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Prince William, Kate Engaged
 Prince William, Kate Engaged 
Nov 16, 2010 7:58 AM CST

Prince William, Kate Engaged

Wedding will take place next spring or summer

(Newser) - Prince William has ended one round of endless tongue-wagging by announcing his engagement to Kate Middleton this morning, reports Sky News. "The Prince of Wales is delighted," Clarence House said in a statement, adding that the "wedding will take place in the Spring or Summer of 2011,...

Prince William and Kate Middleton: Inside Their Long Romance, and the Possibility of an Engagement, Royal Wedding Soon
 Inside the Royal Romance 
Nov 7, 2010 2:30 PM CST

Inside the Royal Romance

Kate has waited for her prince a long, long time

(Newser) - Prince William ’s romance with Kate Middleton has captivated Britain and beyond for years. Vanity Fair offers an in-depth look at the couple’s sometimes rocky path from friends to lovers in a lengthy excerpt from Katie Nicholl’s upcoming book William and Harry. Nicholl tracks Wills and...

New on Facebook: Queen Elizabeth

She's not going to be your friend, though

(Newser) - For an octogenarian for whom marrying a divorcee was once unthinkable, Queen Elizabeth is getting downright modern: The monarch is joining Facebook, reports the Telegraph. And while you won't be able to do anything as undignified as poking or friending, you can "like" her (and, we suppose, "unlike"...

Meet Prince Harry's New Girlfriend

Camilla Romestrand is—gasp!—a rock star

(Newser) - Four months after splitting with longtime girlfriend Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry has found a new squeeze. Camilla Romestrand is a Norwegian rocker who fronts UK band Eddie The Gun, PopEater reports. “Let's just say she knows her way around Buckingham Palace but is trying to keep the relationship as...

Prince Harry Taliban Kidnap Drama Irks Royals

Royal 'furious' at fictional depiction of Afghan snatching

(Newser) - Prince Harry begs his Taliban captors for his life in a British drama to be broadcast later this month, and the royal soldier is not amused. Channel 4's "dramatized documentary" The Taking of Prince Harry mixes footage of a kidnapped Harry, played by actor Sebastian Reid, with real interviews...

Prince William Pilots Helicopter in First Rescue Mission

British Royal will serve for 3 years in RAF squad

(Newser) - Prince William helped save a man's life over the weekend as part of an RAF air-sea rescue, the Telegraph reports. William's team was summoned after a man on an offshore oil rig suffered a heart attack. A Sea King helicopter co-piloted by William got him to a hospital, where he's...

Queen Sought Poverty Money to Heat Palaces

Palace applied for funds earmarked for low-income families

(Newser) - An elderly British woman struggling with her heating bills who sought help from a government program to aid low-income families was told that, as queen, she wasn't the kind of individual the program was meant to assist. Ministers apologetically rejected Buckingham Palace's request for funds earmarked to help housing associations...

Strapped Queen Surrendered Royal Finances to Gov't

Government gains veto power over how $60M allowance is spent

(Newser) - The British government now has the final say over how Queen Elizabeth II spends her annual $60 million allowance from the government. The monarch signed over official control of her spending in 2006, following cash-flow problems that saw her borrow another $3 million from the government, reports the Independent , which...

Prince William to the Rescue!

Ladies warned not to call in bogus emergencies

(Newser) - Prince William can’t actually go to war like his younger brother Harry, so the future king is doing the next best thing: He’s joined the Royal Air Force’s search and rescue program, where he’ll pilot a Sea King rescue helicopter. “This is a very exciting,...

Tab: Wills, Kate Set Date for '12
 Tab: Wills, Kate to Wed in '12 
HURRIED DECISIONS
Sep 12, 2010 8:40 AM CDT

Tab: Wills, Kate to Wed in '12

Because nothing says romance like the London Olympics

(Newser) - We've heard this so often that someone's going to get it right sooner or later: Prince William will at long, long, long last marry ever-so-longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton, reports the News of the World, but it ain't gonna be this weekend in Vegas. The plodding prince will take a trip...

Prince Charles: Save the World, Wear Vintage

Fashion world needs to reduce waste

(Newser) - Fashionistas can do their bit for the planet by wearing more recycled clothes and natural fibers, Prince Charles writes in Vogue . "Fashion clearly makes people feel good, but now it has to do the world good, too, by contributing to the creation of a virtuous circle, with nature protected...

Murdoch Hacks Hacked Into Princes' Phones

But cops cared little about commoner surveillance

(Newser) - The mystery's solved over how Britain's News of the World managed to grab several front-page scoops about Prince Wills and Harry's personal life: a reporter and private investigator simply hacked into their cell phones, Scotland Yard discovered. But the intrusion didn't end there. Rupert Murdoch's crew—and likely other reporters—...

Fergie: 'I'm Not Going Bankrupt'

Duchess denies report she's on the brink

(Newser) - Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, says she is doing everything she can to avoid declaring bankruptcy over business debts. The former wife of Prince Andrew said in a statement today that she has paid off all her personal debts. The statement was issued in a response to a front-page...

Queen Elizabeth Hits New York

She'll stop at Ground Zero, the UN

(Newser) - Queen Elizabeth will take a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple today, stopping by Ground Zero and the United Nations in her first visit to New York in 35 years. She’ll address the UN General Assembly, much as she did the first time she visited the city in 1957—...

Humpty Harry Takes NY Polo Tumble
 Harry Takes Polo Match Tumble 
Jun 28, 2010 3:13 AM CDT

Harry Takes Polo Match Tumble

Prince looks stunned then awkward

(Newser) - A feisty polo pony put the "bucking" in Buckingham Palace yesterday as he dumped Prince Harry on his royal bum in the middle of a match on Governor's Island in New York City. The prince looked stunned, then extremely awkward, then quickly remounted and continued on in front of...

Prince Harry: I Miss Me Mad Mum

She's always in his head

(Newser) - Princess Diana may have been a bit "mad," but Prince Harry misses her, desperately. "Every day, whatever we do, wherever we are and whoever we're with, I always wonder what she'd think, what she'd be doing, if she was with us now," Harry, 25, told a...

Harry, Chelsy Split Again
 Harry, Chelsy Split Again 
for good?
Jun 21, 2010 8:55 AM CDT

Harry, Chelsy Split Again

This time it's permanent, tabloid claims

(Newser) - It’s quits again—maybe for good this time—for Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy. The on-again off-again couple has been dating for six years, but broke up in 2007 and again last year . Now, “we’re finished,” Davy reportedly told friends, adding that she doesn’t want...

British Princes Become Snake Charmers

Harry gets the head; William, the end that's 'having a pee'

(Newser) - Prince William and Prince Harry made a friend at a nature reserve in Botswana today: an 8-foot African rock python. Invited to pose with the fearsome but nonvenomous reptile, the royals appeared hesitant at first, but Harry was soon threatening William with the snake's head, the Daily Mail reports. The...

Prince Wills Engagement 2 Weeks Away?

 Prince Wills 
 Engagement 
 2 Weeks 
 Away? 
no ring over the weekend
Jun 7, 2010 9:50 AM CDT

Prince Wills Engagement 2 Weeks Away?

Royal-watchers believe prince will pop the question this month

(Newser) - Though Tina Brown speculated the big engagement would happen last weekend, there's still no ring on Kate Middleton's finger—a pesky fact that hasn't done much to stem royal wedding fever. The new D-Day? Royal watchers suspect an engagement will be announced after William turns 28 on June 21, reports...

Yanks Aren't Buying Fergie's Sob Story

No group hug from ex-colonists

(Newser) - Boo hoo. Poor little used-to-be-rich duchess has a sob story about how she lost her millions, and the former colonists couldn't care less. Sarah Ferguson poured out her tale of woe to Oprah—and was met with a cynical chorus of Cry Me a River from unimpressed Yanks, notes the...

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