Thousands have gathered today to farewell the matriarch of Melbourne, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. Amid brilliant sunshine, mourners packed Melbourne’s St Pauls Cathedral and the streets surrounding to pay tribute to a life well lived. Some clutched roses, other sat with heads bowed paying their respects to one of the city’s most loved and admired women. […]

We’ve barely seen a glimpse of her since she announced her pregnancy two weeks ago, but Duchess of Cambridge stepped back into the spotlight last night in a stunning floor-length green gown. Kate has been forced to cancel four engagements in the past 14 days, staying in bed fighting hyperemesis gravidarum, a rare type of […]

She was the first ‘commoner’ to marry a future monarch in 350 years, but new research has revealed the Duchess of Cambridge has blue blood in her veins. An Australian school teacher has unearthed a previously-unknown branch of the Middleton family tree, which links Kate to a former British Prime Minister, as well as countesses […]

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Hugh Jackman has cemented his place in Hollywood history being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts and Keith Urban make up a new fab four set for Golden Globes domination, with each of the Aussies scoring nominations for their outstanding work in the film industry this year.

Queen Elizabeth generally shies away from ostentatious shows of wealth, but she couldn’t help grinning as she inspected her gold bullion reserves yesterday. The monarch and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Bank of England’s underground vault, which contains gold bars worth an estimated $240 billion. Though the fortune does not personally belong […]

Prince William cut a lonely figure at the Hobbit premiere last night, walking the green carpet alone as Kate’s lingering illness forced her to cancel a fourth engagement. The Duke of Cambridge arrived at London’s Leicester Square late and looking rather sombre in an unusual black tuxedo. Related: Pregnant Kate suffers relapse forcing William to […]

When 28-year-old Ryan Miller proposed to Lindsay Saunders, 19, in August last year, the loved-up Texas couple decided they would wait until the time was right to get married. But when doctors noticed an ominous mass in Ryan’s right lung in August this year their walk down the aisle became a race against time. Ryan […]

She shares a name with one of Jane Austen greatest romantic heroines, and now UK woman Elizabeth Bennett is the star of her very own epic love story. Last weekend, Elizabeth, 25, tied the knot with Brian Woodward, 26, a man she met when he dialled a wrong number nine years ago. It was a […]