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President Trump said Monday that he has been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine for the last “couple of weeks” as a preventive against the coronavirus.
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“I’m taking it, hydroxychloroquine, right now, yeah,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Couple of weeks ago, I started taking it. Because I think it’s good, I hear a lot of good stories. And if it’s not good, I’ll tell you right. I’m not going to get hurt by it.”

According to the White House, Trump is tested every day for the coronavirus and at last report had not been infected.

Hydroxychloroquine, taken together with the antibiotic azithromycin, appeared to show promising results in a limited, non-peer-reviewed study conducted in France on patients hospitalized with COVID-19. But subsequent trials showed that the drug offered no benefits to patients, and posed potentially serious health risks.

No studies have been published on taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent infection.

Hours after Trump announced he was taking the drug, his physician, Sean P. Conley, released a statement in which he said that he and the president had spoken about taking the drug.

“After numerous discussions he and I had regarding the evidence for and against hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks,” Conley said in the statement without specifying what evidence of a “potential benefit” he had relied upon to reach that conclusion.

Trump also said he is not receiving azithromycin, but is taking supplements of zinc, believed by some to boost the immune system.

“I want the people of this nation to feel good,” Trump said of his decision to use hydroxychloroquine despite having tested negative for COVID-19. He added, “I’ve taken it for about a week and a half now, and I’m still here.”
Trump at a White House meeting with restaurant executives on Monday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

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Marianne Williamson endorses Nancy Pelosi’s left-wing opponent

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has endorsed Nancy Pelosi’s congressional rival in this year’s elections, arguing that the speaker of the House deserves a strong challenge from the left as the Democratic Party becomes estranged from progressive ideals.

In a video posted on Instagram, Ms Williamson made clear that she respects Ms Pelosi’s achievements, which she said “have really paved the way in profound ways for women such as myself” – but that she has become “very, very concerned with the corporatist direction of the party”.

“We need to take a strong stand for the progressive vision that many of us feel is absolutely essential, not only for the future of our country but also for this next election,” said Ms Williamson. “And as a consequence, I am now endorsing Shahid Buttar for the congressional seat in the San Francisco district where Nancy Pelosi now serves.”

Ms Pelosi, who represents California’s solidly Democratic 25th district, has not faced serious electoral opposition in years. However, because California holds open primaries in which the top two contenders face off in the November election, she is now being challenged by another Democrat in the form of Mr Buttar, a constitutional lawyer and staunch progressive.

Ms Pelosi scored 74 per cent of the vote in the 3 March primary to Mr Buttar’s 13, hardly foretelling a competitive race. However, the left-wing challenger will be able to ride a wave of progressive discontent with the party establishment following Bernie Sanders’s loss to Joe Biden in the state.

Ms Williamson, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary before the Iowa caucuses, became something of a political sensation for a brief moment in the summer of 2017 after her appearances at two presidential debates with the other candidates.

While she failed to get out of the low single digits in polling, she gained a national political profile for her love-themed campaign, her by-turns strange and surprisingly direct debate style, and her supposed sympathy with anti-vaccination activists – an association she has vigorously denied. After ending her campaign, she endorsed Mr Sanders, as well as calling fellow candidate Pete Buttigieg a “corporate tool“. In a now-deleted tweet, she described Mr Biden’s victory over Mr Sanders as a “democratic coup”.

As she did throughout her campaign, she used her endorsement video to argue for a progressive politics that goes “right to the heart of things” rather than preoccupying itself with the art of the possible.

“The Nancy Pelosis of this world – and I say this with all due respect for Nancy Pelosi – have got to hear us that we are serious. Have got to understand that yes, we on the left will challenge you.”

She then listed a slate of left-wing policies as espoused by the Sanders campaign and others, including Medicare for All, as well as a $2,000-per-month basic income until the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic starts to ease.

Calling Mr Buttar “worthy of our support” and “a perfect challenger”, Ms Williamson said “I think this is good for Nancy. It’s definitely taking a stand for something.”

“Progressives can’t just be sidelined all the time. Or pandered to. Suppressed. It’s gotta stop. Let’s stop it now.”

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Where Americans are looking to travel this year, according to Expedia

The first big step toward normality for many Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic will start with a plane ticket.

And according to data provided by Expedia, most of the top 10 most-searched flight destinations during the month of April — specifically looking for trips between July and December 2020 — were within the U.S.

Hotel searches up

It’s important to note that these searches may just be a sign of pent-up demand amid an extraordinary lockdown as opposed to actual travel plans made.

Nonetheless, Expedia users were looking at flights to fan favorites such as Las Vegas, Orlando, Miami, and Maui.

For Vegas and Miami, in particular, which have been exceptionally hard-hit by the coronavirus-induced downturn, the Expedia data suggests a recovery of sorts.

In terms of hotel listings, one surprising entry appeared on the list: New York City. Despite being the epicenter of the outbreak, hotel searches indicated an enduring interest that the Big Apple holds in Americans’ minds.
Beach destinations

A separate note by Koddi, a digital marketing company, indicated a jump in hotel searches in recent weeks and noted a particular interest in beach destinations.

During the first week of May, Koddi saw a 25% week-over-week growth by volume in beach destinations in Texas, Alabama, and Northwest Florida, “corresponding with the reopening of beaches and loosening of restrictions,” the company noted.

The demand from consumers that’s encouraging these searches are most likely to be from leisure travelers “who are looking to salvage any opportunity for summer vacation,” Koddi noted.

For beaches, travelers may opt to forgo airlines — not just because they’re running on limited service, but for safety reasons as well — and rely on vehicles.

Koddi noted that the mode of transportation consideration has implications for destinations “in and around a two to six-hour driving range” of some hard-hit metro areas.

All that said, a new report from Bank of America adds that recovery in the hotel and travel services sector is still likely to be “challenging” since there is likely to be “lasting mistrust of consumers over safety concerns” and “less business travel as meetings migrate online.”

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Celebrity
This is what Prince William thinks of Kate Middleton's family
Jennifer Savin
CosmoMay 28, 2020

From Cosmopolitan

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A new profile story has just been published about the Duchess of Cambridge, detailing everything from Kate Middleton's inner circle to her romance with Prince William. It also took a look at the future king's relationship with his in-laws, Carole and Michael Middleton, Kate's parents.

According to the feature, which appears in the new issue of Tatler, William has been welcomed into the family (who have an unreal home in Bucklebury) with open arms. The piece, written by journalist Anna Pasternak (who previously penned a book based on Princess Diana's affair with former army officer James Hewitt) describes them as a tight-knit unit too.

"In William's eyes Carole and Michal can do no wrong," Pasternak says, before quoting an anonymous source. "[According to a friend of the Middletons] 'He absolutely adores them. Michael is charming. Really king, soft and gentle. William loves going to the country to stay with them. Their family life is so soothing for him as it's so different from his own family.'"

It also adds in that, "Another country grandee says: 'I've heard that Prince William is obsessed with Carole. She's the mummy he always wanted.'"

However, in response to the magazine running said article, Kensington Palace have issued a statement saying: "This story contains a swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentations which were not put to Kensington Palace prior to publication."

Tatler refute this denial from the palace and say they were in contact with them in regards to running the story. So, err, yeah... jury's still out on that front. But if it is true, then it's lovely to hear that William feels so at home with Kate's parents.

Recently, Carole and Michael Middleton have been locked down in their beautiful Georgian-style manor, with an expansive garden (meaning there's plenty of room for little George, Charlotte and Louis to play in when they visit), with Kate's brother, James, and his fiancé. It's believed that they purchased the house in 2012 and it's where Prince George spent the first few weeks of his life.

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Health
Prince William Fears It Could Be Damaging To Label Health Care Workers 'Heroes'

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Prince William is cautioning people who are quick to label health care workers as “heroes” amid the coronavirus pandemic, as the inspiring characterization can lead to detrimental health effects for workers.

While he fully supports the staff of the National Health Service (NHS) and wants them to be hailed as heroic and brave, the Duke of Cambridge said on BBC’s “The One Show” on Thursday that he also wants the workers to “come through this in one piece” with their mental health intact.

“We made the NHS frontline staff, rightly, heroes,” he says during a clip on the show. “But in doing so, we once again give them the burden that we gave our soldiers fighting in the war, where everyone was so grateful and wanted to show their appreciation as to their fighting for their freedoms and everything.”

The duke said that “we’ve got to be very careful with the language that we use” to make sure that workers “come through this in one piece” and aren’t left “broken.”

“They should rightly be hailed as superstars, and brave, and wonderful staff, but I’m very conscious from a mental health point of view that we don’t alienate some of them,” he said.

“Where they feel that once they have this hero tag, they can no longer shake that, and therefore they can’t ask for support, they have to be this strong pillar of strength, when actual fact what we need them to be is examples of positive mental health,” he added.

The Duke of Cambridge discusses mental health ― and specifically the stigma surrounding men’s mental health ― in a new BBC One documentary that premiered on Thursday.

In “Football, Prince William And Our Mental Health,” the royal talks about why “it’s OK to not be OK.” In one particularly poignant moment, William delves into the emotions he felt becoming a parent, and how it brought back the feelings he experienced losing his mother, Princess Diana.

“I think when you’ve been through something traumatic in life, and that is ― like you say ― your dad not being around, my mother dying when I was younger, the emotions come back, in leaps and bounds,” he says to former professional soccer player Marvin Sordell. “It’s a very different phase of life, and there’s no one there to kind of help you.”

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Queen relaxes with a special horse ride in first public appearance since lockdown

Sophie Barnes
The TelegraphJune 1, 2020, 12:53 AM GMT+3

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The Queen has been pictured horse riding in her first public appearance since lockdown began.

Over the weekend she took Balmoral Fern, a 14-year-old fell pony, for a ride in the 655-acre Windsor Home Park.

Her Majesty wore a headscarf featuring jockeys’ silks.

Horse racing, of which the Queen is known to be a huge fan, begins again today after being stopped during the coronavirus lockdown.

She has been with the Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle, where she spent her 94th birthday on April 21 in lockdown and has continued official duties.

The Queen delivered her VE Day anniversary message to Britain from Windsor Castle last month, reminding the country to “never give up, never despair”.

She recently sent her best wishes to this year’s “unique” virtual Chelsea Flower Show, commenting that her grandmother Queen Mary would have been delighted to know that gardening had become a national pastime.

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In April she made an address to the nation about coronavirus in which she evoked memories of Britain’s Blitz spirit, likening the pain of the lockdown to wartime separation.

It was just the fourth time the Queen has given a special broadcast address in times of crisis or grief, following the Gulf War in 1991, and the deaths of her mother, Queen Elizabeth, and Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Duke of Cambridge and his family have been staying at Anmer Hall in Norfolk during lockdown, while his father, Prince Charles, is at Birkhall in Aberdeenshire.

Prince Charles tested positive for coronavirus in March and isolated separately from the Duchess of Cornwall, who tested negative for the virus.

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As COVID cases fall in Europe, calls to ban travel from America rise. What the EU got right about controlling coronavirus.

When the European Union reopens its borders on July 1 after months of coronavirus restrictions, travelers from China, Uganda, Cuba and Vietnam will be welcome to visit.

But probably not those from the United States.

A report Tuesday in the New York Times revealed that the EU is considering two potential lists of acceptable travelers based on how foreign nations are faring in their fight against COVID-19 — and neither list includes the U.S.

This slight — “a stinging blow to American prestige in the world and a repudiation of President Trump’s handling of the virus in the United States,” as the Times put it — not only underscores how much worse the U.S. outbreak has gotten in recent days. It also highlights how much better the EU is currently doing than the U.S.

And that raises the question of why.

“American exceptionalism was not supposed to mean this,” Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently tweeted.

When it comes to COVID-19, comparing countries is a fraught and often misleading exercise. The United States is a very different entity than, say, Denmark or South Korea, with a much larger, more diverse population, very high levels of political polarization and an unwieldy federalist system of government. And those differences can explain a lot about various coronavirus disparities.

But the EU as a whole is a closer fit for the U.S. Its population is comparable: 328 million here, 446 million there. It’s at least as “diverse” as the United States, with deep fault lines of nationality and ethnicity. Politically, the EU is anything but uniform. And its system of government, a federation of self-governing member states, is similar. For the U.S., the EU may be the only COVID-19 comparison that makes sense.

But Americans aren’t measuring up — not even close.

The early stages of the EU and U.S. outbreaks were strikingly similar. At the beginning of March, neither place had recorded many cases. But soon Europe started to spike, logging about 1,800 cases on March 7, about 7,000 on March 14 and about 20,000 on March 21.

For a couple of days, America lagged behind. Then, around March 18, our curve started to rise at the exact same angle.

By the end of March, the EU had peaked at about 30,000 new COVID-19 cases per day. The U.S., however, was still heading upward. A few days later, on April 3, America finally passed Europe for the first time in the daily case count.

And that’s when the two curves stopped resembling each other.

For the rest of the month, the EU’s rolling seven-day average of new daily cases — a key metric that balances out daily fluctuations — fell every single day, from a high of more than 28,000 on April 1 to about 11,000 on April 30. It kept falling after that, too, slipping under 4,000 in early June. It’s remained there ever since.

America has been a very different story. In April, the U.S. curve seemed to plateau around 30,000, even as the EU was cutting its daily case average by roughly a third. Then, in May, America finally appeared to be making some progress, reducing its seven-day average to about 20,000 by the end of the month — an improvement, although still about five times the EU’s average at that point. 

June is when the trouble started. With all 50 states reopened to one degree or another, and with residents easing up on social distancing as a result, America’s seven-day average of new daily cases started to tick up again — modestly at first, and then with increasing speed, rising more than 32 percent over the last week alone.

As of June 23, that seven-day average stands at 29,898 cases per day, America’s highest level since May 2. The angle of the U.S. curve is now the same as it was in late March, suggesting rapid exponential spread. If this keeps up, America will pass its previous peak in a matter of days. 

So why are we seeing another surge in the U.S. and not the EU?

First things first: This isn’t a so-called “second wave.” For the most part, infections are way down in the U.S. states that were hit hardest this spring (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland) and rising in states that never peaked the first time around (Arizona, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Oregon). The virus isn’t making a comeback; it’s moving around. This is true even within states. Cases are climbing again in Louisiana, for instance, but New Orleans, once a national hot spot, is no longer the main driver of that spread. Same goes for Washington state, where rural Yakima County, in the south-central part of the state, is responsible for the latest surge in infections — not Seattle.

Also worth noting: The increase in U.S. testing probably accounted for some of our nationwide “plateau” in April and May; today, it may also contribute to rising case counts in certain places, such as Ohio and California. But overall, the U.S. is still conducting fewer tests per positive case than the biggest, hardest-hit European countries, and our positivity rate (5.2 percent) is much higher than theirs (2.0 percent or less) and climbing. Hospitalizations are up here, too. Rt — an epidemiological statistic that represents transmissibility, or the number of people a sick person infects at a particular point in an epidemic — is now estimated to be above 1.0 in 29 states, up from six states two months ago. An Rt below 1.0 indicates that each person infects, on average, less than one other person; an Rt above 1.0 indicates that an outbreak is growing. Testing, in other words, does not explain why reported infections are rising in the U.S. and not in the EU.

Two other factors likely have a lot more to do with it. The first is how effective lockdown was. There’s no one-size-fits-all model for lockdown, as the vastly different measures implemented across the EU demonstrate. Finland, for example, never really locked down at all, with authorities advising against, but not banning, nonessential trips, while shops stayed open. Residents of Spain and Italy, however, were barely allowed to leave home for more than a month; the U.K. was locked down for 83 days. Yet there was a common thread: making sure the virus had been suppressed to a level low enough that containment was theoretically possible once business as usual resumed. This meant different things in, say, Germany and Denmark, but the goal was basically the same.

Some of the hardest-hit U.S. states followed this approach. But most did not. In fact, according to a BBC report from May 14, few states met the White House’s own guidelines for reopening — a “downward trajectory” of reported cases or a falling share of positive tests over a 14-day period — before ending lockdown. As a result, the virus was still too prevalent — still too widespread — to contain. As Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, put it at the time, if some areas “jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability to be able to respond effectively and efficiently,” the country could “start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks.” Sadly, Fauci’s prediction is coming true.

The second contributing factor is how people behave once lockdown ends. Again, personal precautions are not consistent across Europe. In Denmark, for instance, almost no one wears a face covering; in Spain, Germany and Italy, masks are mostly mandatory. But these disparities, which reflect differing regional levels of risk, make sense when the virus has so far been suppressed to a manageable level and where governments are closely monitoring new case clusters and quickly reinstating localized lockdowns when infections spike.

That’s not the case, however, in places such as Florida, Texas and Arizona, where governors have resisted calls to make masks mandatory and have insisted that lockdown is over for good. According to a recent study reported in Health Affairs, mask mandates in 15 states may have prevented as many as 450,000 COVID-19 cases in the U.S., and new modeling from U.K.-based researchers suggests that effective public health efforts to track new infections and trace and isolate the contacts of those infected can also lower the risk of infection in a population by more than half.

Yet in the U.S., views about mask wearing and social distancing have become incredibly polarized. A new Gallup poll shows that only about 30 percent of Republicans would now advise others to stay home as much as possible (down from more than 80 percent in March), and fewer than half of Republicans say they’ve practiced social distancing in the last 24 hours (down from about 90 percent in March). Among Democrats, both numbers are still hovering around 90 percent. Given how little mitigation and containment some state governments are doing, and how lax certain segments of the population have become, especially young people, it’s no wonder that cases are rising. Few other countries have followed a similar curve, but the ones that have — such as Iran — also report widespread skepticism about science, distrust in government, premature rollbacks of lockdown and low levels of compliance with public-health guidelines.

The point here is not that lockdown should have continued forever. After all, it ended in Europe, and so far, cases haven’t spiked there. The point is that lockdown should have lasted as long as necessary to limit the amount of virus circulating in the population; reopening should have been tailored to conditions on the ground; and personal precautions should have been encouraged, not politicized.

If those things had happened, the U.S. might have looked more like the EU by now. And Americans might have been planning their trips to Paris or Barcelona.

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Prince Philip’s Not a Regular Prince; He’s a Cool Prince & His Palace Nickname Proves It

PureWowJune 24, 2020, 3:50 PM GMT+3

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герцогу Эдинбургскому Филиппу 10 июня исполнилось 99 лет.

We know Prince Philip is the palace’s resident BBQ enthusiast, that he loves a good reno project and, thanks to historian Adrian Tinniswood, we know he has a surprisingly chill nickname behind closed doors.

In Tinniswood’s book Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household, he reveals that the Duke of Edinburgh’s friends and staff at Bucking Palace call him “P.P.” for short—as in, “P.P., do you fancy a game of squash on the palace’s private court?” It’s punchy, it’s refreshing, it’s unexpected, it’s so Prince Philip. We’d expect nothing less considering he’s the palace staff’s fave royal, according to Harper’s Bazaar.

The abbreviated name also reminds us of a similar moniker used for a much younger royal, Prince George. Given to him by his classmates at his school Thomas’s Battersea, the 6-year-old is commonly referred to as “P.G.” A parent spilled the news in an interview with Vanity Fair, stating “George is really happy at school, [and] his nickname is P.G.”

Now the question remains: Does Queen Elizabeth call Prince Philip that?
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Well, it’s totally possible, considering Philip (or shall we say “P.P.”) has bestowed quite the unique nickname upon his wife. As it turns out, he calls Her Majesty “Cabbage.” We first learned this fun fact during the 2006 film The Queen, before it was later confirmed by those close to the fam.

Moving forward, is it acceptable to refer to them as solely “Cabbage” and “P.P.”? Asking for a friend.

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Prince Charles and William 'tried to help Harry and Meghan step back from royal life', author claims

Rebecca TaylorRoyal Correspondent

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Prince Charles and Prince William wanted to find a way to help Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, according to a royal author.

Nigel Cawthorne is the author of Prince Andrew, Epstein and the Palace, which explores the Duke of York’s friendship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the subsequent fallout.

The book claims that those inside the palace used the disastrous interview which Andrew, 60, gave to BBC Newsnight about his friendship, as a chance to also move Prince Harry and Meghan out of the royal picture.

According to the MailOnline, the book claims the interview, in November 2019, was seen as a good time for a leak about the Duke and Duchess’s hopes of stepping back from their senior royal roles.

Cawthorne told Yahoo UK: “Charles and William genuinely wanted to find a way forward for what the Sussexes were looking for and to support them in their discussions with the palace.”
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He previously told the MailOnline that the Charles and William factions saw the interview as the “starting shot” to pruning the “unwieldy monarchy”.

He says the first rumours of the Sussexes hoping to step back circulated the same day as the Andrew interview.

Cawthorne also says the plans for the couple had been months in the planning, but in secret.

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However, whether it was Charles, 71, or William, 38, who were directly involved in using the interview to organise a leak is not clear.

Cawthorne told Yahoo UK: “The idea that the BBC interview might not be a good idea existed well before it took place. Jason Stein, Prince Andrew’s communications secretary, felt so strongly that he resigned over it when the palace cleared the interview two weeks before.

“But once the interview on, the palace couldn’t just hope for the best and courtiers had to prepare for the eventuality of what to do if it failed.

“Charles and William would not have had any hand in these strategies.”

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Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan, 38, are living in Los Angeles after stepping back from their senior roles at the end of March.

It was revealed this week that they have signed up as speakers with an agency that includes names like Serena Williams, and Barack and Michelle Obama.

Meanwhile Andrew is continuing to feel the effects of his friendship with Epstein and is embroiled in a transatlantic legal row.

One of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre, has accused the Duke of York of having sex with her three times when she was trafficked by the American.

Andrew denies the claims.

He says he has made several offers to US authorities to speak about Epstein, but they say this is not true.

He is also looks unlikely to ever be able to return to royal duties, after reports earlier this month that the Queen is resigned to the decision for him to step back being permanent.

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Texas, Florida Shutter Bars As COVID-19 Shatters Records

The governors of Texas and Florida both ordered bars closed across their states Friday as confirmed COVID-19 cases there continue to hit record highs.

The sweeping action marks a reversal of what critics worried was a rush to reopen following coronavirus shutdowns earlier this year. Bars are especially dangerous environments for the spread of the disease.

Florida announced the decision via tweet.

“Effective immediately, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation is suspending on premises consumption of alcohol at bars statewide,” wrote Halsey Beshears, secretary of the state’s Department of Business & Professional Regulation.

Florida reported a record high of 8,942 new cases of coronavirus Friday ― an increase of 7.8% for the total cases in the state, and easily besting the previous record of 5,508, set just two days prior.

In Texas, new rules limit bars to takeout and delivery only, while restaurants are limited to 50% capacity. The state also shut down rafting and tubing businesses Friday and restricted outdoor gatherings to less than 100 people.

“As I said from the start, if the positivity rate rose above 10%, the State of Texas would take further action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said in a release. “At this time, it is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain types of activities, including Texans congregating in bars.”

Notably, Texas’ order specifically exempts indoor religious services from the occupancy limit, even though such gatherings are responsible for many of the “superspreading” events where large numbers of people fall ill. Earlier this month, 236 members of a church congregation in eastern Oregon became sick after attending services there.

As cases rise rapidly in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is facing explosive accusations of “cooking the books” by the state’s former leading COVID-19 data scientist, Rebekah Jones, who says DeSantis is trying to minimize the true impact of the disease. Jones says she was fired in in May for refusing to distort data.

In May, the state shut down a web portal where consumers could report businesses for failing to follow COVID-19 guidelines. A spokeswoman told WLRN reports had decreased to the point that the portal was no longer needed, but Department of Business and Professional Regulation records obtained by the outlet show they’d actually doubled from April to May.

DeSantis, who was one of the last governors to issue stay-at-home orders in April, previously blamed the surge on an increase in testing.

Clarification: Language has been amended to indicate that the percentage increase of cases in Florida is for the total number of cases, not the number of new, daily cases.

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Health
Dentists Are Reopening, but Should Patients Go Back?

Maria Cramer

At Dr. Todd Bertman’s office, the receptionist wears a plastic face shield. So do the hygienist and the nine doctors in the practice in Manhattan’s East Village.

Bertman reopened the office two weeks ago after closing it in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In another change from the past, he has switched from ultrasonic cleaners that spray water and saliva into the air to laser instruments.

The dentists and hygienists wear head-to-toe personal protective equipment that they change between appointments — a time-consuming, awkward ritual that requires them to take off bootees, gowns, goggles, masks, gloves and the shields and replace them with clean ones.

“It’s like changing out of a spacesuit,” Bertman said. “It’s annoying as hell, but this is what it kind of comes down to until we find a vaccine.”

As of June 19, every state had allowed dentists’ offices to reopen for all procedures, according to the American Dental Association, which surveyed thousands of dentists earlier this month and found that patient volume is at nearly 60% of what it was before March 15, when dentists were told to shut down except for emergencies.

James Famularo, a real estate broker in Manhattan, said he was desperate for a cleaning after three months of eating too many sweets and indulging in alcohol. He recently returned to Bertman’s office, where the dentist told him there was “a lot more shmutz” on his teeth than usual.

“I asked Dr. Bertman, ‘What’s all this extra digging that I’m not used to?’” said Famularo, 51.

His teeth, he said, now feel “squeaky clean.”

But should patients take the risk? When surveyed by The New York Times, many epidemiologists have said they were comfortable returning to their doctors. Health specialists said neglecting routine dental care was unwise. Some also noted that it is the dentists and hygienists who are more at risk of getting sick since they are the ones on the receiving end of any aerosol droplets that could contain the virus.

“All that drilling and suctioning, it’s the provider — it’s not the patient — getting aerosolized secretions,” said Laurie Anne Ferguson, dean of the College of Nursing and Health at Loyola University New Orleans and a nurse practitioner.

The American Dental Association has made a series of recommendations, including advising patients to wear a face covering when they come in, having them wait outside or in their car until the dentist is ready to see them, removing magazines and toys from the waiting area, and placing hand sanitizer throughout the office.

Getting the first appointment of the day may also limit risk, although many dentists said they are seeing fewer patients, so they have more time to disinfect rooms between visits.

Still, other health experts, including dentists, said they were skeptical about going to the dentist for anything that is not urgent, like an abscess, especially in the many parts of the country where coronavirus cases are rising.

“For everything that we’re doing, we need to ask if it’s really necessary,” said Peter Jüni, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital. “We want to make sure we don’t contribute to transmission.”

Dr. Neetu Singh, the oral health program director at Health Care For All in Boston, said for now people should use telehealth or call the dentist first for a consultation, then assess whether to come in.

“A remote conversation is probably the wiser step to take at this juncture,” she said.

But Ferguson said her experience treating patients during the pandemic had made her feel reasonably secure visiting the dentist.

If a dentist is taking proper steps, like wearing protective gear and seeing fewer patients, people should feel confident, she said.

“None of us like to go to the dentist, and we’ll use any excuse not to go,” Ferguson said. “But there is growing preponderance of evidence that our oral health is very much connected to our overall health.”

Bertman said his staff had been tested for the virus, and the results had all been negative. He said to reduce the risk of transmission, he had scaled back the number of the treatments the office normally offers, including cleanings.

Dr. Eli Eliav, director of the University of Rochester’s Eastman Institute for Oral Health in New York, which provides dental care for low-income patients and people with complicated medical needs, said patients coming in for invasive procedures must be tested for infection at least three days before their appointment.

The office has set up tents for waiting outside the facility and extended its hours so doctors can see more patients and adhere to social distancing guidelines at the same time.

“And we’re adding more time between patients to be able to disinfect the room,” said Eliav, whose institute remained open. “I understand why people are anxious and concerned. That’s part of our job — to make sure that people are comfortable coming back.”

Dr. Tim Lahey, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Vermont, said he believed now was not the time for people to “come face to face with someone you don’t know.”

But those who feel they must return should ask a lot of questions, he said.

“Are they being clear about people not coming in if they have symptoms? Are they being strict about wearing masks? Are they making sure that the person who works on you is wearing a face shield and a mask?” Lahey said. “These are probably a few highlights that people should be looking up.”

Famularo, the Manhattan broker, said he served as the “guinea pig” for his family and was comfortable with his two sons and wife going to the dentist after seeing the precautions that Bertman took.

“I felt like even if somebody had something, I wouldn’t be infected,” he said.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

© 2020 The New York Times Company

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Meghan Markle's next big job has been confirmed
Jennifer Savin
CosmoJuly 9, 2020
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From Cosmopolitan

Since announcing they were stepping away from their senior royal duties, everybody has been wondering what Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will do next workwise. While we already know that they've put plans in motion to start their own charity, named after their son Archie, and that they've been meeting local organisations in LA, it was also recently reported that they'd signed with a public speaking agency.

We have a sneaking suspicion it may well be through the latter that Meghan's next job has come about – and it's an exciting one too! It's just been announce that she'll be teaming up with none other than Michelle Obama for a summit on gender equality, Girl Up Global Leadership Summit (13 to 15 July).

The Duchess of Sussex – who has long been vocal about her passion for helping to achieve equality – is set to join both Michelle and actress Priyanka Chopra Jones as a guest speaker for the three-day virtual event.

This is far from the first time that Meghan has spoken up about the cause which is so close to her heart either... you may well have seen the video of her as an eleven-year-old challenging a washing up liquid advert, which suggested only women have to tackle dirty plates.

During her Suits days, Meghan also delivered a powerful speech at the UN Women's conference in 2015, in which she touched upon the aforementioned TV ad which sparked her interest in levelling the playing field.

"When I was just eleven years old, I unknowingly and somehow accidentally became a female advocate... I had been in school watching a TV show in elementary school, and this commercial came on with the tagline for this dishwashing liquid and the tagline said, ‘Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.’ Two boys from my class said, ‘Yeah, that’s where women belong, in the kitchen.’," she explained.

"It is said that girls with dreams become women with vision. May we empower each other to carry out such vision – because it isn’t enough to simply talk about equality. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to simply believe in it. One must work at it. Let us work at it. Together. Starting now."

With all this fabulous experience behind her, we've no doubt Meghan will knock it out of the park at the Girl Up event. We can't wait to tune in and hear her speak.

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Marie Claire published an article titled: 'Meghan Markle Has a Single Gray Hair' and people are absolutely
furious that the magazine would allow the story and are bashing the publication.

Gray hairs: Marie Claire prompted outrage online after publishing an article about Meghan Markle having a single strand of gray hair based off this image of her in Ireland on March 23

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It’s Possible for Prince Charles to Become King Without Ever Being Crowned

Queen Elizabeth already appointed Prince Charles as her successor, but did you know that it’s possible for the Duke of Cornwall, 71, to become king without ever being crowned?

Since Prince Charles is first in line to the British throne, he’s expected to take over when the monarch, 94, steps down or passes away. Should the queen suddenly die (god forbid), it would actually simplify the process, since the crowning (aka coronation) is tradition, but not required by the royal family.

The news might surprise some royal aficionados, since Queen Elizabeth’s appointment feels like it was yesterday. But according to Express, “A coronation is unnecessary for a king or queen to reign, and some monarchs have gone without in the past.”

This means Prince Charles will become King of England the moment Queen Elizabeth dies, with or without coronation. While he’ll likely go through with the ceremony, he wouldn’t be the first patriarch to forgo it.

For example, King Edward VIII reigned for 326 days without ever being crowned as king. Who knew?!

We first learned about Prince Charles’s appointment back in April 2018, when Queen Elizabeth issued a formal request for the Commonwealth Heads of Government to make him her successor.

“It is my sincere wish that the Commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations and will decide that one day the Prince of Wales should carry on the important work started by my father in 1949,” she said during an official Buckingham Palace meeting.

So, will Prince Charles follow or break tradition? Only time will tell.

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Trump identifies another hoax: The coronavirus

President Trump has called many things hoaxes over the years — the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s dealings with Russia, his impeachment, global warming — but on Monday he called into question the existence of an epidemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans.

During a flurry of activity on his Twitter account, Trump retweeted a message from game show host Chuck Woolery that claimed “everyone is lying” about the coronavirus as part of a plot to sabotage the economy and hurt Trump’s reelection campaign.

“The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19,” wrote Woolery in the message promoted by Trump. “Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most ,that we are told to trust. I think it’s all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I’m sick of it.”

Asked about the retweet at a briefing later Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that the “notion of the tweet was to point out the fact that when we use science, we have to use it in a way that is not political.”

A key problem keeping the economy from coming back is the 135,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus, per tracking by Johns Hopkins University, which reported 61,352 new cases and 685 deaths on Saturday. Woolery didn’t say whether he thought the death toll was faked. Florida set a record for most single-day cases of any state so far with more than 15,000 reported Saturday, the same day Walt Disney World reopened in Orlando. Arizona, California, Florida, Mississippi and Texas have all set record highs for daily deaths over the last week.

Trump sometimes uses “hoax” as an all-purpose denigration of opinions — or facts — he doesn’t like. In February he called criticism of his administration’s response to the coronavirus the Democrats’ “new hoax,” but he didn’t quite deny the existence of the epidemic, as Woolery appeared to do in his tweet.

There is no obvious precedent for a president repeating criticism that a key agency in his own administration — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — is lying, except for Trump himself, and the many times he has accused the FBI and the intelligence services of intentionally undermining him.

Around the same time, Trump’s former acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who belongs to none of the categories Woolery said were telling “outrageous lies” about COVID-19, signified that he took the pandemic seriously. In an op-ed published on the CNBC website, Mulvaney wrote: “I know it isn’t popular to talk about in some Republican circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country. My son was tested recently; we had to wait 5 to 7 days for results. My daughter wanted to get tested before visiting her grandparents, but was told she didn’t qualify. That is simply inexcusable at this point in the pandemic.”

Trump also retweeted Woolery’s statement “There is so much evidence, yes scientific evidence, that schools should open this fall. It’s worldwide and it’s overwhelming. BUT NO.”

The mortality rate in children is lower from the virus, but there’s still much researchers don’t know about COVID-19, including the potential long-term effects on children and their ability to spread it to older, more vulnerable relatives and caregivers. Teachers’ unions say their members are reluctant to return to classrooms until the epidemic is under control. On Friday, the American Academy of Pediatrics hedged its initial plan for in-person schooling by releasing a statement that said, “Public health agencies must make recommendations based on evidence, not politics” and “Science and community circumstances must guide decision-making.”

It’s accurate that other countries are planning to open schools in the fall, but they did a better job at suppressing the virus through testing, contact tracing and communicating the importance of masks than the U.S. government.

Trump has downplayed the deaths of Americans previously while in office, stating that the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria wasn’t as high as multiple studies concluded after the White House’s slow response to the natural disaster was criticized.

“3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico,” Trump said in September 2018, a year after the storm. “When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000.”

The official Hurricane Maria death toll, according to the Puerto Rican government, is 2,975. That number, calculated by researchers with the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, is lower than that of a Harvard study, which put the number at 4,645. Either number would make Maria the deadliest natural disaster in the United States in over a century.

The president has consistently called the investigation into Russia’s influence on the 2016 election a hoax, but special counsel Robert Mueller’s team found evidence there was foreign interference and contact between Trump adviser Roger Stone and Russian intelligence officers.

“We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel — Stone among them,” Mueller wrote Saturday in a Washington Post op-ed. “We did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its activities. The investigation did, however, establish that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome. It also established that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.”

Trump also called his impeachment over his attempts to pressure Ukraine into releasing damaging information on Joe Biden a hoax, although a majority of the House — nearly every Democrat and Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, a Republican turned independent — voted to impeach him on counts of abuse of power and obstructing Congress. Every Democratic senator along with Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah voted to convict on the abuse-of-power charge, but they fell short of the 67 votes needed to remove him from office, as the other 52 Republican senators supported the president.

Trump has repeatedly called global warming a hoax, at one point saying it “was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” A vast majority of scientists believe that humans are causing climate change, and last month a Russian town within the Arctic Circle saw a record temperature of 100.4 degrees.

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Royal Bride-to-Be Princess Beatrice Stuns in Her Most Glamorous Portrait Ever

Stephanie Petit

PeopleJuly 14, 2020, 5:18 PM

Princess Beatrice's wedding may have been delayed due to coronavirus, but she still has that bridal glow.

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Photographer Phil Poynter recently released a never-before-seen photo of Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter on his Instagram page, and Beatrice has never looked more glamorous. The black-and-white shot is a closeup of the royal staring directly into the camera with a slight smile as her wavy hair frames her face.

Poynter wrote that Princess Beatrice was "kind enough to sit for a personal portrait session" after he photographed her for the magazine Chaos SixtyNine. "Here's the result...Stunning!"

The photographer also shared the closeup of Beatrice's glittering red lips that appeared in the magazine, a creation by makeup artist Pat McGrath.

Princess Beatrice, 31, was set to marry her fiancé, Italian financier Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, on May 29, with a ceremony at St. James's Palace in London with a reception to follow at the Buckingham Palace gardens.

Princess Beatrice and Edoardo, who are quarantining with the groom's mother during coronavirus, have not announced plans for a new wedding date.

"There are no plans to switch venues or hold a bigger wedding. They aren't even thinking about their wedding at this time," a spokesperson for the couple told PEOPLE in mid-April. "There will come a time to rearrange, but that's not yet."

Despite the change in wedding plans, Fergie recently told Royal Central that her daughter is "the happiest I have ever seen her in my life."

"She and Edo have a great love for each other and passion for life," Fergie added. "For them to be getting married fills my heart with joy."

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Princess Beatrice marries in secret ceremony attended by Queen

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Marriage to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi followed social distancing guidelines, says palace

The Queen’s granddaughter Princess Beatrice has married the property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a secret ceremony attended by the Queen and close family.

In what is believed to be the first family gathering that the Queen and Prince Philip have attended since lockdown, the wedding of Beatrice and Mapelli Mozzi took place at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge in Windsor, after being initially delayed from 29 May due to the coronavirus outbreak.

In an unusual move, it was not announced in advance and pictures of the ceremony were not immediately released. The palace said in a statement:

“The private wedding ceremony of Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi took place at 11am on Friday 17 July at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor.

“The small ceremony was attended by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and close family. The wedding took place in accordance with all relevant government guidelines.”

Couples planning to marry were given new government advice on what to expect, including to limit the guest list to 30, after lockdown restrictions were lifted on 4 July. Receptions or parties after weddings should not take place, but small celebrations – with groups of up to two households indoors, or up to six people from different households outdoors – are allowed.

Mozzi, a millionaire property tycoon, and Beatrice began dating in autumn 2018 and got engaged during a weekend trip to Italy following the whirlwind romance. The princess split from her former boyfriend Dave Clark in 2016 after 10 years together.

The couple’s ceremony was held at the chapel regularly used by the Queen as her place of worship when she is staying at Windsor.

Beatrice, who is ninth in line to the throne, is not a full-time working royal. She is employed by Afiniti, an artificial intelligence software firm, where she is vice-president of partnerships and strategy.

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is the son of the former Olympic skier Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis, and is a count. The princess will become a stepmother as he has a young son named Wolfie with his ex-fiancee, Dara Huang.

His stepfather was Christopher Shale, a senior Tory and a close friend of the former prime minister David Cameron. He died from heart disease at the Glastonbury festival in 2011.

About 73,600 weddings and same-sex civil partnership ceremonies were postponed during the first three months of lockdown, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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Princess Beatrice stuns in vintage wedding dress as she borrows Queen's tiara

A first glimpse at Princess Beatrice’s stunning wedding dress has been revealed.

The vintage dress was on loan from the Queen, and refitted by Her Majesty’s dress maker, Angela Kelly, and Stewart Parvin.

The dress is made from Peau De Soie taffeta in shades of ivory, trimmed with ivory Duchess satin, with organza sleeves and is encrusted with diamanté with a geometric checkered bodice.

The 31-year-old princess also borrowed the same tiara worn by the Queen on her wedding day to Prince Philip.

The tiara was made for Queen Mary by Garrard and Co. in 1919, from a diamond necklace given by Queen Victoria for her wedding.
The Queen loaned Princess Beatrice the dress, which refitted by the royal dressmaker. (Benjamin Wheeler/PA Wire)

Her bouquet was made up of trailing jasmine, pale pink and cream sweet peas, royal porcelain ivory spray roses, pink o’hara garden roses, pink wax flower and baby pink astible. It was placed on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey after, in line with royal tradition.

The images were released the day after it was announced that Princess Beatrice had married Italian property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle.

The palace said: “Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York and Mr. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi were married in a small family ceremony on Friday 17th July. The ceremony took place at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, with the kind permission of Her Majesty The Queen.

“The couple decided to hold a small private ceremony with their parents and siblings following the postponement of their wedding in May. Working within government guidelines, the service was in keeping with the unique circumstances while enabling them to celebrate their wedding with their closest family.”

The bride’s ring was designed by Shaun Leane, while the groom’s is a vintage gold band designed by Josh Collins.

Beatrice and Mozzi said they were “delighted” to share the photographs and sent their thanks to the gardening teams at The Savill Garden and Windsor Great Park.

The couple had been due to get married on 29 May at the Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace in London, followed by a reception in the garden of Buckingham Palace. However, the service was postponed due to the coronavirus.

Due to the recent relaxation of lockdown rules, wedding ceremonies are currently allowed in England, but with no more than 30 people in attendance.

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No royal fanfare at wedding of Princess Beatrice
Reuters VideosJuly 17, 2020, 5:59 PM

A British royal wedding without all the pomp and ceremony of occasions gone by on Friday (July 17) as Queen Elizabeth’s fifth grandchild married in a small private ceremony. Princess Beatrice, the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, married fiance Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in Windsor with few guests in attendance and in accordance with health advice on public gatherings. A statement from Buckingham Palace said: "The small ceremony was attended by The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh and close family." The BBC reported that her parents Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson were both in attendance. The venue for the wedding was the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, close to where the princess grew up. The couple originally planned to marry in May, but lockdown restrictions forced them to reschedule.

    Earlier this week, royal fans around the world were surprised to learn that Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi had tied the knot in a secret ceremony.

    Just 20 guests were in attendance at the surprise nuptials, which were held at All Saints Chapel in Windsor Great Park.

    Beatrice wore a vintage gown and the same tiara her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, wore for her own wedding in 1947.

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Princess Beatrice's Wedding Dress Was a Stunning Vintage Gown, on Loan from Queen Elizabeth

Chloe Foussianes

From Town & Country

Princess Beatrice married her fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in an intimate ceremony on Friday in Windsor—but royal watchers had to wait a full day to get a peek at the Princess’s much-anticipated wedding gown.

It was well worth the wait. In two portraits released by Buckingham Palace, Beatrice’s stunning dress was on full display, and absolutely lived up to fans’ high expectations. Here, all the details on the gown.
Who designed the dress?

In a break from past royal brides, rather than enlisting a couturier to craft a custom garment, Beatrice went vintage. She wore a gown by Norman Hartnell, on loan from the Queen, made from Peau De Soie taffeta and organza, trimmed with Duchess satin, and encrusted with diamanté.

Hartnell was a sought-after designer in the 20th century, and a go-to for the Windsors. He was behind both Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress and coronation gown, in addition to Princess Margaret’s wedding look and other important royal garments.

This is very much in contrast with the fashions worn at recent royal weddings, all of which were custom: Kate wore Alexander McQueen, Meghan went with Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller, and Princess Eugenie donned Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos.
What does it take to create a royal wedding dress?

Royals don't pick their gowns off the rack. Usually, the designer and bride will work together for months, meeting at fitting after fitting, until the dress is just right. Eugenie's dress, for example, certainly took time. "During several fittings the dress was developed layer by layer, constructing it from the corset and the complex underskirt to the fitted bodice and full pleated skirt," the royal family revealed on her wedding day.

As Beatrice’s dress was vintage, she didn’t follow that exact process, but the gown certainly still required fittings. The Queen’s trusted dressmakers, Angela Kelly and Stewart Parvin, remodeled and fitted the Hartnell design to flatter the Princess.

Did Beatrice’s gown feature any special motifs?

Royal wedding looks often feature motifs that represent things important to the couple. For example, Meghan's veil had flora representing the 53 Commonwealth countries, plus a California Poppy for her home across the pond and Wintersweet for Nottingham Cottage, her and Harry's first home in the UK; Eugenie's dress had a Thistle for Scotland, a Shamrock for Ireland, the York Rose, and ivy for Ivy Cottage, her and her husband's home.

As Beatrice’s gown wasn’t designed especially for her, there weren’t any special messages or homages hidden in its seams. However, as a dress on loan from the Queen—and worn with Queen Mary’s diamond fringe tiara, the sparkler the Queen wore on her own wedding day—Beatrice’s look paid tribute to her royal heritage in its own way.

Did she have a second dress?

In the past, royal brides have changed into a second look for the reception. For Meghan, that meant trading her Givenchy gown in for a looser Stella McCartney one; Kate wore another by design by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen; and Eugenie opted to swap her first dress for a Grace Kelly-inspired number.

It’s not clear if Beatrice changed into a second look. Given the nature of her intimate wedding, it wouldn’t be surprising if she kept to the one gown; it’s also not clear if there was a reception, given the circumstances, which is where the Princess would’ve likely debuted a second dress.

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