Miranda Lambert: A secret wedding
Katie Perry and Orlando Bloom: Engaged
Jussie Smollett: Did he arrange and pay for the attack on him?
Jennifer Aniston: Her private plane had to make an emergency landing
The Oscars: The big show is Sunday night; there's been controversy about who will and will not appear during the telecast
Lee Radziwill: Jackie Onassis's younger sister died at age 85. Blog readers know that I'm fascinated by the Kennedys and that includes Lee Radziwill by extension. She was famous enough to be featured on magazine covers back in the day:
Issue dated November 1, 1976
Issue dated July 14, 1967
... but it can't have been easy to be in Jackie's shadow her entire life. ("I'm nobody's kid sister...") It's been reported that Lee was in love and having an affair with Aristotle Onassis in the years before Jackie married him; some claim that event caused a lifetime rift between the sisters. According to author Sarah Bradford, in her biography of Jackie titled America's Queen, Lee made an incredibly hostile and bitchy remark after Onassis died: "Jackie finally has what she wanted," [Lee] told a mutual friend. "She's walking in black behind another coffin." (From America's Queen, Penguin Books, 2001, page 391.)
For me, the most intriguing question about Lee is this: Was her first husband, Michael Canfield, the illegitimate son of Prince George, the Duke of Kent? Not the current Duke, who is the Queen's first cousin. This concerns his father, who was the younger brother of King George VI and therefore the Queen's uncle, who died in 1942.
Michael Canfield was adopted as an infant by Cass Canfield, an American publishing executive, but rumors persist that the Duke was his biological father. When I first read about this I thought, wouldn't it be cool if Lee had saved a comb with a few of his hairs, or some other memento that could now be DNA-tested against a living member of the royal family? I know, the royal family would never agree to that but still, it was interesting to contemplate.
Read more here at the Daily Mail but keep in mind that although the Mail presents the story as fact, it's actually just a rumor. It could be true, but it could also not be true. Michael Canfield died, childless, in 1969 and now Lee is gone too. We'll probably never know for sure.
Stories that appear on the new cover will be highlighted in green.
Tuesday morning update:
Meghan: She's in New York City for a baby shower with friends.
Karl Lagerfeld: The fashion icon died at age 85. I was never interested in his clothes but several years ago I worked with a man who wore Lagerfeld aftershave/cologne and he smelled good.
Ola and Abel Osundairo: The brothers in the Jussie Smollett case. The story is spiraling out of control and although we don't officially know what happened because the Chicago police aren't talking on the record, I have to say that from a common sense point of view, and from someone who wasn't born yesterday, my perception now is that this was indeed a hoax set up by Smollett, who could be in real trouble. Apparently here in Illinois making false statements to the police is a felony, and Jussie could (and note, I'm just saying "could") be sentenced to jail time. If nothing else, Jussie Smollett isn't the sharpest tool in the box, because this thing now appears to have been boneheaded from beginning to end. I can only imagine how he's feeling today.
Update #2 on Wednesday morning: See the new cover, featuring Mark Harmon, here.
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