This week, the British media has run dozens, if not hundreds, of stories about “Prince Harry is not attending Hugh Grosvenor’s wedding.” A wedding which is today, by the way. We’ve known since December that Harry would not attend his friend’s wedding. The only “debate” was whether Hugh invited the Sussexes and, if the Sussexes were invited, why they declined. We seriously established this months ago: Hugh invited the Sussexes and Harry declined soon after he received the invitation and he had a friendly phone conversation with Hugh about it. The only one convinced that this is some huge scandal is Prince William, who has spent the past six months making the Duke of Westminster’s wedding all about “egg rage” and “royal drama.” Well, interestingly enough, Katie Nicholl at Vanity Fair got an exclusive. According to Nicholl’s sources, Harry did decline the wedding invite because they didn’t want to overshadow Hugh and Olivia’s day, nor did they want to spend one minute in the same space as an angry egg. Not only that, Nicholl got a tip about the Sussexes’ summer plans.

It may be the society event of the year but Prince Harry will not be attending the wedding of his close friend Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke of Westminster, when he marries his fiancée Olivia Henson at Chester Cathedral on Friday. Despite conflicting reports, Vanity Fair understands that Harry and Meghan Markle were invited to Friday’s ceremony, but politely declined so as not to overshadow the event or risk any awkward encounters with Prince William, who is an usher and will be bringing his son Prince George as his plus-one.

Grosvenor, who is known as Hughie to friends, is Britain’s youngest billionaire and is close to both William and Harry. He is the godson of King Charles, and the godfather to both Prince George and Prince Archie. According to one source, “Hughie did the right thing inviting both brothers while Harry did the diplomatic thing and politely declined saying there were no hard feelings. It would have been terribly awkward if he had said yes because of the situation with William.”

While Prince Harry’s absence will likely set tongues wagging among the congregation, Vanity Fair has been told that Harry has no plans to return to Britain this summer. It was reported Tuesday that Harry and Meghan will not attend next week’s Trooping the Colour ceremony to mark the king’s birthday, but as non-working members of the family, they would not expect to be invited.

King Charles does, however, plan to invite some of his family to Balmoral later this summer, following a tradition set by the late Queen Elizabeth II, but it is unclear whether the invite will extend to the Sussexes. Princess Lilibet celebrated her third birthday earlier this week and Charles is said to be keen to see his California-based grandchildren.

But according to friends of the Sussexes, Harry and Meghan do not plan to come to the U.K. during the summer. “They are very settled and happy in Montecito where they plan to spend most of the summer,” says a source. “It’s the quiet life Harry has always wanted and he is actually very happy.”

[From Vanity Fair]

About the wedding… William should be completely embarrassed that his juvenile and toxic behavior creates these kinds of situations at weddings and state events. Throughout this whole ordeal, it’s been clear that Hugh and Harry are both forced into these positions where they have to walk on eggshells around William. The same William who has been gleefully briefing lies to his favorite reporters about how Hugh “snubbed” Harry for a wedding invitation and how William is going to be the star of the wedding!

As for the Sussexes’ summer plans… are we getting a hard-launch on American Riviera Orchard or what??? Is Harry going to do another summer polo season in Santa Barbara? Will they go on another foreign tour?? TELL US!

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I know Jonathan Tucker from the excellent scifi show Debris, which was canceled by NBC in 2021 after one season. Obviously I’m still salty about it. When the show was airing I covered an interview with the showrunner, J.H. Wyman, who praised Tucker as a consummate actor and professional. He said “there’s not a false bone in [Tucker’s] body.” It wasn’t surprising to me as he’s captivating on screen. He’s also been on Parenthood, Justified, Kingdom and Westworld. Not only do Tucker’s bosses love him, his neighbors do too and for good reason. On Sunday, Tucker heard his neighbors in Los Angeles screaming when a stranger entered their home. He immediately ran over there, barefoot, and helped them get out of the house. He was seen carrying one of their three children out.

Jonathan Tucker is being hailed a hero after he sprung into action to save a family in the middle of a home invasion.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department tells ET that a call came in at around 6:20 p.m. on Sunday in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hancock Park. Police say a suspect entered the location.

Soon after, the Kingdom actor stepped in. In security footage obtained by KTLA, Tucker is seen storming into the home barefoot after hearing a woman screaming. The homeowner was not home at the time, but his wife and three daughters were inside when the suspect entered the home.

Moments later, cell phone video footage shows the family escaping through the back of the house, and Tucker could also be seen carrying one child. Security footage shows armed police arriving at the home, where there was a brief standoff before they eventually made their way inside the home. KTLA reports the man was found hiding in the closet and he was taken into custody without incident.

Following a Code 4, Tucker could be heard on video thanking LAPD for their swift response.

[From ET Online]

Thank goodness the police arrived quickly and the suspect wasn’t armed. If you watch the KTLA news clip below, the neighbor whose home was breached said “Tucker’s great, he’s block security. He makes sure everything is under control and I think he was tracking him for a while. An hour, hour and a half.” It sounds like the man who entered their home was having a mental health crisis. The intruder was seen talking to himself on their ring camera before he opened the front door. The twist to this story is that the people whose home he entered own a mental health facility, according to KCAL, and “they’ve actually offered to house him at their facility.”

This is scary but it has a happy ending. It also makes me want to see Jonathan Tucker in more shows. IMDB reminds me that he was in that wild Netflix series, Echoes, with Michelle Monaghan and Matt Bomer. I watched two episodes of that, turned it off and looked up spoilers. It was about identical twins, both played by Monaghan, who switched lives. It was so over the top and ridiculous. (Some of the photos in this post are stills from that show.) Hopefully we’ll see Tucker, 42, more often after this. He’s not only valiant and handsome, he can ACT.

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Genuine question: do you think Sarah Ferguson knows any royal secrets at this point? I’m sure her ex-husband knows plenty of secrets and I’m sure Sarah has plenty of her own secrets. But I don’t buy that she has much insider knowledge about what’s happening in the Windsor clan. It feels like that kind of gossip is kept from her on purpose, because she’s such a gossip, because she regularly gives interviews and they don’t know what will spill out. I’m making it sound like Fergie has no impulse control, but mostly she just talks too much and everyone knows that about her. I bring this up because Fergie is on the cover of Hello Magazine and she gave an interview to promote her romance novel, A Woman of Intrigue. She ended up talking about the Windsors, obviously.

In an exclusive interview with HELLO!, the Duchess – who is about to publish the paperback version of A Woman of Intrigue, her second work of historical fiction for Mills & Boon – reveals how “family unity is key” to getting through the tough times.

Last summer, Sarah, 64, was diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine mammogram, undergoing a single mastectomy; six months later, she was found to have malignant melanoma. Now, although she has been told by her doctors that she shouldn’t use the phrase “cancer-free” and is having regular check-ups for any recurrence, the outlook is positive.

Her diagnoses were sadly echoed by the news earlier this year that King Charles is also being treated for cancer, which was found after his routine prostate operation, while the Princess of Wales is also undergoing preventative chemotherapy treatment.

Sarah said: “I think the key is that you don’t have to be in anyone’s face – the odd note, the odd: ‘Hello, we’re all here.’ I was so impressed that the King became patron of Cancer Research UK; it’s such an amazing move. And I think the Princess of Wales was so brave with that video [in which Kate made her diagnosis public]. I think family unity is key. I love that the royal family are all supporting each other and carry on.”

The mother-of-two has also always counted on her daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie for support.

“I have the most exceptional family and an extraordinarily great team,” she said. “I have an enormous ability to turn to joy.”

[From Hello]

She’s talking about people she likely has only seen once or twice in the past year. She saw Charles on Easter Sunday and over the Christmas holiday. She probably last saw Kate over Christmas too. My point is that she’s talking about Charles and Kate like someone who is in the dark, like everyone else. She either doesn’t have any insider information, or she was finally able to NOT gossip about them. Which brings up another question for me – do you think most of the family is in the dark about whatever is happening with Kate too? That seems to be why there is this disconnect with how “the family” has treated Kate’s absence too – they don’t know what the hell is going on either.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, cover courtesy of Hello.

There were several parts of Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, which really stuck with me. Harry’s musings about whether the royal family is a death cult, Harry feeling like he got punched in the throat when he saw Meghan for the first time on his friend’s social media, and how he and Meghan used to walk around the grounds in Windsor, around all of the tombs and gravesites. For more than a century, members of the Windsor clan have been buried or entombed in Windsor. Most of them are intimately involved with planning their funerals and burial arrangements, and that’s especially true of royals high up in the line of succession. Still, it’s creepy as hell when the Mail’s Ephraim Hardcastle column wonders aloud if Harry will be buried in America.

Harry insists that the US is now his residence but specialist expatriate law firm Blevins Franks warns of the pitfalls: ‘HMRC will look for any indication that you see Britain as your homeland and may return one day. Even stating in your will that you wish to be buried in the UK could work against you.’

So has Harry stipulated where he will be interred? Even Wallis Simpson is reposing in the family graveyard at Frogmore following a royal reconciliation, although she and the Duke of Windsor had bought burial plots in Baltimore where her father is buried.

Meghan, however, does not seem to be in any mood to be reconciled with her own family, let alone her in-laws. Harry could become the first royal to be laid to rest in the US.

[From The Daily Mail]

Is this the brave new frontier of threats being issued to Harry? “You can’t have a home in the UK, you can’t visit us, you can’t have security and now you can’t be buried here!” They’ve well and truly run out of things to “take away” from Harry so now he doesn’t get to be buried in Windsor, and neither does Meghan. To that I say: oh well. Harry has made it perfectly clear that his life is in California, with his wife and children. And no, the premise of “it will look bad for Harry’s American residency if he says he wants to be buried in the UK” falls flat too. US Immigration/DHS doesn’t give a sh-t about any of that.

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In recent years, whenever there’s radio silence on Khloe Kardashian’s love life, I just assume that she’s back with Tristan Thompson. It’s a perfectly normal assumption – for years, Khloe was trying to make it work with Tristan and for years, he was cheating on her and impregnating other women and she was still taking him back, every single time. We kept finding out about their relationship status months after the fact too, like when we learned that they were “engaged for ten months in 2021,” which Khloe only claimed after Tristan cheated on her yet again. Well, for the past year, it has been pretty quiet around Tristan and Khloe. So what’s going on? Are they married? LOL. According to Khloe, not so much – she claims she hasn’t been in a relationship for years.

Khloé Kardashian is not interested in getting back out on the dating scene. During the June 6 episode of The Kardashians, Khloé was asked about her dating life by Scott Disick. After asking her if she had a boyfriend or had gone on a date recently, Khloé, 39, firmly told him, “I don’t want to!” She went on to cite her busy schedule and early wake-up calls with her two kids — daughter True, 6, and son Tatum, 21 months, whom she shares with ex Tristan Thompson — as reasons for why she’s not interested in dating men.

“That’s my time,” she said. “I’m not sharing it with a man. I’m not sharing my TV, I’m not sharing my bed!”

Scott, 41, then asked Khloé if there was “any hope” for Tristan, 33, despite their multiple reconciliations and splits in the past.

“No… the door’s closed,” Khloé said, noting that she saw no reason to be a “monster” to Tristan and that she’s happy with them being on friendly terms as they continue to coparent their kids. In a confessional, Khloé added, “Oh my god, are you kidding me? This is life, we all gotta grow up and move on… Everyone has been really judgy about how I spend my time because I’m not dating. I stopped dating Tristan when Tatum was in utero. Two and a half years is not that crazy!”

“I do love that it’s good for the kids,” she continued of living close to her ex and seeing him often. “But now that he’s in Cleveland [for the Cavaliers], this is really, really healthy for us ’cause when he was next door, he was always over… he loved the routine and I was like, ‘F—.’”

Scott then pointed out how it must be strange for her ex to live so close and witness Khloé moving on, to which she hit back, “If he wanted to torture himself, that’s on him! You want to see all these men pulling up to my house? That’s your problem.”

Scott was taken aback by Khloé’s statement and asked if she was doing that currently. Khloé clarified that it wasn’t happening “right now” but would happen “eventually in life.”

“You think I’m just gonna be celibate for the rest of my life?” Khloé asked, before noting once more, “I don’t want anyone stopping my routine [right now]. I’m comfortable in my rhythm.”

In a confessional, she added, “Let’s just say I’m dating. I have no idea how you’re supposed to date with kids because I’m not bringing you to my home where my kids are, and I’m not going to your home where you’re gonna chop me up in your basement and kill me and I’m also not going to a public restaurant or space where people can take pictures and you’re gonna be another notch on my belt in the public’s eyes. I don’t f—ing think so.”

[From People]

“Where you’re gonna chop me up in your basement and kill me” – my mind went to a completely different place with “chop me up in your basement,” I’ll admit it. Anyway, I don’t even think Khloe is really claiming to be celibate for two-plus years nor is she saying that she hasn’t been on a date this whole time. I absolutely believe that, in that time and still to this day, she’s been dealing with Tristan romantically and sexually. Now, that being said, I think it’s perfectly normal for Khloe to take a break from dating for a while. I just don’t believe she really has.

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Tuesday was Angelina Jolie’s 49th birthday! Happy birthday to our Gemini queen. Angelina is like the Gemini poster child, I swear to God. Angelina has been in the news in recent weeks because her middle daughter Shiloh filed to change her surname on her 18th birthday. Shiloh’s legal name will soon be Shiloh Jolie, not Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. Brad Pitt’s team is currently trying to blame Angelina or act like Angelina “alienated” the kids from their (abusive) father. That is not the case. In the meantime, People Mag had this exclusive about Angelina’s birthday plans this week:

Angelina Jolie is keeping her birthday low-key. As Jolie turns 49 on Tuesday, June 4, a source close to the actress tells PEOPLE that Jolie is spending the day with her children: Maddox, 22, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, Pax, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 15.

“Angelina will celebrate her birthday with a quiet day at home with her kids. Zahara is home from college, and she looks forward to everyone spending the day together,” the source says.

Most recently, Jolie produced the Broadway musical adaptation of The Outsiders along with her daughter Vivienne, who is also working on the production as her mother’s assistant. Jolie was nominated for co-producing the musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 book The Outsiders, which is up for 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical.

[From People]

“Zahara is home from college” – Angelina misses Zahara so much! She probably planned the whole week around Zahara being home. Brad Pitt has repeatedly shown the world that he treats his biological kids differently than his adopted kids, and that’s a huge reason why all of the kids want nothing to do with him. Zahara and Shiloh are exceptionally close sisters. Maddox and Pax adore their younger siblings and they’re very protective of their mother. All of the hate and accusations thrown at Angelina, and it turns out that she fostered a loving and supportive family dynamic with all six kids.

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Here are photos of Prince William and Justin Trudeau at Juno Beach in Courseulles-sur-Mer, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the commemoration event at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, and it was always the plan for William to spend some time honoring the Canadian troops who fought on D-Day. After this event on Juno Beach, William and Trudeau will make their way to Omaha Beach for the larger commemoration. They’re absolutely billing it as “William steps in for his cancer-stricken father” and the palace claims Charles is “delighted” that William will go to Omaha Beach in his place. Again: when Charles was PoW, he regularly did these kinds of events and he didn’t expect a gold star for global statesmanship for doing it either.

I find it interesting to compare and contrast William and Charles’s vibes and activities at these events. Charles wore one of his military dress uniforms and full military regalia, while William chose a slim-cut dark suit and with his medals. Both men gave speeches, but I have yet to find a full transcript of William’s speech (which probably means it was bad or unmemorable) while the transcript of Charles’s speech at the British Normandy Memorial almost brought me to tears.

William needs to figure out another way to talk to kids and people in wheelchairs. Bending at the waist and hovering over them menacingly isn’t working.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images.

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Earlier this week, actress Trina McGee announced that she’s pregnant at 54 years old. Tracy has three adult children, Ramia, 31, Langston, 29, and Ezra, 25. Her Instagram announcement was worded, “At the tender age of 54, I have found myself pregnant.” I, and I think many others, read it with an inflection that made it sound like it was a surprise pregnancy. Turns out, Trina and her husband of 16 years, Marcello Thedford, have been trying to conceive a child together for quite some time, but to no avail. After considering but ultimately deciding against doing IVF, Trina and Marcus decided to try a “more holistic and organic approach” towards conceiving. Despite Trina already starting menopause, they headed to Belize, where she tried “natural remedies” – medicinal herbs recommended by shamans – that she feels helped her get pregnant naturally.

She feels happy and blessed: ”Just sheer joy, sheer joy, and I don’t partake in any of the negativity anybody has to say about it. I am so happy. I have been blessed, and that’s it,” the actress — best known for playing Angela Moore on the ABC sitcom — told ET. “And all I’m concerned about — I only have one job now – is to have this baby, and that’s what I’m about.

They’ve “long hoped” for a child: The actress says that she and Thedford had long hoped to welcome a child of their own — he is also dad to a son, Elijah, from another relationship — but that things had never worked for them until they took a more holistic and organic approach to the fertility process, she shares, even as she claims she was a year into menopause.

What led them to seek help in Belize: “I have been saying I wanted to have a baby with my current husband of 16 years for quite a while,” she said, adding that they even “tried” at one point to conceive without any kind of intervention to no avail. They also considered IVF but she shared that she was hesitant to go through that. Ultimately, they decided to seek out help in Belize where Thedford has a “cultural background.”

Shamans gave her medicinal herbs: There, they worked with the Garifuna people on natural remedies which she says have assisted her greatly in reversing menopause and helping them to conceive a child together. McGee admits that she is not a doctor by any means but that for her, the advice of “shamans” in Belize to take medicinal herbs — partnered with her already incredibly healthy lifestyle — helped her and her husband to achieve their long-time goal to become parents together.

A “low-stress” environment also played a part: She also credits a low-stress environment for helping to reverse menopausal signs and to assist in their efforts to grow their family. “The number one thing for me is to not partake in any stress and stay away from negativity as much as I can, and that pertains to what I put on TV, what I — what I look at on my phone, you know, there’s so much drama and violence and negativity out there as soon as you turn on the screen,” McGee said. “I really want to be pointed when I turn on the screen — what I’m watching. Because stress, for me, is the biggest factor.”

On taking a social media break: Part of that includes a step away from social media as she continues throughout the pregnancy. During her announcement, she shared that while they are very excited by the baby news, she would be taking a break from Instagram to focus on what matters — her family.

[From ET Online]

I’m happy for Trina and Marcelo for getting to fulfill their wish to have a child together. This must be a very long-awaited dream come true. Congrats to them. While I cannot imagine having a newborn at 54 – I’m 40 and exhausted, and my kids are six and 10, lol – if they’re up for it, then power to them. I’m sure they also have the resources to help support them during their journey and new parenthood, which probably makes it easier. Trina also mentions in the interview that she told her former Boy Meets World coworkers before she made her public announcement and they were all very happy for her.

As for her claims about medicinal herbs helping her get pregnant, I have no idea how much the natural remedies helped her. The most herbal thing I’ve ever taken was echinacea (although my mom keeps telling me to tell to try ashwagandha; she swears it helps with her anxiety). If they tried for years without any luck and coincidentally finally got pregnant after the trip, then who am I to get all skeptical about it? Women try a lot of different things when they’re trying to get pregnant, both scientific and anecdotal. I remember being told to take cough medicine when I was trying to get pregnant with my first because it supposedly helps if you produce mucus or something. When it comes to the recommendations, who knows what works and doesn’t. Congrats to Trina and Marcelo. May Trina have a smooth pregnancy and easy birth.

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Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied troops rocked up Nazi-controlled Normandy. There are D-Day commemorations held in Normandy every year, but for the big anniversaries (50th, 60th, etc), there’s a real effort to bring together as many world leaders as possible on Omaha Beach, the site of the deadliest part of Operation Overlord for American troops. British and Canadian troops were obviously involved in D-Day, and there are special memorials and commemoration events held on other beaches and at other sites.

These photos are of President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron greeting King Charles and Queen Camilla at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer. Apparently, Charles and Camilla will not join the world leaders on Omaha Beach today in a somewhat last-minute change. They were originally scheduled to do just that – go to Ver-sur-Mer AND Omaha – but now they’re saying it’s too much for Charles given the fact that the man still has cancer. At Ver-sur-Mer, Charles gave a moving speech in which he echoed his grandfather’s words:

Eighty years ago on D-day, the 6th of June 1944, our nation – and those which stood alongside it – faced what my grandfather, King George VI, described as the supreme test. How fortunate we were, and the entire free world, that a generation of men and women in the United Kingdom and other allied nations did not flinch when the moment came to face that test.

On the beaches of Normandy, on the seas beyond and in the skies overhead, our armed forces carried out their duty with a humbling sense of resolve and determination – qualities so characteristic of that remarkable wartime generation.

Very many of them never came home, they lost their lives on the D-day landing grounds or in the many battles that followed. It is with the most profound sense of gratitude that we remember them and all those who served at that critical time. We recall the lesson that comes to us again and again across the decades – free nations must stand together to oppose tyranny.

This vital start to the liberation of Europe was a vast allied effort. American, British, Canadian, French and Polish formations fought here in Normandy. Among the names inscribed on the walls and pillars of this memorial are men and women from more than 30 different nations and many faiths.

United, they fought together for what my grandfather, King George VI, described as ‘a world in which goodness and honour may be the foundation of the life of men in every land’.

[From The Guardian]

This actually made me a bit emotional, Charles echoing his grandfather’s words, thinking about Prince Philip’s service during the war (in the Pacific theater) and all of that. Also: Camilla’s hat is ridiculous. It didn’t have to be that big and cartoonish.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images.