Prince William and Kate Open the New Oak Centre at Royal Marsden Hospital

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge open the new Oak Centre for Children and Young People at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, Southern England, September 29, 2011. Reuters Pictures

Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Visit Cancer Patients - hellomagazine.com

Prince William wraps his arm around a young cancer patient after arriving at the Royal Marsden Hospital with his bride.

He became president of the Royal Marsden in May 2007 – a role held by his mother Diana for several years before her death.

William's late mother Diana was a huge supporter of the hospital; she auctioned off 79 dresses – at son's suggestion – helping raise funds for the Marsden weeks before her passing in 1997.

And a decade later, the hospital was one of the charities to benefit from Concert for Diana, a celebratory event staged by her boys.

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The Royal Shopper: Kate Middleton Spends on £100 Shopping in Topshop

The Duchess of Cambridge – who was spotted in a Topshop dress a few years ago (pictured) – reportedly browsed the store's High Street Kensington branch this past week.

The charismatic brunette spent just over £100 after waiting patiently in line just before the store closed.

Amongst her purchases were said to be a teal polka-dot skirt and a colbalt-blue jacket with velvet trim (also pictured).

Kate also picked out a tiny pair of gold-effect leaf earrings that cost less than £10.

"She was low-key and casual – she seemed so normal," recalled the Topshop staff member who served her.
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Kate Middleton: No Vogue Cover

Kate Middleton is one wanted woman. It's reported that she is being hounded by the ruthless editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour, to appear on the cover of the magazine. But the ever private Kate and her husband Prince William have yet to accept the offer.

Prior to the wedding, Kate Middleton was asked to be the cover girl for British Vogue but she declined so what makes Anna Wintour think that she will want to do a spread now?

The New York Post is reporting that Anna has been trying her hardest to get Kate's attention and be the first to score the Duchess of Cambridge as a cover girl.


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 Kate Middleton: Shy or Just Very Reserved?

Pippa and Kate Middleton Attended Common Friends' Marriage in a Different Style

Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, 29, joined sister Pippa, 28, for the nuptials of friends Thomas Sutton and Harriet Colthurst.

Kate and Pippa Middleton in Wedding Ceremony of Thomas Sutton and Harriet Colthurst

While Pippa walked into the Italian-style church in Wilton, Wiltshire, with long-term boyfriend Alex Loudon, Kate was without her husband Prince William. Arriving with a group of close friends including Tom van Straubenzee and James Meade, the prince, 29, had already taken up his position inside as an usher. (Earlier, he and his mates had tucked into lunch at a local pub.)

Eyewitness Mark Stewart says Kate was "dressed to impress" in a bold red Collette Dinnigan lace dress. She was accompanied by pal Louise Aubrey-Fletcher, whose wedding she attended in January. Pippa, meanwhile, wore a dress by Project D (Dannii Minogue's line) and a patent leather headpiece from milliner Gina Foster.

After the service, William and Kate tried to stay out of the limelight, so as not to deflect attention from the bride on her big day. While Pippa and Alex joined the throng in waving off the happy couple, the royals left the church from the rear of the building, quietly getting into his Audi and driving off to the reception at the home of the bride's parents.

Royal oops! What William Forgot on his Wedding Day

Photo Caption: Will and Kate drive from Buckingham Palace in Prince Charles's vintage Aston Martin on April 29.

The familiar question posed by sons everywhere, “Dad, can I borrow the car?” reached global proportions when Prince William took the wheel of his father Prince Charles’s beloved 1970 Aston Martin on his April wedding day.

But whether it was wedding-day jitters, or the fact that cameras from all over the world were trained on him as he drove off, the Prince blew his first drive as a married man — by forgetting to release the car’s handbrake. Courtesy: The Today Show. Click link for full post.
 
Royal oops! What William forgot on his wedding day

Prince William Opens Up About the Queen

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Kate Attends Wedding of Close Friend with William Who Had "Usher" Duties

Kate, 29, dazzled in a stunning mid-length raspberry coloured lace dress by Canadian designer Erdem and 4in L. K. Bennett shoes.

The Duchess was accompanied by her friend Louise Aubrey-Fletcher. Prince William had arrived earlier to fulfil his duties as an usher at the wedding of their friends Thomas Sutton and Harriet Colthurst at St Mary and St Nicholas Church in Wilton, Wiltshire.

An onlooker said: ‘There were some photographers at the entrance and William kept his head down and headed straight into the church. Kate just about managed a smile.

The  Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were guests of honour at the wedding of two of their closest friends yesterday – but it was Kate’s sister Pippa who was the talk of the society event.

Pippa, who was attending her sixth wedding of the year, beamed as she walked into the church with boyfriend Alex Loudon, a former England cricketer turned City banker.

And friends close to the couple have indicated that their romance is so serious that Pippa may well be the next Middleton sibling to walk down the aisle.

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My Grandma is Incredible: William Talks About the Queen

For the past two years, the Mail’s Robert Hardman (pictured right) has been granted privileged access to the world of the Queen.

The result, in his magisterial new book Our Queen, which we serialise exclusively today and next week, is the most in-depth and revealing royal portrait in years.


In part one of this unmissable series, Prince William talks intimately and at length, for the first time, about his remarkable grandmother.

The Queen is always available to him for advice. ‘There’s no question you can ask, and no point you can raise, that she won’t already know about — and have a better opinion about,’ he says. 


‘She’s very up for that sort of thing. And for me particularly, being the young bloke coming through, being able to talk to my grandmother, ask her questions and know that there’s sound advice coming back is very reassuring.’

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Zara Lands in New Zealand: She's keeping an eye on you, Mike | News

Mike Tindall was today under the watchful eye of his royal bride Zara Phillips on the morning after the most difficult night of his short marriage.

The Queen's granddaughter, 30, kept her errant husband of seven weeks firmly within sight as they went down for breakfast together at the England rugby team's hotel in Dunedin, New Zealand.

She arrived yesterday, two weeks earlier than planned, after vice-captain Tindall was caught on video with a mystery blonde woman in a nightclub during a break from World Cup training.

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Pippa Middleton to Move in with 'Lonely' Sister Kate? No, nonsense! | Celebrity News | Now Magazine

 It's claimed Pippa Middleton's planning to move in with big sister Kate.

With Prince William, 29, so busy as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, the Duchess of Cambridge is reported to have too much time to fill.

'Since marrying Prince William in April, Kate has found life to be surprisingly lonely,' a friend tells Life & Style.

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Pippa Middleton to move in with 'lonely' sister Kate? No, nonsense! | Celebrity News | Now Magazine

The Royal Pupil: Kate Being Groomed for Future Royal Role

In recent weeks, experts have been visiting St James’s Palace to give the Duchess one-to-one tutorials about government, the arts and the media.

A royal source told the Daily Telegraph: “The Duchess is being briefed on how the State works, getting to know our national institutions better and learning more about the arts, the media and the government.

"It is a process that will carry on for several months but is being done privately.

"As well as meetings at St James's Palace, the Duchess is spending time carrying out private research of her own."
Next week, the royal newlyweds will open a new childrens’ centre at the Royal Marsden cancer hospital in Sutton, Surrey, of which the Duke is president. Click link below for full post from hellomagazine.com


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Smiling Zara Phillips Prepares to Fly to New Zealand to Support Mike - hellomagazine.com

Zara Phillips isn’t letting headlines about her husband interfere with her professional life.

Unfazed by reports about Mike Tindall's now-infamous night out, the 30-year-old took first prize at a prestigious horse riding competition in Ireland at the weekend.

She looked delighted as she accepted her rosette at the end of the three-day Johnson and Perrott International Horse Trials, smiling at the crowd and patting her ten-year-old gelding, Lord Lauries. Click link for full post.

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Pippa Gets The Front Row at London's Fashion Week

Photo Caption: Front row at Temperley: Pippa Middleton (centre) with Rosario Dawson, Peaches Geldof, and model Laura Bailey to the left Pippa Middleton made her first appearance at London Fashion Week tonight as she joined Peaches Geldof and Rosario Dawson on a star-studded front row at the Temperley catwalk show. Pippa's arrival caused a flurry of flashbulbs to go off as the assembled crowd craned their necks for a glimpse of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister. Wearing a cream and black mini dress she had collected from the Temperley store earlier that day, Pippa was groomed to perfection with glossy curls and immaculate make up (in the same kohl-rimmed style favoured by sister Kate). Click link for full post and more photos of Pippa at London's Fashion Week. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2039355/Pippa-Middleton-joined-Peaches-Geldof-Rosario-Dawson-row-Temperley.html#ixzz1YS4UPgqu

Another Week, Another Wedding for Pippa

Photo Caption: Like mother like daughter: Pippa with mum Carole at the wedding in Whitby, North Yorkshire

Pippa was at St Oswald’s Church in Lythe, near Whitby, North Yorkshire, for the wedding of her old friend from Edinburgh University, Humphrey Bowles, to bride Hattie Dawson.


Pippa attended without her boyfriend of two years, Alex Loudon, a 30-year-old financier, arriving instead with her mother Carole, 56, her father Michael, 50, and 23-year-old brother James.

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Kate Secretly Visits Charities to Determine Which Causes She Will Support

Following in Diana's footsteps, the Duchess of Cambridge has been secretly visiting charities as she chooses which causes she will support as a royal patron. The Duchess begun paying personal visits to organisations in recent days and plans to get to know a variety of good causes before making her decision in the new year. Aides from St James's Palace confirmed the visits which they described as 'under the radar visits'. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038769/Kate-Middleton-follows-Princess-Dianas-footsteps-secret-visits-sick-homeless.html#ixzz1YLEyrzkU

Kate Middleton Won't Be Taking Solo Royal Duties Until 2012 | Musicrooms.net

Duchess Kate – who wed Prince William in April this year – will not fulfil any solo engagements until at least next year as she adjusts to life within the royal family.

She will instead support her husband as he continues his training as a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot in Anglesey, Wales.

She will also attend certain public occasions with William, such as appearing at the Cenotaph for the first time on Remembrance Sunday, on November 11. William and Kate are, however, set to spend less time in the public eye over the next year as they step back to allow the focus to be on Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012, marking 60 years of her reign.

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Prince Harry Turns 27. Happy Birthday Harry

The Windsor family jester will always, as he puts it, have a "childish streak".

But at the age of 27, he is also a principal public player, and has earned a reputation as a serious individual capable of valuable service to his country.


While the members of the monarchy are privy to a level of wealth and influence that most people can only dream of, they are also precluded from experiencing a normal life.

Prince Harry has somehow found a way to negotiate the pitfalls of his birthright, allowing his true spirit to shine through.



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Kate Makes People Magazine's Best Dressed List

Earlier this week she was lambasted by the New York fashion pack as  'a woman you wouldn't look twice at'.

But fortunately the Duchess of Cambridge's style has some fans in the United States.


Yesterday she was lauded by influential People Magazine, which boasts 40 million readers, as one of the ten most stylish women in the world this year.

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Queen Comes Fishing for Cork Trader to Sign Photo | Irish Examiner

THE wise-cracking Irish fishmonger who made the Queen laugh out loud has been asked to autograph one of her favourite photographs of her historic visit.

British ambassador Julian King has asked Cork’s English Market trader Pat O’Connell to sign the snap which captured him sharing a joke with Queen Elizabeth II as she visited his stall on the final day of her state visit in May.

Mr King also asked Mr O’Connell to pen a short personal note, fuelling hopes that it may become part of the Queen’s personal collection.

Photo Caption:  Britain's Queen Elizabeth meets fish monger Pat O'Connell (C) at the English Market in Cork May 20, 2011. Reuters Pictures

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Prince Harry is a Trader for a Day

Photo Caption: Commemoration: The fundraising day was established by BGC, a global inter-broker dealer, in memory of staff from its sister company, investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, who died during the 9/11 attacks in New York

The fundraising day was established by BGC, a global inter-broker dealer, in memory of staff from its sister company, investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, who died during the 9/11 attacks in New York.

The firm lost 658 employees - more even than the New York Fire Department.

 

The victims of the attack were commemorated in both New York and London yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

Robert Sully, a broker on the foreign exchange desk who handed the phone to the prince, described the royal's performance as 'brilliant'.

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Pippa, The Movie!

‘All the other Royal Family members have had well-documented lives, but now we are being inundated  with requests to  make a biopic about Pippa after the  wedding,’ says Adrian Munsey, founder of Odyssey Videos.


‘She was such a tour de force, holding her own on Kate’s wedding day and looking after those small children.


‘Pippa is the beautiful girl-next-door who every woman wants to be.’

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Prince Harry Attends BGC Partners' Charity Day, Raising Money for Company's Employees Lost on 9/11

Britain's Prince Harry talks to British TV and radio presenter Natalie Pinkham on the trading floor as he attends BGC Partners' Charity Day in London, on September 12, 2011. Britain's Prince Harry, co-founder and Patron of Sentebale, today attended BGC Partners’ Charity Day, which is held each year to commemorate the company’s 658 employees who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Prince Harry helped raise money for Sentebale and other charities by supporting BGC Partners in deals on the trading floor. Getty Images

Prince Charles Attends Memorial Ceremony at September 11 Memorial Garden in Grovesnor Square

LONDLONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 11: The U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman, Prime Minister David Cameron and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales lay wreaths at a memorial ceremony at the September 11 memorial garden in Grovesnor Square on September 11, 2011 in London, England. Ceremonies held around the world have joined Washington and New York as they commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks where nearly 3000 people died when four hijacked airliners were used in coordinated attacks against the United States. Getty Images

Highgrove: A Modern Environmentally Friendly Country Estate

Camilla Visits Walworth Garden Farm in Southwark

Walworth Garden Farm in Southwark was established by local residents in 1987 on semi-derelict land.

At the urban farm, the Duchess was taken on a tour of its wildlife garden, cuttings shed, small pear orchard, bee-keeping plot and vegetable patch.

At one point one of the volunteers apologised as he offered a muddy hand to Camilla, but she appeared unconcerned and said: 'Don't worry about that, I'm used to it. I'm a gardener.'


Camilla showed that she was happy to get stuck in and armed with a pair of shears, helped to harvest lavender flowers on a roundabout.

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VIDEO: The Royal Collection Podcast, Summer 2011

Video includes pictures of the The Royal Collection Display that is currently being held at Buckingham Palace, including how Kate's dress was made.

The Down to Earth Duchess: PIC: Duchess Kate Shops for Home Goods, Carries Own Bags - UsMagazine.com

Down-to-earth Duchess!

On Monday, Duchess Kate emerged from a London's Peter Jones store -- part of the John Lewis home goods chain -- to pick up some essential items for her new home at Kensington Palace.

After arriving via chauffeured car, Prince William's wife, 29, went into the emporium solo, where she stocked up on pillows, bed linen, cutlery and other kitchen items, and checked out the carpets. Courtesy: US Magazine.com. Click link for full post:

PIC: Duchess Kate Shops for Home Goods, Carries Own Bags - UsMagazine.com

Royal Exhibition of Kate's Wedding Dress HUGE Success

Record number of visitors have flocked to Buckingham Palace this summer as a result of Kate's stunning £250,000 Royal Wedding gown going on display.

Over 354,000 people have walked through the palace doors since the special exhibition - featuring the Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen dress - opened on July 23 and it is expected final ticket sales will total £8million.

With entry up a remarkable 20 per cent up from last year, proceeds will be put towards William and Kate's wedding charity fund - which already tops £1million.

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Queen Attends Annual Braemar Royal Highland Gathering in Scotland

Britain's Queen Elizabeth (R) smiles as she presents a trophy to Bruce Robb who won the strongman competition during the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering in Scotland September 3, 2011. Reuters Pictures

Kate and Pippa, One of Lucky Few Given New "Beauty Cream"

The Duchess of Cambridge and her sister Pippa are to become the first among a lucky few in Britain to get their hands on a new 'miracle' beauty cream.

The two have been sent Lancome's Visionnaire serum, a new product in such high demand that it has generated waiting lists of thousands across the nation.

But Kate and Pippa - along with Harry Potter star Emma Watson, 21, who is an ambassador for the skincare brand - managed to bypass the months-long lists after being sent bottles of the product, which devotees claim is so effective at correcting skin imperfections that it eradicates the need for Botox.

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