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Daily Mail story posted 22/09 at 8:57pm...

EXCLUSIVE WEDDING DETAILS: Misha Nonoo sat Gayle King at the head table and was serenaded by groom Mikey Hess and Paul McCartney amid whispers the Friday nuptials were to accommodate Meghan Markle and Prince Harry…

Mikey Hess performed a singing skit with Paul McCartney and James Corden for his bride Misha Nonoo on Friday night sources tells DailyMail.com

Gayle King was a guest at the event despite only having met the couple a handful of times, and sources say she was sat at the head table with Nonoo and Hess

There were also whispers that the couple had moved the ceremony to Friday so that they could accommodate Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

The couple jetted in Thursday night and left by Saturday morning to go back and prepare for their tour of Africa with baby Archie

Some guests took issue with the decision to only invite the more famous guests to a welcome dinner on Thursday

The Friday nuptials were likely a religious choice and not a royal one,.

Guests at the star-studded nuptials of Misha Nonoo and Mikey Hess were treated to a night they will never forgot on Friday as the couple exchanged vows at the Villa Aurelia in Rome.

There was the mind-blowing moment that the groom serenaded his new bride with a Beatle and a British karaokist, while guests including Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom looked on, sources tell DailyMail.com.

Those same sources also say that a number of guests were also left dumfounded when they discovered that the couple had decided to seat Gayle King at their head table, despite their brief friendship with the CBS This Morning anchor.

And throughout the night, sources say that guests could be heard murmuring about the couple’ decision to marry on a Friday, saying it was all done to make sure the Duchess of Susex, Meghan Markle could attend with her husband Prince Harry ahead of their tour of Africa. That decision was more likely made on religious grounds, as the Jewish faith would require that the pair exchange their vows by sundown.

The Duchess arrived in Rome on Thursday with Prince Harry in tow, staying for less than 48 hours before jetting home on Saturday afternoon before their trip to Africa with baby Archie.

After arriving on Thursday, the Sussexes were invited to an intimate gathering by the bride and groom that was comprised of only family and VIP guests, including Perry and Bloom as well as Hess’ best friend Joshua Kushner and his wife Karlie Kloss.

This exclusion of some wedding guests'was upsetting to longtime friends of the couple,’ said one source.

One night later, the star wattage was on full display for the couple’s big night.

In addition to the royal couple, Paul McCartney attended with his wife Nancy Shevell – and the former Beatle even performed a funny song alongside James Corden and Hess for the bride and fellow guests.

King meanwhile watched it all from the bride and groom’s table, despite only have met the two a handful of times. She was however at Misha’s store opening a week before the wedding, and did attend Markle’s baby shower with the bride.

The three have also spent time together on David Geffen’s yacht with King’s friend, Oprah. Oprah was a no-show, but that was not the case for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, despite the heavily Democratic crowd.

There were no signs of outward hostility towards the couple from guests despite the massive political differences with many of the guests, who greeted Jared with handshakes, amid the news that President Trump had just deployed troops to the Middle East.

That was just the beginning too, with Jason Derulo stopping by on Saturday night and performing his entire catalogue for the couple at their second party. He performed as part of the paid entertainment however, and was not a guest.

Others spotted enjoying a brief Roman Holiday were Jenna Bush Hager, Nicky Hilton and James Rothschild, Wendi Murdoch, Aby Rosen and Samantha Boardman, Henry and Marie-Jose Kravis, Roman Abramovich’s ex-wife Dasha and her new fiance Stavros Niarchos, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

The newlyweds’ guest list for the big day included: an American princess; three members of the British royal family; a supermodel; countless real estate scions; a family of Greek shipping heirs; a Grammy-winning pop star, her stylist and her actor fiance; two Republicans; the former wives of Rupert Murdoch and Roman Abromovich; a Beatle; and James Corden.

On the bride’s side of the aisle were the two biggest names in attendance, Prince Harry and Markle.

Nonoo claims she met Markle in 2010 when the two were sat together at a luncheon in Miami during Art Basel, and has said in the past that they struck up a friendship almost immediately.

Markle wrote in her now-shuttered blog that it was actually at Art Basel in 2014, and during a night of drinking and dancing in Miami.

It is Markle’s timeline that stands up, with photos confirming the two both attended an event at the Soho House that year. The two were then introduced by Markus Anderson, one of the founders of the Soho House and a friend of Markle.

Anderson was also a friend of Nonoo and her husband at the time, Alexander Gilkes, who three years prior had started his own auction house for fine art, Paddle8.

His employees at the time included none other than Princess Eugenie, who had been a guest at his and Nonoo’s three-day wedding back in 2012, which also took place in Italy.

Nonoo is sticking to the three-days-in-Italy timeline this time around as well, but did switch up the venue by marrying Hess in Rome and Gilkes in Venice.

Princess Eugenie was seen with Nonoo just last week at her store opening in New York City, and event also attended by Karlie Kloss. Princess Beatrice was also in attendance at Nonoo’s 2012 wedding as well, and is the matchmaker who likely brought the two together with the help of billionaire David Geffen.

The younger of the two sisters came to know Hess after the pair met in 2016 at the US Open, shortly after Princess Beatrice enjoyed a trip on Geffen’s yacht, Rising SunHess is a frequent guest on the yacht, as is his best friend, Joshua Kushner.

Kushner and Hess both attended Harvard and then Harvard business school together, and Kushner was a member of the wedding party.The boys are so close that Kushner’s big brother also grabbed an invite with wife Ivanka.

Those two were also at the US Open back in 2016, along with Kushner’s now-wife Karlie Kloss, Geffen pal Dasha Zhukova and Wendi Deng.That was the start of a friendship that led to the ex-wives of Rupert Murdoch and Roman Abromivich scoring invites to the wedding.

Geffen also brought the couple together with Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell, when they all spent time on the Rising Sun back in 2018, alongside Kloss and Kushner.

It was also likely Kloss who brought Scooter Braun into the fold after he began to rep the supermodel on her various projects off the runway.

Hess is also linked to Perry though through his friendship with Nico Mizrahi, whoae wife Jamie is the singer’s stylist.

It is unclear who knows Corden.

It’s interesting how NoNoo is already taking a page from MM book of entertaining, and inviting people you may not know, but who have money/power/influence. They are invited to a special dinner, while “the others” – the anonymous lower-level gutter snipes, were left to get their own pizzas and sodas….and hasn’t Gayle King landed right-side-up!! Not bad for a weather girl? stage hand? who started out, just like her friend Oprah, at a tv station in Baltimore…

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A very interesting read

Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton’s fans are fighting a fierce new royal feud

In the world of British duchess fandom, there’s no room for divided loyalties: praising one means automatically 'hating' the other, writes Patricia Treble

A new war started in 2018, and it’s a take-no-prisoners affair with major implications for the future of the royal family. The once-genteel, even genial, online world of royal watching has been turned upside down and inside out as fans of Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, duel for social media supremacy and, in the process, tear down anyone who dares to challenge their view of the royal world. There’s no room for divided loyalties: praising one means automatically “hating” the other.

Signs of the slagging aren’t hard to find. Just dive into the royal family’s own social media accounts, then follow the online infection trail. “Please give us MORE MORE MORE of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Sick to absolute death of fake narcissistic MeAgain Markle,” a commenter wrote on a photo of Prince William and Kate on the royal family’s Instagram account. Kate is “clinging to dear life to Willnot [sic]. His attention is on HRH Meghan,” says another beside a Kensington Palace photo of Kate at a laboratory. “Kate will never be on Meghan’s level, all that lazy consort did was marry a Prince, she don’t know about working, and connecting with others, don’t disrespect Meghan like that,” writes @HRHmegh on Twitter. “Meghan speak so bad and she was fake and she is an actress she know who act. But Kate always is natural,” comments another.

“It is really unbelievable,” says Susan Kelley, who is near the epicentre of the Kate vs. Meghan fan wars because of her two popular royal fashion websites—What Kate Wore, which she started in 2011, and What Meghan Wore, which she co-manages with Susan Courter. “Every time I tell people about it who aren’t in the Kate-Meghan world, they are incredulous.” While the two Susans, as they are known, approve comments before they are posted on the Meghan and Kate sites, “on certain days you can’t go 30 to 60 minutes without checking” Facebook to delete over-the-top comments, Kelley notes.

The reason for the sudden increase in vitriol isn’t hard to find. Seven years after marrying Prince William and being the only leading young female royal, Kate has “competition” in the form of a beautiful American former actress, Meghan Markle, who married Prince Harry in May. William, Kate, Harry and Meghan may be known as the “Fab Four,” but to fans, it’s an either-or choice. The Meghan and Kate acolytes appear to be very young, and accustomed to a social media world that not only condones but seems to encourage anonymous insults. It’s not for nothing that such devotees are known as “stans,” a combination of stalker and fan.

The fans aren’t living in an “and” world but in an “or” one. “Don’t get out of your lane, don’t be coming into my lane,” is how Kelley sees them. “This has been just extraordinarily troubling to me,” she continues. “This is 2018. If this was two men, this would not be happening. I thought we were beyond this…There is something so off, the level of hatred and how intense it is, and the volume.” Perhaps most disturbing for everyone is the level of intolerance, even racism. Not only is Meghan, the daughter of a black mother and white father, the focus of racist attacks, but her fans, in turn, quickly toss the “r” word at perceived Meghan opponents.

Susan Kelley isn’t alone. Everyone reports the same thing—a sudden, disquieting increase in harassing attacks that seem completely over-the-top given the rather sedate royal topics being discussed, including fashion, engagements, living arrangements, protocol and even the state of a curtsy or bow. “I have witnessed what amounts to be roving Twitter gangs that find a tweet/blog post about Meghan and kind of rally the troops and stoke up the fires and suddenly you have a hail storm of abuse flowing at you,” explains Jane Barr, who runs the From Berkshire to Buckingham fashion site, which focuses on Kate. “For me, it is very frustrating to write a nuanced analysis and have people just take a black-and-white interpretation and run wild with it.”

“I think it is indicative of a larger societal problem,” says Barr. “We have an inability to listen to other people, and reason and debate together as a community. The ramifications are obvious for free democratic societies, and very concerning.” In seven years of blogging, Barr has blocked two people for foul language. In the past year, she’s blocked between 15 and 20 for “completely out of control behaviour.”

Royal outrage is complicated by a transatlantic culture clash. Many intense Meghan Markle fans are Americans who don’t understand the monarchy, its place in British society and how there has always been criticism of the family, royal author Victoria Arbiter told the Express. “The American community doesn’t have anything like the royal family so they can only liken them to celebrities or politicians,” she explained. Their lack of knowledge of the intricacies of royal life, protocol and history explains some comments. For instance, they can interpret a photo being posted on a royal feed as a sign of the Queen’s personal approval for Kate or Meghan, their clothes or their behaviour, rather than the work of a member of the royal media department.

“Celebrity rivalries are always conducted by us, the fans, the people who buy the concert or theatre tickets, the records, the merchandise and who send the memes through social media,” contends Ellis Cashmore, a sociology professor at Aston University in England whose book Kardashian Kulture will be published in early 2019. “It helps if there is genuine animosity, but it’s far, far from essential—or even necessary. As long as we think they’re fighting, that’s enough to sustain the feud. We enjoy the feuds so much, we’re tempted to take sides and engage, albeit vicariously. Today, social media has made this easy; so much so that fans can keep the fight going independently of the principals.”

Many stans believe that Meghan and/or Kate don’t like each other and are coming between the close relationship of brothers William and Harry. The reality that the two brothers now have their own families and own priorities doesn’t appear to factor into their online fights. Every new bit of information—Harry and Meghan leaving the tiny two-bedroom Nottingham Cottage around the corner from William and Kate’s London residence for a larger house on the Windsor estate, or reports that they are ending their joint staffing arrangement, established when they were teens—is fought over. To some, the former Meghan Markle is the Yoko Ono of Kensington Palace: “Megan [sic] is the reason for the split between William and Harry,” commented one fan on the royal Instagram feed.

And in the busy autumn season of royal engagements, the war may be at a tipping point. Earlier in 2018, the work schedules of the two popular duchesses didn’t overlap. At the beginning of the year, the focus was on Kate while Meghan slowly dipped her toe into royal engagements. Then, when Kate went on maternity leave in late March, the focus swung back to Meghan, who married Harry in a wedding watched by billions. Kate stayed largely out of the public eye until after Harry and Meghan completed their high-profile tour of Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand.

But now, both royal women are both doing royal work, both based in their London home of Kensington Palace. And that’s setting up an inevitable “showdown” between how the media covers them—who gets top billing, who gets criticized? The palace, no doubt aware that social media is swimming in bile and acid, appears to be trying to mitigate the intense fan reactions. On Nov. 21, both Meghan and Kate were out and about in London, yet their schedules were carefully timed to not conflict with each other. As well, neither event touched on the subject matter of the other, and neither was announced to the public in advance.

In the morning, the Duchess of Sussex went to the Hubb Community Kitchen. Meghan had been making private visits there since January and, with the help of funds raise by a charitable cookbook she helped create, the women are making 200 meals daily for local groups in the area, devastated by the Grenfell Tower fire. A few hours later, Kate arrived at University College London’s developmental neuroscience lab to be briefed on the latest “research into how environment and biology interact to shape the way in which children develop both socially and emotionally.” Coincidently (or not), both wore outfits in shades of burgundy and plum. The preparations paid off. The Express put the two on its front page with the headline “Double duchess: Kate and Meghan’s copy-cat fashions.” For the record, the large photo was of Meghan, the inset of Kate.

The irony is that the Kate and Meghan stans are engaging in behaviour the royal women they profess to adore would find abhorrent. All four of the young royals are committed to raising the profile of mental health issues, including the negative effects of social media. On Nov. 15, William gave a powerful speech about the harmful effects of cyberbullying: “When I worked as an air ambulance pilot or travelled around the country campaigning on mental health, I met families who had suffered the ultimate loss. For too many, social media and messaging was supercharging the age-old problem of bullying, leaving some children to take their own lives when they felt it was unescapable.”

“I am very concerned though that on every challenge they face—fake news, extremism, polarization, hate speech, trolling, mental health, privacy, and bullying—our tech leaders seem to be on the back foot,” William continued before issuing a challenge: “You have powered amazing movements of social change. Surely together you can harness innovation to allow us to fight back against the intolerance and cruelty that has been brought to the surface by your platforms.”

Cashmore doesn’t see the Kate/Meghan social media battle stopping any time soon. “The beauty of our screen society is that, once people get on their phones or laptops, they become a force majeure—nothing and no one can stop them,” he explains. “If they say there’s an argument, then there’s an argument. Meghan and Kate can deny it all they like; it won’t alter a thing!”

There seems little room for neutral observers. Journalists are taking it from all sides. Any criticism—real or imagined—of one duchess is perceived by many fans as an attack, and also favouritism for the other royal woman. In the past year, virtually every full-time royal correspondent in London issued a plea for tolerance on Twitter. After being accused of everything from bias to racism, Richard Palmer of the Daily Express wrote, “We have all faced unpleasant and unfounded accusations of racism towards Meghan.” He pinned a tweet to the top of his account stating that “with the exception of a few I have known for years, I’ve decided I will only now engage with those who share their real identities.” Some journalists are also blocking extreme fans.

And the attacks don’t just stop at those who critique. The fans demand total loyalty. As Richard Palmer commentedon Twitter, “As far as I can see the pitchfork brigade have just regarded anything not 100-per-cent gushing as racist ever since with no evidence.” Susan Kelley has seen the same: it’s not enough to speak the truth, but they many readers accept only “complimentary, laudatory things.”

Netty Leistra, a veteran Netherlands-based royal journalist and blogger, has tried to avoid the Kate vs. Meghan fight, but an online critic called her a racist a few months ago for saying “absolutely nothing special.” For Leistra, the current phenomenon brings back memories of around 15 years ago, when Australian Mary Donaldson married Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. In the era before Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, she and a few others ran an online forum about the couple. Soon, the anti-Mary folk were battling with the pro-Mary fans. “The bad thing to us was that we tried to be objective, and in the end we were the ones being attacked for not protecting any of the two sides,” she recounts. In the end, they stopped the forum.

Today, no one thinks things will improve any time soon. Both Kate and Meghan are full-time working royals, both gearing up their charitable activities, Kate after her maternity leave, Meghan as she settles into her new royal role. Perhaps a break will come when Meghan gives birth in the spring and steps away from the public spotlight to concentrate on being a mother. Meanwhile, royal watchers who want to engage in polite conversations and debates are trying to block the more extreme commenters, and hoping tempers will cool—or interest will die down.

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