I used to love him. I remember her wrote that note about there not being enough diversity in the house and everyone assumed Stephen wrote it. Someone needs to find Cynthia and Dan from RW: Miami. I loved them and would love to know what they were up to now. 

Oh my God, 16 year old me was SO IN LOVE WITH THIS DUDE MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Ugh. I cringed when he met Janet and described her as an “exotic” beauty. In the same breath, the guys described Rebecca as “ethereal”. Sorry, Janet, you can only be other in your attractiveness.

Neal! Whose girlfriend sent him a pig’s heart with a stake through it for Valentine’s Day. He also had his tongue bitten off during a punk show because he shoved his tongue in the wrong stranger’s mouth. (I can remember only 10% of what I learned in law school, but I can remember RW events like they happened to me).

Hawaii was definitely a turning point, but I don’t think people felt more fake at that point . . . just drunker. I feel like that was the season that MTV really discover that keeping the cast liquored up all the time changed the dynamic. But the cast members still felt like real people for the most part, just real…

Oh god, you’ve captured the exact giddiness and wide-eyed, “OMG this so romantic!” feelings I felt watching David and Kira’s relationship drama play out. Great interview and he just seems like a nice guy.

Sometimes my high school bestie and I still shout, “I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW!” at each other because of the David-Kira car scene.

She is an aptronym! That’s a grammar term for when your name describes you in some way, like Randy Rainbow (his real name) who is delightful and causes joy. Or Donald Trump, whose last name is a British term for fart.

Also, not for nothin’, I’m all about equality and shit but I’d wear a tiara to the bathroom if it were available.  I’m a sucker for a crown.

The whole tiara had been put together by the time they kicked her father off the throne so all those stones were acquired pre 1690

She is legitimately called QUEEN MAXIMA.

I read a couple of royalty blogs one of which focuses exclusively on jewelry. For all of the impressive pieces that QEII owns, the Dutch vault is truly astounding in its depth and breadth. The issue isn’t so much the provenance of the stones thmselves (yes, probably blood diamonds, as all diamonds were back then), but…

Nope, it’s a tiara. It’s just really big. 

No idea about the rest of it, but that giant diamond in her crown has been bouncing back and forth between England and the Netherlands for several hundred years and originally belonged to Mary Stuart, James II’s daughter and the Mary of William & Mary. They supposedly bought the diamond in rough form after their…

She looked fab.  :-)  I love the fug girls coverage of Max and Wax as they call them.  It’s a hoot.

Maxima and Willem-Alexander are scheduled to visit our tiny Dutch Caribbean island next year. I CANNOT WAIT to see what she wears.

The whole reason for her wearing that particular tiara was the links between the Windsors and the House of Orange - it was created for Queen Mary II when her and William were rulers of both countries and had last been worn in Britain when Lilabet’s bestie Queen Juliana visited in the 70's ( there are great pics of…

Am here for the Maxima love! She is a delight and sort of my style icon. She always looks so happy and confident in whatever she wears, even if it is absolutely bonkers 20% of the time.

I like Maxima. She seems to favor the opinion that being a royal in this day and age is absurd already so go big or go home. Observe her bicycle tour

Queen Max is noted for her amazing and enormous hats.  She is a treasure and I love her muchly.