Royal family

It's the role even acting great Naomi Watts was reluctant to take on: Princess Diana.

She might speak with a Danish accent, but Crown Princess Mary showed she’s still Australian at heart on the weekend, donning a gown by Aussie designer Collette Dinnigan. Mary attended the royal wedding of Sweden’s Princess Madeleine to US banker Christopher O’Neill in Stockholm. It was an event attended by the cream of European royalty […]

Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to her convalescing husband Prince Philip in hospital yesterday to help him celebrate his 92nd birthday. The monarch, 87, smiled as she arrived at the London Clinic, clutching an envelope for her husband in one hand and waving to well-wishers with the other. The envelope, addressed to “HRH The Duke […]

Prince Philip was admitted to hospital last night, where he is expected to remain for up to two weeks. This means the Duke will spend his 92nd birthday, which is on Monday, June 10, in hospital. Philip checked into the London Clinic, a private facility on Harley Street, last night. He has been experiencing abdominal […]

She’s a beautiful blonde princess but Madeleine of Sweden has kissed her fair share of frogs in her hunt for her Prince Charming. The 30-year-old royal is due to wed New York financier Christopher O’Neill on Saturday in a lavish service in Stockholm. The nuptials come three years after Madeleine ended her engagement to Jonas […]

With just five weeks until her due date, the Duchess of Cambridge has made what could be her last public appearance before she goes on maternity leave. Kate donned a baby pink Jenny Packham dress and coat to attend a service to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. Kate will reportedly go on […]

Prince Philip has fallen ill again, cancelling an important engagement on the eve of a service to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. The Duke of Edinburgh, who turns 92 next week, pulled out of a gala reception at St James’s Palace at the last minute last night, citing illness. Philip was already […]

Today she’s the girlfriend of Britain’s most eligible prince but in 2010, Cressida Bonas was an aspiring lingerie model. An old image of Prince Harry’s girlfriend of nearly a year modelling a bikini for upmarket underwear company Beautiful Bottoms has resurfaced, much to the horror of the lady in question. The picture — which shows […]

She was a young woman of 26 with the world’s expectations on her shoulders but on June 2, 1953, Princess Elizabeth had something much heavier weighing her down: a robe so weighty she needed the help of six ladies just to walk. It was the day of her coronation and she was wearing the Robe […]

She arrived in a modest motorcade with only a couple of officials and stepped out onto a carefully laid red carpet to a bank of photographers. Even in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Crown Princess Mary draws a crowd. Looking every inch a modern princess, Mary was elegant in a cream dress and a sand-coloured tailored jacket […]