Royal family

Starting school can be scary, but Princess Mary’s son Christian couldn’t stop smiling when he commenced his first term on Friday. The five-year-old prince started his education at Copenhagen’s Tranegaardsskolen last week. On the morning of his first day, Christian made a brief public appearance outside the palace with his parents Mary and Crown Prince […]

You were glued to the royal wedding coverage and couldn’t switch off the William and Kate Lifetime telemovie (even when ‘William’ started singing karaoke) — now you can relive the royal love story in another cheesy made-for-TV movie. Hallmark’s William & Kate: A Royal Love Story will air in the US later this month and […]

Royal portrait shoots are usually a very stuffy affair, complete with stiff poses, starched collars and perfectly-coiffed hair. But the Danish royal family dispensed with formality last week, posing for a series on casual photographs in the grounds of their summer estate Grasten Castle. Related: Meet Princess Mary’s twins Crown Princess Mary, her husband Crown […]

To me, my mother had the perfect wedding dress. It was a dress I would have worn myself if I hadn’t grown-up to tower over her, and a dress that in my mind, no-one else could top, until Catherine Middleton wore a better version of it on her wedding day. When it comes to the […]

Life as a trainee princess is not all ball gowns and Vogue shoots, as Charlene Wittstock was to discover when she moved to Monaco in 2006 at the invitation of her beau, Prince Albert. Holed up in her tiny Monte Carlo apartment, Charlene spent most days “working” — that is, intensively studying the language, protocol […]

Zara Phillips married Mike Tindall in an elegant ceremony in Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirk yesterday. Zara, 30, wore a full-length ivory silk gown designed by Queen Elizabeth’s favourite couturier Stewart Parvin. She accessorised the outfit with a silk tulle veil, Jimmy Choo shoes and a diamond tiara borrowed from her mother. Mike, the English rugby captain, […]

Prince William has given Kate Middleton his mother Princess Diana’s favourite earrings. William presented Kate with Diana’s beloved engagement ring last November, and has now given her the matching diamond and sapphire earrings. “Now they’re married, William wanted her to have some of his mother’s favourite pieces,” a courtier told the Sunday Mirror newspaper. In […]

Three months after the wedding of the century, Kate Middleton’s bridal gown is going on display in Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Cambridge’s custom-made Alexander McQueen wedding dress will be the star attraction of the palace’s annual summer exhibition, which opens today. In pictures: Love is in the heir for William and Kate The display […]

Bumping into your ex-girlfriend’s new lover is never easy, particularly when that new man is richer, younger and third in line to the throne of England. But Formula One driver Jenson Button seemed to enjoy chatting to Prince Harry at the British Grand Prix on Sunday, despite the fact that Harry is rumoured to be […]

Britain could be hosting another royal wedding next year, with Princess Beatrice reportedly being on the verge of announcing an engagement to her boyfriend. The 22-year-old royal has been dating Virgin Galactic businessman Dave Clark, 29, for five years. Beatrice and Dave are currently on holiday in St Tropez to celebrate Beatrice’s recent graduation from […]