Mandi Kerr is an experienced entertainment writer. She specializes in British royal family content, covering Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton, and more. Mandi’s coverage analyzes how the royals interact with each other and the media, giving readers valuable insight. She’s been interested in how many members of the family make their own interests part of their royal identities. (Mandi points to Middleton’s passion for parenting and the study she helped to conduct as one example.) Her personal interests in Gilmore Girls and baking, particularly with recipes from Ina Garten, led her to cover those extensively for our site.
'Right now, who's winning? They are. Everybody's talking about them,' a commentator said of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the days following the release of 'Spare.'
Ina Garten's pea soup, formally Parker's Split Pea Soup, is easy to prep with only 10 ingredients and simple cooking instructions. Plus, it turns out just as good with substitutions.
'I told myself: No big deal. Just like getting an injection. Close your eyes, over before you know it,' Prince Harry said of meeting Camilla Parker Bowles in 'Spare.'
Prince Harry claims in 'Spare' he wasn't Prince William's best man at his 2011 royal wedding to Kate Middleton and neither was Prince William for his own 2018 wedding.
Rollerskating, dinner, and cherished memories were part of Jenny Marrs' happy birthday post when the 'Fixer to Fabulous' star's daughter, Sylvie, turned 11 in Jan. 2023.
Following the Jan. 10 debut of 'Spare,' some commentators predict Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will 'fade off into the background' and focus on other things besides telling their 'story.'
'We aren't able to explain the nuances behind every decision,' Jenny Marrs, who co-hosts 'Fixer to Fabulous' with her husband, Dave Marrs, said in a 2021 Instagram post.
A fan asked Ina Garten for advice on interviewing with the Food Network and the cookbook author's answer sounded a lot like what she does on TV hosting 'Barefoot Contessa.'
Prince Harry called out media harassment Meghan Markle had been subjected to in a November 2016 statement which, he claimed in 'Spare', King Charles and Prince William weren't happy about.
Prince Harry revisited Prince William and Kate Middleton's 2011 royal wedding in his memoir, 'Spare', and thought back to how he felt on the day his brother became a husband.
In 'Spare', Prince Harry claims Meghan Markle thought Prince Andrew was Queen Elizabeth II's assistant when the former 'Suits' star first met the late monarch in October 2016.
Prince Harry told ITV in a Jan. 8 interview before his 'Spare' memoir hit shelves that he's seen his kids, Archie and Lili, behaving like and Prince William once did.
Because Prince Harry didn't address a previously mentioned accusation regarding Archie's skin color in 'Spare' some say 'now is the time' for the royal family to try reconciling.
In 'Spare', Prince Harry remembered revisiting his last conversation — a 'long chat' — with Queen Elizabeth before she died while flying to Balmoral Castle on Sept. 8, 2022.
Prince William and Kate Middleton didn't acknowledge Kate Middleton's Jan. 9 birthday ahead of Prince Harry's memoir release in what some said was 'like a comment without a comment.'
Kate Middleton excerpts in Prince Harry's 'Spare' include recollections from the royal wedding to his sister-in-law making a face as the former 'Suits' star used her lipgloss.
Prince Harry recalled in an ITV interview how Prince William 'aired some concerns' before he married Meghan Markle, telling him, 'This is going to be really hard for you.'”
A body language expert says Prince William and Kate Middleton's waving on Jan. 12 looked like a 'PR moment' where 'they tell the world their official, synchronized response' to 'Spare'.
Prince Harry recalled shooting his first stag at Balmoral in 'Spare' — and a blooding ritual afterward — in what a commentator said could have Gen Z and Millennials asking a 'serious question.'