Royal family

Queen Elizabeth has been forced to cancel all her appointments as she battles a stomach virus in hospital. The 86-year-old monarch was struck down with suspected norovirus — a vomiting bug — last week. She insisted no fuss was made and spent the weekend resting at Windsor Castle, but her illness worsened on Sunday and […]

The royal baby hasn’t even been born yet, but it has already enjoyed lavish holidays at the beach and on the ski slopes. After a week on the Caribbean island of Mustique, the Duchess of Cambridge and her bump travelled to Switzerland on the weekend to attend a friend’s wedding. Kate wrapped up warm for […]

He’s put in plenty of hours perfecting his moves in some of London’s most exclusive nightclubs and it finally paid off yesterday, with Prince Harry using his daggy dance skills to delight a group of African schoolchildren. Harry arrived in the tiny kingdom of Lesotho on Tuesday, and yesterday travelled to the Kananelo Centre for […]

Prince Harry only recently arrived back in the UK from a four-month tour of Afghanistan, but his itchy feet and charitable instincts have seen the prince travel to Africa on a three-day tour on behalf of his charity. Harry is due to stop in Lesotho and South Africa where he will tour some of the […]

Prince Harry has been snapped getting amorous with his model girlfriend on the slopes of Switzerland’s ritziest ski resort. Harry, 28, is in Verbier with model and society girl Cressida Bonas, 24, and hasn’t been able to keep his hands off her, to the delight of the ever-present paparazzi. Dozens of photographs of Harry hugging […]

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. […]

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 […]