Karlie Kloss: The supermodel married Jared Kushner's brother
Harry and Meghan: They're taking Australia by storm, Meghan has cut back on some of her appearances in order to rest, apparently Harry let it slip that he's hoping for a girl
Michelle Obama: Her book comes out November 13, I'll probably put her on the list every week until then
Selma Blair: Reveals that she has Multiple Sclerosis
Chris Carmack and/or Camille Grammer: The Nashville star and the Real Housewives star both got married over the week-end (not to each other)
Kennedys: Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie's marriage to Aristotle Onassis; People frequently runs some kind of Kennedy story in the weeks leading up to November 22
Tiffany Haddish: Her movie Nobody's Fool comes out November 2
Freddie Mercury and Queen: The Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody also comes out on November 2
Pippa Middleton: Her new baby was born last week
Jamie Lee Curtis: Starring in a new Halloween
Kim Kardashian: Today, Sunday 10/21, is her 38th birthday
Prince Charles: Turning 70 on November 14. Thirty years ago People ran a cover story noting the prince's 40th birthday, and at the time the trouble between Charles and Diana had begun to appear...
Issue dated October 31, 1988
... but staying together and eventually becoming the King and Queen was still considered to be the couple's only possible option. The article discusses the various aspects of Charles's life up to that point, and carefully implies that he might have been unfaithful, but the words "Camilla Parker Bowles" do not appear: [Charles] is deeply attached, for example to Bona Frescobaldi, 47, a wealthy and cultured Italian marchesa, and to Dale ("Kanga") Tryon, 40, the wife of his close friend, banker Anthony, Lord Tryon. Kanga, he once said plaintively, is "the only woman who has ever understood me."
Such remarks have provoked torrid speculations--all misleading. "Both the Frescobaldi and Tryon stories are red herrings," says a well-placed observer. If Charles has strayed, say insiders, it's not in those directions. In royal circles, they note, there are many beautiful women who would be available to the prince and who would know how to be discreet. Is Diana aware of such possibilities? "Almost certainly," says a source close to the royal couple, and the situation has caused "strain." ... Has divorce been contemplated? Absolutely not. "Anybody who imagines that it was," writes biographer [Alan] Hamilton, "fails to understand the mores and lifestyle of the English aristocracy."
The article also features a truly ridiculous quote and to this day I wonder if the reporters really believed it, or frankly, if there really was a "friend" who said it. We now know that by October, 1988 not only had Charles resumed his relationship with Camilla, but Diana was passionately entwined with James Hewitt and had almost certainly had a few other boyfriends as well. It was still considered important, however, that she be perceived as the pure, innocent victim:
"Her position as Princess of Wales means more to her than anything else in the world," says a friend. "There's no way she would risk this for a silly fling." (Read the article here.)
Monday afternoon update: Amy Schumer. Announces she's pregnant. She is also declining to participate in any Super Bowl ads, in support of Colin Kaepernick.
Mena Suvari: Married.
Rae Carruth: The former pro football player is released from prison after serving 19 years for arranging the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.
Stories that appear on the cover of the new issue will be highlighted in green.
Wednesday morning update: See the new cover, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, here.
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