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If you thought Tampongate was going to be the most bizarre royal scandal depicted on The Crown, grab a seat. Let's discuss the “toe-sucking” incident of 1992.In season 5, episode 4, Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) sits down with her son Prince Andrew (James Murray) to discuss his marriage with Sarah Ferguson. By this point, he and the Duchess of York, who doesn't appear onscreen this season, are separated. The duchess has even been linked with an American named Steve Wyatt and is now dating her financial advisor, John Bryan....

Press Play is a recurring column that looks at (and listens to) the songs that have shaped the life and work of beloved musical artists.Growing up in rural Germany, Kim Petras would watch her sisters and friends receive communion at church, feeling excluded but also conflicted. “As someone who’s been transgender my whole life, I never fit into religion,” she says. “I had a lot of religious friends, and I would go to their First Communion and things like that, but I was never really accepted into that world because...

The late Princess Diana was a media mastermind, an unabashed spin doctor of her own wounded cause. That’s not to say her cause was illegitimate: Marrying a man with little interest in loving her, she was sold a raw deal disguised with the saccharine frosting of her wedding cake. Royal life was not the pleasure she’d been promised, marriage was not the solace she’d long sought, and womanhood was as terrifying and cruel as she’d always feared. Diana could be impetuous, but she was not unjustified. Which, of course, made...

On Friday night, actress Blake Lively stepped out with a friend in Manhattan for an evening on the town, showing off a rare maternity look. The 35-year-old is expecting her fourth child with husband Ryan Reynolds; she revealed her pregnancy on the red carpet at the 10th Annual Forbes Power Women's Summit in September, wearing a short gold sequined dress that stretched over her baby bump.In NYC this week, Lively wore a long black dress with white buttons at the neckline, a long loose grey coat, black boots, and a...

On November 10, People's newest Sexiest Man Alive Chris Evans revealed that he has been dating 25-year-old actress Alba Baptista for at least a year and “it's serious,” according to a source, who added,“They are in love, and Chris has never been happier. His family and friends all adore her.”Stefania D'Alessandro//Getty ImagesThis is everything about Baptista and their relationship timeline so far.Who is Alba Baptista?The actress is best known for her role on Netflix's Warrior Nun, her English-language debut. Baptista is from Portugal and was born in Lisbon. She has...

After Coldplay's Chris Martin consciously uncoupled back in 2014 with his partner of a decade Gwyneth Paltrow, his dating life became decidedly more private. Martin seems to have finally found lasting love with Dakota Johnson after previously being linked to actresses including Jennifer Lawrence and Annabelle Wallis. Although they've kept their relationship low-key, they celebrated three years together this past October. Here, a rundown of the romance.October 2017: Rumors of a relationship first arose when Johnson and Martin were spotted grabbing dinner at Sushi Park in Los Angeles. According to...

Ever since Princess Diana made her on-screen debut at the start of last season, The Crown has fleshed out her relationship with Queen Elizabeth II in some intriguing ways. In season 4, after returning from the emotional rollercoaster that was her Australian tour with Charles, Diana is at her wits' end and requests an audience with the queen. She opens up about her marital problems with Charles and explains how he resents her for eclipsing him in the press. Far from offering any comfort, the queen is coldly unreceptive, asking...

Ariana Grande has kept a low-profile over the past couple months while working on Wicked. But Entertainment Tonight managed to get details on an area of her life that Grande herself hasn't spoken much about: her marriage of over a year to real estate agent Dalton Gomez. While Grande will occasionally include photos of Gomez in her Instagram photo carousels, up until now, not even sources close to the two had spoken to outlets about their private dynamic recently.Entertainment Tonight's source didn't spill an excessive amount, but they did make...

In the early days of Princess Diana’s marriage to the man who’d become king, Dr. James Colthurst knew something most of the world as yet did not: The Princess of Wales was miserable. An old friend from her days as a blushing London socialite, Colthurst shared her stately pedigree; as the second son of an Irish baronet, his family home was a literal castle. More importantly, they shared a confidence—one of the few in the late princess’s short life that was challenged but never outright betrayed.In the latest season of...

For decades, Camilla Parker-Bowles (née Shand) was painted as the intrusive third party in the romance between Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana. With the arrival of The Crown season 3, that narrative was re-examined. Showrunner Peter Morgan told Entertainment Weekly, “People always assume Charles cheated on Diana with Camilla. It's absolutely the wrong way round. He was deeply in love with Camilla and forced to marry Diana.”The couple's against-all-odds relationship continues to play a role in The Crown as the show progresses. In the fourth season, released in...

Spoilers below. June Osborne is finally headed to safety…or is she? At the end of The Handmaid’s Tale’s season 5 finale, she and her daughter Nichole have boarded a train of refugees escaping from Canada, only to find Serena Waterford and her child aboard too. And if that isn’t enough to worry about, June’s husband Luke has stayed behind, arrested and charged with murder, and their 12-year-old daughter Hannah is still stuck in Gilead. June may be free from violent anti-refugee protesters—like the one that ran her over with his...

Within the first 10 minutes of Netflix’s long-awaited fifth season of The Crown, Dominic West’s Prince Charles turns to Elizabeth Debicki’s Princess Diana and leans in close, suddenly conspiratorial. “What do you think?” he asks. “Shall we give them some of the old magic?” Diana, ever up for a performance, is game: “Well, come on then. Let’s blow them away.”They’re referring to the insatiable crowd of Italian paparazzi huddled along the coast where Charles and Diana have temporarily docked during their “second honeymoon.” It’s a stunt trip, one designed to...

At this point, the world has come to understand that Rihanna never does anything the “normal” way. From accepting the CFDA’s Style Icon award in a see-through dress to how she announces big life news (remember that baby bump reveal?), it’s all cloaked in drama—and the very good kind of drama, to be totally clear. The Rihanna version of a fashion show flips the traditional catwalk on its head. It’s an expect-the-unexpected kind of situation, and, luckily, we’re just days away from being gifted with another installation. Savage X Fenty...

Emily Ratajkowski and Julia Fox are giving us the crossover episode we never knew we needed.The duo get up close and personal in the latest episode of EmRata's podcast, High Low, in which they openly discuss the complications, struggles, and joys of single motherhood. Ratajkowski shares her one-year-old son, Sylvester Apollo Bear, with ex-husband Sebastian Bear-McClard. Fox also has a one-year-old son, named Valentino, whom she shares with ex Peter Artemiev."I need advice, honestly. How are we gonna raise these boys to not be entitled city brats?" Ratajkowski asks Fox...