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Markle 'invades' Britain, gets Lifetime movie

Actress Meghan Markle, pictured here with fiance Prince Harry, is returning to the small screen. Sort of.
Actress Meghan Markle, pictured here with fiance Prince Harry, is returning to the small screen. Sort of.

In which Spin Cycle puts on its town crier outfit and bellows the latest in nobility news:

• A movie is in the making about Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle. It's ever better than that -- a Lifetime movie (!) is in the making, the channel recently announced at the winter Television Critics Association press tour. The movie, which is sure to feature awful British accents and even worse wigs, will be called Harry & Meghan: The Royal Love Story and will debut sometime this year.

Says Entertainment Weekly: "No premiere date has been set, but the film appears destined for a May launch, in the lead-up to the May 19 royal wedding. After all, this is not Lifetime's first movie in this particular area: The network previously produced William & Kate: The Movie, about the build-up to the wedding between Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton, and it premiered just 11 days before the big day in 2011."

We'll be waiting for this fascinating production with fascinators on.

Henry Bolton, 54, a leader of the United Kingdom Independent Party leader, announced he ended his relationship with girlfriend Jo Marney, 25, after she made comments about Markle that "are not defensible in any way."

Among other things about Markle, who is biracial, Marney texted to a friend, "This is Britain. Not Africa. ... Not wanting other races and cultures to invade your own culture doesn't mean I hate their race. Just means I don't want their cultures invading mine."

Marney, a model, is not exactly a model citizen.

• Celebrating the 65th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, BBC1 recently aired a special, The Coronation, during which the sovereign was reunited with her coronation crown. And manhandled it.

According to the Daily Mail "Viewers ...were left aghast after the monarch was seen casually rotating it, grabbing the ermine and even gently prodding a pearl. After a white-gloved aide put the historic 1661 crown in front of the monarch, the 91-year-old wasted no time in getting to grips, literally, with it -- leaving those watching at home shocked at her relaxed approach to one of the country's most important artifacts."

Of course, Spin Cycle didn't witness this because we don't get that channel. What a royal bummer.

• It appears actress Helena Bonham Carter will be cast in the third season of Netflix's The Crown as Princess Margaret. Vanessa Kirby, who played the princess in the first two seasons, posed with Bonham Carter in an Instagram photo that she captioned "Honoured."

She'd be perfect, as she's certainly had practice. In 2010's The King's Speech, Bonham Carter portrayed Margaret's mom.

But as of press time, on the subject of The Crown, the former Queen Mother has remained, well, mum.

Princess Charlotte bosses around her older brother Prince George, so said Queen Elizabeth, when visiting with a schoolgirl who won a signed Bible as a prize for a religious project. The queen asked if she looked after her younger sister. The girl's mother replied, "It's the other way around," and the Queen responded, "It's like that with Charlotte and George."

Just call Charlotte the Fresh Princess of Cambridge.

• Revelist, a fashion and beauty site, recently published a story about the Duchess of Cambridge: "Kate Middleton uses a bizarre hair tool most people frown on. But you're still going to want to try it." That tool? A hairnet! Look closely.

According to the story, "When the Duchess of Cambridge wears her hair in a royal updo, she wears a hairnet. But this is no ORDINARY hairnet," the story said. It's definitely not the $1 version you wrestled your hair into before your childhood dance concerts. This is a ROYAL hairnet, people -- which means it's fancy" and "delicate" and perfectly blended to match.

So the hairnet, not Aqua Net, is the way to net a prince.

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Style on 01/21/2018

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