Royal family

Michael and Carole Middleton have been branded “tasteless and vulgar” for allegedly “cashing in” on their daughter’s unborn baby. Before Kate was even out of her first trimester, her parents’ party supplies company Party Pieces was selling royal baby-themed merchandise. Related: Surprise! William and Kate attend office Christmas party Their decision to sell miniature castles, […]

He’s one of the world’s most eligible bachelors, but Prince Harry has lost a love interest to another man for the second time in as many months. Lingerie model Florence Brudenell-Bruce, 26, is now engaged Henry St George, the multi-millionaire she left Harry for. Henry proposed during a New Year’s Eve holiday in New York, […]

She’s been sick in bed for weeks but it seems even the Duchess of Cambridge can’t get out of Christmas lunch with the in-laws. Pregnant Kate took a two-hour break from her doctor-ordered bed rest yesterday to attend the Queen’s annual pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace. Related: Surprise! William and Kate attend office Christmas party […]

The Duchess of Cambridge has been too ill to attend most of her appointments in the past two weeks, but she made a special exception for her office Christmas party yesterday. Kate and William surprised members of their household staff by attending their annual Christmas lunch at the Notting Hill branch of London restaurant chain […]

It’s happened to the best of us — you go in for the handshake only to be completely ignored and forced to pretend you were just adjusting your hair. On Tuesday night, the Duchess of Cambridge proved that even royalty is not immune to this awkward social faux pas. Kate was presenting British Olympian Jessica […]

Thousands of strangers joined the family and friends of Jacintha Saldanha today, bidding farewell to the nurse who was found dead days after answering a prank call from Australian radio station 2day FM. Standing in the church where he wed Jacintha Saldanha 19 years ago, widower Benedict Barboza said his final goodbyes. ‘We expected to […]

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 […]

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 […]