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Why Queen Camilla Didn’t Wear a Tiara to Her Royal Wedding
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- When the future King Charles and Queen Camilla married in 2005, the bride opted to wear a less traditional royal wedding look, including no tiara
- Camilla actually did wear a tiara at her first wedding to Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973
- Since marrying into the royal family, Camilla has sported a number of sparkling headpieces
Queen Camilla became a member of the royal family on April 9, 2005, when she married the future King Charles. However, Camilla eschewed one major royal tradition on her big day: she didn’t wear a tiara.
While royal brides traditionally sport a sparkling tiara for their walks down the aisle, Camilla opted to sport a golden feathered headpiece by Philip Treacy.
The decision sparked commentary, but there were several reasons for the sartorial choice. For one, the wedding wasn’t the first for either member of the couple. Charles had previously been married to Princess Diana, and Camilla was married to British Army Officer Andrew Parker Bowles from 1973 to 1995.
The occasion also wasn’t a traditional royal wedding. The couple tied the knot in a civil ceremony followed by a religious blessing rather than a church ceremony.
In addition to the lack of tiara, Camilla opted to go with less traditional bridal looks for her big day. She wore two ensembles, both by British design pair Antonia Robinson and Anna Valentine: first a cream silk chiffon dress with a matching coat and hat for the civil ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall, followed by a pale blue chiffon gown with a floor-length, long-sleeved coat, topped with the feathered headpiece, for the Service of Prayer and Dedication at St. George’s Chapel.
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Camilla’s first tiara wear actually came decades before becoming a member of the royal family, when she donned a diamond-tiered circlet for her 1973 wedding to Parker Bowles.
The Cubitt-Shand tiara was loaned to Camilla by her grandmother, Sonia Keppel Cubitt, and has become a treasured family heirloom of the queen, per Tatler. The tiara, which features a large diamond floral spray in the middle of a diamond floral bandeau, was inherited by Camilla’s mother, Rosalind Shand, and when she died in 1994, it passed down to the future queen.
Camilla has continued to occasionally wear the Cubitt-Shand in the years since her second wedding, and her daughter, Laura Lopes, wore the tiara for her wedding day to Harry Lopes in 2006.
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Camilla’s first tiara moment as a member of the royal family came a few months after her wedding. For a Norwegian state dinner in November 2005, the then-Duchess of Cornwall wore the Delhi Durbar Tiara. According to The Court Jeweller, the tall, platinum and gold circlet piece was created for Queen Mary in 1911, to be worn at a ceremony celebrating her and King George V’s coronation as the new emperor and empress of India.
The royal couple traveled to Delhi for the celebration, known as a durbar, and, as the crown jewels are not allowed to leave Great Britain, a new tiara was created for the Queen to wear in India. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, later wore the tiara on the royal family’s tour of South Africa in 1947.
However, the state dinner in 2005 marked the one and only time Camilla has worn the Delhi Durber tiara to date. It’s possible that controversy surrounding its ties to the British colonization of India — which has affected the public perception of other royal jewels, like the Koh-i-Noor diamond — has dissuaded the royals from sporting the piece.
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Since her marriage to King Charles, one of Camilla’s most worn headpieces has been the Greville tiara. The impressive signature piece is not officially part of the crown jewels, but it was inherited by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, to whom Dame Margaret Greville bequeathed her entire jewelry collection in 1942.
The Queen Mother was notoriously secretive about the collection, which also reportedly includes a diamond necklace that belonged to Marie Antoinette. As The Court Jeweller explains in their breakdown of the collection, for the sake of propriety, she didn’t wear any of the pieces in public until the end of World War II. Even then, she kept many of the impressive pieces to herself until closer to the time of her death in 2002.
However, she was very fond of the Greville tiara, and it became her signature piece for the remainder of her life. She even wore the unique, geometric circlet in multiple official royal portraits.
Upon her death, the Queen Mother passed her jewelry collection on to her only living daughter, Queen Elizabeth. However, the long-reigning monarch never wore the Greville tiara in public, likely due to its significant connection to her late mother.
She did, however, agree to loan it to Camilla beginning in 2006, and the current Queen has made it a signature piece of her own.
Queen Camilla has since worn the Greville tiara on at least eight occasions, to state banquets, royal galas and even to the official state opening of Parliament.
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Queen Camilla isn’t the only recent royal to form an attachment to a piece from the infamous Greville collection.
On her wedding day to Jack Brooksbank in October 2018, Princess Eugenie decided to forgo a traditional veil in favor of the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara, commonly referred to as the Boucheron Tiara, lent to her by Queen Elizabeth.
The tiara is made of brilliant and rose-cut diamonds pavé set in platinum, with a stunning central oval emerald and six more emeralds on either side. The Court Jeweller explained that the mere existence of the Boucheron came as a surprise to many, as it had never been worn in public by the Queen Mother or Queen Elizabeth herself.
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Jon Stewart surprises Stephen Colbert with a surprise serenade from Andra Day

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was one of Stephen Colbert’s final guests as “The Late Show” continues its final week, and he had quite the going-away present for his old friend.
Stewart, 63, and Colbert, 62, reminded fans that they go back decades to the late 1990s, when they both worked together on “The Daily Show” during Stewart’s first hosting stint.
“One of us has not aged as well as the other,” Stewart says of himself, joking, “One of these people is getting age-defying peptides, and the other is getting a placebo.”
The interview ended with Stewart presenting a gift for Colbert, a new recliner, but he had a surprise up his sleeve, bringing out one of Colbert’s favorite singers, Andra Day, which clearly stunned Colbert.
She came out and blew Colbert a few kisses before breaking into her 2015 breakthrough hit “Rise Up” for the comedy titans.
Stewart is no stranger to Colbert’s position, reminiscing on when he was fired from “The Jon Stewart Show,” which was syndicated through Paramount Domestic Television from 1993 to 1995.
“The term back then was ‘s–t-canned.’ I don’t know what they call it now. We had two more weeks to go, and they put security guards at all the exits … We didn’t have anything of value,” Stewart joked.
Stewart added that his show, ““spiraled so out of control” in those final weeks, “because I was not a mature grown-up like you are.”
Stewart’s final guest for that show was David Letterman, adding, “He said to me something very profound. He said, ‘Don’t confuse cancelation with failure.’ … But then he said, ‘But in this case it is also a failure.’”
Stewart also praised “The Late Show” staff, adding they were always, “So game” for whatever he had pitched to them, including a sketch involving alpacas.
“I am not a particularly good long term planner and I would challenge them. I talked to them and I said wouldn’t it be funny if it showed where I would be living at the time. Wouldn’t it be funny if I had a James Bond bookcase where I opened the bookcase and it revealed more of my lair. Wouldn’t it be funny if when it opened, it was revealed that I was raising alpacas? I was coming on the next day and he says to me, ‘They’ll build the room but the alpacas can’t be here till 1,’” Stewart said.
Colbert also welcomed director Steven Spielberg, who was promoting his new film “Disclosure Day,” which hits theaters June 12.
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Meryl Streep and Martin Short prove romance is still going strong with London dinner date

It’s [not] complicated.
Meryl Streep and Martin Short’s romance was proven to be still going strong after they were photographed together on a dinner date in London.
A fan took to X over the weekend to share that she had been seated near the actors in a restaurant.
“Spending a few days in London, picking a restaurant at random, and ending up eating just a few meters away from Meryl Streep and her husband ❤️,” the fan tweeted alongside a photo of the “Devil Wears Prada” actress and Short leaning in close to one another. (Streep and Short are not married.)
In the snap, the “Only Murders in the Building” actor and Streep were seated on the same side of their dining table and appeared to be looking at the actress’ cell phone.
When the fan was asked if she attempted to get a selfie with the actors, she replied, “No. They were having a great time. Full of laughs and tender gestures.
“No desire to impose myself in the middle of that,” the netizen claimed.
Streep and Short, both 76, first sparked dating rumors in October 2024 when they were spotted looking cozy while sitting together at the 2024 Golden Globes.
However, a rep for the “Father of the Bride” actor denied the gossip, telling People that they were “just very good friends, nothing more.”
In January 2024, Short doubled down on his claims that he and Streep were platonic during an appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
“We’re not a couple. We are just very close friends,” he claimed at the time.
However, the following month, the “It’s Complicated” actress and Short were spotted catching dinner together at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California.
That August, they held hands on the red carpet at the Season 4 premiere of “Only Murders in the Building.”
A source exclusively told Page Six that the actors “seemed together” during the premiere.
In October 2023, we revealed that Streep secretly split from her husband, Don Gummer, six years prior. They were married for 40 years and welcomed son Henry, 46, and daughters Mamie, 42, Grace, 40, and Louisa, 34.
Short was previously married to Nancy Dolman for three decades until she died in 2010. They welcomed three children via adoption: sons Oliver, 40, Henry, 36, and daughter Katherine, who sadly died in February by an apparent suicide. She was 42.
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John Travolta reacts to attention his viral Cannes beret looks have gotten

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The actor, 72, first caused a stir with his choice of headgear Friday, when he sported a slouchy white beret and spectacles at the premiere of his directorial debut, “Propeller One-Way Night Coach.”
He followed it up the next day with with a black beret paired with black wire-rimmed glasses at the film’s photocall Saturday.
Travolta explained that he came up with the much-talked-about outfits because he wanted to present himself as a director and not an actor.
“I said, ‘I’m a director this time. You’re an actor, play the part of a director, look like an old-school director,’” he explained to CNN.
“So I looked up pictures from the ’20, ’30s, ’40s, ’50, ’60s, and the old-school directors wore berets, and the glasses, and I thought, ‘That’s what I’m doing. I’m doing an homage to being a director, so I’m going to play the part of being a director.’”
The A-lister said he wanted to be able to look back at his outfits and remember the moment.
“I’ll know — ‘Oh, that was ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach,’ that was Cannes, that’s when I won the Palme d’Or,’ and I’ll have a vividness of it,” he shared with a smile.
Travolta was presented with an honorary Cannes Palme d’Or — the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award — at this year’s annual festival.
“I’ve never been more proud to win an award!” he posted on Instagram Friday of the achievement. “To me the Cannes Palme d’Or award has always represented art at its finest. It is beyond a humbling experience.”
His 26-year-old daughter, Ella — who stars in “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” alongside her father — commented, “I’m so proud of you❤️.”
“Propeller One-Way Night Coach” follows a young airplane enthusiast named Jeff and his mother, who go on a one-way, cross-country journey to Hollywood.
It’s based on his own 1997 children’s novel of the same name.
Ella, who’s been by her dad’s side promoting the film at Cannnes, plays a flight attendant in the film.
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