2/and I can just imagine Harry being envious of what William and Kate share, including their beautiful family. But he’s not willing to do what William did, stay the course, respect someone you have serious feelings about even if you can’t yet commit, and finally make assurances and keep those assurances and be trustworthy. That’s how you end up with what Will and Kate have. Harry wants to “insta” it and that’s just so crazy I can’t even.
This is very insightful, thanks. I hadn’t considered the instant gratification part of it.
Once it’s processed, you get it in the mail. You don’t have to show up to pick it up.
Yeah, I thought it was weird she went in person. I guess she wanted to make sure people got the message.
Well, I assume they would have your passport for those three months while they’re processing it. So if you don’t want to hand over your passport for a lengthy period of time, then you need to do it in person.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has been discharged from King Edward VII Hospital after successful hip replacement surgery. He will continue his recovery at Windsor Castle. April 13,2018
Meghan will have to tell the US taxman if she receives anything more than $100,000 (£71,600) from her fiancé or his family in the form of a royal allowance to cover expenses.
Nottingham Cottage – the grace and favor property in the grounds of London’s Kensington Palace where Meghan lives with Harry – may be taxed by the US if Markle’s presence in it is seen as a substitute for income before her marriage.
Meghan also has to give the US taxman full details of her finances if she and her husband-to-be have joint assets, bank accounts or offshore trusts in excess of $200,000 (£143,100).
The diamond engagement ring Prince Harry gave Meghan has been valued at over $100,000 (£71,600) by royal watchers. Because it is classified as a gift ‘from a foreign person’, Meghan would have to declare it to the IRS on a Form 3520 or suffer a $10,000 (£7,160) penalty.
I have a really hard time believing some of this, particularly the insinuation that the IRS is going to go after an engagement ring. Because that would mean that plenty of other rich Americans married to foreigners would have to be paying taxes on gifts from their spouse, and I sincerely doubt they are.
i’m just gonna leave this here as a reminder that “hitting bottom” doesn’t mean “staying on bottom for the rest of your life and dying as a piece of crap”
I will never, ever, not reblog this.
*huggles RDJ* Anyone on here who loves him, someone posted an amazing story about him when he was younger. I wish knew where the link was so I could share it. Instead, it’s just cut and pasted below. If I find the link, I’ll replace it with that.
I will also say that I have read this several times now and it still makes me cry.
“True story: His Name is Robert Downey Jr.” by Dana Reinhardt
I’m willing to go out on a limb here and guess that most stories of kindness do not begin with drug addicted celebrity bad boys.
Mine does.
His name is Robert Downey Jr.
You’ve probably heard of him. You may or may not be a fan, but I am, and I was in the early 90’s when this story takes place.
It was at a garden party for the ACLU of Southern California. My stepmother was the executive director, which is why I was in attendance without having to pay the $150 fee. It’s not that I don’t support the ACLU, it’s that I was barely twenty and had no money to speak of.
I was escorting my grandmother. There isn’t enough room in this essay to explain to you everything she was, I would need volumes, so for the sake of brevity I will tell you that she was beautiful even in her eighties, vain as the day is long, and whip smart, though her particular sort of intelligence did not encompass recognizing young celebrities.
I pointed out Robert Downey Jr. to her when he arrived, in a gorgeous cream-colored linen suit, with Sarah Jessica Parker on his arm. My grandmother shrugged, far more interested in piling her paper plate with various unidentifiable cheeses cut into cubes. He wasn’t Carey Grant or Gregory Peck. What did she care?
The afternoon’s main honoree was Ron Kovic, whose story of his time in the Vietnam War that had left him confined to a wheelchair had recently been immortalized in the Oliver Stone film Born on the Fourth of July.
I mention the wheelchair because it played an unwitting role in what happened next.
We made our way to our folding chairs in the garden with our paper plates and cubed cheeses and we watched my stepmother give one of her eloquent speeches and a plea for donations, and there must have been a few other people who spoke but I can’t remember who, and then Ron Kovic took the podium, and he was mesmerizing, and when it was all over we stood up to leave, and my grandmother tripped.
We’d been sitting in the front row (nepotism has its privileges) and when she tripped she fell smack into the wheelchair ramp that provided Ron Kovic with access to the stage. I didn’t know that wheelchair ramps have sharp edges, but they do, at least this one did, and it sliced her shin right open.
The volume of blood was staggering.
I’d like to be able to tell you that I raced into action; that I quickly took control of the situation, tending to my grandmother and calling for the ambulance that was so obviously needed, but I didn’t. I sat down and put my head between my knees because I thought I was going to faint. Did I mention the blood?
Luckily, somebody did take control of the situation, and that person was Robert Downey Jr.
He ordered someone to call an ambulance. Another to bring a glass of water. Another to fetch a blanket. He took off his gorgeous linen jacket and he rolled up his sleeves and he grabbed hold of my grandmother’s leg, and then he took that jacket that I’d assumed he’d taken off only to it keep out of the way, and he tied it around her wound. I watched the cream colored linen turn scarlet with her blood.
He told her not to worry. He told her it would be alright. He knew, instinctively, how to speak to her, how to distract her, how to play to her vanity. He held onto her calf and he whistled. He told her how stunning her legs were.
She said to him, to my humiliation: “My granddaughter tells me you’re a famous actor but I’ve never heard of you.”
He stayed with her until the ambulance came and then he walked alongside the stretcher holding her hand and telling her she was breaking his heart by leaving the party so early, just as they were getting to know each other. He waved to her as they closed the doors. “Don’t forget to call me, Silvia,” he said. “We’ll do lunch.”
He was a movie star, after all.
Believe it or not, I hurried into the ambulance without saying a word. I was too embarrassed and too shy to thank him.
We all have things we wish we’d said. Moments we’d like to return to and do differently. Rarely do we get that chance to make up for those times that words failed us. But I did. Many years later.
I should mention here that when Robert Downey Jr. was in prison for being a drug addict (which strikes me as absurd and cruel, but that’s the topic for a different essay), I thought of writing to him. Of reminding him of that day when he was humanity personified. When he was the best of what we each can be. When he was the kindest of strangers.
But I didn’t.
Some fifteen years after that garden party, ten years after my grandmother had died and five since he’d been released from prison, I saw him in a restaurant.
I grew up in Los Angeles where celebrity sightings are commonplace and where I was raised to respect people’s privacy and never bother someone while they’re out having a meal, but on this day I decided to abandon the code of the native Angeleno, and my own shyness, and I approached his table.
I said to him, “I don’t have any idea if you remember this…” and I told him the story.
He remembered.
“I just wanted to thank you,” I said. “And I wanted to tell you that it was simply the kindest act I’ve ever witnessed.”
He stood up and he took both of my hands in his and he looked into my eyes and he said, “You have absolutely no idea how much I needed to hear that today.”
CB things that saying that an MIT professor is a beautiful and intelligent woman is “unicornization,” but calling a z-list actress with bj scenes and messy hair the “best royal bride” ever is perfectly appropriate. That says it all.
It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.
Sure, I’ll post this, but I don’t see why people are mad about this. Yes, she’s getting stuff, and yes, it’s because of Harry, and we should have known this since the day he let her bring a pap TO HIS BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING RECEPTION.
Eye roll…
Sad thing is I really liked the idea of her at first. I have a complicated family, and I like that she seems to be a bit rough around the edges. But oh boy. Read her blog. Saw her interviews … then the multiple pieces beyond her crazy family on how she burned bridges with people who were deeply in her life. Yikes!
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Yeah, this is never going to happen with these two.
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement Wednesday that he would not seek re-election adds a big name to what was already shaping up to be a near-record year of seat turnovers in the U.S. House of Representatives.
I must say, though, Andrew is a wily old fox. He snuck his daughters into a state dinner while everyone is dazzled by Meghan’s “first fiancee EVER to go to a wine and cheese” press,. They’ve also been on a freaking charity rampage with some fairly impressive events and coverage. I mean. not long ago Bea was doing tiny charities in India with zero photographers. That’s a pretty big improvement.
EVENING DRESS | Worn for the State Visit to Nepal, February 1961 and for the Royal Film Performance of West Side Story, 1962.
This dress provides an excellent example of Hartnell’s skill as a designer for The Queen. The dress reflects the tailored silhouette of 1960s eveningwear while the rich embroidery and fabric sets the dress apart from his collection models for the season, turning it into a unique dress appropriate for The Queen’s duties. The Royal Collection.
For many poor families in America, eviction is a real and ongoing threat. Sociologist Matthew Desmond estimates that approximately 2.3 million evictions were filed in the U.S. in 2016 — a rate of four every minute.
“Eviction isn’t just a condition of poverty; it’s a cause of poverty,” Desmond says. “Eviction is a direct cause of homelessness, but it also is a cause of residential instability, school instability [and] community instability.”
Desmond won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. His latest project is The Eviction Lab, a team of researchers and students at Princeton University dedicated to amassing the nation’s first-ever database of eviction. To date, the Lab had collected 83 million records from 48 states and the District of Columbia.
“We’re in the middle of a housing crisis and that means more and more people are giving more and more of their income to rent and utilities,” Desmond says. “Our hope is that we can take this problem that’s been in the dark and bring it into the light.”
I love how Katie Nicholl’s can’t say that Meghan stopped his smoking and drinking and has to say “it’s not as bad.” LOLOLOLOL..
But, yes, grew how? Meghan is exactly the kind of z-list celeb no one wanted to admit he was wining, dining and Africa-glamping with before.
That’s the most amazing part of this. Before Meghan’s massive pr-drive everyone admitted that his Soho House trolling for trashy celebs he could smuggle on his Africa work-trips was tacky and pathetic, and his fans were, in fact, denying it right and left and claiming that it was just the tacky celebs using his name for publicity. Harry would never willingly date a z-lister, let alone neglect his all-important “work” to bang a no-name actress in the bush, blahblahblah.
Now along come Megs and does the same thing with a much more powerful pr firm and, lo and behold, trolling Soho House for slutty celebs is now “mature” and “romantic.”
OH, when this implodes, I fully expect a whole lot of press on “it was obvious she was using him, why couldn’t they protect him” with a suitable guilt trip by Harry. it’s never his fault. It’s always someone else’s fault.
They’ll probably blame it on poor HM and say how everyone expect her to not give permission, but Harry was her favorite and she couldn’t say no. Andrew 2.0.
I’m reading this as two receptions (youth and women’s empowerment) and no dinner and no opening, which is kind of what we expected. Are you guys reading the “also” as she being included in the opening and dinner?
She’s going to be so out of her depth.
Wonder what is going to happen in the world to overshadow her this time…
If they aren’t working for the firm by the time they leave university then I don’t think they ever will. Eugenie, Bea, Zara and Peter are all adults who attend the occasional family event but they have lives and priorities of their own and haven’t been trained or prepared to be full time royals. People wouldn’t accept more royals being added to the payroll without someone getting cut anyway.
The way I see it happening is that people will continue to work but when they pass away their children won’t take up the mantle. If you think about it, Anne is unlikely to stop at all so I can see her going for a good twenty years yet and it’ll be much the same for the others. By that point George, Charlotte and Baby Cambridge will be able to work for the family anyway and George and Charlotte may well be married so there will be people to pick up the work.
Thanks! I love Dane and will likely check out her other celeb readings, but I don’t much care about who Harry eventually ends up with, frankly.
I’m guessing she’s someone from an aristocratic family. And those two will meet sooner than most people placing odds on Harry’s divorce from Meghan think.
‘Since first publishing spirits psychic predictions for Prince Harry and his love life back in October 2017 I have received hundreds of emails from people all over the world wanting to know more about the girl spirit picked for Prince Harry to marry. The most popular questions I have received are what will happen to her if Prince Harry doesn’t realize that Meghan isn’t the right girl for him and get out before it’s too late and will she end up on her own? So my spirit guide wants me to answer these questions for you all…
My spirit guide says that the girl who is shown to be suitable for Prince Harry and picked for him by his spirit guides has no idea that she has been selected by spirit as a good match for him. She is blissfully unaware and so will not suffer any emotional loss by not meeting him. Prince Harry’s guardian angels and spirit guides have hand picked the girl they want him to be with and they have a big job to do in order to try and guide Harry to her, unfortunately they’re struggling to help him see in time that Meghan and him are not well suited long term and therefore if he decides to continue with the wedding plans then spirit won’t place this girl in Prince Harry’s path this year, Prince Harry will have to go through many lessons with this marriage to Meghan, he will come out of it ok and much much wiser in love and relationships. It’s a true shame that Prince Harry and Meghan will end up in a failed marriage however they will both learn a lot emotionally and they aren’t the first couple to make the mistake of heading down the alter too soon and I’m sure they won’t be the last. The girl who spirit wanted Prince Harry to marry will meet someone else organically, the man won’t be destined for her but she’ll meet him organically and develop a relationship like millions of others do here on earth. Depending on how quickly Prince Harry realizes and gets out of his relationship with Meghan, the girl chosen could still be single but it’s unlikely I feel. I should add that this girl is unaware of my psychic predictions and doesn’t read my website, she’s never met Prince Harry and would be totally gob smacked if she knew spirit were referring to her. Spirit really like this girl for Prince Harry, they watch her and tune into her soul, I’m told she’s pure and has good intentions for all.’
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It’s like Lyndsay Edwards is just trolling people now because she doesn’t really know. I still remember that she said Trump would be assassinated before now, and he’s still very much alive and tweeting.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Certain karmas can’t be changed. It doesn’t matter what the current plans are.
I still say these two fuckwits are NOT going to get married.
This week is just a good week for them, and everyone is getting psyched up for their wedding whether they’re happy for it or not.
In a recent podcast interview with David Axelrod, former NBA star Charles Barkley talks about how NBA legend Bill Russell persuaded Barkley to stop publicly complaining about how much income tax he paid (transcription by Steven Greenhouse).
Bill Russell called me one time… He says, “Charles Barkley.” I said, “Yes, sir, Mr. Russell.”
“You grew up in Alabama. Right?” I said, “Yes, sir.”
He says, “Did you go to public school?” I said, “Yes, sir.”
He says, “Did the cops ever come to your neighborhood?” I said, “Yes sir.”
He said, “Any of the houses ever on fire and the firemen come?” I said, “Yes, sir.”
He said, “I don’t want to see your black ass on TV complaining about your taxes anymore.” I says, “What do you mean?”
He says, “So now that you got money you don’t want to help other people out, but when you were poor, other people took care of you.” And I says, “You know what, Mr. Russell, you will never hear me complain about my taxes again.”
And it was a very interesting lesson for me, because I do think rich people should pay more taxes. I’m blessed to be one of them, and we should pay more in taxes. I learned my lesson. I never complain about taxes.
I think Bill Russell needs to make a few phone calls to Congress…
She just got to the third person coming into their lives.
It’s amazing that the resolution cards are cards of two people finding fulfillment separately AND THEY ARE EVEN FACING AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.
OMG, she just said “they just press the reset button.” They have a lot of doubt at the beginning, they meet the third persons and have many, many opportunities to achieve their childhood ambitions, and then they go their separate ways.
House of Brat 