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Erm. When Philip was a child his family had been exiled from Greece and existed on the charity of relatives. Eventually his mother was committed to an asylum for schizophrenia, his four older sisters married German princes/grand dukes, and his father went to the French Riviera, supported, I recall, by a rich mistress. Philip was principally brought up by his maternal grandmother (sister of the Tzarina), and by his uncle Louis (Mountbatten), who masterminded his upbringing with a view to maximum dynastic advantage. Gordonstun was tough; he wanted Charles to be tough.

Yep, a non-stop flight from Vancouver (which I believe is where she lives) to Honolulu is a hair over six hours; add in getting to the airport early, waiting for luggage, and of course going through customs, the travel is a long day. The contract she pitched would have reduced her time as well as gotten her written out, but it was also a very big ask. She found the sweet spot between what she would re-sign for and what they might or might not accept.

Yes, she is a Democrat in a very Democratic district. The party establishment may be pissed about losing a Very Important Guy, but they aren't going to sabotage their own party's candidate, especially when they have a shot at taking the House. And as I just heard her say in her interview with Chris Hayes (from last night), NY State primary elections are structured to protect the party machine - that this upset happened anyway should be a very clear signal to the party.

All of the following applies to being in the U.S.: if you have Amazon Prime, seasons 1 through 4 are available; you can watch season 5 by purchase or by subscribing to PBS through Amazon, and you can purchase the pilot. If you are a subscriber directly to PBS above the magic $ number (which I don''t remember what that is anymore), all of Endeavour, including the pilot, is available at PBS.org. And by all, I include all of season 5, which dropped last Sunday. I expect to have season 5 done by Saturday.

Rachel isn't shy, nor is she a prude, and she certainly is NOT dainty. That being said, she doesn't do salacious, there are certain subjects she'd prefer not to cover. She is, I believe, the first and most consistent cable person to deliberately not cover DJT speaking (spewing) his verbal garbage. The whole DJT & the golden shower story skeeved her out, and Avenatti is very aggressive on behalf of Stormy Daniels, as well as a guy who is enjoying the fight. In fact Rachel's response to that sort of thing strongly reminds me of a first season West Wing, when President Bartlet is reading out loud through a report about something like sexual habits of the young, and keeps coming to words and phrases where he says "I'm not going to say that". That being said, Avenatti seems like a good addition to the ranks of lawyers working for DJT's latest class of victims, especially if it is (as I have heard) pro bono. I haven't watched Monday's lineup yet - I'm giving myself the day off.

That Is GENIUS. If you ever blog about writing you should make that the title. And since you can write that line, you are well qualified to blog about writing. Link, pretty please?

(Still! on Days Of Our Lives, and I haven't watched it in years) Sami Brady had twins, I think, and the show SORASed only one of them. The bestest way to watch a soap opera is through snarky, comprehensive, recaps.

My mother was commenting on how everybody's hair seemed to be the texture of straw, as well as deliberately uncombed (well, the first three anyway - Rhianna's people clearly had her ready for cameras, and HBC was coiffed normally for her).

If I remember correctly, Joan was duped into providing some sort of inside information (I think she was dating someone in the gang but didn't really know it), and a bank manager was killed, and she blamed herself. Which may have in turn led to her adopting a life style that was somewhat self-punishing. Or I'm remembering a tv trope from several other series.

The Winter season brings 40 knot winds and 20 foot waves. As accidents plague crews, the Bering Sea singles out one greenhorn for the worst. Strategy is more critical than ever with crab on the move and tension between Wizard co-captains reaches a breaking point. Discovery has not yet posted an early peek of this episode. I'll try to update if they do. (ETA the new episode is now available on Discovery here.) This is a two hour episode, and the title was only released on Tuesday - I suspect from the various teases this season that this is the episode where Nope, This week's ships are the Northwestern, the Wizard, the Cornelia Marie, and the Saga.

George IV was George III's eldest son. George III's fourth son was Edward, Duke of Kent, and he was one of the Royal Dukes who wooed and wedded in the Heir stakes.

I remember that particular strip was so CONTROVERSIAL that some papers moved Doonesbury to the editorial page.

The crash happened at 12:23 a.m. in Paris, which is an hour ahead of the UK. So late night at Balmoral; she died at 4:00 a.m. in Paris The boys were not woken up until it was over, and their father broke the news.

This is true for me as well. While the plots and situations are absurd (about average for CBS), I've been able to stick with the characters better than the other two series. NOLA is just dumb (I'll happily blame that disgusting (ex?) showrunner and his enablers), and NCIS should have ended when Gibbs reached the NCIS mandatory retirement age (55), which. if he was 18 during the Bicentennial in 1976, means he would have aged out no later than 2013. The only long-term character who has aged well is McGee, and that is probably more an accident of original age and writers not goofing it up too much than anything else. Both Tony and Abby Should have been at least mid-30s when the show began, and Tony was rarely allowed to mature nicely, while Abby freaking devolved. Ducky is a live-forever guy, and had good health; Ziva was Ziva (never a fan of any character that showrunners lurve and make into their fantasy Mary Sues). Sasha Alexander very smartly got out while the getting was good - she finished the second season and a year later had her first child. Anyway, to my mild surprise, if I do a culling this fall, I think NCIS LA is the only one I'll keep (which, if Moseley has a bucket of water flung on her and melts away will be a very easy choice).

It appeared on Netflix very shortly after the Stern interview dropped. I knew it was there because I saw it when I was downloading the Stern interview, and also next-episode.net had it, which meant tvmaze and/or thetvdb had it too.

But look at the pluses - now you can watch the rest of the DC Comics series. And The Crown. And Fawlty Towers. And Transporter: The Series. And SlowTV.

Damn.

My mother & I enjoyed this one the most of this season. It was incredible that she found people who remembered her grandfather, and the stories he told about her mother (!), and that the storyteller knew her family's story. And not only did she find her family, but also the family's land that they still owned, with the walls built by her immediate forebears... It was very dusty in our house at the end.

Could be. Tom Horton died in 1994 (when Macdonald Carey died), and Scotty Banning was born in 1977, so he could have SORASed his way through medical school. More weird trivia I remember: Scotty's great-grandmother Addie was killed in a car crash three years (1974) before he was born, but shortly after she gave birth to Hope Williams, her daughter with Doug Williams, who two years later (1976) married Addie's elder daughter Julie, after she divorced Bob Anderson. So, Scotty's grandmother (Julie) raised her little sister (Hope) with her former stepfather-turned-husband (Doug). And Scotty's great-aunt (Hope) was only three years older than he was. Could any other American soap have this kind of family history? The Bradys try, I'll grant you, but they appeared fifteen years later, and have only had five generations on the show (so far), and the last of those contains only one kid (so far) who is still a little kid. Sheesh, I don't even watch this show any more.

Yes, I take your point; the Bradys did a lot of SORAS. But Alice Horton was born before World War I, and had I believe all of her kids before World War II. Both families are equally freaky - two Romans vs the son who didn't die in Korea and came back with amnesia and fell in love with his little sister until they finally realized he was Tommy, and little sister went and became a nun, just as an example.

I'm off the road tonight, and still nothing witty. So, here. A blackout leaves the Saga close to disaster in unfamiliar waters. Unwilling to partner, Josh must fill his quota single-handedly. Keith makes an offer only a captain could refuse.

Does anyone beat the case of Alice Horton (Days Of Our Lives)? The actress played the part for over forty years before retiring, but the character lived on until Francis Reid's death in 2010. According to wiki, Alice had five children, ten grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and to date five great-great-grandchildren, at least two of whom are adults, one of them recently SORASed. I've always wondered but never cared enough to research it: does any other soap character match that? I mean, Alice's husband was born in 1910, she married him in 1930, had twins in 1931, one of whom was presumed killed in Korea in the Fifties.... And oh yeah, their wedding in 1930 was invalid, so they had another one.... Why do I remember this crap??

Rachel & Lawrence both had podcasts from last night; Chris Hayes & Brian did not. I dipped in to see if it was worth watching the recording (had other things going on last night) and realized pretty fast that it was not, so that's four hours of my life saved. Gave up military exercises for a promise of eventual de-nuclearization (that based on history will be broken)? Yep, the sucka got played. Looking forward to tonight's analyses.

I'm on the road, so nothing witty tonight. HERE. A massive tidal surge threatens Josh and Monte as they chase their bounty deep into an arctic storm. Wild Bill hopes to get his broken boat off the dock. The rest of the fleet arrives for the start of Opilio.

She didn't learn German, she was raised speaking German & English, and since the language of European courts was French, she would have learned that too.