Denmark’s littlest prince and princess celebrated their first birthday on Sunday with matching Eskimo cakes. Crown Princess Mary’s youngest children Vincent and Josephine spent their big day at home at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen with their older siblings Christian, six, and Isabella, four. An official photographer captured the family celebrating the occasion in a series […]

Camilla Parker Bowles might not be everyone’s favourite royal, but Kate Middleton made her affection for William’s step-mother clear yesterday. The Duchess of the Cambridge joined the Duchess of Cornwall at London’s Cenotaph for the country’s Remembrance Day ceremony. Kate and Camilla — both dressed in sombre black — made their affection for each other […]

Prince William and Kate Middleton will be forced to spend six weeks apart next year when William is posted to the Falkland Islands. The Duke of Cambridge will complete a six-week tour of duty in the South Atlantic region in February 2012. It will be the longest time William and Kate have spent apart since […]

If Kate Middleton is upset about Prince William’s posting to the Falkland Islands, she wasn’t showing it last night. The Duchess of Cambridge looked absolutely stunning in a silver Grecian-style gown as she and William hosted a charity dinner at St James’s Palace. Kate and William seemed relaxed and happy at the event, and shot […]

Prince William and Kate Middleton have chosen their first family home — a lavish four-storey 20-room apartment in London’s Kensington Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will spend $1.6 million renovating Apartment 1A, which has been uninhabited since Queen Elizabeth’s sister Princess Margaret died in 2002. The royal couple are not expected to move […]

Maybe she was just hungry, but Kate Middleton’s repeated touching of her stomach in Copenhagen last week has sparked rumours she is pregnant with her first child. The 29-year-old Duchess of Cambridge rested a protective hand on her tiny belly no fewer than a dozen times during her Danish visit on Wednesday. In pictures: William […]

Australia’s two favourite princesses came face-to-face yesterday when Kate Middleton visited Princess Mary in Copenhagen. Kate looked radiant in ruby red as she and Prince William visited Denmark for their first joint humanitarian mission. They met Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at their palace for some tea before visiting a UNICEF warehouse to […]

Queen Elizabeth looked every bit the monarch tonight, dusting off one of her most impressive crowns for a banquet in Perth. The 85-year-old monarch donned an impressive diamond and aquamarine crown to attend the Queen’s Banquet to celebrate the start of the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. In pictures: Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Australia […]

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A royal assassination attempt, an embarrassing afternoon for Prince Charles and a conversation with the queen about airplane food— it’s all just another day on the job for The Daily Mail’s royal correspondent Richard Shears. It’s downtown Dunedin in 1981 and royal correspondent Richard Shears is in the crowd of well-wishers waiting to welcome Queen […]