The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden has got a scoop! He has an exclusive and he’s blaring it as loudly as he can. No, this is not some exclusive reporting on King Charles and Queen Camilla’s Australian flop tour. It’s also not about the Princess of Wales’s missing engagement ring, or Prince William’s mysterious weight loss. It’s not about poor Duchess Sophie and why royal reporters forget to cover her and her tours. No, Eden’s critical, journalistic eye will never deign to cover any of the left-behind Windsors. Instead, his big scoop is about some real estate purchased by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were evicted from their cottage at Windsor by King Charles, they were left without a home in this country. The California-based couple have, however, ensured that they retain a foothold on this side of the Atlantic.

The Daily Mail understands that Prince Harry and Meghan have bought a home in Portugal.

They are not the only royals who have a Portuguese property, with Harry’s cousin Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, owning a home in the CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club, a luxury development of 300 properties by the sea in Melides, south of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. Mr Brooksbank, 38, works in marketing and sales for CostaTerra. He, Eugenie, 34, and their two sons, August, three, and Ernest, 16 months, split their time between Portugal and London.

The purchase of the home in Portugal may have allowed the Sussexes to acquire a so-called Golden Visa, under which they would have visa-free access to the European Union’s Schengen area. This could have been a major attraction to Meghan, who is a US citizen. When the couple got engaged in November 2017, Kensington Palace said Meghan would apply for British citizenship in due course, with a spokesman confirming that ‘she will go through the process [which] takes a number of years’.

Last year, it was reported that the Sussexes enjoyed a ‘romantic three-night break’ in Portugal after attending the Invictus Games in Germany. The couple are said to have flown from Dusseldorf to Lisbon before travelling an hour south to Melides in a ‘mega-secret’ operation. A source close to the Sussexes confirmed that they had been to Portugal. At the time, it was thought that they stayed with Eugenie and Mr Brooksbank, who have visited them at their home in Montecito, California.

[From The Daily Mail]

You can get an EU visa just by buying property in Portugal? I thought that was only for Monaco – as in, if you can afford an apartment in Monte Carlo, bam, you get citizenship in Monaco and an EU passport. I just looked it up though… Portugal’s Golden Visa program was phased out last year. So… I don’t know. When did H&M buy property in Europe? The “Schengen area” is basically all of continental EU countries. Which… doesn’t mean anything for the UK, because of Brexit. It would be hilarious if Harry and Meghan intentionally bought real estate in Portugal just so they could acquire EU passports and they would still not bother visiting England whatsoever.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Backgrid.

Filmmaker Paul Schrader on Joker: Folie a Deux: “I saw about 10 or 15 minutes of it. I left, bought something, came back, saw another 10 minutes. That was enough. It’s a really bad musical. I don’t like either of those people. I don’t like them as actors. I don’t like them as characters. I don’t like the whole thing. I mean, those are people who, if they came to your house, you’d slip out the back door.” [Pajiba]
Doutzen Kroes made her comeback appearance at the Victoria’s Secret show. Doutzen probably hopes people have forgotten that she’s an anti-vaxxer. [Just Jared]
Cher performed at the Victoria’s Secret show. [Socialite Life]
Margot Robbie’s Chanel ambassadorship has been so blah. [LaineyGossip]
Lupita Nyong’o wore an interesting dress. [Go Fug Yourself]
SZA “bugs out” on Hot Ones. [OMG Blog]
Cardi B at the Victoria’s Secret show. [RCFA]
Redband trailer for The Monkey. [Seriously OMG]
Jinger Vuolo is pregnant again. [Starcasm]
Cooper Koch is in a relationship. [Hollywood Life]
Andrew Garfield did Buzzfeed’s “puppy interview.” [Buzzfeed]

Charlamagne Tha God hosts The Breakfast Club, one of the biggest radio shows in the country, and he’s sort of fashioned himself as one of the go-to interviewers for Black artists and Black political and cultural figures. There had been some back-and-forth about whether Kamala Harris would sit down with Charlamagne, then it all came together quickly. She did the interview on Tuesday. While she didn’t make any major news – she called Trump a fascist and pushed back on some of Charlamagne’s bizarrely Republican-flavored narratives – this was considered yet another late stage push for the Harris-Walz campaign to turn out Black voters, specifically Black men. There’s been a lot of talk in the past week about “Black men aren’t supporting Kamala Harris.” I think that’s a Republican narrative, but whatever, it’s been a larger conversation, especially after Barack Obama “scolded” Black men for not supporting Harris enough. Some highlights of the interview, via the NY Times:

Vice President Kamala Harris agreed on Tuesday with the radio host Charlamagne Tha God that former President Donald J. Trump was a fascist, going a step further than she had before in casting her Republican rival as a dangerous authoritarian leader. During a free-flowing interview that often spoke to the concerns of Black Americans, Ms. Harris was contrasting her vision for the nation with Mr. Trump’s when Charlamagne jumped in to say: “The other is about fascism. Why can’t we just say it?” “Yes, we can say that,” Ms. Harris replied.

Harris also agreed with Charlamagne that Mr. Trump has embraced fascism and said that his plans would make “it more difficult for working people to get by and to destroy our democracy.” Republicans have accused Democrats of fomenting political violence, including the assassination attempts on Mr. Trump, by labeling him a threat to democracy. She also attacked him for admiring dictators, citing a report that he sent President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia valuable Covid-19-testing equipment “when Black people were dying every day” from the pandemic. “The man is really quite weak,” Ms. Harris said. “He’s weak. It’s a sign of weakness that you want to please dictators and seek their flattery and favor.”

She again condemned Mr. Trump for his role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, even as she shut down questions about whether the Justice Department had moved too slowly to prosecute him and whether he should be in jail in November. “The court should handle that, and I’m going to handle November,” she said.

Ms. Harris adopted a far different strategy to appeal to Black voters, specifically Black men, than former President Barack Obama used when he campaigned for her last week in Pittsburgh. Responding to the wavering enthusiasm among some Black men that has caused panic in the Democratic Party, Mr. Obama scolded them and accused them of not “feeling the idea of having a woman as president.” On Tuesday, Charlamagne said Mr. Obama had been “finger-waving at Black men” and questioned when anti-Harris white voters would be admonished.

“What is happening is that we are all working on reminding people of what is at stake,” Ms. Harris replied. But she also acknowledged that she was not owed anyone’s support. “I need to earn every vote, which is why I’m here having this candid conversation with you and your listeners,” she said.

[From The NY Times]

It’s funny/sad to me that Obama’s comments were seen and felt as “scolding” when really, I thought he was a Black man speaking truth to other Black men. As in: get yourself together, another Trump presidency will make our lives so much worse. Obama was calling out the misogynoir which exists within the Black community, for goodness sake. And he did so while visiting a field office, it wasn’t part of his surrogate stump speech. Now, that being said, Charlamagne brings up a good point, which is whether white voters would be “scolded” in the same way by a national figure. Who is that white guy who could do it though? President Biden? Bill Clinton? I do think they’re doing their part to scold white voters, but sure, bring them out to do it louder.

.@cthagod: What do you say to people who say you use talking points?

Vice President Harris: I would say you’re welcome. My opponent belittles people. I love having conversations, which is why I’m so happy to be with you this afternoon pic.twitter.com/LqdFs3izpr

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 15, 2024

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.

Last week, we learned that the Duchess of Sussex did an event with Girls Inc in Santa Barbara. The event was a celebration of International Day of the Girl AND Meghan was highlights Mental Health Awareness. Plus, Archewell has a new partnership with Melinda Gates and Oprah’s foundations to provide resources to Girls Inc. The biggest headline from the whole event didn’t even come from Meghan though. Larissa May spoke to Vanity Fair about some of the activities Meghan participated in with the girls, and May said: “We did an activity where we talked through a bunch of scenarios, and Meghan talked about being one of the most bullied people in the world.” A secondhand story about Meghan using her personal narrative and experiences to relate to girls who feel under siege by social media and cultural sexism. That’s how I reacted to the story – Meghan is relating to these girls, some of whom have probably been bullied. Obviously, that was not the reaction of a lot of royal commentators, who are still throwing sh-tfits about it.

Meghan Markle reportedly told a group of girls she was “one of the most bullied people in the world,” and it has caused several royal experts to scratch their heads.

Christopher Andersen, author of “The King,” claimed to Fox News Digital that the 43-year-old is likely to be labeled a hypocrite after she faced her own bullying accusations following her royal exit in 2020.

“In fairness, since marrying Prince Harry, she has been on the receiving end of some pretty scalding criticism – some of it legitimate, but much of it not,” Andersen claimed. “The amount of visceral anger aimed at Meghan online is quite remarkable. If Meghan feels unfairly targeted, she probably has every right to. But is it wise for someone who has been described as a workplace bully – whether it’s true or not – to complain that she is a victim of bullying? It may come off as just more egocentric whining. We’ve heard it all before.”

“There’s nothing wrong with Meghan empathizing with young girls who must deal with online bullying,” he pointed out. “She just has to resist the temptation to make it all about her.”

Andersen also warned that the mother of two continuing to speak out about bullying claims will make it less likely for the royal family to extend an olive branch.

“The royal family washed its hands of Meghan some time ago,” he claimed. “If the royals are paying any attention to Meghan at all, this bullying complaint will only shore up the image they already have of her as a self-absorbed narcissist.”

[From Fox News]

Yes, Meghan is unfairly targeted for bullying, harassment and threats, but how dare she TALK about it or acknowledge our abuse in any way! Who does she think she is? What a narcissist, to use her personal narrative to relate to girls about mental health! The royal family has washed their hands of Meghan, who they never speak of or brief about, except for when they feel the need to describe their all-consuming hatred for her on a weekly, if not daily basis! In summary, Meghan is the real bully for forcing us to pay attention to her constantly and make up lies about her so we can scream and cry about how she’s a narcissist!

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s marriage has never made any sense to me. They don’t even seem to like each other, much less have any kind of passionate love for one another. Justin and Jessica’s marriage seems to be about one thing: Justin. Their wedding was all about Justin, Jessica’s pregnancies were all about Justin, and conversations about their marriage are all about Justin. Well, several months ago, Justin was arrested for a DWI. He ended up taking a plea, but not after creating a particularly toxic psychodrama over his arrest and his refusal to see the arrest as a wake-up call. Jessica was reportedly upset about his arrest, but obviously, she didn’t do anything. Now People Mag has an update about their marriage:

Justin Timberlake has “done everything he can” to “make up for” his DWI arrest for wife Jessica Biel. A source close to the family tells PEOPLE that since the “SexyBack” musician, 43, was arrested in Sag Harbor, New York for allegedly driving while intoxicated in June, the couple has “been very busy working and just focus on family time when they’re off.”

While Timberlake has been in the midst of his Forget Tomorrow World Tour, the Candy star, 42, has been filming “back to back” projects, including the forthcoming Amazon series The Better Sister. The two are also busy raising sons Silas, 9½, and Phineas, 4.

“They’ve been married for a long time,” adds the source. “They have to work on their marriage like most couples. Being working parents is never easy.”

While the insider says that Biel — who “enjoys privacy” — “was not happy about” her husband’s arrest, “they’re both relieved that it’s in the past.”

Timberlake’s case wrapped in mid-September with a plea deal as he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of driving while ability impaired. The musician will be required to pay a $500 fine and complete 25 hours of community service.

“They are both committed to staying married,” says the source. “Jess thinks he’s a wonderful dad. They’re a great team.”

[From People]

I laughed at “They are both committed to staying married.” Not: they’re committed to each other. Not: they love each other and support each other. It’s almost like they have some kind of arrangement where Justin does whatever he wants and Jessica is just… committed to staying married, no matter what.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Backgrid.

Royal biographer Gyles Brandreth has this very strange habit of coming out, a year after the fact, and ruining a perfectly good lie told by the royal family. For months/years, we were told that Queen Elizabeth II merely had balance issues and she was “unwell,” mostly because she was so terribly stressed out because of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Gyles Brandreth was the one to say: actually, she had bone marrow cancer and there was a year-long cover-up over her diagnosis and treatment. No one pushed back on it either, and now the same liars are like “well, of course she had bone marrow cancer, but she was still really mad at Harry and Meghan!”

Currently, the royal lie we’re debunking is “Queen Elizabeth was at Prince Philip’s bedside when he died.” This, to me, is a harmless lie and truly none of our business. Philip was in exceptionally poor health in the last year of his life, and they kept moving the poor man around to be “with” his wife, when really, he wanted to die at Wood Farm with Penny Knatchbull by his side. We were told that he died at Windsor Castle, with his wife by his side. The Telegraph, the Mail, every outlet downright insisted that QEII was “at his bedside.” Another lie, says Gyles Brandreth:

New information is emerging about Queen Elizabeth on the day her husband of over 73 years, Prince Philip, died on April 9, 2021.

Royal biographer Gyles Brandreth claimed that the late Duke of Edinburgh died before the late Queen could reach his bedside, he wrote in his book Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait. Though the Queen was reported to have made it to her husband’s bedside when he died that morning, “In fact, I don’t believe she was,” Brandreth wrote.

He continued that “The Duke of Edinburgh had been in a hospital bed, set up in his dressing room at Windsor Castle. That morning, he went to the bathroom, helped by a nurse.”

When he came back, Prince Philip said he felt a little faint and wanted help getting back into bed, Brandreth wrote. “The nurse called the Duke’s valet and the Queen’s page, Paul Whybrew, for help — and he died before the Queen could be called. The Queen wasn’t yet up. And she wasn’t called until after a doctor had come and pronounced the Duke dead.”

The Daily Mirror described Brandreth as a close friend of the late Queen’s who “knew Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth for decades,” reportedly first meeting Queen Elizabeth in 1968 — when he was just 20 years old. Through their shared work at the National Playing Fields Association, Brandreth also knew Prince Philip well.

[From People]

Yeah, they really lied their asses off about this. They really set the scene that QEII was called into his room and she was at his bedside at the very end. I’m not judging her for not being by Philip’s side, mind you. I’m judging the courtiers for lying about it for years. I actually remember how crazy it was for QEII and Philip to go into the “Covid bubble” and they made Philip leave Wood Farm and everything. He was reportedly really pissed that he was taken to Windsor Castle. Anyway… remember how they said that Charles was at his mother’s bedside at the end, then it came out that he was actually foraging for mushrooms when she died? The truth will eventually come out about all of the Windsors’ lies, at least that’s what I hope.

Years later, we can also safely say that the palace lied about this photo – it’s so clearly edited and manipulated.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid and Buckingham Palace.

Over the years, I’ve been startled when the mainstream media dips into royal gossip. I remember when it happened throughout 2022. Prince William and Kate’s Caribbean Flop tour became headline news internationally, all because of Will and Kate’s colonialist behavior and catastrophic photo-ops. Then the Jubbly became major news because of the Sussexes’ presence. Then QEII died and the international, mainstream media covered everything through the prism of how the family treated the Sussexes (like sh-t). Well, I think it’s going to happen again with King Charles and Queen Camilla’s Australian tour. I think the mainstream press is going to dip in and cover whatever goes down, perhaps because they’re expecting the tour to be a massive disaster for Charles’s reign. From Reuters’ new piece, “Ambivalent Australia awaits King Charles on first big overseas tour since cancer diagnosis.”

King Charles, the only British monarch who has spent time living in Australia, arrives on Friday for his inaugural visit to an overseas realm as sovereign, his first major foreign trip since being diagnosed with cancer. The first visit by a reigning monarch in 13 years has revived debate in Australia over whether a British royal should be head of state, although polling shows Australians remain ambivalent about becoming a republic.

Concern for King Charles’s health has seen the republican movement’s founder, “Schindler’s List” author Thomas Keneally, accept an invitation to meet a royal couple he says are amiable and relatable. It is embarrassing that Australians are subjects of the king, Keneally said in an interview, adding this was no fault of King Charles, who has said a republic is a matter for Australians to decide. “I hope he is OK on this tour because he has that cancer,” Keneally said. “He is not the problem in all this, because he said over and over it’s up to us.”

A poll published in News Corp newspapers this week showed support for Australia remaining a constitutional monarchy at 45%, compared to 33% support for becoming a republic and the rest undecided. A national referendum on becoming a republic was defeated in 1999 and dropped off the political agenda of the ruling centre-left Labor Party after Queen Elizabeth died in 2022.

As Australia prepares for the king’s visit, pro-republic campaigners are distributing posters promoting the “farewell to monarchy tour”.

“We’d love to wave goodbye to royal reign,” said Nathan Hansford, co-chair of the Australian Republic Movement. Keneally, 89, said when he founded the Australian Republic Movement in 1991, formal meetings in Australia required a toast to the monarch and the royal portrait was hung in every public building.

“When we drank to Australia, we drank to the Queen of Australia, and I felt that didn’t represent who we were,” he said. Australia has changed from a largely Anglo-Celtic society to an immigrant nation welcoming new citizens who no longer must swear allegiance to the king, yet it still has “a very strange addiction to the monarchy,” Keneally said.

“The gravity is pulling our way, but it is pulling very slow in the republican direction. The disappearance of the monarch from public life is a sign of all that,” he said.

[From Reuters]

Several things are clear to me at this point: Buckingham Palace does not trust William and Kate to make these kinds of trips on behalf of the king, because any and all backlash would be a thousand times worse and more high-profile, and William wouldn’t be able to manage his way out of the crisis. It’s also clear that the palace is actually fine with these kinds of stories coming out before Charles’s trip because they really are lowering expectations. Australians ignoring Charles is preferable to being passionately protested. The palace will declare victory if Charles and Camilla manage to get through the tour without any public catastrophes. The open questions are: the size of the republican protests and whether the mainstream, international media will cover everything, even if there are no major f–kups.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

Embed from Getty Images
As Kaiser covered last week, Chris Pine is now a children’s book author. He drew on his college degree in English, professional resume as a storyteller in Hollywood, and his lifelong love of dogs, and out came When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel. In his continued promotion for the new book, Chris chatted with People Mag and talked about the love he had for his childhood dog Lucy, and how after she passed he went 15 years (fifteen!) before he adopted another dog. That period coincided with Chris building his acting career, which makes sense; an up-and-coming actor travels a lot. Still, all those years without canine companionship set the stage for Chris falling head-over-heels in love when he adopted his first dog as an adult, Wednesday. Listen to him describe everything he’s learned about “love and patience and kindness” from his pups (he now has four at home), and you’ll know without a doubt why he is Best Chris.

Highlighting some of his favorite parts of owning dogs — including “morning cuddles” — Pine says, “It’s myriad, small little things throughout the day, where they make you smile because they do something ridiculous.”

“The love that you have with your animals is profound and heart-opening. Then, the practice of that heart opening over time, I can’t help but think that it bleeds into your life elsewhere,” he continues.

“It just makes you more capable of loving, I think. My dogs have continued to teach me a lot,” adds Pine, who recently released his first children’s book, When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel: A Short Tale About a Short Tail.

According to Pine, he became a pet owner for the first time when he was a young child growing up with his dad, fellow actor Robert Pine, and his mom, Gwynne Gilford.

“When I was seven, my parents took me to adopt a dog, and so we got Lucy,” he explains. “She was a small dog, and I had her from when I was seven until I was [in my 20s].”

After Lucy’s death, Pine says he was left heartbroken. “I was studying abroad that year, and I remember my parents calling me and telling me my dog had died, and it was shattering,” he explains.

“Then I went 15 years without a dog. I was traveling a lot, working and starting my career, but then I got Wednesday, and really, it’s no hyperbole to say that she’s taught me everything about love and patience and kindness,” Pine continues of his rescue pup. “She’s just changed my life.”

Pine tells PEOPLE he now questions why he went over a decade without another furry friend in his life. “I was like, ‘Why did I waste so much time?’” he says.

And while he notes that he isn’t a parent, the Don’t Worry Darling star says raising a pet has prepared him for that role, should he ever choose to take it on.

“There’s so much mutual learning in some regard,” he explains. “It’s like, you have to teach a dog how to live in a house and how to teach a dog to be potty-trained, and you have to teach a dog what they can and can’t do.”

“You’re also learning about patience,” Pine continues. “If they rip up a couch, how do you deal with that and how do you treat them with kindness instead of anger?”

[From People]

Oof yeah, finding patience is a biggie. I consider myself a pretty patient woman, but I had a moment with my new rescue pup the other night that I’m not so proud of. Three weeks ago I met, fell in love with, and welcomed home My Guy, and it has been an adjustment getting used to his three-year-old energy! So the other night My Guy insisted on getting us up, and it became clear he wanted to go outside. I tried communicating to him that no, we’re not walking at 3 o’clock in the morning, and in my deep desire to return to slumber, I became more frustrated than I should have. I didn’t yell, but I could feel my temper rising quickly. And then I said to myself, “Kismet, you are escalating an argument with a three-year-old chihuahua. Is this really who you want to be?” We finally came to amicable terms (me promising to be more understanding, My Guy promising not to change anything), kisses have since been exchanged, and I believe we are stronger for this experience.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by The Tonight Show (@fallontonight)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Ralph Lauren (@ralphlauren)

Embed from Getty Images

photos credit: Backgrid, Getty and via Instagram

For months now, the messaging from Buckingham Palace has been pretty muted about King Charles and Queen Camilla’s big tour of Australia, which starts in a few days. There hasn’t been wall-to-wall embiggening in advance of the tour, and the palace has been steadily trying to lower expectations to the point where if Charles manages to come home alive, they’ll declare victory. I also believe there’s been an emphasis on Charles and his health concerns because no one wants to admit that Camilla is a wreck. As Ingrid Seward said this week, Camilla “gets very tired because she’s not born to this royal life… and I think people sometimes forget that Camilla’s never actually had a job. I think she finds these trips extremely exhausting. She doesn’t like flying. She’s not a great traveller, and she’s not good in the heat.” I’m just saying, some of the “Charles is going to have a difficult tour” fussing is actually a cover for how badly Camilla performs on the road. Speaking of, the Sydney Morning Herald decided to run a preview of the tour with a focus on Camilla: “From ‘horse face’ to ‘Britain’s grandmother’: How Queen Camilla won over a sceptical public.” LMAO!!!

At her lowest ebb, when Britain hated her, the tabloids were describing her as frump, old trout and horse face, and even Queen Elizabeth described her as “that wicked woman”, Queen Camilla is said to have been pelted with bread rolls at a bakery.

She might now be touted as Britain’s new grandmother, but few public figures have known the depths of opprobrium reached by Camilla Parker Bowles in the late 1990s after the exposure of her affair with Prince Charles and in the dark days after Diana’s death. She was reviled by much of the English-speaking world as the “old boiler” who broke the heart of the most loved woman on the planet. It was hell. There is doubt that the bread roll incident really happened, but there is no question that she was under constant siege from a baying press. As a non-royal, she had no right to police protection. Schooled in the world of the stiff upper lip, she never defended herself. Charles was busy fighting battles of his own, so she weathered much of the maelstrom alone, holed up in her country home.

“I wouldn’t want to put my worst enemy through it,” she later said.

The relationship between Camilla and Charles has survived almost anything that could be thrown at it. For decades, every power in the kingdom – from the queen to the archbishop to the prime minister to the populace – wanted it over. Yet against all odds, they’re still together almost 55 years later. The tale of these two staid 70-somethings has become the enduring royal love story of their generation.

“The relationship between the King and Queen is, I believe, a true love match,” says Juliet Rieden, royal correspondent, former Australian Women’s Weekly editor at large and author of The Royals in Australia. “When you see them together they always look intensely happy in each other’s company, laughing and joking and deep in conversation.”

The bread roll era is long over for Queen Camilla. She’ll never rival her glamorous stepdaughters-in-law for attention, but an August poll found almost half of Britons had a positive view of her – up 10 per cent from five years earlier. The society magazine Tatler described her as “the nation’s new grandmother” (a moniker once used for Queen Elizabeth) and noted increasing sympathy towards her among Zoomers.

[From SMH]

This is the biggest “trying to make fetch happen” ever. Twenty-five years of careful planning, high-priced image consultants, hair stylists, dressmakers, and courtiers crafting a sympathetic charitable portfolio, and Camilla consistently ruins all of it by being Camilla. She comes across as a drunk, hateful old bag. She cozies up to the biggest bullies and abusers in the UK because like attracts like. She travels poorly because she doesn’t care about “the natives.” She is not beloved by Gen Z either – The Crown introduced a new generation to the Camilla-Charles-Diana saga and there’s a reason why Gen Z uses “Princess Diana” as a catch-all term of endearment. I cannot wait to see what the Aussies have in store for Cam.

Top 10 stories about Camilla taking over the royal family

Camilla schemed for over four decades to get upgraded from mistress to queen! Get the top 10 stories about Camilla taking over the royal family when you sign up for our mailing list! – Katie at Celebitchy

Email

First Name

Subscribe

Loading…

Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid, Cover Images.

January 6th, 2021 should never be forgotten or minimized. Donald Trump sent his MAGA cult members to the Capitol to violently overthrow the government, murder members of Congress and hang his vice president. We looked like a g–damn banana republic. In the four years since J6, over 1,500 insurrectionists have been charged with crimes in association with J6. In the four years since J6, Donald Trump still cannot admit that he lost the 2020 election, nor will he commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 2024 election. The only thing keeping me sane these days is the fact that Joe Biden is president and the Biden administration knows what to expect and they’re hopefully prepared for it. Well, fresh from his absolutely bizarre sundowning mess at a town hall on Monday, Trump actually answered questions at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday. Questions about J6 and the peaceful transfer of power:

Donald Trump on Tuesday dodged the question of whether he will allow for a peaceful certification of election results if Kamala Harris defeats him in three weeks. During an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait asked Trump if he would commit “to respecting and encouraging a peaceful transfer of power,” especially in light of Jan. 6, 2021, which the journalist called “unruly and violent.”

Trump didn’t answer the question. Instead, he rejected the premise and blamed Micklethwait as “a man that has not been a big Trump fan over the years.” He also falsely claimed that he allowed for a peaceful transfer of power in 2020, when Joe Biden defeated him.

“Come on, President Trump, you had a peaceful transfer of power compared to Venezuela, but it was by far the worst transfer of power for a long time,” Micklethwait insisted. The audience booed and Trump thanked them. The former president then admitted that people were angry when they arrived in Washington to protest the results that January—but according to him, they were perfectly behaved.

“It was love and peace, and some people went to the Capitol,” Trump said. “And a lot of strange things happened there, a lot of strange things, with people being waved into the Capitol by police.”

For perhaps the first time, Trump downplayed his crowd size. He added that he left the White House the morning he was supposed to and that only a fraction of the protestors were among those who breached and defaced the Capitol.

“Not one of those people had a gun, nobody was killed, except for Ashli Babbitt,” he said.
While no one else was shot during the riot at the Capitol, when members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence—who rioters threatened to hang—fled to secure locations in fear for their lives, at least seven people died in connection with the event. According to Trump, that distinction is enough to call Jan. 6 “peaceful.”

“I think we should be allowed to disagree on that,” he said.

[From The Daily Beast]

140 Capitol Police officers were attacked, assaulted, harassed and threatened by insurrectionists. The insurrectionists were literally hunting down Congressional leaders, who had to flee to underground bunkers. They smeared feces on the walls of the Capitol. They had a noose to string up Mike Pence. “It was love and peace, and some people went to the Capitol.” This piece of sh-t.

Trump just now: “500 to 700 people went to the Capitol” on January 6.. “nobody had a gun”

There are 1500+ Jan 6 defendants so far. Multiple defendants are accused of carrying guns in the mob. One is accused of firing his gun into the air

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 15, 2024

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.