The Italian magazine Chi, (owned by Silvio Berlusconi) has angered the royal family by publishing photos of a pregnant, bikini-clad Kate Middleton on vacation. Of course, the British tabloids are eating this up, but there's one small problem: the British media have all promised not to run the photos they know everyone wants to see.
The woman who fell for a prank phone call made to the hospital where Kate Middleton was recently treated was found dead this morning after apparently committing suicide — and the pranksters will not be getting away with it.
In one "the easiest prank calls" of all time, an Australian DJ briefly talked to Kate Middleton's nurse on the phone after pretending—rather unconvincingly—that she was Queen Elizabeth II.
On Day Two of the news, we are reminded that Will and Kate will do things differently. They are not the old-school monarchy of stiff upper lips and cold rigidity we used to know. They are adamantly modern, and their parenting style will be like that, too.
With Kate Middleton with child, but also in the hospital, (at least some of) Britain's famously eager tabloids went for a more reserved approach in their royal baby covers.
Call it some sort of lapsed historical sentiment; maybe we sort of wish, in America, that we had our own royals, even as we attempt to replace kings and queens with Kennedys and Kardashians.
If Kate and Will's just announced offspring is a girl and a future queen, it looks like "Diana" could be part of her name — just not the first part.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a baby, the Royal Palace has confirmed, and apparently Kate already has some really terrible morning sickness.
The Duchess of Cambridge was spotted in Singapore toasting with water—a sign she could be carrying the next member of the Royal Family ... or dehydrated.
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