Royal News Blog“So sorry, Virginia, you can dress up all you like but there is no Prince Charming, just a privileged bunch of royal rich kids,” says writer Ben Hills. The pain behind the princess myth
Hills is the author of Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne.
According to this article, Prince Harry’s girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, “is determined to get a tan so she looks healthy and gorgeous.”
I hope this anonymous source is wrong in claiming that Chelsy equates “tan” with “healthy.” Chelsy should know that tanning is dangerous and can lead to skin cancer. And it doesn’t make you “gorgeous,” unless you consider wrinkles gorgeous.
For a look at what sun can do to your skin, check out these before and after photos of the once-gorgeous Brigitte Bardot.
Chelsy, get some sunscreen. And now I’ll stop ranting.
An article about Jordan’s late King Hussein:
King of the shifting sands
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim is available from AbeBooks.
You’d be sensitive about your looks too if people kept staring at you: William well on way to being heir without hair
For each word you get right in this vocabulary game, 20 grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations World Food Program: FreeRice.com
Smashed vases go back on display (includes an interesting video)
From Carla Nayland’s blog, here’s a good review of Alison Weir’s novel Innocent Traitor, about the life of England’s “nine-day queen,” Lady Jane Grey.
(I haven’t read this book, and I probably won’t because I rarely like fiction written in the present tense. It’s so distracting and pretentious.)
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