Royal family

There was nothing regal about the shameful sight of the Duchess of York drinking, smoking and stuffing a bag with cash during a covert meeting with a reporter masquerading as a bogus businessman. The sting exposed how desperate Sarah Ferguson has become since her business collapsed. Homeless, penniless and humiliated, she was willing to sell […]

Disgraced Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson has said she is sorry for the cash scandal in which she promised to disclose information about Prince Andrew for $874,000 (£500,000). In exchange for the cash Fergie promised to give an undercover reporter posing as a businessman access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew, who is fourth in line […]

Prince William has let slip that the next royal wedding is by no means imminent. While chatting to Corporal Simon Brown, the prince remarked on the glass eye the soldier wears which is decorated with the Union Jack. Corporal Brown had been blinded by a sniper in Iraq three years earlier. “Very patriotic,” the royal […]

On a fact-finding mission to Ugandan refugee camps, Crown Princess Mary was deeply moved by what she saw, evoking memories of the late Diana, writes Phil Dampier. She once said she didn’t want to be the “new Diana”, yet comparisons with the late Queen of Hearts are inevitable as Crown Princess Mary of Denmark hugged […]

Recent reports from the UK indicate that Prince Charles is planning to make his wife, Camilla Parker-Bowles the queen of England when he becomes king — despite concerns amidst the royal family that the reputation of the British monarch could be at stake. According to British newspaper reports, the Prince of Wales has met with […]

Lady Diana Spencer first appeared on the cover of The Weekly on October 15, 1980, and in the years that followed she made dozens more appearances. They marked her role as the most intriguing and glamorous woman of our times, an icon to people all over the world who empathised with her joy and pain, […]

Earlier this year, King George V decided to use his patronage for a major initiative to tackle diabetes in Tonga and other Pacific nations where it has become a serious and debilitating problem. Take a look at the King’s coronation here Suffering from Type II diabetes himself, His Majesty is somewhat of an expert on […]

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has this week returned to her native Tasmania to holiday with her children, two-year-old Prince Christian and 15-month-old Princess Isabella. It’s the first trip home in two years for Princess Mary, and the first time in Australia for young Princess Isabella, who was born in April 2007. The visit is […]

They may be compared to Diana and Fergie, but princesses-in-waiting Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davey are independent modern women, who are ushering in a new era in royal love matches, writes Jo Michaels. They’re young, they’re good-looking — and like the late Diana and Fergie before them — they have both captured the heart of […]

The Australian Women's Weekly is proud to be the first in the world to bring you Diana: The Portrait - the official story of the Princess's life as seen through the eyes of her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and those family members and friends who loved her best.