THE Duchess of Cambridge, despite her immense popularity and many achievements as a royal, is still unfairly compared to Princess Diana, a royal expert has claimed.
Columnist Daniela Elser highlighted these comparisons, suggesting that Kate's achievements are enough for her not to be compared to the late princess.
Writing for news.com.au, the columnist said: "The reason this matters is that this is the third time in less than a month that we have seen the relentless Diana-ing of Kate.
"But the issue here is that no matter what Kate does, says or wears she is endlessly compared to Diana.
"Ten years, three children, 33 foreign trips, and one Royal Foundation of her very own later and Kate is still held up against Diana with a bilious regularity.
"It’s a game that Kate can never win."
The writer added that two women are "very different" and that Kate "deserves so much more" than to always be compared to the iconic royal.
She added: "This is a situation which is only going to become magnitudes worse when in the next few years she assumes Diana’s title and becomes the Princess of Wales.
"It’s long past time to break this addiction to reading everything Kate-related through a Diana-shaped lens. She deserves that much."
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Kate could be heading down under, royal expert claims
Kate, Duchess of Cambridge may be visiting Australia for a royal tour, a royal expert claimed while noticing the hidden clues in her outfit.
Express.co.uk reports that royal writer Natalie Oliveri has spotted the minute details in Kate’s outfit that imply she could soon be heading Down Under.
According to the report, Kate, 40, recently revealed a major sartorial clue that a visit could be on the cards soon, although there has been no official confirmation from Kensington Palace as yet.
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Prince Charles ‘accepted a suitcase stuffed with €1million in banknotes from controversial Qatari politician’
PRINCE Charles personally accepted €1million in cash stuffed in a suitcase from a controversial Qatari politician, reports say.
The extraordinary payment was one of three totalling €3million the Prince of Wales is said to have received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani between 2011 and 2015.
Clarence House said the money was “passed immediately to one of the prince’s charities who carried out the appropriate covenants and assured us that all the correct processes were followed”.
The sheikh, the former Prime Minister of Qatar nicknamed HBJ, handed over huge sums of cash in private meetings with Charles, The Sunday Times reports.
At one meeting he reportedly presented €1million – around £861,000 – stuffed into carrier bags from posh grocer Fortnum & Mason.
At another one-to-one meeting at Clarence House in 2015, Charles accepted a holdall containing another €1million.
Two advisers in the royal household hand-counted the cash, said to have been made up of now-discontinued €500 notes.
Private bank Coutts is then understood to have collected the suitcase from Charles’ London residence at the request of palace aides.
Each payment was deposited into the accounts of the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund, a low-profile grant-making entity which bankrolls the prince’s pet projects and his country estate in Scotland.
Royals are banned from accepting gifts of money in connection with an official engagement or duty under the royal gift policy. They can accept a cheque as patron of or on behalf of a charity.
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Her Majesty beams as she visits Edinburgh for Ceremony of the Keys
The Queen was all smiles as she made the trip to Scotland with her family for the historical Ceremony of the Keys.
Her Maj, 96, arrived for the traditional opener to Holyrood week for the Royals today.
The monarch has been in good spirits as of late, after suffering a series of mobility issues prior and during the Platinum Jubilee.
Last week she was pictured riding her horse for the first time in nine months, as well as standing unaided without a walking stick.
Photo by Tim Rooke/Shutterstock
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Meghan silent on Roe vs Wade decision
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States made the controversial decision to repeal Roe vs Wade, a precedent that granted abortion and reproductive rights to women across the country.
Many iconic and famous American women have come out in recent days, condemning the decision, including Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish.
The duchess of Sussex is yet to comment, however, despite her usual passion for social justice causes.
With many reporting that Meghan wishes to have a future, this has raised questions over what her silence means.
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Harry and Her Majesty still very close, source claims
When Harry, and his wife Meghan, abandoned the Royal Family in 2020, many suggested that his relationship with The Queen had deteriorated.
This was compounded when the Sussexes released their BOMBSHELL interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they criticised many members of the firm.
According to a friend though, the Queen still has a soft spot for Harry: "If Harry asks, the Queen would say yes."
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Meghan revelations could devastate the monarchy, claims expert
The Royal Family would be divided in a “bloodbath on all sides” should Buckingham Palace unveil their Meghan Markle review, a podcast claimed.
Express.co.uk reports that Newsweek’s chief royal correspondent Jack Royston said on The Royal Report podcast that releasing the findings of a review into the Duchess’ supposed bullying would appear bad for all sides.
He said: “I think basically if that report were published it would be a complete bloodbath on all sides and nobody would come out of it looking any good at all.
“I think Buckingham Palace will have taken one look at this and thought ‘we’re just going to look awful—this is going to make us look absolutely appalling’ and if every single fact and allegation came out I just think it would be a complete mud fight and there would be mud over everybody.”
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Princess Charlotte is set to be granted a very special title when she gets older
Officially known as Princess Charlotte of Cambridge – thanks to her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – Princess Charlotte already holds a very grand title.
But the young royal is set to be granted an evening loftier title in the coming years.
This title, according to the Mirror, is Princess Royal.
Traditionally bestowed on the eldest daughter of the monarch, it was introduced to mimic the French royal title of Madame Royale in the 1600s.
The current Princess Royal is Princess Anne, the Queen’s only daughter – she was given the title in 1987.
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Meghan and Harry’s plan to quit Royal Family REVEALED
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s plan to quit the Royal Family has been revealed by a royal expert who suggested the pair had been anticipating their exit for some time.
Express.co.uk reports that author Andrew Morton, who has written biographies for royals including Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth II, stated that the plan to quit was discussed more than a year before Megxit.
Speaking to the Mirror’s podcast, Pod Save the Queen, he said: “Harry was having conversations in a London hotel with Oprah Winfrey back in November 2018, just six months after they’d been married. So they were thinking about a different direction of travel pretty early on.
“The irony is they had been given the keys to the first-class lounge when Prince Harry was given the position of Youth Ambassador to the Commonwealth.
“This was effectively the Queen’s way of saying ‘you do the rest of the world, leave William and Catherine to do the UK where they will eventually be the Heads of State’.”
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How George found out he would one day be king
Royal biographer Robert Lacey has revealed how young George may have found out he would one day be king.
"Maybe one day George will tell us the story himself.
"But sometime around the boy’s seventh birthday in the summer of 2020, it is thought that his parents went into more detail about what the little prince's life of future royal 'service and duty' would particularly involve."
The author went on to say: "William’s unhappiness at the haphazard fashion in which the whole business of his royal destiny had buzzed around his head from the start".
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Slave trade must be taught alongside Holocaust, says Prince Charles
Prince Charles wants Britain’s part in the transatlantic slave trade to be taught to the country in the same way that school pupils learn about the Holocaust.
Express.co.uk reports that the future king believes improved education about the darkest days of Empire will help to heal divisions within the UK and the Commonwealth, and help both to move forward.
Aides have said he is on a mission to acknowledge the legacy of the trade in which Britain shipped 3.1 million Africans to its colonies between 1640 and 1807, before campaigning aggressively to halt it here and around the world.
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Charles & other royals to appear in Edinburgh for Holyrood Week
Charles will be in Edinburgh this week along with other members of the royal family as part of Holyrood Week – also known as Royal Week – which takes place each summer.
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It promotes the highest standards of surgical and dental practice through education, training and examinations, its liaison with external medical bodies and representation of the modern surgical and dental workforce.
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Charles becomes patron of the Royal College of Surgeons
Charles has followed in the footsteps of his father to become patron of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
The Duke of Edinburgh served as patron of the College for 66 years, having first become patron in 1954.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) said it is a "privilege" to welcome Charles, who is known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, as its new patron.
His father, who died last year, accepted an honorary fellowship from the RCSEd in 1955 and visited the college on several occasions including in 2006 to open the Quincentenary building, and in 2015 to open the newly renovated Surgeons' Hall Museums and the Prince Philip Building.
Professor Michael Griffin, president of the RCSEd, said: "It is a privilege to welcome HRH The Duke of Rothesay as Patron of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
"The Duke of Edinburgh played a very significant part in the College's history during His Royal Highness' 66 years as Patron, which we recognised in 2015 by constructing the Prince Philip Building.
"The Duke's engagement with Fellows and officers at the opening of the building was extraordinary, and throughout his patronage His Royal Highness took great interest in the surgical profession and its advancement of patient care.
"We very much look forward to working with The Duke of Rothesay."
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Eagle-eyed fans spot a certain royal in the crowd at Glasto
Some keen-eyed royals fans think they spotted a certain someone at the legendary festival on Friday.
Right at the front of the Pyramid stage on Friday night was a women who had a striking resemblance to the Queen
Finn on Twitter wrote: “The Queen has turned up at Glastonbury to watch Robert Plant. That disguise is fooling nobody.”
Royals fans rejoiced this week, as Her Majesty was pictured riding her horse for the first time since doctors told her not to nine months ago.
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‘I think that Diana’s influence has lasted longer than anybody thought’
PRINCE HARRY never makes a decision without first thinking what is mother would have wanted, Andrew Morton has said.
The expert described Harry and William as the “torchbearers” for Diana’s memory, and highlighted how the late Princess changed the royals forever.
Morton told the Mirror: “I think that Diana’s influence has lasted longer than anybody thought because her torchbearers in life, William and Harry, have not forgotten her and have held concerts in her memory.
“Harry himself says that he never makes a decision without referring it to her in a spiritual sense.
“She marked a turning point in the way the Royal Family behaved and through her behaviour helped to modernise and make more human the Royal Family.
“So it wasn’t big handbags, white gloves and standoffish. It was more touchy-feely than it had ever been in the past. So she made the Royal Family more relevant to modern times.”
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Kate painting slammed by art critic as making her look like ‘strangely boring doll’
The official portrait of Kate and William has been slammed for making Kate look like a “strangely boring doll” as it doesn’t reveal her “inner magic”, according to some.
The new portrait has provoked a very mixed reaction.
According to express.co.uk, some critics have praised the picture suggesting that it captures the essence of the royals.
Others have been more harsh arguing that it isn’t an accurate representation of the Cambridges.
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Kate may be travelling to Australia for royal tour as clues spotted in her outfit
Kate, Duchess of Cambridge may be visiting Australia for a royal tour, a royal expert claimed while noticing the hidden clues in her outfit.
Express.co.uk reports that royal writer Natalie Oliveri has spotted the minute details in Kate’s outfit that imply she could soon be heading Down Under.
According to the report, Kate, 40, recently revealed a major sartorial clue that a visit could be on the cards soon, although there has been no official confirmation from Kensington Palace as yet.
- Matt Snape
Queen’s calm reaction to protestors for once pelting her with eggs
The Queen’s calm reaction to protestors who pelted eggs on her during a visit to New Zealand with Prince Philip in 1986 will be revisited in an upcoming documentary.
The incident happened when she and Prince Philip were riding in an open-top vehicle waving to 42,000 schoolchildren who had gathered at Auckland’s Ellerslie Race Course.
According to express.co.uk, some of the eggs actually landed on the Queen and Philip attempted to wipe the raw egg from his wife’s coat.
In the documentary The Queen’s Diamond Decades the incident was remembered, with the narrator saying: “The Queen looked down and brushed away the mess, nodding in reply to the duke’s urgent ‘Are you alright?’”
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Prince Charles’ anticipated address to Commonwealth countries
Prince Charles is anticipated to be addressing the contentious issue of other Commonwealth countries ending ties with the Royal Family in a speech at the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda, according to express.co.uk.
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Kate’s two signature moves
Kate Middleton makes two signature moves every time she steps out with Prince William, a body language expert has claimed.
The Duchess of Cambridge was all smiles with Prince William today as they viewed their first official portrait together at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
And according to expert Judi James, the mum-of-three displayed the same two signature moves she uses for public outings – the fig leaf pose and the adoring gaze – and they reveal a lot about the couple’s marriage.
She told Fabulous: “In the years before he met Kate, William was often seen performing what is known as the fig-leaf pose, with his hands clasped in front of his torso at roughly the same place as a fig leaf would sit on a classical nude statue.”
The gesture is a self-protective barrier ritual that tends to be adopted when a guy feels uncomfortable, shy or defensive.”
“It made William look bashful and suggested he felt awkward in front of the press cameras.”
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Kate and Will take the lead on the Royal Family’s future
As the Queen takes a small step back from Royal duties, the Cambridges are reportedly taking the lead, as they look to shape future of the Firm.
Speaking to Access Hollywood, Daily Mail’s assistant editor Charlie Lankston said: “Kate and William are really stepping up to the plate as far as leading the monarchy.”
She said that William and Kate know that Prince Charles is “not a young spring chicken” alluding that William’s chance to take over the throne is probably “not too far in the future”.
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Prince Charles ‘entitled’ to use ‘own moral compass’ to comment on UK policy
Prince Charles ‘entitled’ to use ‘own moral compass’ to comment on UK policy the former press secretary to the Queen has said.
The future king is visiting Rwanda this week alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Dickie Arbiter, former press secretary to the Queen, defended Prince Charles’ slandering of the Rwanda migration scheme.
He said the Queen’s eldest son was not “criticising Rwanda” so much as he was commenting on the Government policy.
Mr Arbiter said: “I think he’s prepared to bring his own moral compass to his royal role. He was not criticising Rwanda.
“He was criticising the British Government policy. So, there is a very subtle difference between the two.
“He seems to have gotten on with the President [of Rwanda] by all accounts.
“They seem to be chatting quite amiably. Yes, he’s going to be meeting other delegates during the course of his time there.
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Kate’s two signature moves
Kate Middleton makes two signature moves every time she steps out with Prince William, a body language expert has claimed.
The Duchess of Cambridge was all smiles with Prince William today as they viewed their first official portrait together at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
And according to expert Judi James, the mum-of-three displayed the same two signature moves she uses for public outings – the fig leaf pose and the adoring gaze – and they reveal a lot about the couple’s marriage.
She told Fabulous: “In the years before he met Kate, William was often seen performing what is known as the fig-leaf pose, with his hands clasped in front of his torso at roughly the same place as a fig leaf would sit on a classical nude statue.”
The gesture is a self-protective barrier ritual that tends to be adopted when a guy feels uncomfortable, shy or defensive.”
“It made William look bashful and suggested he felt awkward in front of the press cameras.”
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William and Kate set to visit the US amid growing brotherly tensions
The Duke and Duchess are reportedly planning a trip to the US this October.
This comes as William looks to attend the awards ceremony of his climate change charity the Earthshot Prize.
It remains to be seen as to whether Will and Harry will meet during the Duke’s visit.
The pair painted a distant picture during Her Majesty’s platinum Jubilee, as William declined Harry’s invite to Lilibet’s first birthday party.
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Prince Charles ‘entitled’ to use ‘own moral compass’ to comment on UK policy
Prince Charles ‘entitled’ to use ‘own moral compass’ to comment on UK policy the former press secretary to the Queen has said.
The future king is visiting Rwanda this week alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Dickie Arbiter, former press secretary to the Queen, defended Prince Charles’ slandering of the Rwanda migration scheme.
He said the Queen’s eldest son was not “criticising Rwanda” so much as he was commenting on the Government policy.
Mr Arbiter said: “I think he’s prepared to bring his own moral compass to his royal role. He was not criticising Rwanda.
“He was criticising the British Government policy. So, there is a very subtle difference between the two.
“He seems to have gotten on with the President [of Rwanda] by all accounts.
“They seem to be chatting quite amiably. Yes, he’s going to be meeting other delegates during the course of his time there.
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