Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge saga has finally been put to bed. I won’t go into the whole tortured history of it, but last year, King Charles decided that it would be a good use of his time to play musical chairs with various royal homes in Windsor. Charles evicted the Sussexes from Frogmore Cottage and demanded that Andrew give up his valid lease on Royal Lodge, all so Andrew could move into Frogmore. Andrew refused to budge, even as Charles waged a very public pressure campaign. Then, in Robert Hardman’s new book chapters, he revealed that Charles had finally cut off Andrew’s £1 million annual allowance. This came after Charles apparently cut off Andrew’s £3 million annual security several months ago too. Even without Charles’s largesse, there was nothing to be done about Andrew’s valid lease. And now Andrew has informed the Crown Estate that he has the money to support himself at Royal Lodge and that’s just what he plans to do:
The Duke of York has raised the funds to be allowed to stay at Royal Lodge. It is understood that Prince Andrew’s money has been approved by Sir Michael Stevens, the keeper of the privy purse, as coming from legitimate sources.
Andrew, 64, received written notice earlier this year that King Charles, his older brother, would cut him off financially if he refused to move out of the estate in Windsor and into more modest accommodation. The duke lives in the 30-room estate in Windsor Great Park with his former wife Sarah Ferguson under a lease agreement with the Crown Estate which is valid until 2078.
In an unexpected twist, Andrew has now convinced Palace authorities that he has sufficient funds from legitimate sources to support himself. He no longer receives public money and with no discernible income beyond a Royal Navy pension there have long been questions over the source of the duke’s wealth. A source said: “If Andrew can pay for his own upkeep with legitimate means, then it is not an issue. But the King’s patience has run out when it comes to funding his brother’s lifestyle in a way that does not fit his status.”
Sources close to Andrew have maintained for years that he has plenty of money squirreled away, and no one really knows where it came from or what Andrew did to get it. There was the Swiss chalet he bought out of nowhere, then sold and pocketed what he could from the sale. There were other real estate ventures. There was Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell too. So who knows. In any case, sources close to Andrew are now emphasizing that this whole ordeal blew up in Charles’s face.
Friends of Prince Andrew were jubilant Friday night after the disgraced duke won the so-called ‘Siege of Royal Lodge,’ successfully defying his brother King Charles’ long-running efforts to kick him out of the extravagant 90-acre property. In a bitter humiliation for the king, who has spent much of the past year scheming to get Andrew out of the ten-bedroomed mansion—which he was rumored to be eying as a potential dowager house for his wife Camilla—the palace has thrown in the towel and accepted that Andrew can stay there after all.
Charles’ last maneuver was to cut his brother’s annual allowance of £1 million (roughly $1.3 million) and his private security detail. But to no avail—the king has now accepted that he has lost in what many will see as a devastating blow to his authority as he struggles with the familiar challenge of an ailing monarch; maintaining discipline and obedience.
“We are thrilled for Andrew. Andrew has a cast iron lease on the property so god knows why Charles chose to pick this battle,” a friend of the prince told The Daily Beast. “It’s hard to imagine anyone would have any interest in where Andrew is living if Charles’ aides had not spent the past year banging on about it. He was never going to just walk away from the property; the lease is a valuable asset he intends to leave to his children, and maybe William will be glad of having Eugenie or Beatrice there in years to come.
Another friend told The Daily Beast: “Charles has everything. He is as rich as Croesus. Andrew is 64 and his house is basically all he has left and it was wicked of the king to try and take it off him. Why? Who cares?” This friend speculated that the recent publication of details of the king’s phenomenal wealth in the Sunday Times had been a factor in Charles “dropping the pretense the monarchy is run on a shoe string.”
Yeah, I don’t have a solid explanation for why Charles was hellbent on publicizing this drama with Andrew, other than it was Charles’s sad attempt to look “tough” on a sexual predator or like he was pinching pennies. The thing is, Charles didn’t look tough at all – he looked like he picked a fight with brother over old family sh-t (mummy loved Andrew more!), then cozied up to that same sexual predator brother whenever it was convenient. I haven’t forgotten that Andrew was given prominent placement at the past two Christmas walks in Sandringham. Charles even gave Andrew and the Yorks use of Wood Farm. Andrew was also welcomed at Balmoral for the past two summers.
Good lord, I am so over the Wicked promotion. They shouldn’t have been promoting this mess for a full year. Now that Wicked (PART 1) is coming out in a few weeks, it feels like the actors are limping along because they’ve had to do so much sh-t for it for months already. Anyway, here are photos from the big, garish Los Angeles premiere on Sunday. Wicked actors Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater all came out. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenowith – who originated the Glinda and Elphaba roles on Broadway – also came out to support the film. Guess who else came out? Jennifer Lopez! What is she doing there? Is just a Wicked fan, or was she supporting Ari and Cynthia in particular?
One of the things which has grown very, very tired about the promotion is that Ari and Cynthia have theme-dressed their way through it for months. There’s only so many times I can see that acid green color combined with pale “princess” pink. For the LA premiere, Ariana wore a pink-and-cream gingham Thom Browne ensemble, and Cynthia wore a custom vinyl dress by Louis Vuitton. Cynthia also exclusively wore Roberto Coin jewelry, including “an 18K white gold diamond and emerald collar necklace from the brand’s Haute Couture Collection worth a staggering $750,000.”
Other fashion notes…if you wondered about J.Lo, she wore Zuhair Murad. In her showgirl era. Jonathan Bailey’s ensemble is hilarious to me – he looks like he’s about to head off to a tropical rave, and I f–king love that he was the one who got to wear the ruby-red slippers.
Here are photos from last night’s Festival of Remembrance concert, which is always held the night before Remembrance Sunday (today). I’ll cover the Remembrance Sunday photos tomorrow, but these concert photos deserve their own post. This is the Princess of Wales’s second public outing since the summer, and since her very strange “cancer-free” announcement video in September. The last time we saw her was when she suddenly popped up in Southport with William a month ago. Ol’ girl has been noticeably “refreshed” since then.
Kate usually chooses a conservative black dress or coatdress for this concert, and this year’s appearance was no different. A black coatdress which looks new to me, but who knows. The point wasn’t actually the coatdress, it was the jewelry She wore Princess Diana’s Collingwood pearl earrings, and paired them with a pearl necklace from Monica Vinader (which is part of Kate’s jewelry collection, she didn’t borrow it). She also got to wear her sapphire engagement ring, which has been largely missing this year in various sightings and events.
In recent weeks, there’s been a new emphasis on how Kate is feeling a lot better and she’s preparing to be keen yet again. Katie Nicholl at Vanity Fair gave an update just before Kate’s Remembrance appearances:
According to a family friend, the princess, who was photographed in Scotland in August attending a church service with Prince William and the king and queen, is “doing well” and feeling “better than ever.”
“Catherine was committed to attending two key events, Trooping the Colour and Remembrance Sunday, because she knows how important they are both to the king and the nation. She’s doing very well and feeling very strong and positive about the future,” the source told VF.com. “In fact, she and William have enjoyed a couple of low-key visits to Scotland recently without the children, which has been very special time for them.”
Aides say it’s the princess’s intention to return to work full-time when she is ready, and that she is working on her Christmas carol service of thanksgiving, to be held at Westminster Abbey next month, which she also plans to attend with her family.
Again, they’ve set it up so people only really expect to see her once a month (with summers off) for the big events. What I would love to know is if this is purely Kate’s call, or if Charles and William want Kate tamped down and largely out of sight from here. Also: Camilla begged off for this event because of her chest infection, so Princess Anne was seated with King Charles.
Taylor Swift is usually all about autumnal style, all about sweaters and cute cold-weather ensembles. But was unseasonably warm all up and down the East Coast last week, which might explain why Taylor wore this summery frock in November. Taylor was seen going into Chez Margaux in New York on Friday. According to the paparazzi, she arrived with security and met up with Zoe Kravitz and Jerrod Carmichael. Taylor, Jerrod and Zoe were at Chez Margaux for eight hours! Taylor looked a bit worse for wear as she left, so I kind of wonder if she was getting good and drunk after the election. I would not blame her at all if that’s what happened.
Taylor’s dress and purse are Vivienne Westwood, and she wore Aquazurra Twist 95 velvet sandals. As I said, very summery. I was in t-shirts and flip-flops all of last week too. We had two consecutive 80-degree days. Now, do I like any of this on Taylor? Not really. The dress is unflattering and it makes her look knocked up (it’s the way the corset is boned in the midsection). The combination of the dress and her hairstyle is very Germanic to me, like she’s about to serve beer at Oktoberfest.
In case you’re wondering about Chez Margaux, it’s a private, members-only club in the same vein as many exclusive members-only clubs in Europe, specifically England. It’s supposed to have a real European feel and decadent vibes. Inside the club, there’s a Jean-Georges restaurant, a sushi lounge, a caviar-champagne room and nightclub. Taylor has memberships to several of these private clubs in New York. Post-election, my guess is that Chez Margaux was one of the go-to places for sad, rich Democrats to drown their sorrows and socialize with somewhat like-minded people.
Meanwhile, the Grammy nominations also came out on Friday. Taylor’s The Tortured Poets Department got six nominations, including Album of the Year, Pop Vocal Album, and Record and Song of the Year (for “Fortnight”). Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter got 11 nominations, including noms in the big three: Record, Album and Song of the Year. Y’all know what that means… Beyonce’s once again losing the big Grammys to white artists, probably Taylor.
Did you guys know that Justine Bateman was and is awful? I had no idea. Justine is Jason Bateman’s older sister, and Justine was once the more famous Bateman sibling, back in the 1980s and 1990s. She worked pretty consistently in TV through 2000-2013, then it’s like she dropped off a cliff professionally. Zero credits for eight years, up until 2021, when she premiered a film called Violet, which she wrote, directed and produced. Violet was supposed to come out one year earlier, but everything was on pause because of the pandemic. I bring this up because the pandemic seemingly broke her brain and turned her into one of the biggest Karens I’ve ever seen. Justine threw a hissy fit on Twitter after the election, I’m not embedding it, but here’s the text:
Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.
I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability.
I’ve never in my life known that to be an American environment. It’s an environment I have encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club,a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It has been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized. Only “permitted position” behavior and speech was “allowed.”
Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others. Their destruction was displayed in the “town square” of social media for all to see. This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.This was the era of trying to exercise control over those who did not want to follow the crowd and has their own ideas about what they needed to do. This dampened our culture and innovation, bringing people to even think that generative #AI, a regurgitation of the past, was actually our cultural future.
When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement. Those that tried to impose that control maintained a kind of “hall monitor” position by threatening others with damning labels like “Sexist,” “racist,” “homophobic,” etc, when the free-thinking and questioning was nothing of the sort. However, the mob mentality that followed caused these social convictions when there was often no evidence to support them. (See Charles McKay’s 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds).
I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else’s freedom to live their own life.
That’s it.
[From Justine Bateman’s Twitter]
Sure, I have some time to get into this. This is all part of a larger movement among MAGA cultists and Trump supporters to position themselves as the only true advocates for “free speech” and “independent thought.” Those are coded terms for “I want to be racist/bigoted/hateful/nasty in public but people will call me out!” They think they’re being “censored” when people respond to the awful sh-t they say or write online. They think it’s a First Amendment issue and an issue of “intolerance” that their words and actions have consequences. You know how I said that the pandemic seemingly broke her brain? Check out the receipt, below. Ten bucks says that Justine Bateman is an anti-vaxxer who thought the pandemic was a “hoax.”
Behold this unhinged tantrum from the former star of Family Ties, Justine Bateman.
For perspective, Bateman was super-duper upset that people preferring not to die of COVID got in the way of… a festival she had already picked out outfits for. https://t.co/lgjkzkUzrq pic.twitter.com/C8j317wSXo
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 8, 2024
Hugh Grant is permanently grumpy, but you can always tell when he likes the project he’s promoting. When he recently promoted Wonka, he looked and acted like he was about to curl up and die, he was so miserable. Currently, he’s promoting his role in Heretic, an A24 horror film where he plays the bad guy. He’s really proud of it, you can tell. He was exceptionally chatty with Vanity Fair, as he spoke about Heretic and what happened over the course of his multi-decade career. Some highlights:
He had to play his Heretic villain as charming: He’s playing a “brilliant f–ked-up character.” But he decided to resurrect just a dash of his rom-com leading man persona. “You don’t want the audience to be sitting there saying, ‘These girls are morons, the guy is clearly a weirdo and a dick.’ I was under some pressure to use my powers of warmth and charm.”
The Wachowskis’ ‘Cloud Atlas’ changed his career after the 2009 bomb ‘Did You Hear About the Morgans?’: “I was completely marooned. The Wachowskis offered me just a few small little parts in Cloud Atlas, and to be honest, I was probably only offered that because some of their international distributors had said, ‘We need some more recognizable names. Cram someone recognizable in here.’…” He came out of ‘Cloud Atlas’ renewed. “I thought, Oh yeah, I used to really enjoy doing characters—in fact, I almost used to enjoy acting. I started out doing silly voices, odd people, making people laugh at university, and then doing this comedy show in London. It was doing characters. Then through sheer chance, maybe because of the way I looked, I got drawn into the leading romantic hero. It went fine, but it’s not what I think I’m best at—partly because it’s less fun.”
Playing swoony heartthrobs in the ‘90s: “The irony of the Richard Curtis parts I played is that they were actually character roles for me—I’m not that stutter-y, blink-ey guy. The catastrophic mistake I made was that because Four Weddings was such a gigantic success, I thought, Oh, well, this is the way of infinite wealth and success. People are eating up that person.’ So I did him in real life: I started doing interviews like him. In my Golden Globe acceptance speech from 1995, I said, ‘I love you, gosh, blah blah. Thank you so much’—what a dick. I’m playing the character because I thought everyone was eating him up. It was never me at all.” Everyone, it turns out, was not eating it up: “People quite rightly were repelled by it in the end.”
Playing Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones’s Diary: “There are people in my life who have always said, ‘Oh, that’s much more like the real Hugh,’” Grant says. He was asked to reprise the prickly role in the 2004 sequel, The Edge of Reason, which he did, and again in the next sequel, 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, which he declined. “I really couldn’t fit my character in—he just didn’t belong, so I stepped aside,” Grant says. Cleaver is back, however, for the fourth film in the series, Mad About the Boy. “I loved the script—it made me cry, and I wanted to help with this one. But really there’s no part for Daniel Cleaver in it at all. They wanted him in it, and in the end, they’d done something I wasn’t crazy about. [So] I wrote some scenes… It’s absolutely the best [Bridget Jones book], and I think the movie is very funny and very, very moving. I’m not in a lot, I did a week’s work, that’s it…. But when you see the film, you’ll be very moved.”
He’s skeptical of big-budget studio fare. “I’ve turned down a few that I thought were insufficient in quality or independence allowed to the filmmakers—you felt like a big corporation breathing down the neck of these filmmakers, and I don’t want to make that decision,” he says. How could he tell? “I asked them bluntly. I quizzed the directors. You can tell quite early on, since you might have a few ideas about the part before you’ve signed up—you suggest things, and you can tell if there’s a lot of pushback from non-creative executives.”
It’s cool that he points to Cloud Atlas as the film which renewed his interest in character-acting. He’s had such a strange career, and the “leading man” part of his career probably should have ended a lot sooner than it did. He is a great character actor, and I would even call him an underrated talent. It’s also kind of sweet that he still has so much affection for the Bridget Jones franchise and he really gives a sh-t about those characters. I would love to know what he turns down too.
It’s true, Carrie Coon looks like she’s both 35 and 55. [Pajiba]
Paul Mescal’s brown suit is not one of the best looks of the week. [Socialite Life]
Halle Berry in a great leopard-print. [LaineyGossip]
Sarah Jessica Parker will bring back denim prairie skirts? [Go Fug Yourself]
Demi Moore did a career retrospective with VF. [OMG Blog]
Olivia Wilde & Jason Sudeikis had a friendly meet-up. [Just Jared]
Interesting Versace look on Saoirse Ronan. [RCFA]
Krispy Kreme is doing special Thanksgiving donuts. [Seriously OMG]
Happy birthday to SZA. [Hollywood Life]
Jimmy Kimmel choked up after the election. [Buzzfeed]
And I’m not trolling you! I really do agree! Feeling “fine as hell” and loving my forties; some days I’m feeling 35 and some I lean 55, but they are all me.
— Carrie Coon (@carriecoon) November 5, 2024
To prepare for this story, I watched about half Chynna Phillips’ latest YouTube vlog. She opens by walking and talking to the camera, very rapidly, about what’s happening in her life and family. At about 3:40 in she does a baby impression before recounting one of her experiences giving birth. While her baby impression is quite good it kind of sums up her entire personality. I would have a hard time tolerating her socially and find her annoying af, but I’m sure she has fans. (I find many YouTubers annoying, so take that as you will.) She’s also a born again Christian and references Jesus and The Bible frequently.
Chynna, 56, is best known as part of the all female music group Wilson Phillips. She’s been married to Billy Baldwin, 61, since 1995 and they have three adult children, the youngest of whom is 20. Chynna’s latest video diary is making news because she revealed that she’s living separately from Billy, at her suggestion, but that they’re still together. Chynna’s personality aside, I’m sure a lot of women would like to have that arrangement. Here’s part of People’s writeup about this.
“Billy and I are sort of in this new kind of arrangement that is actually really working for me. I don’t know if it’s working for Billster, but I’m really happy with what we’re doing,” she begins, before adding, “Basically, it’s totally unstructured . . . let me explain.”
She continues, “I said to Billy, ‘Look, why don’t we just do a little test run to see what it feels like to have me in Santa Barbara, you in Beverly Hills, and then we flip-flop. Then in between, we have date nights together, we have therapy, we have dinner with the children and we go to the beach or the museum.”
The pair, who married in 1995, share three adult children together: daughters Jameson, 24, and Brooke, 19, and son Vance, 22.
The couple will spend a few days together when she says “we have sleepovers and stuff,” but they’re not “forcing ourselves to be subjected to each other’s energy 24/7.”
While her actor husband “is a bit more reticent about the whole thing,” Chynna notes that he was still willing to try out the new setup.
She later goes into more detail about the arrangement while on a FaceTime call with Billy, 61.
“I think that we’re onto something,” she tells her husband. “I really do, because we enjoy each other’s company. It’s so hard to articulate to people that we’re madly in love, we really enjoy being around one another, we cherish our marriage, we don’t ever want to separate. We just need a little time apart because we are sort of an allergy to one another. And it’s OK. I’m sure lots of different couples are allergies to each other.”
The actor cuts in, “The reality is you have the allergy, I have a certain energy that makes you have a— see, your back just tweaked just now.” He adds, “You do things that, you know, sort of alter my energy sometimes.”
She also tried to reconcile her fundie beliefs with living apart from her husband. She said “where in the Bible does it say that I have to live under the same roof, 24/7 with my husband? Can you please find me that scripture?” She then said she knows The Bible teaches that she has to submit to him, but that “I’ll submit when I’m around.” I mean, this is one way to gain your independence while technically adhering to antiquated Christian teachings that subjugate women. Billy is not religious like Chynna but explained that he goes to church and prays with her. He told her later in the video, on a video chat, that he adores her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her.
Sometimes I think about the 2012 movie, Hope Springs, where Meryl Street and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple who get their spark back. It’s kind of an older married woman’s fantasy and I remember thinking how unrealistic it was. People don’t change, but you can shift things by mixing it up. It must be nice to have the resources to live in an entirely different house than your spouse. So many rich and famous people do that and talk about how awesome it is. Barring that, I’ve heard that separate bathrooms and an extra bedroom help.
Heterosexual Millennial and Gen Z women are trying to date and they’re finding a pretty tragic dating pool. I’ve seen so many tweets and TikToks where women are trying to give advice about first-date red flags and what kinds of questions to ask to get to women’s dealbreaker issues. In recent weeks, I’ve been seeing a lot about women asking their dates or boyfriends really specific hypotheticals about “what would you do if a doctor told you I would die if I didn’t have an abortion.” It seems like an obvious enough prompt for the guy to explain how he would do anything to save a woman’s life, but apparently guys are showing their MAGA asses over it. All of which to say, I don’t blame women for trying to find some simple questions to filter out the losers. I’m not sure about Olivia Rodrigo’s dealbreaker question though?
Olivia Rodrigo has an out-of-this-world first-date question. The “Vampire” singer, 21, revealed one of her dating “red flags” during an interview with Netflix posted on Instagram on Nov. 1.
Discussing the meaning behind the many signature tees she wore on stage during her Guts World Tour, including one that read “Dump Him” — which Rodrigo said is a “classic homage to Miss Britney Spears” — the star went on to reveal the question she asks guys on first dates to gauge their compatibility.
“The biggest red flag, okay, this is a very oddly specific question that I ask guys on first dates,” she began. “I always ask them if they would want to go to space. And if they say yes, I don’t date them,” Rodrigo continued with a grin. “I just think if you want to go to space, you’re a little too full of yourself.”
Elsewhere during her chat with Netflix, the songwriter also detailed that Sex and the City is one of her favorite shows and said that she is firmly Team Aidan, referring to John Corbett’s character on the series.
“Mr. Big sucks,” she said, a nod to Chris Noth’s character, who served as the other love interest for Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw. “But we’ve all dated guys like that. You can’t let them go. But yeah, Aidan for the win.”
The space question… it’s a generational thing, because older people probably want to go to space because they had childhood dreams of being astronauts and working at NASA (Space Camp was a seminal movie for my generation). These days, “going to space” means space tourism, being wealthy enough to hitch a ride on Blue Origin or Space X or whatever. It’s an okay filter question for Gen Z but I hope she’s got other dealbreakers. I don’t envy Olivia trying to weed out the douchebags though.
As for what she says about Sex and the City… it’s so funny to see younger girls watch that show and experience it in completely different ways. I’ve been doing a rewatch of some of the later seasons, and what’s driving me crazy is everything about Carrie’s arrested development and how she’s a complete f–king phony with men. She’s only “real” with her girlfriends, never with men. Whenever anything gets close to real with men, she sabotages it. Anyway, I’ve always agreed that Aidan was better than Big, but that’s just in general – Carrie and Big belonged together because they both sucked.
This week, Prince Harry was “seen” twice. Once in a video address, alongside his wife, to a conference about children in Colombia. The second appearance is a new photo of Harry, given to his UK patronage, Scotty’s Little Soldiers. Harry became patron and global ambassador of SLS years and years ago. SLS gives support to military families, specifically gold-star families (what we call them here in America), families who have lost a military parent. When Harry was in London back in May, he even hosted a special event for all of the SLS kids. Well, Harry gave them a new photo and a letter of support – you can read the letter here, and here’s People’s coverage:
Prince Harry has reached out with a heartfelt letter to young members of Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a charity close to his heart that supports bereaved military children and young adults.
The letter reflects the Duke of Sussex’s deeply personal understanding of loss, rooted in the death of his mother, Princess Diana, when he was only 12. In his message, he shares with the children that he understands, “perhaps more than most, the weight of losing a parent at a young age.”
“It can be overwhelming and isolating. Yet, in the midst of that heartache, we find strength in the love and memories left behind, and I have seen how communities like yours can offer deep comfort and healing,” he wrote.
The Duke acknowledged that Remembrance Day, a solemn day in the U.K. honoring those who lost their lives in war or conflict, is not only a time to honor the sacrifices of service members but also to recognize the enduring impact on families left behind.
“I encourage you to take a moment to reflect on the values that your loved ones instilled in you — courage, compassion, and a sense of purpose. These will serve as your guiding light, helping you navigate the challenges ahead,” he wrote.
In a new photo, Prince Harry wears the Scotty’s scarf in solidarity, along with a poppy pin — a symbol of remembrance used since 1921 to honor fallen service members.
“In coming together to support one another, you not only honor the memories of your loved ones but also forge bonds that can and will carry you through the toughest times,” he wrote. “The tears and laughter, the shared experiences, and the moments of joy you create together are powerful reminders that love endures. Your resilience is a testament to the legacy of your loved ones, and I have every confidence in your ability to make them proud and to shine bright in the world. All they want is for you to be happy.”
Harry did this specifically because this weekend, people will mark Remembrance Day officially, even though Remembrance Day is on Monday. But over the weekend, that’s when the British prime minister and various royals will gather at the Cenotaph in London and do their wreath-laying. On Monday, Scotty’s Little Soldiers will have an event in London to honor their parents, and I would assume that Harry gave them this letter of support because he can’t go to London for the event.
Prince Harry, our Global Ambassador, has written a heartfelt letter of support to our members ahead of Remembrance.
Read his letter in full: https://t.co/xGO5sa0UWt pic.twitter.com/uLerFU8eVJ
— Scotty’s L Soldiers (@CorporalScotty) November 7, 2024