Decades ago, when then-Prince Charles attended the official handover of Hong Kong to the CCP, he described the Chinese Community leaders as “appalling old waxworks.” I think about that description more than I should, especially since the waxworks curse boomeranged back onto the Windsors in a stunning reversal of fortune.

Here are photos from last night’s Diplomatic reception at Buckingham Palace. In years past, even during King Charles’s reign, more of the Windsor clan comes out for this white-tie reception. In years past, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, the Duchess of Edinburgh and the Princess of Wales would all attend. This year, Kate was notably and publicly benched, as were the Edinburghs. It was just King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prince William in attendance. Camilla looked like the cat who got the cream. All three looked like they had seen better days though – Charles and Camilla absolutely fulfilled the “appalling old waxworks” prophecy.

Fashion notes: Camilla wore a velvet dress by Fiona Clare, who makes a lot of Camilla’s bespoke pieces. The dress is ghastly and dated – it would have looked dated even in the 1980s, back when Camilla began feathering her hair like that. Camilla paired the dress with QEII’s aquamarine-and-diamond tiara, which Camilla matched with her own aquamarine-and-diamond necklace and earrings. Meanwhile, Charles wore… knickerbockers and stockings.

So, do you think Camilla was the one who said that Kate should be benched? Or was it William who didn’t want to be overshadowed by keen jazz hands? Or did Charles suggest that Kate isn’t capable of making small talk with diplomats? It could be all of the above. It’s really crazy that they benched her for such a significant event, honestly. It’s also crazy that Camilla’s “chest infection” conveniently got her out of several boring events but she’s perfectly healthy to wear a tiara and smirk at people.

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Martha Stewart likes LeClerc, a posh French makeup brand, so far so normal. But Martha Stewart being so enamored with a discontinued liquid eyeliner of theirs that she’s been using her final five tubes for 15-20 years by periodically adding water? Now that seems quite out of character for the perfectionist home & lifestyle queen. Experts advise that eye products like mascara and liner should not be used for longer than three months. So if Martha’s been applying her prized eyeliner for 15 years, she’s 57 months late in tossing the expired product. This all came to light in a video Martha filmed for Allure where she takes us through her daily makeup routine. Allure made the caption about her love of bronzer, but it’s the unhygienic eyeliner practice that has fans worried. Unsanitary makeup habits: it’s not a good thing!

“This is my secret for every day,” Stewart says in the clip, shared on Nov. 2, while holding up a tube of LeClerc liquid liner. “It’s not made anymore. It’s probably 15 or 20 years old. I have five of these, which I cherish.”

“I just keep adding water to it,” she explains. “It has not dried out, incredibly.”

Stewart applies the “silvery, gray-brown” liner to her top and bottom lash lines, “just to make my eyes look a little bit wider.”

Of her makeup routine, the author says, “My makeup artist Daisy’s watching and she’s probably cringing at what I do.”

For the record, eyeliners are generally not recommended to be used for more than a few months, as eye makeup can become contaminated with germs very quickly, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Stewart shares another beauty secret to keeping up her youthful glow — bronzer.

“I usually just bronze myself a lot and that gets me out the door,” she says, calling out the Westman Atelier Butter Powder Bronzer as her go-to.

“My granddaughter Jude says, ‘Martha, you use too much bronzer,’” Stewart adds. “But I like bronzer. I’ve always used too much bronzer. It just makes me feel healthy, which I am.”

The star has been promoting her new Netflix documentary Martha, which chronicles Stewart’s life and career as America’s first self-made female billionaire.

During a Tuesday, Nov. 12, appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the chef said her grandkids — granddaughter Jude, 13, and grandson Truman, 12 — had already seen her doc.

“They watched my documentary,” Stewart shared, referring to Truman and Jude.

“What did they think?” asked Drew Barrymore, 49.

“Well Jude, who’s 13, said, ‘It was very good. I think I’ll watch it again,’” Stewart recalled.

She also spoke about her thoughts on the documentary overall, saying: “Oh, well, I thought it was a good representation of a 20th and 21st century woman and giving hope and caring to the female gender in America. Really.”

[From People]

What gets me about Martha Stewart using the same eyeliner for roughly 60 times past the recommended usage, is that it absolutely seems like the kind of thing she would judge someone else for, if the brush were on the other eyelid. I mean, I guess we can count it as further proof of how indestructible she is, that gross old makeup can’t take her down. Although we are missing critical commentary from her dermatologist and ophthalmologist in this conversation. But seriously kids, do not try this at home! As for Martha being bronzer-happy, apologies to her granddaughter, but I don’t think it’s too much! Of course it may be more striking in person. But speaking as a pale person myself, who is often advised to use bronzer to add a note of “this is the face of someone who is actually alive” to my appearance, I get it.

Last thought: “I thought it was a good representation of a 20th and 21st century woman and giving hope and caring to the female gender in America,” is quite the lofty statement for a documentary she keeps saying she doesn’t like.

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One of the big reasons why Angelina Jolie’s longtime fans are so excited about Pablo Larrain’s Maria is because we hope that this will mark Angelina’s return to acting consistently. She had a lengthy “wilderness” period where she was focused on her family and doing smaller projects close to home. But even before Angelina left Brad Pitt, she had already spent years avoiding acting gigs like the plague. There was a hope that working with Pablo Larrain somehow made Angelina realize that she could have a lot of fun if she simply took more acting work. Well, it’s all happening. Angelina has signed on to another film, set in Paris. More specifically, set at Paris Fashion Week. Angelina will be working with acclaimed French director Alice Winocour.

Following her critically acclaimed turn as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” Angelina Jolie will return to Paris to star in Alice Winocour‘s first English language directorial effort. The movie, titled “Stitches” (“Coutures”), is set in the world of high fashion and unfolds in Paris. Jolie stars in the movie as a filmmaker and is one of three women whose lives will collide during Fashion Week.

Filming is expected to begin at the start of next year with Charles Gillibert‘s Paris-based banner CG Cinema producing in partnership with Zhang Xin and William Horberg of Closer Media.

“Stitches” also reteams Winocour with French production-distribution powerhouse Pathé Films following her well-received movie “Paris Memories,” which world premiered at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and earned its star Virginie Efira a Cesar Award (France’s equivalent to the Oscar) for her performance as a survivor of a brutal terrorist attack. Pathé Films will distribute “Stitches” in France. UTA Independent Film Group structured the financing for the film and is representing global and North American rights. Hanway Films is handling international sales.

The film will shoot in both French and English, in line with Winocour’s previous movie “Proxima.” The latter starred Eva Green as an astronaut preparing for a year-long stint on the International Space Station, coping with the guilt of leaving her young daughter and navigating a male-dominated environment. Green was nominated for Cesar Award for this role and the movie won the platform prize at Toronto, as well as the jury award at San Sebastian.

[From Variety]

Angelina does speak French at some capacity but I’m not sure if she’s fluent enough to pull off a role which is half in French? But you never know, maybe she’s more fluent than we know, or maybe the character mostly speaks English. While this sounds like a fantastic French art-house kind of film – and I love that for Angelina, truly – I do hope she’s also getting scripts from the Hollywood studios? I’m slightly worried about her financially, because Brad Pitt is going to keep financially abusing her for years longer. Mama needs to pick up some big paychecks.

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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves are the co-owners of a new tequila company, Pantalones Organic Tequila. They launched it last year. To market the brand, Camila and Matthew have been posing for a series of pictures in which Matthew isn’t wearing any pants. Get it? ”Pantalones” means “pants,” so he’s going pantless to promote it? Yeah. One of the ads they did recreates the famous poster for Matthew and Kate Hudson’s movie, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, with Camila standing in for Kate and Matthew wearing his suit jacket with no pants. The ad is titled, “How to Lose Your Pants in 10 Ways.”

Matthew McConaughey is putting a cheeky spin on one of his most memorable movies. The actor teamed up with wife Camila Alves McConaughey to recreate the iconic poster for his 2003 romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Although, in the reenactment for the couple’s Pantalones Tequila brand, he ditches his full suit for a more casual look.

In the poster titled How to Lose Your Pants in 10 Ways, the Oscar winner opted to go trouser-free in a nod to the tequila brand’s name, which is Spanish for “pants.” As for Camila, she leaned on her husband in a yellow silk dress identical to the one worn by Kate Hudson, who starred alongside Matthew in the film.

Along with the poster, the brand also launched ten new cocktail recipes inspired by the classic comedy including “Yellow Dress,” “Rom Com Rita” and “You’re So Vain,” a nod to one of the movie’s most unforgettable scenes.

The stunt is the latest in a series of pantsless ads the duo shot for the tequila company, which the couple co-founded in 2023. Camila—who shares kids Levi, 16, Vida, 14, and Livingston, 11, with Matthew—recently revealed their children’s reaction to the scantily-clad photo series.

“They thought they were hilarious,” Camila told People in September. “What’s not to like? It is meant to be fun and silly… getting the wink on the joke!”

And with their kids on board, the couple—who wed in 2012—intend to keep the gag going.
“It’s safe to say you may see Matthew and I pantsless again,” she added, “with some Pantalones in-hand.”

[From EOnline]

I don’t know how I feel overall about the pantless campaign, but this poster, along with launching the 10 How to Lose a Guy…-themed cocktail recipes, is clever and fun. I would have done totally different pants-themed advertisements, though, not just ones where Matthew isn’t wearing pants. They could have even tied each one into a different MM movie. That said, I think it’s kind of endearing that Matthew and Camila asked their kids for approval to do a campaign where Daddy is posing (literally) half-naked with Mommy. Those kids are at the ages where they would find this ad campaign funny, although they’re probably like six months out from Levi finding it cringe.

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I don’t care what people say, I love Emily In Paris. It’s an extremely dumb show full of dumb clothes and low-stakes melodrama. Season 4 came out in September and I enjoyed it so much, even if some of the plot points made zero sense. Emily and Gabriel finally got together in a real way, only for it to quickly fall apart. Then Emily met an attractive Italian man and (spoiler) Emily In Rome might be a real possibility for Season 5. But what about Gabriel? Gabriel is played by the handsome French actor Lucas Bravo. As he promoted a non-EIP project, Bravo ended up complaining about Gabriel’s storyline in Season 4 specifically:

Lucas Bravo is questioning how much freedom he has on “Emily in Paris” – and whether or not he wants to return to the hit Netflix series for its fifth season.

“The ‘sexy chef’ was very much part of me in Season 1 and we grew apart season after season because of the choices he makes and because of the direction they make him take. I’ve never been so far away from him,” Bravo said to IndieWire of playing Gabriel. “In Season 1, there was a lot of me in him. But as they made him kind of unaware of his surroundings, of the dynamic, always victimizing and always being completely lost in translation and oblivious to anything that is happening around him and being manipulated by everyone, it kind of became not fun for me to shoot or to see a character I love so much and brought me so much, being slowly turned into guacamole. I really grew apart from him.”

Bravo added that he has tried to voice his concerns and give input on set but “there is only so much I can do in the limits of a script.” IndieWire has reached out to Netflix for comment.

“I tried for seasons to bring nuances but we don’t have much liberty on set. We cannot change a word or an emotion. They know what they want and we just have to comply,” Bravo said. “It makes me question if I want to be part of Season 5 […] because my contract ends at Season 4. I really want to see if Gabriel gets back to his fun, cheeky, playful, alive self. Because three seasons playing melancholic, sad, depressed, and lost is not fun anymore. It’s a comedy, everybody is having fun around me, everybody is jumping around, and I’m just slowly sinking into god knows what.”

“They’re probably holding onto something that they couldn’t measure that had such a success so now they are very precious about not changing the recipe and keeping it what it was,” Bravo said. “Anything that could go off road is carefully taken back. It’s a lot of souffles. Pregnant? No, fake positive. Going to Rome? No, coming back. There are a lot of things like that. There is a lack of risk.”

He added, “But I love the show. It started everything for me. I love the show and the people in it. With saying that, I feel like I am not being nice or grateful, but when you love something you want it to be…you want the best version of it. I’m not going to lie, I’ve been frustrated with the direction by character is taking. But we’ll see where it goes. The show is not over.”

[From IndieWire]

While I love EIP, I actually think he’s got somewhat of a point, especially with what the writers did with Gabriel in the fourth season. The whole storyline of Gabriel and Emily finally getting together only they’re suddenly miserable (for REASONS!) and they fall out… it was just complicated and dumb. That being said, it also felt like they’re trying to make Gabriel more dimensional and angsty. But yeah. As you can imagine, Lucas’ comments are not going down very well.

Lucas Bravo‘s future on Emily in Paris is still undecided after his surprising comments about the show, a source exclusively reveals in the newest issue of Us Weekly.

“The show will go on with or without Lucas,” the insider adds. “The show is Emily in Paris — not Gabriel in Paris.”

According to the source, “Everyone is so upset about the remarks he made. There is going to be a lot of tension.”

[From Us Weekly]

The thing is, Lily Collins is executive producer on EIP, and when other costars had issues with the writing or characterization, they went to Lily and she got sh-t done. That’s why there was such a marked improvement in the writing and storylines after the first season. Did Lucas share his thoughts with Lily? It sounds like he complained to some of the producers, but who knows.

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Chris Evans, Dwayne Johnson, and Lucy Liu are currently busy promoting their new holiday action film, Red One. The plot involves Santa being kidnapped. Despite heavy promotion (my local theater has had a big display out for a good month), it’s posed to big one of the biggest box office bombs of the year. As a part of their promo tour, Chris and Dwayne gave an interview to People. During the interview, Chris shared that he’s kinda over doing action movies at this point. Instead, he’s dying to be cast in an “actual musical film,” where he can sing and dance his pretty little heart out.

“I’m waiting to do an actual musical film. I want to sing,” Evans tells PEOPLE. “[And] dance. That is what I want.”

“Let’s manifest that, man,” says his costar Johnson, 52.

“I mean, that’s tough though because that’s something you got to do right. You only get so many bites at that apple,” Evans continues. “… But knowing that I’m very precious with it and I want to make sure it’s the right thing. So yeah, that’s always in the works.”

“That’s the quickest way to get me in a room. If you say it’s going to be a musical, I’m listening,” he adds.

“I got a feeling it’s going to happen, man,” says Johnson, after sharing that his Red One costar is “crazy talented musically.”

Speaking of musical skills, Evans says he also wants to try his hand at drumming.

“I played the piano and every time I watch someone drumming, I’m like, ‘Nah, that’s cool,” he tells PEOPLE. “Just got to do it. I just got to pick up some sticks and start doing it. But yeah, maybe a few more instruments.”

[From People]

Captain America wants to do a musical? Sure, why not? What type of musical are we talking about? Something like The Sound of Music or a more adult-themed musical like La La Land? For some reason, when I picture Chris in a musical role, I get major character actor vibes. I think of him playing the part of a police constable who pops up throughout the show as comedic relief. I can also kinda see him playing one of the princes in Into the Woods. Give him a top hat and some tap shoes and stick him in that Andrew Garfield/Ryan Gosling movie that we were trying to manifest into existence last month.

Anyone planning on seeing Red One? It looks like dumb fun, but it’s probably not a very good movie. My older son wants to see it, so there’s like a 50/50 chance I’ll end up being the one to take him since I have a higher tolerance for these types of films than Mr. Rosie does. Wish me luck.

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Last week, Donald Trump nominated Matt Gaetz to be his new Attorney General. Gaetz resigned his Florida congressional seat on the day that Trump nominated him. As we soon learned, Gaetz’s resignation from Congress came just days before the House Ethics Committee was about to release their years-long report into Gaetz’s sleazy, criminal behavior, behavior which included human trafficking, statutory rape, illegal drug use and solicitation. The House Ethics Committee apparently heard testimony from one of Gaetz’s victims that he had sex with her when she was a minor. Apparently, the Ethics Committee also heard testimony that Gaetz paid adult women for sex:

An attorney representing two women who testified before the House Ethics Committee told ABC News in an interview that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid both his adult clients for sex. Florida attorney Joel Leppard told ABC News’ Juju Chang that one of his clients also witnessed Gaetz having sex with a third woman — who was then 17 years old — at a house party in Florida.

“She testified [that] in July of 2017, at this house party, she was walking out to the pool area, and she looked to her right, and she saw Rep. Gaetz having sex with her friend, who was 17,” Leppard said.

The Justice Department spent years probing the allegations against Gaetz, including allegations of obstruction of justice, before informing Gaetz last year that it would not bring charges. Gaetz has long denied any wrongdoing related to the allegations investigated during Justice Department probe.

“Matt Gaetz will be the next Attorney General. He’s the right man for the job and will end the weaponization of our justice system,” Trump transition spokesperson Alex Pfeiffer told ABC News regarding all the allegations involving Gaetz. “These are baseless allegations intended to derail the second Trump administration. The Biden Justice Department investigated Gaetz for years and cleared him of wrongdoing,” Pfeiffer said of the allegations, which the Justice Department began investigating during the first Trump administration.

Leppard, who has called for the House Ethics Committee to release its report amid Gaetz’s nomination to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, told ABC News that the former congressman paid both of his clients for sex using Venmo.

“Just to be clear, both of your clients testified that they were paid by Rep. Gaetz to have sex?” Chang asked Leppard. “That’s correct. The House was very clear about that and went through each. They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them. And my clients repeatedly testified, ‘What was this payment for?’ ‘That was for sex,’” Leppard said.

[From ABC News]

After failing to release the Gaetz report last Friday, the Ethics Committee is meeting again on Wednesday to discuss whether or not it should be released. Speaker Mike Johnson has gone on the record about how he doesn’t think it should be released. Donald Trump is also personally calling up senators to persuade them to vote for Gaetz as AG. But the Times reports that, privately, Trump has admitted that Gaetz might not be confirmed by the Senate given all of his baggage (baggage = Law & Order: SVU plotlines), but Trump still has shown no interest in withdrawing Gaetz’s nomination. Still, I bet shutting down Congress and pushing all of his nominees through as recess appointments is still on the table?

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During the Paris Olympics, a huge scandal broke in Norway’s royal house. Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon’s stepson Marius Borg Hoiby was arrested for assaulting a young woman who was possibly his girlfriend. Haakon’s wife Princess Mette-Marit avoided the Olympics as she dealt with her son’s situation, which unfolded slowly. Norwegian gossips said that Marius is well-known in Norwegian society as a violent sh-thead, in addition to being a wannabe reality star. Marius is 27 years old and he’s been getting into dramas for years, but this is the biggest problem they’ve had with him, as far as anyone knows. Well, it looks like Marius is now being charged with rape, but I’m not 100% clear if this is all part of the same incident from August, or if the victim is the same young woman.

The son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has been arrested on suspicion of rape. Marius Borg Høiby, the royal’s 27-year-old son from before her marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, was arrested on Monday, Nov. 18, in Oslo, according to the Oslo Police District.

In a release shared on Tuesday, Nov. 19, police said Høiby was arrested on suspicion of violating the criminal code “which concerns sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons unable to resist the act. What police can say about the rape is that it concerns a sexual act without intercourse. The victim is said to have been unable to resist the act,” the release added.

Høiby is currently in detention in Greenland. Authorities have yet to decide whether he will be remanded in custody. Høiby’s arrest comes after he was previously arrested in August following an alleged incident involving a woman in her 20s.

According to Norwegian outlet Se og Hør, he reportedly “attacked” the woman “psychologically and physically,” and she was treated at a hospital for a concussion.

Høiby was held for 30 hours before being released, per the outlet, which also reported that police confirmed “a person was arrested and charged with assault and later released from custody.”

The 27-year-old was also arrested again in September for allegedly violating a restraining order, reported The Guardian.

According to the police’s release on Nov. 19, when Høiby was arrested, he was in a car with the alleged victim from the August incident.

“The charge relates to another violation of a restraining order against the same victim. In addition, a report has been filed for violation of a restraining order and driving without a valid driver’s license,” the release added.

[From People]

I completely believe that Marius is a ball of violence, predation and criminality, but I find this rather confusing – are there multiple victims, or did he terrorize and assault the same woman multiple times over the course of months? I’m not going to dig into it, because I suspect the victim or victims’ identities are being protected, as they should be. I hope she or they get a lot of support and help. I also hope Marius gets thrown in prison forever. What a huge scandal in the Norwegian royal house.

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There are several annual autumn/winter events on the Windsors’ calendar, but I forgot about this one. Tonight, King Charles will host the annual white-tie reception for diplomats. Last year’s diplomatic reception was attended by Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William and the Princess of Wales. They made a point of posing together as “the new Fab Four.” Well, guess who isn’t coming to dinner tonight? That’s right, Kate has been benched. No more tiara events for Keen.

The King will tonight host a glittering white tie and tiara reception at Buckingham Palace for the country’s leading diplomats. Queen Camilla and The Prince of Wales will join other family members attending – but the Princess of Wales is not expected to join them, the Mail understands.

In September Catherine, 42, announced a slow and measured return to royal duties after the conclusion of her cancer treatment. She underwent major abdominal surgery in January after which doctors discovered cancer had been present and recommended a course of preventative chemotherapy.

It is believed Catherine is focusing on organising her annual carol concert at Westminster Abbey early next month.

Tonight’s reception is one of the highlights of the royal calendar. It will see the King and Queen welcome more than 500 members of the ‘Diplomatic Corps’ in all their finery to the State Rooms at the palace, highlighting the crucial role the monarch plays at the heart of British diplomacy. The event is normally held on the first Tuesday in December but has been brought forward as it would have clashed with a State Visit of the Amir of Qatar this year.

[From The Daily Mail]

This is both sad and funny: “It is believed Catherine is focusing on organising her annual carol concert at Westminster Abbey early next month.” Kensington Palace staff organize the concert, Kate just shows up for a handful of photo-ops. There’s nothing Kate has to do, especially not on the same night as one of the biggest events on the royal calendar. This is one of the clearest examples thus far that Charles, Camilla and William have decided to bench Kate. This is exactly the kind of event which Kate wants to attend – she would have gotten a new dress and they would have to let her borrow a tiara. It also looks like the Middletons couldn’t negotiate Kate’s appearance for anything beyond the biggest family events (Trooping, Remembrance). It’s all so odd.

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The People’s Prince was in full flight on Monday. Prince Harry flew into Vancouver over the weekend and popped up at the Grey Cup on Sunday. Then on Monday, he made a “surprise” stop at the Seaforth Academy to hang out with the students there and introduce them to the Invictus Games and everything in and around Invictus. Most of the students are from military families, I think? And the photos show a man full of charm who loves to be around kids. He’s listening to them, engaging with them. He’s absolutely not wandering around like Lurch, pointing a gnarled finger at them while performatively grimacing. Not that I’m making any specific reference.

On Nov. 18, the Duke of Sussex, 40, appeared at the Seaforth Armoury in Vancouver to launch the School Program from the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025, presented by ATCO and Boeing. Prince Harry, a former captain in the British Army, created the Invictus Games, an international adaptive sports tournament for wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans, in 2014 as a means for healing, and the next iteration will be held in Vancouver and Whistler in February of next year.

Prince Harry visited the historic military facility to join students in a range of activities, marking the launch of an online program aimed at introducing the Invictus Games to schools everywhere. As a father to two young children — Prince Archie, 5 and Princess Lilibet, 3 — Harry’s natural parenting skills were on full display as he interacted with the kids.

“Seeing them learn about the Invictus Games has had a profound impact on me because this is where Invictus starts to go even wider outside of the Invictus community, into schools in Canada and hopefully around the world,” Prince Harry said in a speech shared to X. The visit comes 81 days before the next cycle of the Invictus Games begins.

[From People]

I adore Harry and everything, but I have some questions: are they developing an Invictus-type program for schools and if so, why? While the Invictus Games always feature family-friendly, kid-friendly interactive events, is the idea to really create something like an Invictus course or an Invictus program for all schools, or just military schools? While I think it’s really cool that he did this (visited a school full of military kids), I just think it’s kind of a difficult sell to take this wider? Especially when Invictus has been needing to grow itself – the number of applications rises significantly each year, and they’ve needed to expand how many competitors they bring in for a while.

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