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houseofbrat · 2 months

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Oh, this interview with Tina Brown has EVERYTHING!

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There is NO original photo; the photo issued on Sunday was "a jigsaw."

Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer and was in a wheelchair the last six months of her life.

There is no real PR strategy (by KP); just fail, fail, and fail some more.

Kate didn't edit the Mother's Day photo either.

#media #Tina Brown #critique #british royal family #queen elizabeth ii #comparison #kensington palace #palace officials #PR fail #fail!#kate middleton #Catherine The Princess of Wales #William The Prince of OWN GOALS #my gif #Youtube

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tomorrowusa · 6 months

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« In all its ugliness, Fox News is not, as Michael Wolff would have it, Roger Ailes' runaway distortion of what his boss ordered up. It is Rupert Murdoch's very own Dorian Gray portrait. And Donald Trump, on the rise once again, is Murdoch's Frankenstein monster. »

— Tina Brown at The New Statesman casting a couple of biting literary references at Rupert Murdoch and his far right media empire.

Ms. Brown had been editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Daily Beast.

#rupert murdoch #fox news #far right media #roger ailes #donald trump #dorian gray #frankenstein #michael wolff #tina brown

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brf-rumortrackinganon · 1 year

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Tina Brown, The Palace Papers

It was a good book. Very gossipy. Didn’t really have a lot of substance, so not many rumors or theories were resolved.

Confirmed

Charles waited until The Queen Mother died to propose to and marry Camilla because of TQM’s feelings of her.

Meghan schemed with Jess to commit fraud - merched clothes for free or a reduced price while submitting full-priced receipts to Charles and pocketing / splitting the reimbursement.

Camilla didn’t want to marry Charles, just wanted to stay his longtime companion in Gloucester and run the Gloucester social circle. (This one was also confirmed by Harry’s Spare in articles that sourced Camilla’s friends.)

Busted

(None)

Plausible

(None)

#tina brown #palace papers #don't forget to cut the tags off your clothes

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redundant2 · 1 year

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Random British Royal tidbits

I'm reading "The Vanity Fair Diaries" by Tina Brown and came across this tidbit:

Monday May 26, 1986

"We had lunch with the preposterous Princess Michael of Kent, who looked about fifteen hands high in an orange silk wrap dress. She has developed a mad, false laugh and a new Lady Bracknell voice for dealing with inferiors. "Row-eena," she gushed at the cowed debutante she totes around as her "lady in waiting." "where is the Dom Perignon? It was sitting outside but those fooooools have taken it away! Find it!" (Mad false laugh.) "Isn't the service quite diabolical? Do shut the kitchen door, Rowena. I hate to stare into a kitchen!"

From The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown, p. 199

Princess Michael of Kent, nee' Baroness Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz, would have been 41 at the time of this lunch. She was born in the German-occupied Sudetenland in what is now the Czech Republic. Her father, Baron Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz, was a descendant of the ancient Reibnitz family, Silesian landowners, who trace their ancestry back to 1288. He was a Nazi party member and a SS calvary officer during WWII.

Princess Michael's mother was Countess Maria Anna Carolina Franziska Walburga Bernadette Szapary von Muraszombath, Szechysziget und Szapar. The House of Szapáry is an old and important Hungarian noble family. Members of this family held the title of Imperial Count granted to them on 28 December 1722 by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

Princess Michael's parents divorced n 1948 and she with her mother and eldest brother moved to Rose Bay, Australia. In the early 1960s, she lived with her father on his farm in Mozambique. She then went from Vienna to London to study History of Fine and Decorative Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

She first married an English banker in 1971, but divorced in 1977. Once month after her marriage was annulled by the Pope, she married Prince Michael of Kent, Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin. She has said that Lord Mountbatten played matchmaker.

The lady-in-waiting mentioned in the excerpt is The Hon. Rowena Hawke Leatham Sanders, daughter of the 9th Baron Hawke of Towton.

The Baron of Towton peerage title was created on 20 May 1776 for the admiral Sir Edward Hawke (of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Towton), responsible for a blockade of all French merchant shipping and the grounding of six French ships, and scattering of the rest, at the Battle of Quiberon Bay.

Rowena Hawke's sister, Annabel, pictured above.

Rowena's father, Bladen Wilmer Hawke, 9th Baron of Towton, above. He served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords from 1953 to 1957 in the Conservative administrations of Churchill, Eden and MacMillan.

Another of Rowena's sisters, Lavinia, married Nicholas MacLean-Bristol. She became a Justice of the Peace and lives in 15th century Old Breachacha Castle on the Isle of Coll in Scotland. This tower fortress was the stronghold of the MacLean clan. The Isle of Coll was granted to the MacLeans in 1431. There is also a new "castle" on this island, built in 1750, which is available to rent for just £1500 for a party of two for one week.

Rowena lives at Hankerton Priory, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, and borrowed a page from her sister's notebook, as her home is also available as an Air BNB rental - hosted by Rowena! Perhaps she will tell you stories about her days with Princess Michael if you stay with her?

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2777181?source_impression_id=p3_1676477115_Gba9bnmOeznlt0af

#princess michael #tina brown #Vanity Fair Diaries #Rowena Hawk #British peerage #british royal family #wiltshire #malmesbury

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escapeintothepages · 6 months

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“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

The Palace Papers, Tina Brown

#the palace papers #tina brown #reading #book quotes

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jerseydeanne · 2 years

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"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are poor by Hollywood standards, according to Tina Brown, who joked that “Elon Musk is still single” if the Duchess fancies trading up."

#british royal family #meghan markle #prince harry #tina brown #elon musk #memoir

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inthevintagekitchen · 1 year

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Reading While Eating: Five Recommended Books about Home and History Discovered in 2022

2022. It was the year of the continuing pandemic, the year of dramatic weather, the year of gratitude, of comfort food, of appreciating small details and big moments, and finally the year of being able to get back together with friends and family. It was also the year of the recommended book. It’s so wonderful to hear so much buzz about favorite book lists and recommended reads these days all…

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#book list #books #domesticity #favorite books 2022 #featured #how to be a victorian #living in a foreign language #martha stewart #miachel tucker #new old house #reading #recommeded reads #ruth goodman #sarah messer #the palace papers #the red house #tina brown

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icc13 · 2 years

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Tina Brown – 2022 Pittsburgh Pro

#Tina Brown #ifbbphysique

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boricuacherry-blog · 26 days

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So allegedly Bobby was messing with Ralph Tresvant's daughter when she was a teen and that's why they're not as close anymore (BB's nephew also said this happened). And Bobby's son Landon was assaulted by two older women when he was younger, some ppl are speculating it was BB who set that up.

#bobby brown #tina brown

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houseofbrat · 1 month

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After The Associated Press issued a kill notification on the botched photoshopped image of a suspiciously glossy Princess of Wales surrounded by her beaming progeny, there was a typical outburst of tabloid pomposity questioning whether Kensington Palace could ever be considered a trusted source of news. Huh? When was the last time any tabloid considered the palace a trusted source of news? As the editor of Vanity Fair in 1985, I wrote a piece revealing that Prince Charles and Princess Diana were having awful marital fights. The palace roundly denied it, and the royal couple denied it in a television interview, confirming in my mind — correctly, as it turned out — that it was all true.

~ Tina Brown, "Heavy Lies the Crown"

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idroolinmysleep · 2 years

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Charles has been acclaimed with enormous love and affection by the British nation in the last few days.

Tina Brown on Why King Charles III Will Be Alright

Maybe it’s because of all the pinko commie rags I read (e.g., WaPo, “Pollsters say a lot of Britons don’t love Charles, though they don’t strongly dislike him, either.”), but that’s not quite the sense I get.

#Tina Brown #King Charles #Charles III #British monarchy #Queen Elizabeth #King Charles III

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thistleandwine · 2 years

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Smoked Haddock Parker Bowles

#horrible #hilarious #god they really hated her #camilla parker bowles #tina brown #the palace papers #hrh the duchess of cornwall

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operationcaked · 8 months

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