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Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac.Indeed, the two Fleetwood Mac songbirds forged an instant bond when Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the group alongside McVie, her then-husband John McVie and Mick Fleetwood in 1974.But first, Nicks had to pass a chemistry test with McVie at a New Year’s dinner at the Mexican restaurant El Carmen in Los Angeles that Fleetwood arranged.According to Lesley-Ann Jones’ new biography “Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie, the Black Magic Woman” instantly clicked with her future bandmate over tacos and tequila.“It was critical that I got on with [Stevie],” McVie says in “Songbird.” “Because I’d never played with another girl. But I liked her instantly.

“Carson the Magnificent” written by Bill Zehme (who finished the book before he died in 2023) with Mike Thomas examines how the famous late-night host behaved around his spouses, including his first wife, Jody Wolcott, while he was under the influence. “There would be boozy rows aplenty — some in front of other couples — or long silent stews of resentment or recrimination or shame,” Zehme wrote about the couple, per Page Six.“Alcohol (while hardly a constant in their early years) was a friend to neither man nor wife; whenever lit, they would both act out, very badly,” he added. Carson and Wolcott tied the knot in 1949 and they had three sons together.

Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait.”“The Duke of Edinburgh had been in a hospital bed, set up in his dressing room at Windsor Castle. That morning, he went to the bathroom, helped by a nurse.”Brandreth, a former Conversative MP and now Chancellor of the University of Chester, claims that Prince Philip said he felt “a little faint” and wanted help to go back into bed when he came back into the room.“The nurse called the Duke’s valet and the Queen’s page, Paul Whybrew, for help — and he died before the Queen could be called. The Queen wasn’t yet up.

president’s son to contact Diana’s children after she was killed in a car crash while being chased by paparazzi in 1997. JFK Jr., 38, dealt with the pain of losing a parent when his father, President John F.

Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival,” the 41-year-old royal has another “secret” nickname.The expert has labeled Middleton — who tied the knot with Prince William in 2011 — as “cold” and as a “Stepford-like royal wife” who is “too scared” to undertake a heftier workload.The biography has also claimed that her lighter amount of engagements make her “technically a part-time working royal.”Middleton apparently “does not plan to increase her workload for 10-15 years,” until her children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5, have reached mature age.According to the book, the mother of three was also nicknamed “Katie Keen” because the royal family’s press office once claimed that she is “keen to learn” in an effort to draw attention away from her low amount of work events.“Where other senior royals are out and about several times a week, meeting people across the length and breadth of the country, Kate has long maintained a smaller work schedule that helped her check off the required royal boxes while saving time for her roles as a mother and a wife,” Scobie wrote.He added that the late Queen Elizabeth — who died in September 2022 — took a strong liking to the duchess because she was “coachable,” and could be molded into the perfect royal.“The late queen, too, would take off blocks of time throughout the year to recharge, but she was also known to carry out at least three hundred engagements annually,” he said.Scobie continued: “Sources said Kate remains ‘laser focused’ on her duty to the family first, and then the Crown.”The novel also alleged that Middleton and estranged sister-in-law Meghan Markle were encouraged to dress like the late Princess Diana.The “Suits”

died in September 2022, it seemed like the planet stopped turning.Even Prince Harry’s world appeared to be crashing down as he was especially close to his late grandmother.Omid Scobie’s new book “Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival” — out Nov. 28 — details how the Duke of Sussex, 39, was kept in the dark about his queen’s passing.In an excerpt obtained by People, the author wrote that King Charles III called Harry just before the monarch died to inform him that the end was near.

Madonna: A Rebel Life,” Whitley Hill claimed that the spine-shivering incident took place during the 1970s when Hill’s father, actor Ed Setrakian, invited the pair to dinner in New York City. According to Hill, as Pacino came to sit with the trio, the Queen of Pop, now 65, unwrapped a stick of gum and began chewing on it in a delicate manner. “I think the idea here is to call attention to her mouth,” said Hill in an excerpt obtained by Insider.