Queen Elizabeth is just shy of her 95th birthday – it falls on April 21st. She spent more than 73 years of her life as Prince Philip’s wife, and she spent 82 years of her life in love with him. It really is extraordinary. Personally, I think the Queen wanted to sit by herself for […]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJihYs5jBaV/ A post shared by Heinz (@heinz) At the beginning of the pandemic we were scrambling to find masks, hand soap, sanitizer and of course toilet paper. Yeast was hard to find, because so many people were baking, and there was a shortage of shelf stable food like beans and pasta. While we have new […]

Well, I wasn’t expecting this. Prince Philip has passed away at the age of 99, almost two months before his 100th birthday. The Duke of Edinburgh passed away at Windsor Castle, where he and the Queen had been in relative lockdown for much of the past year. Philip returned to Windsor in mid-March following his […]

Andrew Morton recently gave an interesting interview to Vogue to promote his latest book, Elizabeth & Margaret: the Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters. It’s obviously about the Queen’s relationship with her only sibling, Princess Margaret, who passed away in 2002. I was curious as to why – of all the royal stories – Morton […]

When I saw the headline about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex Zooming with a teenager for a virtual mentoring session, one of my first reactions was dread. I worried that someone had posted a video and the teenage girl’s name, and that the child would face a barrage of harassment. But it looks like […]

For a while, Matt Gaetz was just another interchangeable MAGA congressman looking to ally himself with Donald Trump. People immersed in Florida politics knew more about him – the family money, the multiple DUIs, the shady associations – but nationally, I don’t think people paid close attention to him until the absolutely bonkers story about […]

It’s so weird that this story popped up yesterday, because over the weekend, I was thinking about Tiggy Legge-Burke and I read her absolutely bonkers Wiki page. Tiggy Legge-Burke was the nanny hired by Prince Charles when he and Princess Diana separated. Diana hated Tiggy immediately, and the feeling was apparently pretty mutual. Diana thought […]

The Duchess of Cambridge honestly doesn’t get that many unqualified “wins.” Usually her projects are just made up of asinine busy work, pie charts without data, half-assed surveys she stole from other sources, or it’s dumb, obvious embiggening schemes like her stupid “garden” which she barely had a hand in designing, and which she promoted […]

Soon after Oprah’s cultural-reset interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Britney Spears’ fans began demanding that Oprah do a similar interview with Britney Spears. I honestly thought it was a good idea – Oprah is good at getting celebrities to open up, and we haven’t heard from Britney – in a sit-down, long-form […]

Remember when British “socialites” Sabine Getty and Lady Alice Manners thought the Duchess of Sussex needed to “sit down”? I feel like that’s probably a widespread view in the British aristocracy and even in nouveau riche British circles. The caste system of British society is so structured and antiquated, I feel like none of these […]