{"id":2196845,"date":"2025-12-12T20:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2196845"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:20:24","slug":"trailing-some-royal-stories-dec-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trailing-some-royal-stories-dec-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailing Some Royal Stories (Dec. 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><span>I fully intended for today\u2019s paid newsletter to be a festive palate cleanser: my top ten favorite royal Christmas looks\u2014a little sparkle, a little nostalgia. But between the sheer volume of royal news this week and the <\/span><em>small<\/em><span> matter of me racing toward the finish line on my book draft\u2026that plan didn\u2019t stand a chance. (That newsletter will be pushed to next week!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What struck me instead is that <\/span><strong>so much of what\u2019s emerging in royal news right now isn\u2019t new at all.<\/strong><span> We have familiar stories, reopened files, and unresolved questions coming back into view, with slightly sharper edges than before. So consider today\u2019s royal news roundup a look at what happens when the past refuses to stay buried. And I suppose, the royal households involved have a bigger headache than I do, being once again forced to respond to things from which they\u2019d much rather have moved on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the most unsettling examples of resurfaced news this week comes from Sweden, where Princess Sofia has found herself back in headlines over her past connection to Jeffrey Epstein\u2014specifically through her former mentor, businesswoman Barbro Ehnbom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!EpUl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186a56be-21f1-4303-9f8e-9b312513d0ea_1024x683.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset can-restack\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!EpUl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186a56be-21f1-4303-9f8e-9b312513d0ea_1024x683.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!EpUl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186a56be-21f1-4303-9f8e-9b312513d0ea_1024x683.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!EpUl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186a56be-21f1-4303-9f8e-9b312513d0ea_1024x683.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!EpUl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F186a56be-21f1-4303-9f8e-9b312513d0ea_1024x683.jpeg 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Princess Sofia in 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Newly surfaced emails from decades ago showed Ehnbom introducing a young Sofia to Epstein in 2005, when Sofia was pursuing work in New York. According to a translation, Ehnbom reportedly wrote to Epstein, attaching a photo, \u201cThis is Sofia, an aspiring actress who just arrived in New York. She\u2019s the girl I told you about before I left, who <\/span><strong>I thought you might like to meet. Maybe we can visit before you go on holiday?<\/strong><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source mattaoffact.substack.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fully intended for today\u2019s paid newsletter to be a festive palate cleanser: my top ten favorite royal Christmas looks\u2014a little sparkle, a little nostalgia. But between the sheer volume of royal news this week and the small matter of me racing toward the finish line on my book draft\u2026that plan didn\u2019t stand a chance. 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