The 2006 film The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, dramatizes the immediate aftermath of the death of Princess Diana. Much of the conflict comes from Queen Elizabeth’s reluctance to publicly address the grief of her subjects, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair pleading with her to speak. In the fourth …
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Sometimes you can just feel it when a celebrity is entering a flop era. I vividly remember watching Katy Perry using drag queens as props on Saturday Night Live in 2017, accompanied by a rapper who had recently used a homophobic slur, dressed in a hideous Beetlejuice-style striped jacket, and …
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Spare is not an easy read. It’s not even a particularly fun one. But Prince Harry’s new memoir doesn’t seem to want to make an articulate, nuanced point about fame in the age of a monarchy that might have outlived its usefulness. Instead, Prince Harry wants to tell his story, …
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Prince Harry doesn’t hold back in his new memoir Spare, out Jan 10. As interest surrounding Harry, his upbringing, and his ever-evolving relationship with his family is at an all-time high, snippets from the memoir have already started making headlines in the days leading up to the release. The book …
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Lately, Prince Harry has been fighting fire with fire – using revealing documentaries and interviews to detail his reasoning for distancing himself from the Royal Family and recounting physical fights with his brother William in his upcoming memoir Spare. In a recent preview from an upcoming ITV interview, set to …
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The first three episodes of Harry & Meghan, a Netflix “global event” (their words) chronicling Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s tabloid-ravaged love story, from the royal couple’s first date to their nuptials, offered few surprises. We dug into their personal histories—Meghan’s early years negotiating her mixed-race upbringing in the Valley; …
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If there are two sides to every story, and one of those sides is the Royal Family backed by a spectacle-hungry media and tabloid circus while the other is the very couple they’ve both placed under an unsparing microscope – which holds the truth? In the new documentary series Harry …
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Billie Eilish, Annie Lennox, Finneas, Chloe x Halle and Ellie Goulding are performing during the Earthshot Prize Ceremony, which will be taped in Boston on Friday, Dec. 2. “The urgent need to protect and restore our Earth’s damaged environmental systems is essential for future survival,” Lennox said in a statement, …
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The creators of The Princess, an HBO documentary about Princess Diana that premiered on Saturday, are defending their use of a controversial interview clip that Prince William previously said “holds no legitimacy.” The interview clip, which comes from the infamous November 1995 BBC Panorama interview with journalist Martin Bashir, captures …
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Don’t Let This Flopis released Wednesdays on all audio streaming platforms, includingApplePodcasts,Spotify,Amazon Music,Stitcherandmore. Quick: what’s Prince William‘s legacy? Is it being second in line of succession to the British throne? Is it his brief tenure as the cover star of countless issues of J-14 andPeople Sexiest Man Alive editions (and …
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