
Queen Elizabeth II examines the Iron Throne Tuesday during a tour of the Game of Thrones set in Belfast. Image via Sky News.

Queen Elizabeth II examines the Iron Throne Tuesday during a tour of the Game of Thrones set in Belfast. Image via Sky News.

A ludicrously dressed child tasked with ensuring the safe transport of the back of Queen Elizabeth II's dress into and out of the House of Lords on Wednesday appeared, tragically, to die of boredom earlier this morning when he collapsed in the middle of the Queen's speech to Parliament. Fortunately, he had only…
A Saturday evening performance of Peter Morgan's The Audience at the Gielgud Theater was rudely interrupted by the loud banging noises made by street drummers marching to promote London’s As One In the Park gay music festival.
England's former boozehound-in-chief, Tony Blair, apparently plagiarized a fictional scene from The Queen—the Oscar-winning 2006 movie starring Helen Mirren, which Blair said he never watched—and tried to pass it off as reality in his memoir.
Michelle Obama filmed a Sesame Street appearance yesterday, and, as any good American would be, she was delighted. Apparently it was even more fun than meeting some ancient English broad!
Man, our screw-up president. What did he do this time? He insulted the Queen of England with another one of his boneheaded lame "gifts!"
Poppy, Anna, Alice, Oliver and Megan were the big winners at the Fido Awards, for their impressive performances as Queen Elizabeth's beloved Corgies in The Queen, eliciting these good wishes from their award-winning co-star, Dame Helen Mirren: "I know one should avoid acting with animals and children, but these…
· Agenting's Evil Empire joins forces with its baseball equivalent, luring the New York Yankees into their nefarious embrace with the promise of brokering lucrative new corporate sponsorships and keeping the clubhouse buffet stocked with the most delicious babies the Bronx has to offer. [*Full disclosure: As a…
The fallout continues from last week's royal debacle, in which the BBC was forced to publicly apologize to The Scariest Lady on the Planet, aka Queen Elizabeth II, for having rearranged footage to make it seem as though she had stormed out of a photo session with Annie Leibovitz. A Year with the Queen producers RDF…
Dude in charge of the BBC channel responsible for that whole "the Queen blew off Annie Leibovitz" story may lose his job. They're actually calling it Crowngate. It's kind of adorable how seriously the English take that whole monarchy thing. [Guardian]
A promo clip released yesterday of BBC documentary A Year with the Queen showed Annie Leibovitz requesting that Queen Elizabeth II remove her crown for a picture. The Queen's response was to incapacitate her with a royal shoe pressed against her neck, threatening, "Ask that of me again and I shall crush your trachea…
Maybe the Queen didn't storm off in a huff during that photoshoot with Annie Leibovitz after all. Or maybe the BBC is just worried about getting its charter renewed. Either way, the organization has apologized and "admitted the sequence of events in a BBC1 documentary about the Queen had been misrepresented and would…
What happened when leading celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz—a bold artist known to throw fits when the prop baby DHL'd to her Vanity Fair cover shoot doesn't meet her exacting specifications—was assigned to shoot a legendarily frigid monarch? Things got tense, especially when the portraitist suggested to the…
Queen Elizabeth II, fresh off her triumphant trip to her semi-retarded former colony, has invited her Academy-Award-winning portraitist (and occasional Defamer forbidden lust object) Helen Mirren to dine with her at Buckingham Palace. Reports spread quickly that Mirren turned the invitation down, for the rather…
As a hazard attending to the job we do, we pretty much consume almost all media going, and we've yet to see any kind of etiquette guide regarding the forthcoming visit of Britain's Elizabeth "Queen" Windsor to these shores. But according to the Daily Mail our papers have been chockablock with tips for how we should…
· Every Guild Gets Awards! Dept: Remember how authentic those Buckingham Palace gates and that flower shrine looked in The Queen? No? That means the art director was doing his job. The Art Directors Guild makes sure to fête the greatest achievements in contemporary, fantasy, and period movie categories Saturday at…