KATE Middleton once broke a HUGE royal rule when she arrived at Queen's Easter church service.
It has long been Royal Family tradition to gather at Windsor at Easter and attend a church service alongside the Queen.
As per royal protocol, the most senior member of the family must always arrive last – which at Easter is of course Her Majesty.
However, in 2018, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge broke this royal rule by turning up after the Queen.
It's understood they got caught in traffic on the M4 on the way to Windsor after spending a few days with Kate's family while she was pregnant with Prince Louis at the time.
As a result of them showing up late, Prince William and Kate had to slip into the service quietly after the Queen had arrived.
Her Majesty appeared to be understanding, however, as she was seen laughing and joking with the couple after the service.
It has been revealed that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wish to move to Windsor, to be closer to the Queen. For future services, it looks like them being stuck in traffic may be a thing of the past.
Read our Royal Family live blog below for the latest updates…
- Milica Cosic
Prince Charles’ ‘ridiculous demands’ before he becomes King
A royal author has claimed that Duchess Camilla is said to not let her husband Prince Charles make his ‘ridiculous demands’, she has started to rein them in ahead of him becoming King.
The Duchess of Cornwall is trying to put an end to Charles’ ‘pompous’ demand when it comes to pouring and drinking his gin and tonic.
Royal biographer Tina Brown claims in her new book about the House of Windsor, The Palace Papers that one of the Queen’s friends told her, “Camilla stops the pompous thing with Charles. She won’t let him get away with telling his man to get his gin and tonic.
“She says: ‘Oh, don’t be so ridiculous. Let me pour the gin and tonic’.”
Charles and Camilla are getting to be quite well known in the gin industry as they launched their own with Fortnum & Mason. It is said they use herbs grown in their home garden for it.
- Milica Cosic
Prince William & Queen at odds at his wedding to Kate
PRINCE William once admitted that he and the Queen were at odds with each other over one detail at his wedding to Kate Middleton in April 2011.
In an interview given after the wedding, William admitted that he clashed with the Monarch and was forced to follow her wishes, as she didn’t want him to wear his first choice of outfit.
William said at the time: “What I really wanted to wear was the Irish Guards frock coat.”
“We had a couple of discussions on this matter but, as I learnt growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.
“What she says goes,” he admitted.
This month marks 11 years since the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge married at Westminster Abbey.
- Milica Cosic
Kate & William ban children from social media
A source has claimed that Kate Middleton and Prince William wish to keep their children “down to earth” and have “taught them to be graceful”.
The insider said: “[They keep them] well away from social media.
“Kate and William will not allow them to have accounts, even secret ones.
“They 100 percent disagree with young children having social media accounts.”
The royal insider told Us Weekly that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have made George, 8, Charlotte, 6, and Louis, 3, “aware of their privileges”.
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Prince William’s future plans
Prince William is understood to be looking ahead following the Caribbean tour.
Sources claim the royal has laid out a “blueprint” for his future as the king – and believes the royals must be “agile” to survive.
He called a crisis meeting with top aides following criticism of the tour, which left the couple “bruised”.
The trip — the first of the Platinum Jubilee — was organised between Kensington Palace and the governments of Belize, Jamaica and Bahamas.
But it was mired in anti-royal protests and social media scorn.
It’s understood that even before the visit, Wills was planning a royal revolution that will see him tearing up the rulebook and running affairs “the Cambridge way”.
He will ditch the long-held policy of “never complain, never explain” and wield the hatchet as he cuts down the number of aides he works with.
The Cambridges will also employ a small staff working on “comfortable and credible” good causes — five or six in total.
There will also be shorter solo trips such as Kate’s well-received recent visit to Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Milica Cosic
Archie’s surname caused huge rift between Queen & Philip (2/2)
Due to his name not considered to be neutral enough, he adopted the name Mountbatten after his grandparents.
However, when the then Princess Elizabeth had their first child, Prince Charles, in 1948, assumed due to tradition that their little one would take his name.
And when Elizabeth went on to become Queen in 1952, she had to confirm the official surname of the Royal Family was to be Windsor, instead of changing it to Mountbatten.
It is said to have caused such an issue that the matter was even discussed in Parliament.
At the time, Philip reportedly said: “I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children.”
- Milica Cosic
Archie’s surname caused huge rift between Queen & Philip
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s children, Archie and Lilibet, use the royal family’s official surname – Mountbatten-Windsor. This is because they aren’t senior enough to have HRH titles.
The moniker combines the royal name, Windsor, with Prince Philip’s surname, Mountbatten.
However the name was even raised in the Houses of Parliament, and in turn resulted in a rift between the Queen and her husband.
It didn’t appear on an official document until 1973, but the complicated story behind the name dates all the way back to 1952.
Before marrying The Queen and becoming the Duke of Edinburgh, Philip’s official title was Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
- Milica Cosic
New details for ‘Operation London Bridge’ revealed
NEW plans have been revealed for “Operation London Bridge” after the Queen passes away.
Leatherworks all over Britain will make more muffles for church bells that will toll for the Monarch’s death.
As part of Operation London Bridge, on Her Majesty’s funeral and death an hour’s muted chimes will ring out.
The majority of Britain’s 16,000 churches have never rung bells that are fully muffled since the death of King George VI, the Queen’s dad.
Central Council of Church Bell Ringers spokeswoman Vicki Chapman told the Mail on Sunday: “We have spent a lot of time talking to the Royal Household and Lambeth Palace about the day the Monarch passes, which we hope will not be any time soon.
“Adding muffles makes bells sound mournful, more like a hum –so they will sound like thud, thud, thud rather than dong, dong, dong.
“It is about paying due reverence to the service of the Monarch and commemorating her life.”
Read more here.
- Milica Cosic
Queen breaks silence on Covid 19 battle in major health update (2/2)
Imam Faruq Siddiqi, hospital chaplain, said families ‘felt a sense of hope when they knew he was visiting their loved ones.’
“Although I didn’t hold any miracles, I hope I was able to bring some sort of comfort to them through my presence and prayers,” he said.
The Queen replied: “It obviously was a very frightening experience to have Covid very badly, wasn’t it?”
Mr Siddiqi said: “I think what made it worse was being by themselves.”
“Exactly. So they were alone, too,” the Queen remarked.
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Queen breaks silence on Covid 19 battle in major health update (1/2)
THE QUEEN has revealed she is feeling ‘exhausted’ after battling with Covid in February, which has left her feeling ‘tired and exhausted’.
In a special video call to NHS staff and patients at Royal London Hospital last week, the Monarch told them: “It does leave one very tired and exhausted, doesn’t it? This horrible pandemic. It’s not a nice result.”
Via video call, the Queen marked the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Unit at the hospital, of which she is patron, wearing a floral dress with a pearl necklace to mark the occasion.
Nurse Charlie Mort who attended the call said: “The amount of bravery that both the patients and my colleagues showed throughout the entire pandemic was amazing and the amount of kindness we were shown was inspiring. I think we will all be bonded together because of it, forever.”
“It’s amazing, isn’t it, what can be done when needs be,” the Queen replied.
- Milica Cosic
Prince Charles and Camilla’s wedding was ‘tense’
Prince Charles and Camilla’s wedding was ‘tense’ and the ‘Queen’s body language topped the list’ according to a body language expert.
Speaking to FEMAIL, Judi James explained how the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla was ‘tense’, with Harry ‘distancing’ himself from the group in portraits.
She said: ‘This was a tense affair all round, with the Queen’s body language probably topping the list when it came to stoicism and teeth-gritting.
‘Harry and William performed their usual upbeat and fun-loving double act, with Harry clearly living up to his reputation as ‘the joker prince.
‘However he appears to be less keen on showing the face of grinning ‘approval’ when it comes to the official portraits.’
She continued: ‘Both William and the Queen are sporting’ intentional gesture’ smiles, a baring of the teeth that looks too forced to be authentic but which shows a desire to be seen to be sociable and polite.
- Milica Cosic
Queen ‘deeply hurt’ as Meghan & Harry choose Holland trip
THE QUEEN is said to be “deeply hurt” after “publicity-hungry” Meghan and Harry chose to go to Holland over Prince Philip’s memorial.
Meghan, 40, will join Harry at his Invictus Games in Holland in her first trip out of America since Megxit – and the pair will be followed around by Netflix cameras.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will both be in The Hague for the opening ceremony of Harry’s games for wounded soldiers on Saturday.
It will be the first time the couple have been together in Europe since Megxit two years ago.
But royal experts have claimed that this is a “snub” to the Queen – after they refused to attend Prince Philip’s memorial just days ago.
And despite it being “unnecessary” for Meghan to be at the Invictus Games, she “wouldn’t want to miss out on the publicity,” it’s been claimed.
Read more here.
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