She’s been desperate to keep her pregnancy private but there was no hiding the burgeoning royal bump yesterday. The Duchess of Cambridge seems to have realised her stomach is getting too big to keep under wraps and decided to show it off instead, happily posing for photographs with her hands resting on her growing tummy. […]

An award-winning author has launched a blistering attack on the Duchess of Cambridge, declaring her a “plastic princess” whose “only point and purpose” is to “breed”. Double Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has never met Kate, but saw fit to attack her in a London Review of Books lecture at the British museum last night. […]

Woman’s Day editor Fiona Connolly is defending her decision to publish photographs of a bikini-clad and pregnant Duchess of Cambridge taken while she and her husband Prince William were holidaying on the exclusive Caribbean island of Mustique. The photos, which will also be published by Italian magazine Chi, as well as publications in France and […]

Queen Elizabeth has topped a list of Britain’s most powerful women while her granddaughter-in-law the Duchess of Cambridge failed to make the top 100. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given her position as head of state, the Queen came in at number one on “power list” but Kate, who can sell out whole collections of clothing in seconds, […]

St James’s Palace has blasted an Italian gossip magazine for publishing private pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge’s baby bump. A clearly-pregnant Kate appears on the cover of the new issue of Chi magazine, wearing a bikini and frolicking in the surf with her husband Prince William. The images were taken by an unscrupulous paparazzo […]

Royal portraits can be a stuffy affair, but not when four kids, fresh snow and a sled are involved. Crown Princess Mary and her family posed for a series of candid shots on the slopes at Swiss ski resort Verbier yesterday. Mary – who is usually a picture of poise and elegance – let down […]

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark have escaped to Verbier, Switzerland for a family holiday. Showing that she is more than just your average princess, Mary had fun sledding with her four children, Prince Christian, 7,Princess Isabella, 5, and her one-year-old twins Princess Josephine and Prince Vincent. The Danish royals […]

The Duchess of Cambridge is said to be “in agony” over new paparazzi pictures that show her on the beach in a bikini with her baby bump clearly visible. Kate is currently holidaying on the privately-owned Caribbean island of Mustique with her husband Prince William, sister Pippa and parents Michael and Carole. Related: Why is […]

The Middleton sisters are fiercely protective of their public image so we can’t imagine they’d be too thrilled with Romania’s latest tourism ad. The poster, pictured above, tries to encourage Britons to visit Romania by claiming that all the country’s women look like the Duchess of Cambridge and her sister. “Half our women look like […]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are making the most of their last baby-free months, jetting off to the Caribbean for a lavish holiday. William and Kate flew out of freezing London yesterday, bound for the private island paradise of Mustique. In pictures: Glowing Kate shows first sign of baby bump The royal couple have […]