Prince William and Princess Kate are off to the races at the 2023 Royal Ascot.
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Every up and down, every joy and heartbreak of Queen Camilla’s life has played out like the storyline of a best-selling novel. It’s fitting, then, that books have been her comfort. Reading, Her Majesty has explained, has often been her salvation.
“If you learn to read, however difficult your life is at the time, you can pick up a book and you can escape. You can laugh, you can cry, it just takes you out of the real world and it gives you a different dimension to life.” The feeling of warmth and comfort that reading provides spurred her on in January 2021 to set up what is now called The Queen’s Reading Room. Regularly recommending new reads, the initiative is, in Queen Camilla’s own words, “a resource, a reassurance and a refuge to all book lovers”.
And speaking to us ahead of the Reading Room’s first literary festival on Sunday 11 June, the charity’s chief executive Vicki Perrin described the Queen as “the most well-read person” she has ever met. She tells us, “Her Majesty saw the potential for books to make us happier, better connected and as a great way to combat loneliness.There’s a special connection that can be forged around stories.” A deep love of reading is something that the Queen shares with her husband. King Charles, an author himself, has featured in the Reading Room to recommend his favourite books.
The Queen – who commented on the censorship of Roald Dahl’s work during a speech to authors earlier this year – spoke about her and the King’s hobby in a Vogue interview to mark her 75th birthday in 2022. “When we go away, the nicest thing is that we actually sit and read our books in different corners of the same room,” she said. “It’s very relaxing because you know you don’t have to make conversation.
Prince William and Princess Kate are off to the races at the 2023 Royal Ascot.
The Prince and Princess of Wales reportedly don't want to move into Prince Andrew's home Royal Lodge as the disgraced royal refuses to leave.
King Charles gave a cheeky three word reply to Queen Camilla after she gave him an order during their balcony appearance, a lip reader has claimed.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have cultivated a "very mischievous" element to their marriage, says behavioural expert Darren Stanton.The King and Queen in-waiting were university sweethearts before diving into royal life full-time and raising three children together, but the demands of the monarchy don't seem to have dampened their collective spirit. "William shares a very strong connection with his wife Kate," commented Darren, who's studied the Prince's body language for several years, on behalf of Betfair Casino.
The Princess of Wales made a swift head-turn gesture away from Queen Camilla during Trooping Of The Colour on Saturday. The gesture seemed to happen when Queen Camilla was giving King Charles a "stern pep talk," a body language expert has claimed to The Mirror.
King Charles is celebrating Father’s Day 2023 with a sweet throwback photo featuring both of his sons.
The royal family is celebrating Father’s Day with some sweet family photos. The social media pages for the Prince and Princess of Wales shared a picture of Prince William with his three children, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5.
Young Prince William and Prince Harry were seen with their father, King Charles, in a sweet throwback snap shared by the Royal Family to celebrate Father's Day on Sunday.The Princes are in their early teens in the photograph, which looks like it could have been taken at Balmoral, the Royals' Scottish estate, frequented yearly by them over the past century or more. King Charles – then Prince Charles – could be seen donning a kilt, which is traditional Scottish dress, with a green jumper, socks and a sporran.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis dressed in matching outfits with a hidden message at Trooping the Colour.The Wales family co-ordinated their clothing with red and white motifs, in reference to the Welsh flag. George, nine, and Louis, five, wore matching navy suits and red ties while Charlotte, eight, picked a white dress with an adorable red trim and neck scarf. The royal siblings travelled in a horse drawn carriage with Queen Camilla, who is Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, and their mum, the Princess of Wales, who is Colonel of the Irish Guards.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte waved to royal crowds on Saturday 17 June as they rode in a carriage with younger brother Prince Louis for the Trooping the Colour.The young royals were joined by mother, Kate Middleton, and Queen Camilla, who is colonel of the Grenadier guards, as they followed behind the King in a carriage. Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, eight, were seen sweetly waving to crowds, with Prince Louis, five, sitting calmly between his two older siblings.
Wes Anderson has stated that Netflix was the perfect place for his new short film, because “it’s not really a movie”.The director, whose new film Asteroid City will arrive in cinemas later this month, has directed a Roald Dahl adaptation for the streaming service, which is set to be released later this year.Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which is based on Dahl’s short story collection from 1977, stars Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ben Kingsley.In a new interview with IndieWire, the director revealed that his new film will be just 37 minutes long. He said that he had wanted to adapt the short story collection for 20 years, but “by the time I was ready to do it”, the rights to Dahl’s works had been sold to Netflix.“Suddenly, in essence, there was nowhere else you could do it since they own it,” Anderson said, suggesting he only worked with Netflix because he had no choice.The director then added: “But beyond it, because it’s a 37-minute movie, [Netflix] was the perfect place to do it because it’s not really a movie.”Anderson said that he “had only a good experience with Netflix”, but added: “I’m very happy to be putting Asteroid City in cinemas.
The Princess of Wales and The Duchess of Edinburgh are incredibly popular members of the Royal Family and take on hundreds of important duties every year.The pair both use their platforms to front hugely sensitive charity projects - whether it is Catherine's research in Early Years Development or Sophie's work in gender equality, avoidable blindness and helping those with disabilities. As frontline members of King Charles' slimmed-down monarchy, the royal ladies have seen their profiles grow steadily, with a royal expert explaining how they are the "stars" of the Royal Family.
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentGlenda Jackson, who segued from a successful actress — Oscars for “Women in Love” and “A Touch of Class” and two Emmys for “Elizabeth R” — into a 23-year career as member of the U.K.’s House of Commons, has died. She was 87. Jackson died after a brief illness at her home in London, her agent Lionel Larner said. “Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side. She recently completed filming ‘The Great Escaper’ in which she co-starred with Michael Caine,” Larner said in a statement. Aside from her prize-winning roles, Jackson gave terrific performances in such films as 1967’s “Marat/Sade” (as Charlotte Corday), “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1971, as a member of a bisexual love triangle) and on TV in “The Patricia Neal Story,” a 1981 work about that actress’s stroke and recovery with husband Roald Dahl. A defining role in Jackson’s career was Queen Elizabeth I in the six-episode 1971 TV miniseries “Elizabeth R,” in which the character aged from teenage girl to old woman. She also played Elizabeth in the film “Mary, Queen of Scots,” opposite Vanessa Redgrave, that same year.
Kate Middleton may be mostly known by her most prestigious title of Princess of Wales but it's not the royal's only grand style.
The King arrived in Romania last week for a private visit and a break from official engagements almost a month after his Coronation took place.The monarch is regular visitor to the country and is incredibly popular with the locals. As well as enjoying a strong relationship, he has a number of unique properties in the country’s Transylvanian region. His Majesty on holiday alone as Queen Camilla is thought to be enjoying some downtime at her home in Wiltshire.
To round off her historic Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Queen Elizabeth made a second appearance on Buckingham Palace's famous balcony on June 5, 2022 along with her three direct heirs and other key members of the family.This historic moment would sadly be the late monarch's final balcony appearance as she sadly passed away three months later at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Several details about the Queen's final months have since emerged, along with details of the "military-style exercises" the Palace put in place to help the Queen through her discomfort to allow her to offer her thanks to the nation for celebrating her monumental 70-year reign. Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond reflects on this moment in royal history.
It was revealed last year that King Charles is planning the largest ever series of official tours in the UK, the Commonwealth and to other countries around the world to "extend a hand of friendship and support.” While it has been understood that the monarch will prioritise visits to the United States, Australia, New Zealand and a number of Commonwealth realms in the Caribbean, there are a number of countries that will also be high on the agenda such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.The King and Queen undertook their first visit to Germany before the Coronation, but are expected to make several more trips in the coming few years. While Their Majesties will carry out many of the visits themselves, they are ably supported by key senior royals, such as The Prince and Princess of Wales, who are thought to be instrumental in The King's plans for future foreign tours.
The King and Queen have both seen an enormous rise in their popularity ever since His Majesty acceded to the throne and took on the job he had waited his entire life for. The couple have been married for 18 years and have worked incredibly hard to prepare for their leading roles ever since.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been slammed for their "cruel" behaviour during his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth's final days. A friend of the Queen said their behaviour made her last few moments as Britain's longest reigning monarch even more painful.
Prince William, Kate, Princess of Wales and Princess Beatrice, demonstrating the strength of the ongoing friendship between the British and Jordanian Royal Families. In turn King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Crown Prince Hussein's parents, were in attendance both at the King's Coronation in May and Queen Elizabeth's state funeral last September. Here Express.