When it comes to incorporating ‘something borrowed’ on your wedding day, few items could impress more than a family tiara. Royal brides have traditionally walked down the aisle with a gleaming headpiece, more often than not, one passed down the generations. The Queen Mary Fringe tiara, worn by Queen Elizabeth II, …
Read More »The Crown’s Emma Corrin and Gillian Anderson auction outfits they wore portraying Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher in the royal drama
By Molly Clayton Showbusiness Correspondent Published: 19:38 EDT, 24 April 2024 | Updated: 05:23 EDT, 25 April 2024 It was the outfit in which she famously depicted the late Margaret Thatcher in finale season of The Crown. And now fans of the Netflix drama can bid for it after Gillian …
Read More »Sweet moment girl, 5, charms Queen Camilla with curtsy she’s been ‘practicing for days’ as Queen visits the Royal Lancers – the unit her late father served in – for the first time as Colonel in Chief
Queen Camilla sweetly met young children of soldiers as she visited The Royal Lancers in North Yorkshire for the first time since being appointed as their Colonel-in-Chief. The regiment carries a special personal connection for Camilla, 76, as her late father Major Bruce Shand MC and Bar served with the …
Read More »One-punch thug leaves three strangers wounded during drunken West Bromwich crime spree
An ‘aggressive’ thug knocked out a good Samaritan’s dentures and fractured a pensioner’s jaw during a brutal drunken punching spree. Cruel Elvis Cani pounced on his victims ‘out of nowhere’, wounding three strangers who were walking through West Bromwich town centre. The 30-year-old landed single blows on the unsuspecting passers-by …
Read More »It was one of the most joyous – and most glamorous – royal visits of all time. So, can YOU tell what’s wrong with this magnificent photograph of the Queen?
It is monumental in sweep, mixing formal dignity with vast scale and, even today, unmatchable glamour. This famous black and white panorama by photographer Bert Hardy captures the young Queen Elizabeth at the Paris opera house, the Palais Garnier, on her first state visit to France in April 1957. It …
Read More »Last time there was a crisis, the Royal Family time-travelled back to the stuffy world of Queen Victoria, says JANE MARGUERITE TIPPET. This time around they MUST modernise – and become a true symbol of our national life…
The Royal Family is no stranger to a crisis. It has been been rocked by scandals, extra-marital affairs and what felt in the mid-1990s like a never-ending stream of divorces that all but shattered the fairy-tale ideal of the modern royal marriage. Despite these upheavals, however, royal life, as a …
Read More »As Hannah Waddingham follows in the footsteps of Diana and Kate Middleton by becoming godmother to a Princess ship, how her new success has seen her cosy up to the Royal Family
British actress Hannah Waddingham’s career success seems to have no limits at the moment – and she is now even set to become a godmother to a Princess ship. After hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK last year, 49-year-old Waddingham’s name seems to be everywhere. And she has …
Read More »Is Peter Phillips the most unlucky in love royal? Princess Anne’s son, 46, splits from girlfriend of three years Lindsay Wallace after divorcing Autumn Kelly (and let’s not forget his controversial business ventures)
His grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was happily married to her ‘strength and stay’ Prince Philip for 73 years until his death in 2021 – and his sister Zara Tindall still looks just as loved-up with her husband Mike as the day they were married in 2011. But Peter Phillips certainly …
Read More »King Charles waves to royal fans as well-wishers cheer for the monarch amid his cancer treatment
King Charles III has been spotted waving to royal fans as he left Clarence House in London today. The monarch was pictured greeting well-wishers outside the royal residence as he was driven out in his state Bentley limousine. It is not known where His Majesty, who wore a grey suit and blue …
Read More »My turn now…The royal mother-daughter pairings who like to share their favourite outfits. (But which of them looks best…?)
When it comes to favourite outfits, why not get a little extra wear down the generations? This applies to royal mother-daughter pairings just as much as anyone else, including the late Queen and Princess Anne, Queen Mary of Denmark and Princess Isabella and Queen Letizia of Spain and daughter Princess Leonor. A …
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