Here are some photos of the (arguably) more glamorous European royals who came to London for the coronation. At QEII’s coronation, visiting European royals were decked out in their tiaras, crowns and all of their finery. At Charles’s coronation, most royals opted for business-dressy looks, appropriate for a wedding of someone you don’t know very well. I still believe that Camilla’s insecurities dictated the dress code: Camilla wanted to be the fanciest one there and she didn’t want all of these attractive, younger and charismatic queens and princesses outshining her as they dripped in diamonds.

Speaking of, Spain’s Queen Letizia wore a bespoke Carolina Herrera suit paired with Magrit heels, a Babel headpiece and big diamond earrings. I like it because it feels like Letizia is both cosplaying and parodying the Windsors with this ensemble. Kate would wear this and she would make it look unbelievably dowdy.

Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary was my vote for best-dressed visiting royal. Mary wore a Soren Le Schmidt coatdress, paired with Gianvito Rossi 105 pumps. Stunning. The shade of royal purple, the cut of her dress, the pop of turquoise on her brooch and earrings. She looked regal and beautiful. Kitty wishes.

Monaco’s Princess Charlene was arguably the worst-dressed royal woman. I feel bad for saying it, but the suit is dowdy as f–k and those pale tights make her look like a nurse.

Jordan’s Queen Rania (not European, but glam) also dimmed her light for the coronation. She elevated a somewhat bad Tamara Ralph design, but she couldn’t save it! At least she looks gorgeous no matter what she wears.

Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria went to the Chubbly with her father, King Carl Gustav. Her ensemble felt very “Kate” to me.

Queen Maxima wore Jan Taminiau. I actually love this dress? Maybe the best white dress of the day.

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At the end of the day, the Middleton clan did attend King Charles’s coronation, but it looks like Kate’s siblings were told that they could not bring their spouses. Add to that, it didn’t feel like the Middletons got too much attention or much attention at all during the broadcasts I watched. Carole and Michael Middleton arrived together, and Pippa and James Middleton were alongside their parents. No James Matthews, no Alizee.

I was also fascinated to see how the chaotic dress code dictates played out among the non-royal guests and even the royal guests. Days before the Chubbly, I wondered aloud if most women would simply dress like they were attending a royal wedding, and that’s basically what happened. A lot of women seemed to even be cosplaying Kate’s default style: severe coatdresses, cloth headpieces and some of their best jewelry. Carole looked like she was cosplaying Kate’s Easter outfit. Pippa looked like she was cosplaying Kate too. But as I said, that was the prevailing style among guests. There was so much confusion about what the dress code really meant.

Anyway, I’m curious what will happen to the Middletons in this new era, the Carolean Era. That’s what we’re supposed to call Charles’s reign, the Carolean Era. I’m not making that up. Charles and Camilla are not fans of the Middletons, and now we know that the Middletons are too broke-ass to fight back. It will get interesting.

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King Charles’s siblings were all in attendance at the coronation with their spouses and children. Prince Edward, the new Duke of Edinburgh, was there with his wife Sophie and their two children. Princess Anne was there with her husband and her two adult kids. And Prince Andrew was there with his daughters and their husbands. Andrew really did arrive with Beatrice, Eugenie, Edo and Jack as well – Andrew walked in first, trailed by his daughters, who were trailed by Prince Harry. Interesting staging.

It’s also interesting because all of Charles’s siblings were allowed to wear the regalia of their honorary orders of chivalry. Princess Anne wore the rich, green velvet cape of the Order of the Thistle. Both Edward and Andrew wore their navy velvet robes from the Order of the Garter. While Charles and William reportedly wanted Andrew to avoid appearing publicly on Garter Day, they appear to be just fine with Andrew wearing his Garter robe for this state event. Andrew has not been removed from the Order of the Garter, he has not been made to withdraw. The Order of the Garter is a big deal and Andrew is still a credibly accused rapist and human trafficker who was best-friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Also: Andrew and Edward got to wear all of their finery and regalia, meanwhile actual combat veteran Prince Harry was apparently asked by the palace to simply wear a suit. He reportedly did not argue about it – he knows that all of this makes his father look like a f–king a–hole.

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You have to remember that back in March, the White House vaguely indicated that President Joe Biden had no desire to attend King Charles’s coronation. Weeks passed, and Buckingham Palace continued to make it clear that Pres. Biden was invited and King Charles wanted every world leader there. Then Biden formally declined, and the palace began openly briefing against Biden, excoriating Biden for being too old and out of touch and for single-handedly ruining the coronation. Then Biden had a hell of a time in Ireland and the British media then ran wall-to-wall outrage articles about how Biden is too Irish to appreciate Britain. It was truly insane. They were all seething.

The White House always maintained that they would send Dr. Jill Biden to the coronation, and that’s exactly what happened. Dr. Biden arrived on Thursday or Friday, and she attended all of the pre-coronation receptions, then she and her granddaughter Finnegan attended the coronation today. Dr. Biden wore Ralph Lauren, with a jaunty little bow in her hair! Finnegan wore Markarian. They purposefully wore gold and blue to show support for Ukraine.

Well, after all of that drama, look at where they seated the First Lady of the United States:

Insulting pic.twitter.com/36J3w2LtZl

— Kaiser@Celebitchy (@KaiseratCB) May 6, 2023

As I said, insulting. When they were begging Pres. Biden to come, it was all about the British-American “special relationship” and this important strategic alliance between our two countries and then when POTUS sends FLOTUS in his place, they stick Dr. Biden in a corner? With First Lady Olena Zelenska of Ukraine??

Speaking of, the Princess of Wales and her pre-coronation wiglet posed with Dr. Biden and First Lady Zelenska at the Friday reception.

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Look, as an American watching the coronation, it’s just weird. These ancient symbols and rituals are just wacky. The fact that we watched a septuagenarian get dressed in front of millions of people. The secret anointment with vegan holy oil. The smug visage of a side-chick who left bodies in the street get her crown after decades of scheming. But here we are.

Queen Camilla wore Bruce Oldfield and her gown looked… fine. We knew she would wear white and that’s what happened. Her dress flattered her and her hair looked okay, but you could tell that she was worried that the crown would mess out her careful blowout. Charles seemed exhausted and weighed down by all of the gold blazers and ermine robes. They kept making him do things with his sausage fingers too, like sign documents (a loan application, perchance) and hold an orb.

CB kept using the word “grim,” but that sums up the coronation. It was legitimately grim. The excessive amount spent on this. The look on Camila’s face after destroying everyone in her path. At several points, it looked like Charles was bitching out various people (including the pages and Camilla) and he didn’t seem to enjoy his special day very much. Oh well!

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The Prince and Princess of Wales were late by what seemed like a couple of minutes? King Charles and Queen Camilla’s journey to Westminster Abbey was precisely timed, but William and Kate are (it seems) much too lazy to care about turning up to a coronation on time. Someone said that William and Kate’s arrival energy was “just fought in the car on the way over.” It’s true. William and Kate arrived with Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, but George was traveling with his grandfather, because George was a page. From what I could see, George’s behavior was fine. Prince Louis was the one who had to be spirited away mid-coronation, probably because he kept yawning, pulling faces and trying to talk to his sister.

We were curious to see what Kate would wear and here it is. The white gown is McQueen, although we don’t see much of it because of her cape. She wore the diamond-and-pearl earrings famously worn by Princess Diana, although Kate prefers to wear them backwards. The biggest question was about what kind of tiara or headpiece she would wear, and this was the work-around: a Jess Collett x Alexander McQueen headpiece made from “silver bullion, crystal and silver thread work three-dimensional leaf embroidery.” Someone suggested that this was the “green” choice – it is not. The environmental choice (weirdly enough) would have been recycling one of the old tiaras in the vault. But I don’t think Kate had much choice, she wasn’t getting one of those tiaras. Charlotte also wore McQueen, and she got a similar little headpiece. That part of it – with Kate & Charlotte wearing similar headpieces – was a cute compromise.

The weirdest part was when William made his pledge to King Charles and William was too lazy to memorize the oath, so he just read it out, barely making eye contact with his father.

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Here are some photos of Good King Prince Harry at today’s coronation. He arrived in England yesterday, but the Mail got it wrong (shock!) in their initial reporting that he arrived via a private jet. He actually flew in via an American Airlines commercial flight. Last minute-reporting had sources suggest that an invitation had been extended to Harry, that he could stay for the coronation lunch or dinner or whatever, but that’s coming from the palace, not Harry’s camp.

In any case, Harry looked lovely at the coronation at Westminster Abbey. As he did for his grandmother’s funeral, Harry wore a morning suit with all of his medals. He came into the Abbey at the same time as his York cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, and their husbands. Edo and Harry seemed especially chummy, and Harry was seated next to Jack Brooksbank in the third row. The cameras caught Harry looking smiley and happy whenever he was in a shot. He had an especially big smile for his aunt, Princess Anne.

I already see some of the negative headlines, especially in the British media, about how Harry is “devastated” over this snub or that snub. As always, it’s a case of projection – they’re mad that he’s not sticking around, they’re mad that he’s left them, they’re mad that he doesn’t have to do their bidding or the king’s bidding anymore. Harry said he would come to his father’s coronation and that’s what he did. He showed up, showed respect to his dad, and hopefully he’s already getting the f–k out of there.

All smiles and unbothered by the noise looking fresh, happy, smiling and heading home ASAP to be with his son on his birthday. You go Prince Harry!! pic.twitter.com/jUa9dUXRT0

— Turkey1976 (@gayleLackey11) May 6, 2023

Prince Harry is wearing an Afghanistan service medal, along with Golden, Diamond and Platinum Jubilee medals on his medal bar.

The Duke of Sussex is also wearing the KCVO Star decoration around his neck. (He recently wore these medals for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral). https://t.co/x8tUuQcxrY

— Carly Ledbetter (@ledbettercarly) May 6, 2023

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It is here, the doom-and-gloom coronation, the moment King Charles has been waiting for. His special day, a day of pomp, gold carriages, stolen diamonds, a stone of destiny (also stolen), at least one orb, and vegan anointment juice. This is an Open Post for all things Chubbly. We’ll have coverage throughout the weekend, as I am genuinely curious to see what people are wearing and just how chaotic this will be.

I genuinely believe this excessive coronation was a bad idea for King Charles, especially since he and his current wife tend to wilt when they’re under the bright, hot spotlight. There are many people who have dealt with the idea of “Queen Camilla” as an abstraction, and when the reality hits those people, as they see Camilla formally “beclowned” alongside Charles, they’ll be thinking of Diana and what all of these monsters did to her and her younger son.

Several days ago, British journalist and editor Ash Sarkar noted:

“When it comes to this generation in particular, young people are interested in the values of fairness and in the values of representation. Whatever way you slice it, the monarchy is neither a fair nor a representative institution….There have been attempts by the royal family to strip themselves of some of the mystery, invite the media in and show the people what they really do, and what they’ve revealed themselves to be is a cartel of some very weird people”.

“I think that the more that social media, 24-hour news, tabloid press intrusion gets us to see who they are as individuals – which is people who have been made in many cases deeply unhappy by the institution that they have been born into – the less people are inclined to support the monarchy, either as a political national institution, or as a kind of old-school celebrity that they secretly enjoy.”

“A cartel of some very weird people” is what we’re seeing today. Enjoy.

Why aren’t young people keen on the monarchy?

Because it’s an unfair, unrepresentative institution stuffed to the gills with silver-spoon weirdos. pic.twitter.com/qC0UyP8sH8

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) May 2, 2023

Anti-monarchy protesters from Republic have already been arrested, including Graham Smith.

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Note: We will have a Coronation Open Post tomorrow morning, followed by partial/full coverage across the weekend.

Jennifer Lopez looked amazing in Versace at a screening of ‘The Mother’. [Just Jared]
A jury ruled that Ed Sheeran didn’t copy Marvin Gaye. [Dlisted]
Drew Barrymore dropped out of hosting the MTV Movie Awards because of the WGA strike. Good for her. [Buzzfeed]
I disagree with one part of this Taylor Swift coverage – I absolutely believe Tay’s people would leak something to The Sun. The Sun broke the story about Taylor and Tom Hiddleton, with exclusive photos. [LaineyGossip]
A history lesson about Chile’s constitution. [Pajiba]
Ciara wore a hoodie to the ACE Awards. [Go Fug Yourself]
An explainer for some of the weird sh-t at King Charles’s Chubbly. [Jezebel]
Shay Mitchell makes her favorite drink. [Egotastic]
Menswear from the Met Gala. [RCFA]
Nick Viall’s fiancee talks about EMDR therapy. [Starcasm]
What is the one thing which could take down The Rock? [Seriously OMG]

Snoop Dogg is a capitalist and a populist, I think. Snoop is also paying close attention to the Writers Strike in Hollywood, and not just because he dips his toe in acting as well (I would imagine he has a SAG card, right?). Snoop is paying attention to the writers strike because of the f–ked up business model of the music industry these days. As streamers have changed the business of Hollywood, so too have streaming services changed the music industry. And just like the writers, musical artists don’t get paid anywhere near what they should. This week, Snoop spoke out in favor of the writers strike and how it relates to the music industry.

Snoop Dogg had some choice words about the “f–ked up” streaming models that have led the Writers Guild of America to go on strike over compensation.

“[Artists] need to figure it out the same way the writers are figuring it out,” Snoop said during a panel on Wednesday with Shirley Halperin, Variety‘s executive music editor, and Gamma’s Larry Jackson, his co-panelist and business partner. “The writers are striking because [of] streaming, they can’t get paid. Because when it’s on the platform, it’s not like in the box office.”

He continued, “I don’t understand how the f–k you get paid off of that sh-t. Somebody explain to me how you can get a billion streams and not get a million dollars?… That’s the main gripe with a lot of us artists is that we do major numbers… but it don’t add up to the money. Like where the f–k is the money?”

Snoop also gave plenty of teasers about his on-screen projects including his role in MGM and Amazon’s upcoming sports comedy film “The Underdoggs,” and his upcoming biopic with Universal Pictures. When asked about unscripted entertainment, Snoop slyly confirmed that’s also in the works. “We slated to get it rocking and rolling… after the strike, I guess,” he said.

[From Variety]

Yeah, he’s right. Musical artists, songwriters and music producers should be watching the writers strike and figuring out their next moves too, because (just my opinion) they’re getting screwed over worse than Hollywood writers. These issues have been looming for years now, and it’s crazy that Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and the studios thought they could just keep underpaying their content creators and reaping billions in profits. The thing is, it’s only the “oldheads” like Snoop who can really see how the industry has shifted – I’m not sure the younger musical artists understand how badly they’re being screwed over, honestly.

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