This year’s Met Gala will be held on May 1st, because that is the “first Monday in May.” On May 6th, King Charles will throw himself his big coronation party. Is it possible that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will only turn up for one of those events that week? For years now, people have been predicting that the Sussexes would be invited to the Met Gala. We have no idea if invitations were ever extended, but I imagine that calls were made to see if the Sussexes would *like* to be invited. So far, they haven’t shown up at any gala or the Oscars or the Oscar parties. I would love to see them at all of the above. Well, so would the Royally Us podcast, and now the Daily Mirror claims that the Sussexes will be invited to the Met Gala?

With Prince Harry’s memoir Spare flying off shelves and his documentary with Meghan Markle soaring to the most-streamed spot on Netflix, the former Royals have begun to enter into their celebrity era. But it seems that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will now look to cement their A-list status in Hollywood by making their debut at the showbiz and fashion extravaganza that is the Met Gala this year.

It will be a first for both Meghan, who did not merit an invite when she was an actress on Suits and Harry, who will be the first royal to ever attend the bash if they do get the greenlight. Coveted invites are sent out by a select committee, headed up by Vogue supremo Anna Wintour, with only the top ranking stars of screen, fashion and music meriting a pass.

Royal commenters are holding out that the pair might be on the guest list for more celebrity events this year, including the highly coveted Met Gala – which is set to take place on the 1st May this year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City.

Speaking of their recent appearance at Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi’s vow renewal in Montecito, California, the Royally Us podcast hosts Christine Ross and Christina Garibaldi believe this may not be the only time that Meghan and Harry find themselves on a celebrity guest list this year.

Christina said to listeners: “It was definitely an A-List Hollywood guestlist and I think that’s where Harry and Meghan want to find themselves — on that A-List Hollywood circuit. I think this is the first of many times we’re going to see Harry and Meghan in these A-List circuits. I would keep an eye out on things like the Met Gala, the big red carpets this year, to see where they are going to find their place in the celebrity minefield.”

[From The Daily Mirror]

My gut says that out of all of the upcoming events, we would be more likely to see them at the Vanity Fair Oscar party or some Netflix event connected to the awards season. While (again) I would love to see them at the Met Gala, I just don’t think they would want to go? Especially this year, where the theme is all about honoring Karl Lagerfeld. Meghan didn’t have a particular attachment to Lagerfeld, you know? She might be more willing to go if the theme was something of interest to her.

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There were a lot of Megan Fox updates over the weekend, with People Magazine insisting that Megan is “not giving up” on her relationship with Machine Gun Kelly, and Page Six reporting that Megan had found texts & DMs from other women on his phone, which is why she got upset two weekends ago. Then Megan revived her Instagram to tell us that “there was no third party interference” in her engagement. Some of you took that as Megan trying to appease MGK – and maybe she was – but I think it’s far more likely that the tabloids were crawling all over MGK’s bandmate Sophie Lloyd, who has just been innocently doing her job and yet people are convinced that she’s the other woman. In any case, People Mag has a new update:

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are “still not in a good place,” a source tells PEOPLE, after the actress returned to Instagram Sunday to shut down rumors about the couple.

Fox, 36, who completely deactivated her Instagram account last week after hinting at a potential breakup between her and 32-year-old Kelly (real name Colson Baker), shared a post after reactivating it stating that there was no cheating involved in the relationship.

“There has been no third party interference in this relationship of any kind,” Fox wrote. “You need to let this story die and leave all of these innocent people alone now.”

A source who is familiar with both Fox and Kelly tells PEOPLE that the Transformers actress had initially suspected something was amiss and reacted out of emotion.

“She’s now posted that there was no cheating, but she initially thought there was and now is backtracking a bit,” the source says. “She was definitely hinting at infidelity with her first post. She regrets making it all so public, but was really upset in the moment.”

“Their relationship is crazy and intense,” the source adds, “yet it wouldn’t be shocking if they were back together completely by the end of the week.”

[From People]

“Their relationship is crazy and intense” – after more than three years? Like, can they settle down at some point and just chill out and make dinner? Megan is a 36 year old mother of three, why is still doing crazy and intense relationships at this point in her life? Those crazy and intense relationships happen when you’re young and too dumb to see all the red flags. I do feel like Megan is a habitual ignorer of red flags too. Anyway, I bet Megan had good reason to freak out and take her engagement ring off, and she should go with that reason and not backslide. Easier said than done for many women, I acknowledge that.

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Another week full of news and gossip about Prince Andrew. It’s been clear this whole time that Andrew still has many “allies” in the British establishment and in the media, and he’s also paying people to tell him what he wants to hear. “Sources” recently told the Daily Beast’s Royalist that Andrew “rues the day” he ever settled out of court with Virginia Giuffre, and he’s still playing the “we never met” game, despite photo evidence. It seems Andrew still believes he can somehow, some way, overturn the settlement and somehow get those millions “back.” You might think, hey, didn’t Andrew get a large inheritance from his parents and isn’t he blowing through that inheritance on this stupid, going-nowhere fight? You would be right, and apparently King Charles has taken notice too, because Charles isn’t going to pay for Andrew’s lifestyle much longer. From the Daily Mail:

Charles is trying to force Andrew out of Royal Lodge? Prince Andrew fears the King is trying to force him out of his £30 million Windsor home by slashing his annual grant. A furious Duke of York is telling friends that without hundreds of thousands of pounds a year from his older brother, he will be unable to maintain Royal Lodge and will have to move out by September.

Charles said it’s belt-tightening time: The Duke formerly relied on the generosity of the late Queen to support him with private funds from the Duchy of Lancaster, last reported at £249,000 a year. But it is understood that in the past few weeks all members of the Royal Family have been told to tighten their belts and to expect less money from the Duchy – now owned by Charles – than in the past. Those in the Duke’s inner circle feel that he has been targeted as his only other annual income is a small Navy pension, so he will be particularly hard hit.

A royal eviction: One friend said: ‘It feels as though his brother wishes to evict him.’ Another source said: ‘He’s not being explicitly kicked out but it’s expected that he won’t be able to afford the maintenance. Royal Lodge has a swimming pool, 98 acres of land and is already in need of some repair.’ Another friend said: ‘They’ve been told their subsidy, vital for maintaining Royal Lodge, will be cut as soon as April.’

Andrew has money from his parents though: Others point out that the Duke has received a substantial inheritance from the late Queen and Prince Philip. A source said: ‘This is about Charles telling Andrew that he can use his own money to pay for things. The same goes for other members of the family, such as Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. And while there is leniency with working members of the family, who have offices funded by the Sovereign Grant, there have been other examples. Sophie and Edward’s daughter Lady Louise, for example, inherited Prince Philip’s carriage but Charles doesn’t feel like he should pay for the upkeep of the ponies to pull the carriage.’

A review of Duchy of Lancaster expenditures: Aware of public opinion, the King is said to be keen to reduce expenditure and ‘slim down’ the monarchy. Although the Duchy funds are private, he has ordered a major review of how it is spent. He is believed to have guaranteed Andrew an income – albeit reduced – and a home, and is also understood to have agreed to pay privately for the Duke’s security, estimated at about £3 million a year, after his team of Scotland Yard protection officers was axed by the Home Office.

Charles is looking at all of the royal properties: There has also been discussion of what to do with the many Royal properties. Aside from the London palaces and the Windsor estate, the King alone has Sandringham, Balmoral, Birkhall, The Castle of Mey, Highgrove and a cottage in Wales plus properties in rural Transylvania. The Mail on Sunday understands that the King has held meetings with the Prince of Wales and Sir Michael Stevens, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, about their future use.

[From The Daily Mail]

It’s still insane that QEII subsidized Andrew’s giant mansion for years while giving the Sussexes that dilapidated shack. And guess which one the media freaked out about? Anyway, I hoped that Charles would evict Andrew from Royal Lodge, but I doubt that will happen – Charles will just find some way to quietly pay for Andrew’s upkeep all while maintaining an air of performative belt-tightening.

Meanwhile, the Sun reports that Andrew has been “keeping an eye on everything Harry and Meghan have been doing in America. They have managed to set up a new working life away from the Royal Family and that is something Andrew has been following very, very closely. He is very interested in the businesses and charity side of things, rather than doing anything on Netflix.” Delusional, thy name is nonce. If Andrew steps foot in America, won’t the FBI grab him for questioning in the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases?

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It’s been a while since we’ve gotten an update on Brad Pitt’s completely real and not transactional in any way relationship with Ines de Ramon. We first heard about Pitt and Ines last fall, when someone’s crisis manager blanketed the gossip media with updates about how friends introduced them, and how things were heating up between them, how they spent Pitt’s 59th birthday together, how they’re “close to being officially exclusive.” Ines and Brad spent New Year’s together in Cabo in one of the most awkward paparazzi set-ups I’ve ever seen. Pitt also tried to pretend that his 29/30-year-old girlfriend is keeping him young and vital. Instead, he looks like a desperate loser who exclusively fake-dates married women. Ines’s husband just filed for divorce last week.

Paul Wesley is moving forward with his divorce from ex Ines de Ramon. About five months after the Vampire Diaries actor and jewelry designer announced their breakup, Paul filed divorce papers with the Los Angeles Superior Court to end their four-year marriage. According to the court document obtained by E! News Feb. 17, Paul—who didn’t fill out a request for spousal support—cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for split.

The 40-year-old listed their date of separation as “TBD,” though a rep for the couple told E! News in September that they had broken up in the spring of 2022.

“The decision to separate is mutual,” the rep said. “They request privacy at this time.”

Paul and Ines tied the knot in August 2018, per the filing, but didn’t make their red carpet debut until a year later at the Mercy For Animals 20th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles.

[From E! News]

I know why he won’t, but if I was in Paul Wesley’s shoes, I would make a big, nasty fuss. I would give interviews and talk about the real timeline of their split and theorize about what Ines is getting out of this mess with Pitt. Speaking of, Pitt has been in New York for weeks now, filming Wolves with George Clooney. He didn’t invite Ines to join him, but he did send her flowers and bread on Valentine’s Day:

Despite being on opposite sides of the country, Brad Pitt made sure that Ines de Ramon’s Valentine’s Day was a special one. The “Bullet Train” actor, 59, reportedly sent a bouquet of pink peonies and a baguette to the jewelry company executive at her office in Los Angeles, according to the Daily Mail.

De Ramon was later seen flashing a smile as she carried her gifts out of the office and into her car.

A source confirmed to People that Pitt — who is in New York City filming “Wolves” — was indeed the one who sent the flowers and French bread to Ramon.

[From Page Six]

So authentic, it takes my breath away! I’m absolutely positive that Ines and Pitt’s publicist did NOT organize the peonies photoshoot with a friendly paparazzo, of course not!! HOW DARE YOU. I wonder if she got a bonus for ensuring that the baguette made it into the same frame too. Lord.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail had an exclusive wherein “sources” revealed that Brad has introduced “most” of his children to Ines. I suspect we’re supposed to believe that Maddox and Pax don’t count, because those two hate his guts. A source claims that Brad and Ines are “bonding” over their respective divorces even though “Brad’s relationship with Angie was such a high-profile disaster and it is quite the opposite with Ines. She is zero drama and very lowkey.” The source also “insists” that Pitt “doesn’t give a damn” what Angelina thinks about Ines, “In fact he wants her to know that he is happy with someone else.” just FYI, Brad is the one suing Angelina over her efforts to disentangle herself from his toxic abuse.

Brad Pitt reportedly sent Valentine’s Day flowers to Ines de Ramon https://t.co/JeTleuljK2 pic.twitter.com/WPqEUFmlFm

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Guy Fieri and his wife Lori are raising three boys: sons Hunter and Ryder and nephew Jules. Jules’ mother was Guy’s sister who passed away in 2011. The last time I wrote about Guy, I talked about his kids in that article but I didn’t cover much of that because there was so much else to talk about. There was a cute part about when they got their licenses, they were given the family minivan to drive for a year. It’s an old Chrysler with over 250K miles on it that once belonged to Guy’s parents. The conditions were, if the kid went a year without any tickets or accidents, they would get a new car. Cut to last New Year’s Eve, which is also son Ryder’s birthday. After a year of no tom-foolery in grandma’s minivan, Ryder was gifted a ‘new’ truck, which meant his brother’s truck after being overhauled. And Ryder had to pay half.

Guy Fieri’s son Ryder had a milestone birthday — and not just because he turned 17.

The Food Network superstar’s youngest son celebrated his birthday on New Year’s Eve and the big day came with a gift he’s been earning for a full year. In PEOPLE’s September cover story, Guy, 55, who also has a son Hunter, 26, revealed that he has a rule when it comes to the boys’ first vehicle.

“You know what Ryder drove to school [when] he got his license? He got my parents’ old, used 259,000-mile Chrysler minivan. I’m not buying Ryder a car, and I refuse to let him buy a car until he spends one year with no tickets, no accidents, driving the minivan,” he said at the time.

Well, one year has passed and Ryder has since graduated out of the minivan. Guy — who is hosting “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Live” at Food Network’s South Beach Wine and Food Festival on Feb. 24 — tells PEOPLE that to reveal the big gift, he set up a scavenger hunt for Ryder and his friends at his ranch in Northern California.

More specifically, it was for his brother’s crew cab pick-up truck: “Hunter wanted my truck, so Hunter bought my truck and we made Ryder buy Hunter’s truck.”

Guy and his wife, Lori, pitched in half the cost, and Ryder used the money he’s earned working on his dad’s shows to pay for the rest.

“We had taken the truck from Hunter, taken it to the detail shop, had it all gone through and made it Ryder’s truck and a couple of my buddies come driving up the driveway and honked the horn. He lost it. I’ve never seen him happier about a gift he was getting,” says the chef.

“I mean, what is the gift? The gift is, ‘Hey, you have to pay half the money we’ll pay the other half.’ But he was really excited,” he adds.

A few months later, the excitement still hasn’t worn off. Guy says Ryder takes the time to back the truck into their driveway every night.

“I saw him the other night. I was getting home about the same time he was. I say, ‘You back in?’ He goes, ‘Oh, yeah. Truck looks way cooler when you look at it from the front,’” recalls Guy.

[From People]

Many people buy their kids cars. It’s an incredible privilege, of course, but it’s not an uncommon practice for those who can swing it. And lord knows Guy loves his cars. I think making a teenager earn their share of a car is healthy. They’ll likely value the car as a result. Parents come up with different deals, like they buy the car and the kids pay for gas and maintenance. Or the kid can only use the car if they maintain certain grades. The terms are family specific, like Guy’s boys having to be ticket and accident free for a year to get a nicer car. Guy’s making a joke of making Ryder pay half the price of the truck not being so much of a gift but again, he’ll be invested in it. Plus, Ryder works for Guy’s lucrative shows, so the job is also a gift.

The part I most relate to is Ryder wanting his brother’s truck. I remember the cars I wanted when I was a teen and they were always someone else’s. I never wanted whatever was new and hot, mainly because I never knew what was new and hot. So I could almost feel Ryder’s excitement when he saw Hunter’s truck all souped up just for him driving up. When I was teen, my father hung on to his old Mustang and I was allowed to drive that. It wasn’t mine, but I could use it until I left for college. My brother has the car and when I sit in it today, I still get that thrill. Hand me downs are fun.

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Last fall, Katie Nicholl’s latest book, The New Royals, was released to widespread ambivalence. There was so much happening around that time, with QEII’s passing and every royal biographer trying to get their books out before Prince Harry’s Spare blew them out of the water. I didn’t even read Nicholl’s book, but I covered various excerpts. In the book, Nicholl claimed that Prince William and Kate are already preparing Charlotte and Louis to be “half-in/half-out” of the institution. Meaning, in this brave new slimmed-down monarchy, only Prince George matters. Charlotte and Louis will get to do whatever they want, regardless of QEII’s declaration that there IS no “half-out” of the monarchy… when it came to Prince Harry and Meghan. Anyway, Mail columnist Richard Eden is expanding on that:

How can the Royal Family avoid history repeating itself when it comes to Prince George, the heir, and Princess Charlotte, the ‘spare’? This is the question that Daily Mail, Diary Editor, Richard Eden is asking this week, as he analyses sibling relations within the royal family.

Writing in his Palace Confidential newsletter, Richard explained: ‘From what I hear, the Prince and Princess of Wales want Charlotte, aged seven, to grow up with the expectation that she will get a job and not be a full-time royal.’

This path for the young Princess would be in keeping with her grandfather, King Charles III’s, vision for a slimmed-down monarchy. Her father Prince William, 40, who will one day be King himself, also shares this ideal for the future.

Richard described how he can understand these views, but said that he doesn’t necessarily agree with the idea of a slimmed-down monarchy.

He explained: ‘Personally, I would prefer to see a larger Royal Family, carrying out more official engagements and meeting more members of the public. If Charlotte is to get a job and not be an active member of “The Firm”, she needs to be ready to step into the breach, if needed.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I mean… at a fundamental level, the Windsors are gonna have to decide what a “working royal” is and whether royals can be “half-in.” What Harry and Meghan asked for was not unreasonable, especially given what they saw with the York princesses and some of the older royals and royal-adjacents. These questions should have been worked out years ago by QEII and Charles. Instead, the institution thought they could just half-ass everything and make sh-t up on the fly, and everyone would capitulate. Anyway, I hope Charlotte and Louis get far away from the institution as soon as they can. I hope they do end up getting jobs, not as punishment for not being born the heir, but because it feels good to take care of yourself.

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The Princess of Wales stepped out today in Slough. She visited a nursing home on Pancake Day, and I’m curious to see if we’ll get any photos of Kate digging into some pancakes (of course not). I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – Kate’s staff forced her into pretending to care about Early Years crap, because Kate’s interest is more towards senior issues. I mean, she’s extremely lazy so she was never going to follow through on anything, but if she had her way, I bet she would have preferred to have more senior-issues in her portfolio. She’s much better with seniors than she is with kids – older people enjoy Kate and she enjoys them.

As you can see, Kate wore a very “inspired by Meghan” outfit for this visit. Black trousers, a black turtleneck, a cute purse and her Max&Co coat in camel. We’ve seen the coat several times before, especially after Meghan wore her camel overcoat just as the Sussexit was being announced in January 2020.

Today is “Shrove Tuesday” aka Fat Tuesday aka Mardi Gras, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. Traditionally, people try to get all of their gluttony and “sinning” in before Lent. Thus, Pancake Day. Let’s pour some maple syrup over this bitch and get buck wild.

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Just three weeks ago, the right-wing British publication The Spectator had a piece about how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were dreadfully unpopular in California, they were never invited anywhere, Oprah “snubbed” them and their American dream has come crashing down because of British push-polling revealing their historic unpopularity with Waitrose shoppers. You get the idea – talking points were issued and the British right-wing media jumped at the chance to create a story to sneer at the Sussexes. It also revealed that after all this time, no one in Britain understands American culture, American celebrity or how Americans view the Sussexes, in general. Speaking of, the Spectator is now convinced that Duchess Meghan is super-upset by… South Park. Last week, South Park devoted an episode to the Sussexes, just as they devoted an episode to William and Kate years ago.

Harry and Meghan have yet to publicly speak about last week’s episode of South Park, presumably because they don’t have the staff left to formulate a press release. But California sources claim that Meghan has spent the last few days “upset and overwhelmed” about how she was portrayed.

If you’ve read anything about Harry and Meghan over the last three years, you’d think the pair would be delighted with how South Park parodied them. The entire episode, titled “The Worldwide Privacy Tour,” gives them enough fodder to moan for a few more books… or Netflix documentaries… or Spotify podcasts. Meghan can cry about how she is a victim of misogyny and Harry can claim that this was all a narrative concocted by the big, bad press.

In fairness, South Park didn’t hold back. Meghan is described as a “sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim,” by a brand manager during the episode. Later on, Harry has an awakening, realizing that their obsession with branding has made them “turn ourselves into products.” He claims that there will be, “no more magazines and Netflix shows, we can just live a normal life.” However, when he leaves, Meghan decides to stay — so the prince exits alone.

Ironically, after the episode aired, rumors began circulating that Harry and Meghan were so frustrated with the show that they are now “taking it out on each other.” At least their spousal disagreements are taking place in a nine-bedroom-sixteen-bathroom mansion. No awkward passings in the hallway for them.

Sources claim that Meghan, “is annoyed by South Park but refuses to watch it all.” But for Meghan, this couldn’t have come at a worse time. The duchess is said to be “obsessed with her half-sister’s litigation.” Meghan’s half-sister Samantha Markle is suing her for defamation following their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. The duchess had previously filed a motion to stop depositions in the case from taking place, but it was dismissed by Florida judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell earlier this month.

Then there’s a coronation. Meghan and Harry are supposedly “weighing up” whether they will attend or not, but according to sources close to her the duchess “feels excluded,” from the whole thing. Probably better to leave it then.

Aside from all of this, the pair have been made aware that nosey journalists, ahem, have been “poking around Archewell and asking serious questions about what they actually contribute.” This comes after the couple released a report tooting their own horn.

[From The Spectator]

It’s like… the Spectator hires people to write histrionic fan-fic about what the Sussexes are doing and how miserable they are, and none of it has any connection to what’s really going on in Harry and Meghan’s lives, but the Spectator just publishes it anyway. It’s really embarrassing… for the British media. Even more so because other British outlets have now picked up this fan-fic and they’re using it to bash Meghan for it. A closed loop, an echo chamber of deranged storylines, all revealing their unhinged obsession with the Sussexes.

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One year ago, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Ukrainians refused to surrender, supplicate or capitulate. They fought back, they dug in, they went to war and sought allies. The EU is on Ukraine’s side. NATO is on Ukraine’s side. President Biden is on Ukraine’s side. On Monday, Presidents Day, Joe Biden turned up in Kyiv and did a series of photo-ops with President Zelenskyy, including a walk outside as air-raid sirens blared.

So, I actually believed that Dark Brandon and the Secret Service had found a way to land Air Force One in or around Kyiv, but it turns out that Dark Brandon actually took a nine-and-a-half-hour train ride into Ukraine’s capital. That’s so… Joe Biden. The man LOVES his trains. Apparently, this is the first time a sitting president has visited a war zone not controlled by American troops. Biden and his team planned this for months, even though his security was telling him not to go. But he saw other world leaders making the journey and that man said “it’s happening, kiddo.” Apparently, Vladimir Putin and his people were super-salty about it. Biden humiliated them by managing to get into Kyiv to do this.

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If you ask me, it’s going to be a while until the Princess of Wales lives down her terrible appearance at Sunday night’s BAFTAs. She’s worn stupid clothes before, and she’s shown that she has a consistently bad eye for styling, but her BAFTA ensemble was a whole new level of style f–kery. Maybe that was the point, though? She wanted attention. So she threw a roll of toilet paper across her shoulder, donned her opera gloves and the cheapest-looking Zara earrings she could find and she got herself some attention. While I definitely think that’s part of it, I also just think… Kate is terrible at styling herself, and she hires stylists who don’t know what they’re doing. It’s a matter of taste, and in Kate’s case, it’s a matter of class. She’s too middle-class to understand that she shouldn’t be dripping in diamonds and pearls at funerals and Remembrance Day wreath-layings. She’s too tasteless to understand that the BAFTAs is the event for which she should bring out her bling. Plus, she knows that everyone will fall all over themselves to praise her, no matter what she’s wearing. Speaking of:

The Princess of Wales, 41, attended the BAFTA Awards alongside Prince William on Sunday wearing perhaps her most daring red carpet look to date — including a dramatic pair of full-length opera gloves. Princess Kate refashioned a white Grecian-inspired Alexander McQueen dress (her wedding gown designer!), which she wore to the same event in 2019, by swapping the corsage detail on the shoulder to a flowing sweep of white chiffon, making the look instantly feel more fashion-forward. But it was her bold choice of accessories for the star-studded event — in particular, the contrasting full-length black velvet opera gloves — which stole the show.

“Opera gloves are transformative; they have enormous leverage,” Genevieve James, creative director at royal glove supplier Cornelia James, tells PEOPLE. “They turn any event into an occasion and a dress into a statement.”

James, whose independent family business has been supplying gloves to the royal family for over 70 years, is unable to confirm that Kate is wearing her design (their identical “Melissa” black velvet style retails for $216). But Kate does have several styles from the brand, which she most recently wore in Boston in December.

Exuding old-school Hollywood glamour, the elegant accessory gave a nostalgic nod to red carpet events of the past when the likes of Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth rarely attended an event without their immaculately fitted gloves, often in silk or sometimes bejeweled.

“Imagine Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s without the gloves — it’s just another little black dress. With the gloves, it becomes iconic and emblematic of our age — always relevant, always contemporary,” says James, who supplied the late Queen Elizabeth II with her signature white gloves for decades.

Kate also went bold (and budget-friendly!) in her choice of earrings for the event, which was attended by celebrities such as Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis and Julianne Moore and held for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre. The rose gold effect, oversized floral earrings from Zara cost just $28. Featuring rhinestone appliqué, the statement earrings are — of course — sold out.

[From People]

The cheapness of the Zara earrings is perhaps Kate’s f–k you to the event, correct? Kate looks for excuses to raid the Royal Collection or the Diana archives, but on the rare occasion when she’s supposed to circulate with A-list celebrities wearing their finest frocks and jewels, suddenly Kate TPs herself and wears cheap Zara earrings. It’s just so bizarre. As for this glove-maker crowing about the importance of gloves… lol, no. I mean, the thing about Audrey Hepburn wearing gloves is that her gloves always looked chic and appropriately styled for the outfit. Kate just threw on a pair of opera gloves with no connection to her dress.

As for the butt-touching thing… she really did graze William’s ass, and the British tabloids have been calling all of their “body language experts” to spread the good word that Kate is sassy and she has so much chemistry with William. It’s weird how none of the body-language experts suggest that Kate is perhaps giving the audience a subtle confirmation to William’s oft-rumored sexual needs.

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