View the gallery While one well-dressed royal woman is at home potentially imploring the heir to the throne to please, please fall asleep so she can take a nap -- I saw some photos of them in the car yesterday, and William had on glasses and Kate's hair
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View the gallery Babies are so exciting! Enjoy your first peek at the Royal One. And shocking no one, the as yet unnamed Prince looks like a snuggly little muffin, if one that will eventually be king. King Snuggle Muffin, I imagine Kate is already privately calling him. (The day
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View the gallery It was fascinating to watch the Brits yesterday as Kate went into labor and then delivered the heir to the throne. The one "expert" on CNN kept repeating that it just proves why Kate is the most skilled royal ever, because the other ladies all
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You know what they say. First comes love, then come marriage, then comes.... Making out in public...and then, eventually, after the Olympics and traveling and traveling some more and then some more official royal blah blah blah, FINALLY, baby. Yes, the heir to the throne has arrived, and it&
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View the gallery Wow, everyone's abdicating lately. QE2 continues to laugh at the idea, I'm sure. She will step down when and only when she abdicates THE EARTH. Is my theory. Anyhoodle, this was a fairly small event on the Global Royal Scale; no royals from
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View the gallery There have been a LOT of celebrations of the Queen this year! I am not begrudging her Madj any of her many parties, I'm just pointing this out. Note: rumor has it (and by rumor, I mean the Daily Mail) Kate almost made a surprise
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View the gallery While we all wait for Kate to have that baby -- poor Kate, she must be really annoyed by the fact that surely EVERYONE who sees her is staring at her intently for any signs of water breaking or, I don't know, things contracting -- let us
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View the gallery This was for an event by The Elephant Family, which is not a pack of quirky British socialites, but "a small but hugely ambitious charity" that hopes to save the Asian elephant. If they keep doing it via parties that involve masks, I will give
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View the gallery We've got some no-names, a HERE IS MY NAME, some royals, and more of The Queen. Sigh. Royal Ascot, I shall miss your brightly lidded glories. [Photos: Getty]
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View the gallery This is the so-called British society wedding of the year, the Melissa Percy And Thomas Van Straubenzee Wedding, where Harry was Torn Between Two Lovers, Feeling A Fool while Kate sat at home on the Chesterfield and ate a whole bag of Doritos while catching up
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View the gallery Come for the outrageous lids; stay for how ADORABLY ECSTATIC the Queen looked when a horse she owns won the Gold Cup. She is TICKLED. [Photos: Getty, Pacific Coast News]
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View the gallery Today I need to celebrate the Britons' penchant for polysyllabic eloquence. From the Royal Ascot brochure: "Mrs. Gertrude Shilling was undeniably the premier indefatigable sartorial dame of Ascot." I don't know who she is, but I hope that is on her tombstone.
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View the gallery BEHOLD: CRANIAL THUNDER. [Photos: Getty]
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View the gallery Okay, THIS is Kate's last appearance before the Glorious Appearance of the Heir, not last week's big cruise ship christening. I'm pretty sure. I guess it stands to reason that you're not really allowed to miss the Queen'
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View the gallery Let's take a look at Kate's final official SOLO* public appearance as a pregnant lady before she retreats to Kensington Palace and the comfort of her sweats until the baby comes, then amuse ourselves by revisiting all of her maternity fashions. In pregnancy
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