Was it supposed to? That's one of the book details I don't recall. I meant, it would make sense if it didn't, considering her.. skin and fingernails are impervious to fire. Why would her hair burn?

I didn't know (or remember) that Ned was meant to be naked in the execution scene. That would have added something, but it's not critical to the effect or the plot. This nude scene is critical because it's a huge plot turning point and her punishment is to BE naked. There is no avoiding it. Yes, they are gratuitous…

It's sort of funny when you realize that the extent of his interest in the suit selection was probably an "um, that one!"

He could have turned it around by wearing a light blue tie. Imagine!

I don't know the general "taste level" of most of her comments, but I do know that she's been pretty instrumental in quieting the wild speculation and outright lunatic rantings of Mohammed Al Fayed. She counters the notion that Di was pregnant by testifying that she was on her period, and that she would have…

I think comparing Kate and Di is more comparing the worlds of fashion of two periods. Kate could never be so lux and daring as Diana was (when she was getting it right, she got it wrong a lot more often than Kate) in the 80s, or as sexy and bold as she was in the 90s. Kate dresses like most conservative girls with…

You know, I find that event is just not very well-known among people who don't remember it. Hugely significant, bold act. Totally brilliant PR coupled with insanely effective use of her power for a good purpose. It's not remembered for it's effect at the time alongside the landmines thing, which is really a shame.…

It's sort of a blast from the past to think that leaking a phone directory - phone numbers - would be sensational. But, of course, at the time it would be. Then we get brought back to reality with the catchup that her friend Clive is since on trial for hacking into everyone's phone. It's likely that they hacked into…

That's always been talked about, but it would never happen and the Queen would especially not "hand the crown" directly to William, because she legally cannot. Charles would never abdicate in favour of William. What is likely is that Charles won't outlive his mother by too long. She's not likely to die very soon, and…

Not at the beginning, certainly, but it's pretty impressive to look at the total overhaul Charles and Camilla did in the last 15 years. I remember watching a documentary on Henry VIII when I was a teenager - after Diana died, and they compared the idea of Anne Boleyn at the time of her marriage and Catherine of…

Search her instagram. She's loving it.

That outfit probably made her feel so exuberant and joyous. There's something so exceedingly tedious and negative about how everyone makes an effort honing their taste so they can look down on others efforts to say how it would be better if her hair didn't wash her out, or her makeup were different, or the shape of…

Big win because she looks like she had a blast wearing that insane dress. Google some other red carpet looks of hers and notice that there's lots of times where she's look conventionally sleek and quite a bit more elegant than you'd expect. I bet she preferred wearing this absurd outfit with her wild hair.

She looks sensational there, but I bet she had a lot more fucking fun wearing that ridiculous outfit last night.

It is truly possible that she doesn't care or is not very prone to feeling better about her body when she wears flattering clothing. It's not my own approach either, I feel like shit if my outfit isn't working for me, but it seems like she chooses clothing that she likes visually and doesn't much care if it flatters…

And it's easier to work without a stylist when you attend like 3 big events a year and know all the fashion designers because you chill with the cool Euro-aristo set and they all think you're the most glamorous woman in the world, a la Tilda.

Stylists do a lot more than just choose your dress, they arrange for it to…

Truth. My gay pal had the besssstttttt (female) room mate who moonlighted as a dominatrix. They're apartment was cleaned for free by willing subs.

Isn't it now fairly widely-hypothesized that the appendix exists to repopulate the intestinal flora of someone who has a dangerous undergrowth? I don't really understand this, but you hear about diseases like c.diff and other conditions that require people now to have poop transplants from healthy donors because they…

Evolution doesn't select to protect species from ball pain, sadly. Evolution would come into play if, over thousands of years, enough dude-humans were getting debilitated into sterility by ball kicking. As it is, those of us who get our balls kicked into smithereens have apparently never made much of a dent in the…

You can say that and it does make sense, because while Game of Thrones is not set in any particular century or indeed on Earth as we know it, it is set in a fictional time period that (in terms of human society) closely parallels our knowledge of the middle ages as far as technology (including weapons, construction,…