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  • Prince Harry Slams Tabloids For Their ‘Utterly Vile’ Behaviour As He Gives Evidence In Phone Hacking Trial

    Prince Harry Slams Tabloids For Their ‘Utterly Vile’ Behaviour As He Gives Evidence In Phone Hacking Trial

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    Prince Harry slammed the way tabloids have written about him over the years as he arrived at London’s High Court on Tuesday.

    The Duke of Sussex’s phone hacking trial against the publisher of the Daily Mirror kicked off on Monday, but he wasn’t present.

    Harry then made an appearance the following day after taking a flight from Los Angeles on Sunday after the birthday of his 2-year-old daughter, Lilibet.


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    The Duke — who stepped back as a senior member of the royal family alongside his wife Meghan Markle in March 2020 — is the first member of the British royals to testify in court in more than a century.

    The case against the publisher of the Daily Mirror is the first of the prince’s several lawsuits against the media to go to trial, and one of three alleging tabloid publishers unlawfully snooped on him while competing for scoops on the royal family.

    According to The Guardian, Harry said in a witness statement of how the tabloids shaped how other people viewed him: “You start off as a blank canvas while they work out what kind of person you are and what kind of problems and temptations you might have.

    “They then start to edge you towards playing the role or roles that suit them best and which sells as many newspapers as possible, especially if you are the ‘spare’ to the ‘heir.’ You’re then either the ‘playboy prince,’ the ‘failure,’ the ‘drop out’ or, in my case, the ‘thicko,’ the ‘cheat,’ the ‘underage drinker,’ the ‘irresponsible drug taker,’ the list goes on.”


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    He continued, “As a teenager and in my early twenties, I ended up feeling as though I was playing up to a lot of the headlines and stereotypes that they wanted to pin on me mainly because I thought that, if they are printing this rubbish about me and people were believing it, I may as well ‘do the crime,’ so to speak.

    “It was a downward spiral, whereby the tabloids would constantly try and coax me, a ‘damaged’ young man, into doing something stupid that would make a good story and sell lots of newspapers. Looking back on it now, such behaviour on their part is utterly vile.

    “I always felt as if the tabloids wanted me to be single, as I was much more interesting to them and sold more newspapers.”

    During the court case, Harry said he felt paranoid around his own doctors amid the previous reporting about his broken thumb, as well as saying in his witness statement that he had to hide in the trunk of a car to avoid paparazzi at one point.

    He shared, “I had just turned 20, and like most 20 year-olds, I wanted to go out and socialize. However, everywhere I went, the paparazzi seemed to turn up even though efforts were always being made to conceal where I was going.

    “I had to walk out, hold my head high and just try to push past and get in the car. On rare occasions I even hid in the boot [trunk]….

    “The paparazzi had me surrounded, their arms in my face. They don’t take photographs like you’d expect, it’s just their arms stretched out pushing a button, taking hundreds of photographs all at once with the flash in your face. I couldn’t even see where I was going. As I reached the car, I could hear taunting, I was being egged on for a reaction, knowing I’d been out and had a few drinks. A camera hit me across my nose as I was opening the door, I turned, grabbed the nearest camera to me and shoved it backwards.”

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  • Prince Harry Travels to London for His Mirror Group Case, but Misses Court on Monday

    Prince Harry Travels to London for His Mirror Group Case, but Misses Court on Monday

    On Tuesday, Prince Harry is expected to become the first senior royal to testify in court in more than a century, but when the high-profile trial regarding his suit against Mirror Group Newspapers continued on Monday morning, the prince wasn’t in the courtroom. According to the New York Post, Judge Timothy Fancourt had instructed him to appear. “I’m a little surprised,” the judge said.

    Harry’s lawyer David Sherborne told the High Court that his client had flown from the US on Sunday night, and was unable to make it to court. “His travel arrangements are such and his security arrangements are such that it is a little bit tricky,” he added, per Reuters. 

    The suit against the newspaper group, which owns the the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and Sunday People, is one of multiple cases that the prince is pursuing against publishers over allegations of illegal information gathering. Harry has alleged that 140 articles published by the three newspapers between 1996 and 2010 were obtained using illegal information-gathering tactics, and 33 of those articles were selected for examination in the case. The prince is one of a handful of plaintiffs who will be heard over the course of the trial.

    Despite Harry’s absence on Monday, Sherborne laid out some of the issues we can expect Harry to speak to during his testimony, including the impact certain stories in the news group’s titles had on his relationships and mental health. The lawyer mentioned the impact that press coverage had on his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy. “It was as if they were never alone,” Sherborne said, pointing to an April 2005 story in the People detailing the prince’s phone calls to Davy. “The ups and downs and ins and outs of their relationship, the beginning, the break-ups, and finally the split between them were all revealed and picked apart by the three Mirror Group titles.”

    Sherborne noted that roughly 2,500 stories about Harry had run in MGN titles during the period his allegations cover. “Nothing was sacrosanct or out of bounds, and there was no protection from these unlawful information-gathering methods,” he added, pointing to stories about Princess Diana. “It is the use of these methods by a national media group that has brought him here, not some vendetta against the press generally.”

    A lawyer representing MGN, Andrew Green, replied that Harry’s allegations regarding voicemail messages is speculation without evidence. At the start of the trial last month, MGN apologized for one specific time the People had illegally sought information about Harry, but denied that there was evidence to suspect the practice was widespread.

    Harry’s travel for the trial marks his third trip to the UK so far this year, and he quickly returned home after King Charles’s coronation last month so he could celebrate his son Archie’s fourth birthday. Lilibet, the daughter Harry shares with wife, Meghan Markle, celebrated her second birthday on Sunday, June 4.

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  • Emily Ratajkowski Wore the $70 Sneakers Kate Middleton Also Loves

    Emily Ratajkowski Wore the $70 Sneakers Kate Middleton Also Loves

    When a supermodel and a princess both agree on the same sneaker style, you know it’s a good one. That’s the case with Superga 2750 Cotu Sneakers ($69), which both Emily Ratajkowski and Kate Middleton frequently wear. Most recently, EmRata was photographed in New York City wearing hers with Garrett Leight glasses and a handbag by The Row.

    EmRata’s pants make her outfit particularly trendy. As we’ve covered ad nauseam, baggy trousers are hugely popular right now and have a wide variety of celebrity supporters, including Margot Robbie, Jennifer Lopez, and others. On the other hand, the Princess of Wales gravitates toward more classic outfits, so she tends to style her Supergas with timeless pieces. Scroll down to see how both women wear the same sneakers and shop them for yourself. 

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  • Of Course Zara Tindall Was Dancing to Macklemore on a Yacht

    Of Course Zara Tindall Was Dancing to Macklemore on a Yacht

    Because Princess Anne opted not to give her daughter Zara a title before she was born, she has always gotten to have a bit more fun than her cousins who are princes, princesses, dukes, and ladies. Back in 2003, she became the first royal to have a professional sports sponsorship for her equestrian talent, and after she married rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011, the two benefit from some of the perks that are only available to sports royalty. This weekend that meant joining their friend sportscaster Natalie Pinkham on a yacht in between races at the Monaco Grand Prix.

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    According to a clip Pinkham shared on her Instagram account, Zara got to show off her skills as a DJ, and she played a dance remix of “Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. She led everyone else in a bit of raising the roof. Another picture shows Zara and Natalie joining a cuddle puddle with the retired race car driver Johnny Herbert.

    It turns out that the real talent behind the boards on the yacht was Paul Borkowski, the resident DJ for F1 Experiences. On his Instagram, Borkowski posted a picture that showed him embracing Zara and Mike, along with a caption: “DJ… by royal appointment haha.”

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  • I Found 10 Under-$100 Versions of the Trendy Accessory Kate Middleton Just Wore

    I Found 10 Under-$100 Versions of the Trendy Accessory Kate Middleton Just Wore

    In keeping with the unofficial royal family dress code, Kate Middleton typically keeps her accessories pretty classic, like the rest of her wardrobe. But once in a while, she’ll surprise us and step out for an appearance wearing something trendy and fun (relatively speaking). That was the case yesterday when she attended an engagement at a museum in London.

    Middleton wore a spring-appropriate pink Alexander McQueen suit for the occasion with white pumps. But it was her belt that made the outfit memorable. Trendy belts are having a moment this season, and Middleton embraced the buzzy accessory trend. She opted for a white pearl-embellished one by sustainable British designer Camilla Elphick. It’s sold out now (but available for pre-order), so I found a handful of other trendy belts that will be perfect for summer. The best part is that they’re all under $100. Scroll to shop my picks.

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  • Mike Tindall Opens Up About What He Could Really See From His Coronation Seat

    Mike Tindall Opens Up About What He Could Really See From His Coronation Seat

    After King Charles’s coronation on May 6, photos from Westminster Abbey showed Prince Harry looking perplexed as he sat behind his aunt, Princess Anne, as she wore an extravagant bicorne hat with a red feather. The photos led to widespread speculation that Harry, who traveled from California to England for the event, had an obstructed view and missed most of the action. According to Mike Tindall, who is married to Harry’s cousin Zara, who was also seated in the third row of the church, the hat might not have made a difference, because everyone had a somewhat obstructed view.

    On a bonus episode of The Good, The Bad, and The Rugby, the podcast Tindall hosts with his friends James Haskell and Alex Payne, he admitted that he actually wasn’t able to see too much. “You’re in the hottest spot, but it was all happening just around the corner of [a] wall that you can’t see!” Tindall said with a laugh, per People. “You do have a front-row seat.” 

    He added he liked his seat, even though he did have to view the action on a screen. “It was unbelievable to be sat where we were,” he said. “Quite frustrating that you couldn’t see around the corner, but you had the TV there. And obviously everything that went on sort of back and front.”

    According to writer Richard Jenkyns, this is a side effect of the fact that the Abbey’s daily worship requirements and its role as a theater for royal ritual come into conflict. In his 2005 guide to Westminster Abbey, he notes that the issue was even worse before modern technology allowed for the installation of the screens that Tindall relied on. “It remains to this day that on a great occasion, the bulk of the congregation cannot see what is happening,” he wrote, “and before the age of the microphone, they could not hear much either.”

    The modern-day Westminster Abbey was constructed with a cruciform floor plan in the Romanesque style in the 11th century. Though little of that original structure still remains, rebuilding over the next few centuries was primarily additive. The French gothic-inspired façade on the north transept was added in the 13th century, with a major renovation taking place in 1880. Now it’s considered an axial church, where all of the main spaces are laid out linearly from a central nave, and different parts of the coronation ritual take place in different areas of the church.

    Tindall’s obstructed view seems to have been a common struggle for the members of the royal family, who were seated in the cathedral’s south transept, while the main action was happening at the high altar, which is slightly east of the central axis. Even those seated in the first row of the transept, like Princess Kate and Prince William, were occasionally shown in photos craning their necks to see action happening around the side of the wall next to them, especially when Camilla was being crowned south of the high altar. Harry was seated in the third row, behind his aunt and uncle Prince Edward, and in between Princess Alexandra, his 86-year-old cousin who is also a working royal, and Jack Brooksbank, the husband of Princess Eugenie. Mike and Zara were seated in the fourth row, in between Zara’s brother Peter Phillips and Princess Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon.

    Even though the vagaries of history denied him the perfect view during the ceremony, Tindall added that he still feels like he had the privilege of witnessing history. “It’s one of those moments,” he said. “I think the best bit of the day was the six and half hours of military footmen that were in the Buckingham Palace backyard, and they did three cheers for the King—it was like whoa, goose pimples.” 

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  • King Charles and Queen Camilla Sit on a Special Coronation Bench in Northern Ireland

    King Charles and Queen Camilla Sit on a Special Coronation Bench in Northern Ireland

    This week, King Charles III and Queen Camilla made a surprise trip to Northern Ireland to continue their coronation celebrations, and their visit included the opportunity to sit on a throne very unlike the Westminster Abbey relics they were crowned on earlier this month. On Wednesday, the king and queen sat on a purple coronation bench designed by local elementary school children when they visited Hillsborough Castle in County Down.

    “Shall we give it a go?” Charles said before he sat down alongside his wife. He added with a laugh, “Will it suddenly collapse?”

    After sitting on the bench, Camilla spoke to students about the bench and its inspiration. The students at Blythefield Primary School were the winners of Historic Royal Palaces’ competition to create benches inspired by hopes for the king’s reign. According to the organization, which maintains six palaces and historic sites across the UK, the Blythewood students’ vibrant design featured flowers that reflect the ethnic diversity of the school, “the costus spectabili for Nigeria; the hibiscus for Malaysia and the waterlily for Bangladesh,” along with a stag motif to symbolize the environment.

    According to BBC, the couple was joined at Hillsborough by John Caldwell, a police detective who was shot in February by two gunmen potentially connected to a dissident republican group, and also had a private meeting with him.

    Earlier in the day, the couple began their visit to the region with a trip to a new Coronation Garden at Hazelbank Park in County Antrim, where they met with the garden’s designer, Diarmuid Gavin, who explained his inspiration behind the “whimsical” garden. “They were wonderful,” Gavin later told Belfast Live. “I got to spend a little bit of time with them, we went into the quiet garden with the water dancing and they were asking me where the plants came from, the idea behind the design, and they couldn’t have been nicer.” Later, the couple were serenaded by another group of school children and laughed as they cut into a cake shaped like the St. Edward’s Crown.

    On Thursday, the king and queen began their day with a trip to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh, where they were introduced to two eight-year-olds standing outside. Camilla laughed when the children, Camilla Nowawakowska and Charles Murray, told her their names. “We’ve got a couple,” she said. “Goodness me, isn’t that funny,” She noticed that the children were wearing crowns made out of construction paper with plastic jewels. “You’ve got very smart crowns on. They’re a little bit lighter than the one I had on. They look pretty cool with all the jewels.”

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  • Princess Kate Joins a Long Royal Tradition By Showing Off Her Beekeeping Skills

    Princess Kate Joins a Long Royal Tradition By Showing Off Her Beekeeping Skills

    On Thursday, King Charles III accepted a gift of honey from soccer star David Beckham and made a joke about sharing the honey from his own apiaries. But on Saturday, Princess Kate revealed herself as the royal family’s true bee-lover when she posted a photograph of herself in full beekeeping gear to Instagram in honor of World Bee Day. In the photo taken by Matt Porteous, she is tending to the beehives at Anmer Hall, the Norfolk country home she shares with Prince William.

    “We are buzzing about #WorldBeeDay 🐝,” the photograph’s caption read. “Bees are a vital part of our ecosystem and today is a great opportunity to raise awareness of the essential role bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy.”

    Over the last few years, there have been a few clues that Kate was becoming an avid beekeeper. In 2020, her younger brother James Middleton wrote an essay for the Daily Mail about taking up beekeeping a decade earlier, noting that his first beehives were gifts from his parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, along with his sisters, Kate and Pippa Matthews. During a June 2021 engagement at the Natural History Museum, Kate brought a jar of honey from her beehives and shared it with a group of children. “This came specially from my beehive,” she said. “Every time you see a bee, say thank you so much because they make delicious honey.”

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    There were a handful of beekeepers during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, tending to beehives near Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, and Windsor Castle, and on a 2014 visit to Italy, the late queen presented Pope Francis with honey from the palace gardens and a bottle of whiskey from the Balmoral Estate. Last fall, attention turned to the official royal beehives after beekeeper John Chapple followed the tradition of informing the palace bees of her death by tying a black ribbon around the hives. 

    In addition to the Crown’s hives, Charles also has a handful of his own at Highgrove, his country estate in Gloucestershire. His original hives were constructed as a part of the renovations to the estate after he purchased it in 1980, and he has been selling honey from the estate since the 1990s. He later began selling a more affordable honey sourced from bees at Balmoral. In 2015, Queen Camilla also installed beehives on the gardens of Ray Mill, her property in Wiltshire and sold a limited-edition supply of honey in partnership with the department store Fortnum & Mason. In 2020, she also became the president of Bees for Development, a charity that trains beekeepers and protects habitats in over 50 countries.

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  • Germany Celebrates Wedding of Bavarian Prince Ludwig

    Germany Celebrates Wedding of Bavarian Prince Ludwig

    Raise a stein and say “Glückwunsch!” There was a royal wedding in Germany this weekend.

    Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, the 40-year-old great-great-grandson of the last Bavarian King, Ludwig III, wed Singapore-born Dutch-Canadian 32-year-old Sophie-Alexandra Evekink at the Theatine Church of St. Cjetan in Munich on Saturday. The event, which included a ride in a rare 1950s BMW prototype automobile, Bavarian flags, and a reception at Nymphenburg Palace, was called “the biggest German royal event of the year” by the newspaper Bild. The new couple  acquired a new nickname, as well: “the German Kate and William.”

    The reception at Nymphenburg was thrown by the Prince’s cousin, the 89-year-old Duke of Bavaria (full name Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern), head of the House of Wittelsbach.

    Prince Ludwig is the son of 72-year-old Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, whose business holdings include the König Ludwig Schlossbrauerei, a brewery with roots dating back to the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 and earlier. The company’s facilities include the 13th-century castle Schloss Kaltenberg, which offers a Knights’ Dinner for tourists, and a factory in a town called Fürstenfeldbruck. No, I’m not making any of this up.

    The Prince studied law, focusing on human rights, at Göttingen University, and has spent a great deal of time in Kenya working with nonprofit organizations. He is the third child of Luitpold and wife Katrin Beatrix Wiegand, but the oldest male and, therefore future head of the royal house of Bavaria. 

    Sophie-Alexandra is a graduate of University College London and the University of Oxford, and has worked for the United Nations in Geneva and New York City. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in criminology at Oxford, and teaches there as well. According to People, her Reem Acra gown was tailored locally in Bavaria and included a veil designed by Ukrainian brand WONA. DW News added that the veil’s filigree “incorporated hidden Canadian and Dutch details.”

    The new couple’s wider family, the House of Wittelsbach, goes back to the 11th century, and included two Holy Roman Emperors. Its branches are spread throughout Europe, and are connected, via Sofia of Hanover (who died in 1714), to the House of Windsor and the current British monarchy. Fans of the BBC comedy Blackadder may recall that Hugh Laurie played Prince Ludwig in the second season. 

    Bavaria, in the south-east of Germany, became a republic in 1918, and finally an official state within what was then West Germany in 1949. The House of Wittelsbach stood in opposition to the Nazi Party, and several members, including the aforementioned Duke, were held in concentration camps during the war. 

    News outlets like Britain’s Daily Mail have images from the event that include cute kids in light blue pants and flowers in their hair. Looks like everyone had a really nice day. 

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  • This New H&M Dress Is Giving Me Unmistakable Sofia Richie Vibes

    This New H&M Dress Is Giving Me Unmistakable Sofia Richie Vibes

    Sofia Richie Grainge is in her It-girl era. In recent weeks I haven’t been able to escape her content—not that I’m mad about it. TikTok users were quick to compare her nuptials to a royal wedding as they fawned over every detail of her pre- and post-ceremony outfits. Oh, and don’t even get me started on her impeccable honeymoon looks. 

    Richie’s recent outfits have been burned into my brain, so I immediately thought of her when I saw this new H&M dress. H&M’s Glittery Pointelle-Knit Dress ($75) reminds me of the Khaite Cedar Dress ($2400) she wore in the South of France. Her Instagram post garnered over 240,000 likes and hundreds of comments, so it’s safe to say her fans loved the dress. Scroll down to shop H&M’s version.

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  • The Royal Family Gets Back to Work After a Busy Coronation Weekend

    The Royal Family Gets Back to Work After a Busy Coronation Weekend

    After the coronation, King Charles III and Queen Camilla headed to the Sandringham Estate for a bit of relaxation, after the king made a stop to break ground on a new Cambridge aviation laboratory on Tuesday. Despite that, it was still a perfectly busy week on the Court Circular, with the rest of the working royals jumping from engagement to engagement. 

    In their absence, Prince William and Princess Kate hosted a Buckingham Palace garden party on Tuesday, where they were joined by a handful of other familiar faces from the new coronation portrait, including the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Princess Anne, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. Kate wore a cornflower blue Elie Saab dress she once wore at Royal Ascot in 2019, and William made a subtle homage to his late mother, Princess Diana, by wearing a forget-me-not in his lapel. Continuing the blue theme that the royals began at Easter Sunday services last month, Sophie matched Kate in a similar light blue dress. 

    William and Kate shared photos from the day on their social media accounts with teapot and cake emojis and the caption, “Celebrating people who do extraordinary things.” During the party, a guest caught an image of William embracing Kate as they walked and shared it to Instagram. Though the couple used to avoid public displays of affection in the early days of their marriage, they have become much more comfortable with them over the last few years, with William often holding his wife’s hand or putting his arm around their back. When they celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary last month, they shared a photo that featured them hugging while sitting on bikes.

    On Wednesday, William hosted an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, where he awarded a few athletes he has long admired. Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze, two members of the English national women’s soccer team that won at last year’s Euro Cup, were awarded with MBEs, the first rung on the British honors system that builds up to knighthood. William also made former employee Jason Knauf a lieutenant in the Royal Victorian Order, which is awarded for services to the sovereign. Knauf, a former head of William and Kate’s Royal Foundation, also served as a communications secretary at Kensington Palace. (During his time in that role, he accused Meghan Markle of bullying, in an email that later set off a palace investigation.) Kate didn’t make any more public appearances, but she did host private meetings for her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.  

    Sophie and Edward also kept busy throughout the rest of the week, attending charity events and government meetings. On Friday, Sophie watched her daughter Lady Louise Windsor compete in a carriage driving competition at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. 

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  • Mike Tindall Dances Like Nobody (Except King Charles III) Is Watching

    Mike Tindall Dances Like Nobody (Except King Charles III) Is Watching

    When you have small children, you know the value of having childcare secured so you can have a night out with just your significant other. A night where nobody’s asking for milk (unless your spouse is an evening dairy enthusiast, to each their own) and you most likely won’t step on a Lego or be busting out a stain stick to daub that “washable” paint out of your outfit while you sigh and sigh and sigh. (Maybe “washable” just means “yes, you can wash it,” not necessarily that it’ll come out.) 

    So it goes almost without saying that when you have three little kids, like royals Mike and Zara Tindall, those rare nights out need to be something else. They have three children, ages 9, 4, and 2. 

    Mike shared details of the late night the couple shared before the coronation ceremony with Good Morning Britain. The two were reportedly out until 2 a.m. the night before, which lead to Zara doing something that looked an awful lot like nodding off in the pews of Westminster Abbey before King Charles III’s big moment. 

    “I don’t regret that,” he said.

    “Never worry about what’s tomorrow,” he said of the prior evening’s shenanigans. “Enjoy the moment and then you can deal with the next day later.”

    “It was quite nice to have a little date night,” he added. 

    And as for his dance moves at the coronation concert later in the weekend? He borrows a line from Hitch, the 2005 film starring Will Smith.

    “As Hitch once said in the movie, ‘You’ve got to stay in your safe zone’ and my flag waving, I tried to do the best flag waving out there.”

    He did appear to be thriving while dancing to Katy Perry and Lionel Richie at last weekend’s concert. Still, the former rugby player did seem to feel he could have given a little bit more and made Hitch proud: “It’s very difficult when you’re on a raised platform that’s under a lot of lights, I felt I didn’t really put my best foot forward in terms of [my dancing].”

    Just imagine the wonders this man would produce if you gave him a stable surface and some Lee Ann Womack. Imagine. 

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  • What Prince Harry and Prince William’s Silent Coronation Showdown Means

    What Prince Harry and Prince William’s Silent Coronation Showdown Means

    During the coronation service for King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Saturday, one moment served to remind viewers of the family at the center of the ceremony: Near the service’s end, Prince William dropped to his knees and pledged an oath similar to the one his grandfather Prince Philip uttered at the 1953 coronation of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. “I, William, Prince of Wales, pledge my loyalty to you and faith and truth I will bear unto you, as your liege man of life and limb,” he said. “So help me, God.” 

    In the audience three rows back sat Prince Harry, who had traveled from Los Angeles. He had kept the details of his trip so tightly under wraps, as cohosts Katie Nicholl and Erin Vanderhoof explain, that his family had to remove a place setting for him at their informal coronation luncheon when they realized that the spare was already long gone, having flown immediately back to California. 

    Despite the melancholy lingering over such tangled dynamics, the event went off without a hitch—not counting the rain.

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  • Princess Eugenie Shares Behind-The-Scenes Pictures From Her Coronation Weekend

    Princess Eugenie Shares Behind-The-Scenes Pictures From Her Coronation Weekend

    Though Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice are not working royals, they both occasionally step in to show their support for the monarchy, and that has not changed in the reign of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. On Saturday, they were two of the standout attendees at the Westminster Abbey coronation ceremony, arriving with and sitting next to Prince Harry in the third row, along with Beatrice’s husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Eugenie’s husband Jack Brooksbank. The sisters continued the celebration on Sunday, when they both made an appearance at a Big Coronation Lunch at a village green in Buckinghamshire before heading to the Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle in the evening. 

    In an Instagram post, Eugenie shared a few pictures from the day that show the expectant mother in a black-and-white dress from Gabriella Hearst. In the caption, she wrote about her motivations for attending. “Beatrice and I had so much fun in Chalfont St. Giles for their Coronation Big Lunch. It was amazing to see so many people celebrating and we are very grateful to have spent some time with children, fluffy puppies and so many well-wishers for the king and queen,” she said. “The concert was such a special way to end the day. What a beautiful way to honor the King’s life of service. Of course, my favorite part was seeing the big whale lit up in the sky.”

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    Eugenie’s Instagram post shared some of her private photos from the day, including one where the two sisters posed with their mother, Sarah Ferguson. Though Sarah wasn’t invited to the Westminster Abbey service on Saturday, she did snag an invite to sit in the royal box during Sunday’s concert. She was photographed sitting next to her ex-husband Prince Andrew, both wearing reading glasses. 

    Eugenie has a son, August Brooksbank, and Beatrice has a daughter, Sienna, though both were not in attendance for the Sunday concert. In January, Buckingham Palace announced that Eugenie and Jack were expecting their second child sometime this summer. 

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  • Kate Middleton Just Wore Trendy Cargo Skinny Jeans With the Prettiest Top

    Kate Middleton Just Wore Trendy Cargo Skinny Jeans With the Prettiest Top

    After the busy Coronation weekend, it was right back to work for members of the royal family, but with a far more casual affair for Kate Middleton and Prince William. They attended the Big Help Out (a day when people in the UK are encouraged to volunteer) with their three children in tow. And Middleton’s wardrobe for the occasion was quite the departure from her ornate wardrobe over the weekend. 

    For the outdoor event, Middleton wore two of her favorite casual-attire items: skinny jeans and Blundstone Chelsea boots. But the jeans weren’t her typical plain black skinny jeans. She opted for a cargo pair, which she wore with a pretty chambray denim blouse.

    Cargo everything is trending right now, so it was fun to see Middleton in a pair that suited her aesthetic. There are cargo-jean options to suit every preference, so scroll on to find your pair (including the exact G-Star Raw ones that Middleton wore).

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  • Inside the Challenges of Bringing the Coronation Concert to an Isolated Corner of Windsor Castle

    Inside the Challenges of Bringing the Coronation Concert to an Isolated Corner of Windsor Castle

    If the Platinum Party at the Palace in June 2022 was about honoring Queen Elizabeth II and London, the city that became a cultural capital during her reign, Sunday’s Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle was a moment for King Charles III to reintroduce himself to the world. It helped that two of the night’s headliners, Lionel Richie and Katy Perry, were friends of the king’s and only too happy to shout him out for his personality and charity work. But the stage was constructed on the castle’s east terrace, where the public has rarely been allowed, turning the evening into an opportunity to invite the world—and the local community—into the royal family’s backyard.

    For Alicia Tkacz, one of the partners at Stufish Entertainment Architects who helped design the concert stage, her first tour of the Windsor Castle site revealed a handful of challenges. “It’s a big empty lawn paddock, so we’ve taken over quite a large area of that,” she said in a video call a few days before the big show. “Although it looks kind of level, it’s not, so we have to take into account all the different changes in the ground level and slopes to make sure the audience can see the stage.”

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    Stufish is best known for its work designing stages and sets for pop performers at the highest level, like Adele, Madonna, U2, and the Rolling Stones, and it’s also the firm that designed the stages for last year’s Party at the Palace. Though some of the light show elements of the night were similar, the design team tried to take advantage of the unusual look at one of the UK’s most iconic structures. 

    “We really wanted to embrace the castle and the architecture of the castle. Obviously, it’s beautiful,” Tkacz said. “Within the design, we’ve incorporated parts of the parapet and the steps, which lead down to the lawn into the stage. So the stage kind of develops from the castle.” 

    For entertainment architects, the job is an opportunity to use all the various components of a concert to evoke an event’s purpose, and those at Stufish were thinking about how to use the design to fit the needs of the night and make something memorable. “Entertainment architecture provides the building blocks that can enhance an event and trigger the emotions that will be embedded in the memories of the collective consciousness,” said Stufish’s CEO, Ray Winkler. “We are honored to be working with BBC Studios to design this historic moment that will be remembered for many years to come.”  

    The design of the concert’s stage subtly embedded two iconic motifs that highlighted the event’s meaning. The various elements of the build formed a Union Jack that could be viewed from above, and the circular element over the center of the stage symbolized a crown. 

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  • The Royal Family Is Wondering Why Prince Harry “Bothered to Come” to the Coronation at All

    The Royal Family Is Wondering Why Prince Harry “Bothered to Come” to the Coronation at All

    It was the briefest of appearances but after much deliberation and creating a headache for organizers over whether he would attend, Prince Harry flew to Britain for King Charles‘s coronation after all.

    On Monday, the Telegraph reported that Harry even visited Buckingham Palace during his time in London, “slipping in and out of the monarchy’s headquarters briefly without seeing the royal family.” However, there was no meeting with his father, and he didn’t exchange a single word with his brother Prince William during the fleeting trip.

    According to one family friend, Harry’s 28 hours in the country has left his family “wondering why Harry bothered to come at all.” 

    “One makes one’s choices,” said a source close to the royal family. “To be honest there wasn’t much talk of Harry at all. The focus was very much on the occasion.”

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    The Duke of Sussex flew to England to witness the most important moment of his father’s life and arrived on Friday night. Meghan Markle, who was seen hiking over the weekend, stayed behind in Los Angeles with the couple’s children Archie and Lilibet and celebrated Archie’s fourth birthday with a small gathering at their Montecito home.

    Harry was determined to get back to the United States in time to see Archie and declined an invitation to join the king and his family for an informal lunch after the coronation. The duke was on his way to the airport before the official photographs (released Monday afternoon along with a message from King Charles) were even taken.

    His fleeting visit has left the family underwhelmed, according to the family friend, and his father “saddened.”

    There was hope Harry might make a brief appearance, but while he is reported to have stopped at the palace so that he could take a breather before heading to the airport, the duke did not see any of his family.

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  • Princess Kate Just Wore the Most Daring Color Trend to the Coronation Concert

    Princess Kate Just Wore the Most Daring Color Trend to the Coronation Concert

    The coronation outfits of Catherine, Princess of Wales, have been a sight to behold across the entirety of the weekend of celebrations. From the striking cobalt Self-Portrait dress she wore to welcome world leaders to a pre-coronation reception held at Buckingham Palace to her stunning ivory Alexander McQueen gown and ceremonial robe she wore to the coronation itself, Kate Middleton’s ensembles have been worthy of the history books they’ll no doubt grace the pages of. And tonight, as she, her husband, Prince William, their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, and other members of the Royal Family join members of the public for a very special coronation concert held on the grounds of Windsor Castle, Kate has wowed us with her attire once again. This time, she was wearing the key color trend of the season.

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  • Lionel Richie Gets King Charles Dancing With Epic Performance At Coronation Concert

    Lionel Richie Gets King Charles Dancing With Epic Performance At Coronation Concert

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    Lionel Richie had the crowd singing “All Night Long” during King Charles III’s coronation concert!

    On Sunday, the “American Idol” judge took the stage for a performance in honor of the new king at Windsor Castle. For his set, Richie kicked things off with “Easy (Like Sunday Morning).”

    Sitting at the piano, Richie got the audience singing along as they waved their hands and lit up phones from side to side.

    He then got them on their feet with his upbeat hit, “All Night Long.” It was obvious that the royal family was happy to have the “Hello” singer there as they sang along to his songs, with Prince William and Kate Middleton‘s children, George and Charlotte, waving little union jack flags in excitement and Charles himself showing off some of his dance moves.

    Speaking to ET at the 9th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, Richie recalled the feeling of getting such an invitation to perform at the king’s coronation.

    “It’s an honor,” Richie told ET. “I mean, first of all, when you’ve been in the business a long time, and, of course, when you get an invitation like this, the answer is absolutely. We’ve been friends a long time, I’ve known him a long time, but to be asked is the whole thing.”

    Richie was in good company with fellow Idol judge Katy Perry performing as well.

    The televised concert comes one day after Charles and Camilla were officially crowned during the historic coronation ceremony.

    King Charles III‘s coronation took place at Westminster Abbey and formalized his role as the head of the Church of England and marked the transfer of his title and powers. It was also the official moment he is crowned king.

    King Charles was crowned with the St Edward’s Crown from the 17th century, which weighs nearly five pounds, has a solid gold frame and 444 stones.

    Meanwhile, his wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, was anointed and crowned as queen. Camilla is the first divorcee to be crowned, and the coronation invitation that was released in April made headlines when it referred to her as Queen Camilla for the first time. Until then, she was described as queen consort.

    As for Prince Harry, he attended the coronation, but his wife, Meghan Markle, did not join him. This news came amid tension within the royal family after the December release of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, and the Duke of Sussex’s bestselling memoir, Spare, which came out in January. Both the doc and the book were critical of Harry’s family and also shared intimate details about the royals from the couple’s perspective.

    While Harry was in England, Meghan stayed at their home in Montecito, California, with their two children — son Archie, who turned 4 on the day of the coronation, and 1-year-old daughter Lilibet. Despite Harry and Meghan’s estrangement from the royals, the couple was featured in the official souvenir program celebrating the coronation, which included a happy photo of the family — including Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — celebrating King Charles’ 70th birthday in 2018.

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  • An Enchanted Prince Louis Was on His Best Behavior at King Charles’s Coronation

    An Enchanted Prince Louis Was on His Best Behavior at King Charles’s Coronation

    From marveling at his mother’s robes in Westminster Abbey to mastering a new double handed royal wave, all eyes were on little Prince Louis at King Charles’s coronation on Saturday. While Prince George had a starring role as a page of honor in his scarlett red tunic, it was little Louis who everyone was watching out for after his memorable debut appearance at the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

    The five-year-old’s attendance at Westminster Abbey was only confirmed by Kensington Palace aides on Saturday morning. Prince William and Princess Kate were keen for their youngest to experience the grandeur of the Coronation and see his grandfather crowned, however as with most five-year-olds, the prince has a limited attention span. Royal watchers will remember last summer’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, where he was seen fidgeting and pulling funny faces at his mother during the street pageant before being handed over to Charles, who happily bounced Louis on his knee and distracted him. During the fly past, an animated Louis was seen covering his ears pulling a series of funny faces.

    While Prince George had one of the most important roles, assisting King Charles with his many robes, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis had a starring role in the procession following the King into the abbey.

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    Sources close to the Prince and Princess of Wales said the plan was for the prince to retire from the Abbey after the royal procession and before the two-hour service started. However, Louis stayed longer than expected because he was enjoying the music and spectacle before him. After yawning following the first hymn however, he was discreetly whisked away but he returned for the national anthem and was excited to take part in the carriage procession back to Buckingham Palace.

    According to a family friend, Charles is very close to his youngest grandson and wanted him to be at yesterday’s service so he would have been delighted that Louis got to witness some of the special day. The Prince and Princess of Wales also wanted Louis to be a part of it, according to a family friend. He was too young to attend the Queen’s funeral, which was the first state occasion attended by George and Charlotte, and he was not at the Easter Service at Windsor last month. However, the Coronation was deemed a moment too important for Louis, who started school in September, to miss.

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