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Today, Kensington Palace released five photos from Princess Charlotte‘s christening at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Queen’s Sandringham estate.
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The images were taken by fashion photographer Mario Testino, who shot William and Catherine’s engagement photos in 2011. [Read more…]
Those faces! That hair! THAT. FIGURE.
In this chapter from Life Isn’t Fair: The Struggle To Understand Her Royal Highness and The Beauty Within, (out soon, yes?), the Duchess of Cambridge sashays into the All England Tennis Club on July 8th to watch Andy Murray play Vasek Pospisil.
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I first read one of Claudia Joseph‘s biographies, Kate: The Making of a Princess in 2011, just a few months before the royal wedding. Since then I’ve read a number of books on Catherine, William and a number of other royals, but few authors have been able to keep me hooked like Joseph, who doesn’t glaze over details of Catherine’s upbringing and her relationship with William. For example, in Making of a Princess, Joseph introduced readers to Kate’s ancestors, which allowed for a better understanding of who she is and, perhaps, why she is where is she today. [Read more…]
Hell’s Bells, it’s another royal occasion.
As promised, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge walked into St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Queen’s Sandringham estate for Princess Charlotte’s christening. Once again, William and Catherine honored the late Princess of Wales by selecting the same church where she was baptized.
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Charlotte wore a hand-made replica of the Honiton lace gown first worn by Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter in 1841. Several royal children, including William, Prince Harry, Peter Phillips and the Queen had worn the gown since then. [Read more…]
Earlier this week, news broke of an Australia woman being rushed to the hospital after helping a friend move house all day.
It turns out that the woman was wearing skinny jeans, and because of the squatting, picking up boxes and manual labor involved with moving, she began to lose feeling in her legs.
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Tonight, the Queen attended a state dinner at the 18th century Bellevue Palace, German President Joachim Gauk’s official residence. Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh are undertaking a four-day official visit to the country where their ancestors hail from; up until 1918 the House of Windsor was part of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The Queen wore a tiara we’ve seen many times before, the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland, originally gifted to her grandmother, Queen Mary. Read the fascinating story behind this tiara. [Read more…]
Before ID’ing her gown at Prince Carl Philip‘s June 13th nuptials, I would have assumed Crown Princess Victoria had chosen a couture piece for the occasion.
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Imagine my delight when I learned that the heir to the Swedish throne was wearing a custom-made dress from H&M’s Conscious Collection. [Read more…]
To celebrate the Duke of Cambridge’s 34th birthday, one thought it appropriate to highlight his role as a father of two.
1. In late May, William carried out a series of events near London, including a Tusk Trust reception at Windsor Castle. The organization’s CEO, Charlie Mayhew told Perry that William joked about “having a week off from nappies.”
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2. “He’s a little bit of a rascal, I’ll put it that way,” William told CNN’s Max Foster after George’s July 2013 birth. “He either reminds me of my brother or me when I was younger, I’m not sure, but he’s doing very well at the moment.
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“He’s growing quite quickly actually. But he’s a little fighter — he wriggles around quite a lot and he doesn’t want to go to sleep that much.”
3. William admitted that he practiced securing the car seat several times before he safely put George inside the Range Rover outside of Mary’s hospital on July 23rd, 2013.
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“Believe, me it wasn’t my first time,” he told Foster, “and I know there’s been some speculation about that. I had to practice, I really did — I was terrified it was going to fall off or the door wasn’t going to close properly.”
4. “I remember when George was born, I forgot to work out whether it was a boy or a girl,” William told President Obama in December 2014. “The excitement of the event and everything else was just chaos.”
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5. As an Aston Villa fan, the FA President told Gary Linekar on Football Focus (via BBC Sports) that he knows the right thing to do is to let his children pick their own favorite football team.
“The responsible thing would be to say, to let [George] make his own mind up, but I think I might be quite biased,” William said.
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“I haven’t quite worked out how to play that yet. Of course he can support whoever he wants, but if he supports [Aston] Villa, it’d be fantastic. I’d love to go to the odd match with him in the future. It’ll probably end up being that Charlotte is the Villa fan and George will go and support someone else!”
6. “At the moment bath time is quite painful, but hopefully donning a snorkel and mask might calm him down,” William said in June 2014 at an event where he took over from his father as president of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC), according to People.
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7. “As you might have gathered, Catherine and I have recently become proud parents – of a baby who has a voice to match any lion’s roar!” William said at the Tusk Conservation Awards in September 2013.
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“This is actually our first evening out without him, so please excuse us if you see us nervously casting surreptitious glances at our mobile phones to check all is well back home.”
8. “They say that number one is a life-changer and that number two is a game-changer,” William told a well-wisher at XLP Arts Project in late March 2015.
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9. “There’ll be a time and a place to bring George up and understand how he fits in the world,” William told the BBC. “But right now, it’s just a case of keeping a secure, stable environment around him and showing him as much love as I can as a father.”
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The Brits really love horse racing. Like, a lot.
The five days of Royal Ascot are over, but it was a parade of jaunty hats, royals working themselves up into a horse tizzy.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have yet to make an appearance at Royal Ascot, but did attend Epsom Downs in 2011 about a month after their wedding. [Read more…]
Today marked an especially unique Trooping of the Colour, not only because it was Prince George‘s first, but also because he wore a family heirloom. The palace informed royal reporters including, Emily Nash, that George’s blue outfit with cream lace was worn by Prince William for his first balcony appearance in 1984.
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The Duchess of Cambridge wore Catherine Walker’s Astrid coat dress with Lock & Co’s Marisabel hat, which many a commentator on Twitter had fun with (H/T to @KateMiddStyle and People‘s Simon Perry for the ID). [Read more…]