Daniela Elser

1 week ago | news.com.au | Daniela Elser

Well, the backs have it. Symbolism and butter yellow and rapper Doechii are in and for Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, so are backs. She launched her Instagram account with her own one, her back to the camera as she trotted around a windswept beach and since then we have been treated to the sunshiney outdoors backs, on-the-patio backs, gardening backs and flowering-picking backs of herself and her family.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Daniela Elser

Kings and future Kings - don’t they have enough already? There are the gaudy trappings and the palaces that can only be counted using both hands and both feet and more solid gold sporks that lad tucking into a spot of cottage pie could ever need. But let us add to that list - Kingship will never be replaced by AI.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Daniela Elser

COMMENTWell, did you get your sausage? Your mandated snag slapped on a white piece of bread by a frazzled P&C parent sweating over a greased up barbie? Forget the final tally, ignore how many more seats Labor picked up having romped home past the beleaguered Liberals to deliver a thumper of a win in Saturday’s election, the most interesting number of the day is 1.5 million.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Daniela Elser

OPINIONMeghan is happy. Did you hear? 1470 days after the Duchess of Sussex ceremonially burnt her last pair of nude hose in a 55-gallon drum in a Windsor wood, the former actress-turned jobbing HRH-turned palace whistleblower is the “happiest” she’s ever been. I knew you’d be relieved. It’s a good thing that the 43-year-old is high on life and good vibes and the matcha hit has really kicked in because peel back the label and look inside the tin and things are not quite so peachy.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Daniela Elser

COMMENTWe love a mystery. A gone girl, a podcast, a true crime investigation, which is handy because we are faced with a Sherlockian puzzler that will require a magnifying glass and everyone bringing a packed lunch to try and solve. Have you noticed? Something strange and unusual of late? Something missing? A certain silence, a space, a void? A one time super glued-on fixture of news headlines, a mainstay of People covers and all round general thorn in the side of the British royal family?