"Throughout her reign, Elizabeth and her staff would take drastic action to cauterize any festering wound that threatened her throne... Yet, when it came to Andrew, the Queen and her experienced staff did the bare minimum." writeroyalty.substack.com/p/andrew-eps...

The Queen, her clothes and me: ‘She told me her couturier garroted Nazis’

Chance that the new Eglinton line has problems due to the cold are …. 50% or higher?

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

Email appears to confirm Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photo is real www.bbc.com/news/article...

Max Mosley company gave £565,000 loan to firm of convicted phone hacker who was asked to 'beef up the propaganda' against the Daily Mail's publisher as a string of private investigators were paid, Prince Harry's High Court privacy case is told www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Make them livestream their odyssey for everyone to see … and hear them curse when a bus ghosts them and the next can’t due for 38 minutes.

This should be standard for every transit system. And they should have to do it twice a year, in July & January because the January trip will show the flaws in stark detail.

The Sun reports that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been moved out of Royal Lodge under the cover of darkness. He’s at Sandringham, in temporary accommodation while his permanent residence is being renovated www.thesun.co.uk/royals/38112...

My policy of not using profanity on these internets is... tested

New pictures appearing to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on the floor with a woman were included in three million files released on Friday

Message from the Governor General on the passing of Catherine O'Hara.

“… if they were serious people, they would have been right behind William and Kate, laying wreaths at the Cenotaph and doing their duty. Instead, they were partying with the Kardashians and no number of deleted photographs can wash that stain away.” www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

This could *further* soften the chance of the state visit by King Charles and Queen Camilla for the 250th anniversary of independence. I pegged its chances at a soft 75% after Trump’s comments and walk back for only British troops who served in Afghanistan. Now? ~70%

Here's a sneak peek at a tiny slice of the research included in my new book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (available for pre-order now and out tomorrow, 1/27)!!! @marinerbooks.bsky.social #booksky #slaveryarchive www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

And as if by magic, Beatrice has been to see her father and there are more denials, as told to me also, that Eugenie has cut him off. www.thesun.co.uk/royals/38028...

Family visits have kept Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor going since he stepped away from royal duties in 2019. His daughters and grandchildren may be more infrequent visitors when he moves to Norfolk but, in effective internal exile, he’ll depend on them. inews.co.uk/news/beatric...

The Globe's editorial this morning is a list of all the Canadian military personnel who died in Afghanistan. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Obit of Paul Ullatitaq Idlout who appeared on the $2 bill in the 1970s alongside his father and four other men preparing for a hunt on Baffin Island. He later became an Anglican priest and the first Inuk bishop of any Christian denomination in the world. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

You know it's pretty bad out when the TDSB calls a snow day, especially when they announce it the day prior. #toronto

Harry and Meghan are two of 16 executive producers of Cookie Queens, according to the credits on the Sundance Festival site festival.sundance.org/program/film...

On this day in 1901, Her Majesty Queen Victoria died. Canada's Parliament went into mourning -- this is a photo of the building during that period. Credit: William James Topley/Library and Archives Canada/PA-008988

Carney came home from Davos and did the most Canadian and Canadien thing ever:

Heck, I stick to my light winter boots for a long walk in -9 Celcius temperatures -- I reserve my Sorels for -15 and colder. FTR, when I was a student in Ottawa, the schools only closed when it got below -35. Wind chill could be -50 and they were open.

⭐️👇⭐️ If I’m on too much, I bury the apps deep into folders on the second page of my home screen That usually causes my usage to plummet. If it doesn’t work, then deletion is my next step.

The key “number of hours watched” metric for the second season of With Love, Meghan plummeted by 62 percent compared to the first season in the first half of 2025. So few people watched it that it was behind Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Season 2 Part 2 open.substack.com/pub/writeroy...

Prince Harry "is due in the witness box on Wednesday – 24 hours earlier than planned – after Antony White KC, barrister for Associated, spent just 75 minutes opening his case rather than the one-and-a-half days scheduled." www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family...

Just normal breakfast reading…

Weird criticism to level at a play about a historical time period in which every single female stage role was performed by a person with a penis

Richard Berthelsen: Buckingham Palace undoubtedly monitoring Canada closely, aware of challenges facing Denmark’s King Frederik

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex arrives for a court case against Associated Newspapers Ltd at The Royal Courts of Justice in London. #royal #HarryandMeghan #PrinceHarry #Highcourt

Prince Harry arrives at the High Court at the start of a marathon nine-week trial in which he and six other claimants including Elton John, Liz Hurley, and Sadie Frost are suing the Daily Mail’s publishers over a series of stories.

The American president threatens to impose more tariffs on Britain. That may imperil a state visit. And more. TRUMP, KING CHARLES, AND THE CALENDAR open.substack.com/pub/writeroy...

“Would you lay down your life for your country” becomes a surprisingly partisan question when it’s asked as a specific plausible instance of needing to lay down your life for your country

Holy hell, what an obituary

How to tell it’s a proper winter storm hitting Toronto: -the schools are closed -the university is closed

I dunno who else needs to hear this, but avoid ordering in DoorDash, Skip, UberEats, etc. today. Your drivers are gonna be unsafe and your food is gonna be extra cold.

Big difference between “access” and “have” I have “access” to a Hermes Birkin bag (size 30, black, Epsom leather, palladium hardware) Doesn’t mean I “have” said bag

This year, the Royal Family hit a demographic cliff that will force the family and palace staff to rethink how the 1,000-year-old institution works. My latest in @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The common perception is that Princess Anne finishes each year in the No. 1 spot among all the working royals. A dive into my royal work data shows that perception doesn't always meet reality writeroyalty.substack.com/p/the-year-i...

“In 2025, they completed 2,459 engagements, a plunge of 37 per cent from 2018. …For the first time, the average age of those six senior citizen royals hit 80. That’s an existential problem because they did two-thirds of all engagements in 2025.”

The current model of royal life is unsustainable. That’s a problem for the House of Windsor and possibly for Canada My latest data-rich piece in the @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“… claims that a decision is already ‘nailed on’ seem more like an attempt to manipulate the media into manifesting an outcome from what will be a fair and rigorous review, but one that is very much still ongoing.” www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

On her 44th birthday, the Princess of Wales reflects on how nature has helped her heal after her cancer treatment. In the final instalment of her Mother Nature series, she hopes the rest of us will harness the healing power of nature. youtu.be/JdjtvbFihq0

And here's the new BBC investigation: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sooo, it turns out the printer won’t work if you absent-minded pulled the cord a month ago to plug something else in, then completely forgot to plug it back in. How’s your day going?

King Charles III does the first royal engagement of 2026 when he gives the Royal Victorian Order to an outgoing assistant private secretary

Hmmm. New France was founded in 1534 yet doesn’t appear here

It’s been nearly two weeks since @vanityfair.com published a story using my data and analysis, yet spelled my name wrong and used incorrect numbers. Still no fix though an editor knows of the problems. Now the error-filled piece is top of its first royal newsletter of the year.

Christopher Anderson Instagram post about his 2015 photo shoot with Jeffrey Epstein, including a February 2011 email from a third party (I think Sarah’s former personal assistant) complaining that Andrew and Sarah hadn’t paid a $60,000 debt www.instagram.com/p/DTLQwZ6jTL...