experts have punched themselves out over the years, and they have zero credibility or genuine gossip at this point. I think that may explain the new crop of names trying and failing to become royal experts, because it feels like every week, there’s some new name of someone claiming to have a CV as a royal historian. The latest is Ed Owens, who is currently on a promotional tour for his book After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself? From what I’ve seen, Owens isn’t a full Deranger and he acknowledges in some ways that the Sussexes’ exit from the monarchy irreparably changed everything. Here are some assorted comments Owens has made:

King Charles’s back channels: “The King obviously wants to maintain a positive reputation with the British people. In that respect, the easiest solution is for him to try and maintain and keep hold of the moral high ground. So far, he’s done that [with the Sussexes]. He’s done that by making it clear, sometimes through back channels. But often, it’s through stories that go out to the press, from the palace, that he very much wants to keep the door open to Harry and Meghan, should they decide they want to return.”

King Charles has put the “onus” on the Sussexes. “He is demonstrating that he is ready to reconcile and that ultimately, the onus is on them to make a decision as to whether they want to heal the wounds that have opened up between them and the rest of the Royal Family. The King has done that quite successfully so far. He’s held the moral high ground, he’s presented himself as a conciliator. That is the best way to maintain his reputation as a public figure.”

How the Windsors react to the Sussexes: “All they can do is carry on in a dignified manner as possible. If the royal family wants to come to light with any new story, this might prove that Harry and Meghan’s complaints about the royal family were true. There was a lot of discussion in both the Netflix series that Harry Meghan made, but also in the book Spare around the record press briefings by the palace against other members of the family. Harry said that there were members of the family that were essentially briefing against him. Now, what the remaining members of the House of Windsor don’t want to do is to have those stories proven true by behaving in some way where they’re found out.”

The Sussexit did real damage: “The story is a slightly tragic one as it has damaged this idea of a family monarchy. This idea that this is a united group who embody, if you like, the best of British family life. Originally King Charles III’s reign was going to be based around him being supported by his two trusty lieutenants — William and Harry. But when that went so disastrously wrong in early 2020 because of Harry and Meghan’s decision to leave Britain, it really put paid to that vision of the family monarchy. And then of course we’ve had the Sussexes airing their dirty laundry in public for the best part of three years — and again it has done much damage to that narrative of happy family life.”

Do away with the “family monarchy” brand altogether: “So why not, as I suggest in my book, do away with this family narrative once and for all? We don’t need to have this big royal family presenting themselves as moral exemplars. King Charles is uniquely placed because he knows first-hand that the ideal of the family rarely matches the reality of the family monarchy.”

[From OK! Magazine, NY Post and GB News]

“He’s done that by making it clear, sometimes through back channels” – lmao. Charles has made nothing clear and has exacerbated the drama constantly through his own buffoonery. The fact that one of his very first acts as king was calling Harry to tell him not to bring Meghan to Balmoral was inexcusable, as was the briefing spree about Meghan and Harry after QEII’s death. He evicted his grandchildren from their secure home, he refused to invite Harry and Meghan to the coronation directly, leaving it to staff, he refused to allow Harry to stay in Windsor Castle for one night, and on and on. Harry has made it clear and on the record that the onus is actually on his father to apologize.

As for “what the remaining members of the House of Windsor don’t want to do is to have those stories proven true by behaving in some way where they’re found out”– that’s an interesting way to put it. This guy is mostly toeing the Windsor line, but as we’ve seen time and time again, these little nuggets of truth come spilling out.

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House Republicans were working “behind the scenes” on Monday, trying to pull together some good candidates for Speaker of the House, after Jim Jordan got his ass handed to him in three Speaker votes last week. There were eight or nine GQP candidates, and Tom Emmer was considered to be the best or the most reasonable for the majority of the caucus. Emmer got the majority of votes within the Republican caucus around noon on Tuesday, meaning that Emmer was officially the GQP’s new Speaker candidate, and they would hold a floor vote at some point in the next 24 hours. Soon after Emmer “won” his party’s nomination for Speaker, he met with Republican leaders in some kind of closed-door meeting. Emmer walked out of the meeting after a few hours, and now he has withdrawn from the Speaker race. It’s all completely bonkers.

Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, dropped his bid for speaker on Tuesday hours after securing his divided party’s nomination, after a swift backlash from the right, including former President Donald J. Trump, left his candidacy in shambles.

Mr. Emmer’s abrupt exit signaled that Republicans were as far as ever from breaking a deadlock that has left Congress leaderless and paralyzed for three weeks. It made Mr. Emmer the third Republican this month to be chosen to lead the party, only to have his bid collapse in a seemingly endless cycle of G.O.P. grievances, personality conflicts and ideological rifts. Republicans have now succeeded in repudiating all three of their top leaders over the past few weeks. The chamber has been frozen for the better part of a month as Republicans feud over who should be in charge, even as wars rage overseas and a government shutdown approaches.

Mr. Emmer began Tuesday with a scant victory, winning an internal party nominating contest by a vote of 117 to 97 over a right-wing rival, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana. The margin reflected that House Republicans were still deeply at odds.

Then immediately after Mr. Emmer’s nomination, about two dozen right-wing Republicans indicated that they would not vote for him on the floor, denying him the majority he would need to succeed in a vote of the full House. And as he met with holdouts to try to win them over, the former president issued a scathing statement on social media expressing vehement opposition to Mr. Emmer, calling him a “Globalist RINO” — short for “Republican in name only” — whose elevation would be a “tragic mistake.”

“I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. “RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them. He never respected the Power of a Trump Endorsement, or the breadth and scope of MAGA—MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

[From The NY Times]

“Globalist RINO” huh. That’s like ten different dog-whistles. This just underlines the fact that Trump wants a “loyalist” installed as Speaker, so that no matter what happens in the 2024 election, the MAGA Speaker will subvert democracy and ratf–k the election results. How many more days/weeks does this have to go on before a handful of Republicans go to Hakeem Jeffries and beg him to make a deal? Like, from what I understand of House procedure, that’s the only reasonable solution at this point. Democrats are in lockstep behind Minority Leader Jeffries, meaning he has 212 votes guaranteed. That means he would only need to “flip” five Republicans to become Speaker. Enough with empowering the craziest lunatics in the GQP caucus – the handful of moderate Republicans should reclaim their power, make personal power-sharing agreements with Democrats and switch their votes to Jeffries.

PS… House Republicans worked for hours after Emmer dropped out and now they’ve nominated Mike Johnson from Louisiana to be their Speaker candidate.

Update: Mike Johnson is now Speaker of the House. This is a disaster.

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Who leaked the blind item to Deuxmoi which forced Meryl Streep to confirm her separation from Don Gummer? [LaineyGossip]
Another reason to dislike Bradley Cooper: he’s friendly with my nemesis Laura Dern. They “grabbed lunch” in NYC. Sus. [JustJared]
Joseph Fiennes, still pretty fine. [GFY]
Kerry Washington looks amazing in Missoni. [RCFA]
The Oscar de la Renta bridal collection is very pretty & simple. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Why can’t we talk about all of the celebrity plastic surgery? [Pajiba]
Real-life experiences people have had with serial killers. [Buzzfeed]
Nikki Haley, who I despise, is feuding with Meatball Ron DeSantis. [Jezebel]
Jennifer Lopez & her ridiculous body are still selling underwear. [Egotastic]
Transphobes will “march” against Gov. Newsom. [Towleroad]
I love that we, as a society, still care about Rick Astley. [Seriously OMG]

Frances Bean Cobain is the only child of Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain. Frances keeps most of her life lowkey and out of the spotlight, although there’s been gossip about her here and there over the years, and she does occasionally give interviews. In 2014, when she was 22(ish), she married Isaiah Silva. They were done by 2016, and there was a kerfuffle about whether she had properly protected her assets, including the enormous family fortune. The thing with Silva was a classic starter marriage, and they both moved on quickly. I didn’t even know that Frances was seeing someone else before now. It turns out, she’s been seeing Tony Hawk’s son Riley Hawk for some time, and they quietly got married this month. Frances’s godfather officiated!

Kurt Cobain’s daughter and Tony Hawk’s son are now husband and wife, with a celeb musician acting as their wedding day officiant … TMZ has learned.

Frances Bean Cobain and Riley Hawk tied the knot earlier this month in Los Angeles after getting a marriage license in September down in San Diego County … according to docs obtained by TMZ.

The couple’s marriage certificate says they got hitched Oct. 7 and the celeb who performed the ceremony is none other than former R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe!!!

[From TMZ]

You guys don’t even know, I got kind of choked up thinking about Michael Stipe officiating the wedding, and thinking about how Kurt and Courtney chose Stipe to be Frances’s godfather. Stipe lives such a quiet life these days, but it’s amazing that he’s still close to his goddaughter and that he was there for her second wedding. Anyway, Riley Hawk is 30, Frances is 31 and maybe this is the real deal? Who knows.

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Here’s an offbeat little story for your Tuesday. There’s a wax museum in Paris called Musee Grevin that has a wax figure of allegedly Dwayne Johnson. I say “allegedly” because in a couple of significant ways, it does not look like him. There’s something off about his eyes and eyebrows–he looks a little mean. But the bigger problem is that the skin color of the wax figure is much lighter than The Rock is in real life. It’s conspicuous. I guess enough people complained about this on social media that Dwayne decided to respond. He wrote on Instagram that he’s reaching out to the wax museum so they can fix it. The museum claims they made the wax figure only from photo references. But still, they got his skin tone very wrong.

Dwayne Johnson has heard the complaints about his wax figure and says he’s doing something about it.

The Musée Grévin, a museum in Paris, France, that specializes in wax figures of famous people, came under fire recently for a sculpture of Johnson that many found to be too light skinned to represent the actor, who is multi-ethnic.

Some people took to social media to accuse the museum of “white washing” the figure of the “Black Adam” star, commenting that the recently unveiled likeness suffered from a “melanin deficiency.”

Johnson, whose late father, the wrestler Rocky Johnson, was of Black Nova Scotian descent and his mother, Ata Maivia, is Samoan, saw the outrage and addressed it Sunday on social media.

“For the record, I’m going to have my team reach out to our friends at Grevin Museum, in Paris France so we can work at ‘updating’ my wax figure here with some important details and improvements – starting with my skin color,” Johnson wrote.

According to the museum’s site, “After Dwayne Johnson was chosen at the first edition of the Grévin Awards, sculptor Stéphane Barret had to rely on photos and videos to create a statue as close to reality as possible, without the presence of the international star.”

[From CNN]

Please tell me you guys can see what I’m talking about with the mean eyes. It creeps me out the longer I look at it. It’s giving “evil bouncer at seedy night club” which is not Dwayne’s vibe at all. I think the problem is that the angle of the figure’s left eyebrow is both too harsh, and too close to his actual eye. As for the issue of the figure’s skin color, I think it’s a lame excuse for the museum to say they got it wrong because the figure wasn’t created from life. I have never seen The Rock in any movie or photo where he looked like this. He does not look like this. Of course they can’t get an exact match going off of just photos and videos, but this is really off. It seems a lot like unconscious bias to me. I wonder what the fix is–do they airbrush paint onto the wax figure or do they have to start over again and make a whole new one? If nothing else, the old one would make for a terrific jump scare, placed in a window with harsh lighting for maximum spookiness (I would do this, by the way. I would put a wax figure in my window to scare away would-be intruders. Clearly I learned everything I know about home security from Kevin McCallister). But they really should re-do the whole thing and give him a more pleasant expression.

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My take is that King Charles is actually happy-ish with the current arrangement of “working royals.” He knows that his heir and his heir’s wife are lazy dumbasses and they can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He also knows that the rest of the working royals are as exciting as dry pieces of toast. But all of that is fine with him – he believes that royalty is zero-sum, that if someone else gets attention, it takes something away from him. He wants all of the attention, along with his wife. All of this has led to a fundamental schism between palace and press – four years after the Sussexit, the British media has buyer’s remorse and they’re dying for some excitement. All of which means there’s been a low-key campaign to convince Charles to make various royal women into “working royals.” Behold, this hilarious story:

The Royal Family have been holding emergency meetings over potentially calling up Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice as working royals. King Charles has slimmed down the Royal Family during his first 12 months as monarch. Queen Camilla, Prince William, Princess Kate, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh are the working members of the Royal Family that King Charles has been calling upon to carry out engagements.

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Prince Andrew are former senior members of the Royal Family who no longer perform duties for the Firm.

There is now a shortage of royals to attend engagements and this has led to criticism of the monarchy. The Duke of York’s daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are currently not working members of the Royal Family, but according to a source, the possibility is being considered.

The source told Ok!: “Emergency meetings have been held to come up with a solution to fulfil the growing number of royal engagements both here in the UK and abroad. There needs to be some younger blood to reach the younger generation and the only candidates available are Beatrice and Eugenie.”

[From GB News]

Beatrice clearly wants to be a working royal, Eugenie not so much. Eugenie is already “half-out” and living primarily in Portugal. I would actually believe that Charles could be talked into allowing Beatrice to “work” in some capacity. But no, he’s not holding emergency meetings about it. Meanwhile, they’re also trying to say that poor Lady Louise must become a working royal too:

Lady Louise Windsor is set to “follow in Princess Beatrice and Eugenie’s footsteps” with a brand new role, a commentator has claimed. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh’s eldest child is currently in her second year at the University of St Andrews studying English, the same place where Prince William and Princess Kate attended. Royal commentators claim the 19-year-old could take up royal duties once she has graduated.

Kate Mansey, who frequently discusses the Royal Family, believes that Lady Louise could one day be a working royal. She said: “I think Lady Louise would; from people I speak to in the Palace, Lady Louise I think is quite willing to do that. I remember going to some Guildhall event and she was with her father and very competently circulating talking to dignitaries and foreign royals. I think there might be a role, in the way that Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie play a role.”

The commentator also told The Royal Beat: “She is at university at the moment,” and added that there’s still “plenty of time” for Louise to come to terms with a larger royal role.

[From GB News]

Again, this is a reflection of a disagreement between palace and press – Charles doesn’t want anyone else, especially not any young princesses who might take attention away from any neighing winebag. But the British media is getting absolutely desperate. Pretty soon they might actually have to – gasp – report on what’s really happening in this tragic institution. As for Lady Louise, she seems like a nice, unsophisticated young woman. This particular story is a favorite briefing from Louise’s mother.

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