Thank you for calling this out! I can’t stand this lazy journalistic convention that everything is alleged. No. If a child is pregnant (in a jurisdiction with an age of consent), she wasn’t allegedly raped, she was raped, because there is no act a child can legally consent to that results in pregnancy. And if an…

They don’t have legal surnames, but when they need to adopt one, the most common choice is the one associated with their/their parents’ highest non-royal title. So Eugenie worked in the US as Eugenie York, Harry used Harry Wales, Prince George is at school as George Cambridge, etc.

Of course I agree you shouldn’t touch people without their consent, especially a stranger. But for what it’s worth, this is not a colonisation thing. I am a (white) minority in a black country and the locals touch my hair in exactly the same way. (I do take it in good humour, but I also acknowledge that I have the…

You wait til you’re in the water. Many inflatable jackets have a feature that will inflate them on contact with water anyway. Inflating before that will impede your movement and you could also puncture it on an obstacle on the way out of the plane/boat/whatever.

I assume the connection is between Meghan and Amal. They are both involved in humanitarian work and advocacy.

Keep Calm and Party On is now my favourite “Keep Calm.”

Why on earth would you write an article making assertions about the legality of fanfiction and its progression, without any mention of the whole body of work done on this topic by the Organization for Transformative Works? They are the literal experts on this!

I have adult children. Of course having children changes you, life changes you. You’re doing life wrong if it doesn’t. But if motherhood is an existential crisis, a cataclysm that makes you stop feeling like yourself and stop being the person inside you, that is absolutely not normal and we should not be making it…

As a nanny, Tully is simply the manifestation of Marlo’s long-simmering panic about her own life and how, three kids deep, she is irrevocably changed.

I believe Thomas Markle’s account of what he was thinking when he did this. His big mistake was trusting his own judgment rather than taking it to Megan and Harry and asking what he should do. Not just out of respect, but also because they’re the experts in this minefield. He’s a babe in the media woods, and he didn’t…

They aren’t guests in the normal wedding-guest sense, they’re spectators. Spectators bring or buy their own food. Totally not seeing the problem here.

Honestly, mostly just because she was overweight and not very talented at working the press. Sure, she had other partners and was indiscreet when the marriage was ending, but Diana was too. The difference between how the two women were treated pretty much comes down to looks and marketing skills. Plus, Andrew was not…

They do indeed have day jobs. Eugenie lived in the US and worked there under the name Eugenie York for some years. They also lost their security detail when Charlotte and George nudged them out of a certain number in line to the throne (six, I think) and so now Andrew pays for their security himself, at an enormous…

Except the POC assertion is false, black people *were* around in antiquity. Whereas I’m not aware of any time/place in history where women didn’t co-exist with rape. I dunno, maybe some women feel that they’re victimised if rape is present in their fantasy universes, but I would feel victimised if it *wasn’t.* I would…

I have to wonder if this criticism is a generational thing (apologies if I’m making wrong assumptions about your context). It’s only in the last ten years or so that I’ve seen this criticism raised much online. Before that it was, I think, pretty widely accepted that (a) characters needed to be affected by the…

I think so. I mean, Littlefinger seems better off with Brienne out of the way, so that could very well have been his real goal. I also think he might have an end game in mind that puts Sansa in a corner and forces her to have Arya killed, more or less in self defense. This could be with a goal of making her less…

Littlefinger was very clearly insinuating that Brienne had a responsibility to *both* of them. So if Arya wanted to kill Sansa, Brienne would step in, yes. But if Sansa wanted (or needed) to have Arya killed, she would step in for that, too. Unlike the soldiers at Winterfell, Brienne’s loyalty is divided when it comes…

Given that Africa has been THE place for the royal family to get away from the press and be semi-normal since at least the 1940s, I’d say it’s fine.

I think you’re waaaay over-thinking the logistics of this. My kids had sex at home exactly the same way my husband and I did - wait til everyone’s quietly tucked up in their rooms (with at least plausible denial of being asleep), or no one’s home. They kept their sex things exactly the same place we did, the bedside…

See, I would agree with you, but there were quite a number of medieval child-kings and queens who were apparently very educated, politically aware, and opinionated about their kingdoms and did at least periodically put their Lord Protectors in their place. I don’t think Lyanna could consistently assert her power…