How wonderful to see the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex being christened this week in a private ceremony at their £12 million California mansion.
Harry and Meghan have named her Princess Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, a name that honors not only the late Queen, but also her mother Diana and the royal houses of Mountbatten and Windsor, a tribute to both her grandmother’s and her grandmother’s lineage. her grandfather, Prince Philip. .
However, isn’t it strange that the Sussexes haven’t honored any of Meghan’s family with the name, particularly her mother Doria, who played such an important role in her life?
After all, they have launched accusations around the world at the hideous Royal Family, accusing them of racism, of being cold, uncaring, and of freezing Meghan and forcing them to flee the country.
However, Doria, the mother Meghan adores and the only member of her family to attend the couple’s wedding, gets no mention.
Harry and Meghan have named her Princess Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, a name that honors not only the late Queen, but also her mother Diana and the royal houses of Mountbatten and Windsor, a tribute to both her grandmother’s and her grandmother’s lineage. her grandfather, Prince Philip.
However, isn’t it strange that the Sussexes haven’t honored any of Meghan’s family with the name, particularly her mother Doria, who played such an important role in her life? After all, they hurled accusations around the world at the hideous Royal Family, accusing them of racism, of being cold, uncaring, and of freezing Meghan and forcing them to flee the country.
Although she is Lilibet’s grandmother and was at the baptism.
Calling the girl Lilibet caused its own controversy. Palace sources say the late Queen was never asked if her private nickname could be adopted by these non-working royals.
It was the only thing that was truly his – the palaces and the paintings did not really belong to him, they are part of being a monarch – and to appropriate this precious name was presumptuous to say the least.
And how unnerving that the Sussexes have called her ‘princess’ when they’ve done everything they can to escape the gilded cage of real life.
In an interview in 2021, Meghan suggested that titles weren’t all that great: “I’m very clear about what comes with titles, the good and the bad,” she said. ‘And from my experience a lot of pain.’
Given this antipathy, you would have thought they might have followed Princess Anne’s lead. When the Queen offered royal titles to her children, Peter and Zara, Anne turned them down, and Zara has always said she felt “lucky” as a result.
I’m sure little Lilibet will feel lucky too. But how wonderful it would have been if the first mixed-race girl born into the British royal family had been honored with the name of her grandmother, Doria.
Just thinking.
The coveted Oscars goodie bag for Hollywood stars, valued at more than £100,000, contains not only holiday deals in Italy, but also free liposuction and even facelifts. What’s the point of that when they’ve already had so much work, and that’s just for the men?
police shame
Is it any wonder that women’s trust in police has plummeted when we learned that Met cop Wayne Couzens was dubbed ‘The Rapist’ by his colleagues and exposed himself to women just days before he raped and killed Sarah Everard?
The police received his description, car registration and bank details, but the boys in blue did nothing.
What hope is there for women when they are more concerned with protecting their own than the victims?
I miss Meg’s last word of love
So sad to hear of the death of legendary astrologer Mystic Meg.
Her latest prognosis for me as a Scorpio on Thursday read, “If you’re single, you’re resisting an attraction that you feel could get complicated, but today you can simplify this with just one word.”
He didn’t say what the word was, and now I’ll never know!
So sad to hear of the death of legendary astrologer Mystic Meg (pictured)
Tiger Woods’ ex-girlfriend Erica Herman is trying to revoke a confidentiality agreement she signed when they first met and now says she agreed to it under duress.
Who knows if the billionaire golfer is afraid she might reveal dark secrets?
But with all these NDAs, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, what happened to the romance?
Wegovy, the new fat-busting wonder drug, praised by Kim Kardashian and Jeremy Clarkson for its incredible weight-loss benefits, will be available free of charge on the NHS.
The only condition is that you have to be quite fat to get it. Pass on that slice of double cheese deep-dish pizza!
We normally see the Princess of Wales in designer gowns and diamonds, but Kate looks magnificent at the fighting on Salisbury Plain in her new role as Colonel of the Irish Guards. Talk about going commando!
Keira is a cage fighter
Looking back on her career, Keira Knightley says she felt ‘caged for being a sex object’ in her first big movie Pirates of the Caribbean opposite Johnny Depp as the nubile Elizabeth Swann.
“So the later papers were trying to get out of that.” Surprisingly, they included Anna Karenina, Love Actually, Pride & Prejudice, and Atonement.
In all of them, he presented himself as. . . a sex object.
Looking back on her career, Keira Knightley (pictured) says she felt ‘caged for being a sex object’ in her first big movie Pirates of the Caribbean opposite Johnny Depp as the nubile Elizabeth Swann.
The Oscars turned down a request by Ukrainian President Zelensky to appear at the awards ceremony tomorrow night calling for weapons to save his country.
No, they’d rather celebrate the pacifist movie All Quiet On The Western Front about how hard it was for those poor Germans in a war they started, than a real life leader fighting for his country and the freedom of his people.
Attending a London mosque, the Duke and Duchess of Wales were met with a men-only reception.
William shook their hands and Kate tried Iman Sufyan Iqbal, but was turned down as a woman.
It may be important for religious reasons, but imagine turning down the chance to shake hands with the future Queen.
A face accident
Model Cara Delevingne says photos of her scruffy and behaving erratically after being kicked off a flight were the wake-up call she needed to get help.
Perhaps the clue was that she was wearing a T-shirt with the face of Britney Spears, a drug addict with problems.
Model Cara Delevingne (pictured) says photos of her disheveled and behaving erratically after being kicked off a flight were the wake-up call she needed to get help.
++Westminster Wars++
- After the government’s proposed lifetime ban on illegal immigrants, Keir Starmer is revealed to have said that all immigration laws have a “racist undertone”. What is racist about preventing foreigners without a right to be here from entering or staying in the UK?
- In a question-and-answer session, Home Office officials said they found it difficult to reconcile the government’s plan to stop small boats with their personal and ethical convictions, one of whom said he had never been “so embarrassed”. to work for the department. Good luck finding a job in the real world where you can’t work from home on a gold-plated pension.
- Is it true that Boris nominated his father for a knighthood? Stanley Johnson is a serial womanizer who broke the Covid rules. They say the rotten apple never falls far from the tree.
The WFH is a bad lesson for children
Parents who work from home deserve everything they get, letting their kids miss school on Fridays, as schools report doing.
What kind of work ethic does that teach your kids? More fooling them anyway, since raising industrious kids means they’ll be living off mom and dad’s bank for the rest of their lives.
On International Women’s Day, Camilla hosted inspiring guests at Buckingham Palace, including Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata.
Call me old-fashioned, but Camilla is only famous for marrying King Charles and Akshata feted for being married to the Prime Minister and for the signature of her billionaire family.
So the message for young women is to marry well and grab the silver spoon?
Match of The Day’s Gary Lineker has “retired” from the show in a row on his social media.
Regardless of what you think about his speech on laws to stop illegal immigrants, which compared government language to that of 1930s Germany, the Jewish community might have something to say about comparing British policy to Hitler’s Germany, which ended up murdering six million Jews.
