Her Royal Highness Princess Kate – Latest Photos & News

Every woman dreams of becoming a princess, and Kate Middleton has captured Prince William’s heart and is living every girl’s dream in real life. This wedding of the century marks the very first time a non-royal will be joining the ranks of the Royal Family.

The Franklin Mint is manufacturing only 5,000 of the Princess Kate Bride Doll, which will feature an exact replica of Kate’s actual wedding dress. The doll will be sculptured to Kate’s likeness; its wig will match the way Princess Kate wears her hair on the wedding day, along with the royal tiara. Even the necklace, earrings, and rings that the Princess wears are sculpted and matched to the finest detail — including simulated diamonds, sapphires, and other gems.

The 16 inch doll from Franklin Mint features a vinyl body and handmade soft chestnut hair.  It comes with a certificate of authenticity and an accompanying display stand.

These dolls will definitely increase in value, although I cannot say how much. It is worth noting that Princess Diana bride dolls have been resold for five or ten times their original value to collectors.

Pre-order this breathtaking Princess Kate bride doll now before the inventory is depleted. Your doll will ship in the summer of 2011. What a spectacular investment in royal history, striking beauty, and investment-quality royal wedding memorabilia!

The Franklin Mint Princess Kate Royal Wedding Bride Doll – Limited Quantities available!

This gorgeous doll is not to be confused with others in the playroom! Celebrate a part of royal history and own your Princess Kate bride doll today. Keep one for display and another in mint condition in your safe deposit box for when it increases in value tenfold several years down the line! Click here to view the Princess Kate Bride Doll’s details.

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A new book is out on the subject of Princess Kate. While this book does not contain any of the usual gossip, it is interesting in its own way: The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton describes the Princess’ family tree in great detail.

Were you one of the unfortunate few who did not receive an invitation to the royal wedding?  Fear not!  You may just be a cousin of Princess Kate, and thus entitled to visiting privileges at Buckingham Palace on a regular basis!

Kate has been found to be related to many famous people, and you never know, there just might be royal blood in your family tree!

Here are some tidbits you don’t want to miss:

Princess Kate and George Washington are eighth cousins seven times removed.

Ellen DeGeneres and Kate are 14th cousins twice removed.

The truly romantic family tie:  Princess Kate and Prince William are actually 14th cousins one removed!

If you happen to discover ancient family ties to Kate, that would be one of the best royal wedding souvenirs you could possibly find; something for you to cherish for generations to come. Have a royally fun time with your genealogy digging; you may discover a beautiful commoner destined to ascend England’s throne in your family tree!

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The most famous sister-of-the-bride in the world, Pippa Middleton, arranged a top-secret bachelorette party for Princess Kate at an undisclosed location. Savvy Pippa actually booked four different hot spots in London in order to throw the media and paparazzi. It seems that she succeeded only too well, and we have no photos of Princess Kate from the event to share with you. The photo on this page was taken in 2007 when Kate and Pippa went clubbing during the infamous breakup of Prince William and Kate.

Just like Prince William’s bachelor party of last week, this event was kept low-key and off the public’s radar. A source close to Kate says, “There isn’t as much of a tradition of hen nights as there is for stag parties. This was a very private event, with only a few of Kate’s close friends in attendance.”

It is unlikely that Kate got drunk at the party, as she is known not to handle her drink well. She tends to nurse a single glass of wine all evening at parties and clubs.

Prince Harry’s girlfriend, Chelsey Davy, was not in attendance at this private event.

It looks like photos of the bachelorette party will not make it into the public sphere of royal wedding souvenirs. And that’s fine with us. We like seeing Kate have some privacy; do check out our Protect Princess Kate video, and like it if you agree:)

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My Crush on Charles, the Prince of Wales (1969)

Guest post by: Mary Morris

When I was a young girl, I had a bit of a crush on Prince Charles. I think the idea of this faraway Prince just sung to my heart. So being the naïve young girl that I was, I wrote a letter to him on July 31, 1969.  I wish now that I had kept a copy of that letter – I’m sure it would make me giggle. I wrote asking for a souvenir and I’m sure I secretly wished he would like me, too.

To my surprise, I heard back from His Royal Highness. Mind you, Prince Charles did not personally write to me, but his Assistant, E. Smith, wrote to me on Royal Letterhead. E. Smith’s title is “Equerry to The Prince of Wales”. I believe Equerry means that he was Prince Charles’ personal assistant at that time.

Since 1969, I have moved many times, but I have kept this letter. It still looks as crisp and new as the day it was written. Of course, it was written on a typewriter. It’s fun to think that E. Smith sat down to the typewriter to write to me. This letter is a wonderful souvenir and something I have treasured over the years. The salutation “Dear Miss Smith” and the signature were handwritten by E. Smith. I love the Buckingham Palace letterhead – so regal looking with the red printing and fancy crown.

Even the envelope with the Queen Elizabeth II stamp is noteworthy. It is postmarked from London – and at that time in my life – London was a far off dream. I had hardly traveled anywhere in my life. The upper left corner includes a regal blue sticker that says “By Air Mail”, which made it intriguing to me. The back of the envelope has a red crown that matches the letterhead.

My crush on the Prince was short-lived. I found my own prince and have been happily married to him for almost 40 years. But I still enjoy my personal letter from Buckingham Palace. I wonder if the Palace still replies personally to requests such as mine. I think it would be difficult to keep up with the volume
of mail they receive on a daily basis – especially with the popularity of Princess Diana and the upcoming marriage of Kate Middleton to Prince William.

Mary Morris writes about Front Porch Ideas and Front Porch Designs.  She would love hearing about your porch!

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Every little girl wants to be a real princess, and all little girls adore the ‘Little Miss’ books!

A new “Little Miss” book commemorates the royal wedding: “Little Miss Princess has been invited to a very special wedding – a royal wedding!”

However, there is a minor problem at this Royal Wedding: Miss Princess has let her maids and butlers have a day off from work. Uh oh — will they get to the reception in time? The large-format coloring book comes with over sixty stickers and a personalized wedding section for fans of Princess Kate and the Royal Family. This adorable book will be treasured by your precious little princess!

What better way to educate your children about the historical royal wedding than to read them this sweet book at bedtime. Your daughter will cuddle closely and dream of the day when she will become a princess too! This book will fill a very special place in your child’s heart – a unique book that is a cross between a fairy-tale and a history book; a fantasy and reality.

(Some of my favorite childhood memories include being allowed to buy a ‘Little Miss’ book while my parents browsed through a bookstore!)

‘Little Miss Princess and the Very Special Wedding’ is available in very limited quantities – check current availability here.

P.S. If your daughter is too old for a ‘Little Miss’ royalty book, check out the lovely Princess Kate Wedding Doll – a breathtaking souvenir for girls of all ages.

Prince William and Princess Kate will be going many places around the globe. Now, in a newly released book, William and Kate are going two-dimensional. Tom Tierney, a legendary paper doll artist, has rendered this lovely book of the Prince and his bride along with actual clothing worn by the royal couple at various occasions. (If you are a three-dimensional kind of person, you’ll also want to check out the Princess Kate wedding doll!)

This commemorative edition paper doll book features William and Kate and seven of their outfits, including William’s over-the-top RAF uniform with the ostrich plume in his hat, as well as the famous blue Issa dress that Kate wore at their engagement announcement. Order the William and Kate Paper Dolls book on Amazon here.

What fun! If you’ve been having naughty thoughts about undressing William or Kate, now is your chance! Actually, the paper doll Prince William is wearing red boxers, while the lovely Princess Kate is dressed in a white lace bra and panties.

Tom Tierney has also designed paper doll books featuring Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, the Obamas, and many more historical personalities. Go ahead and become famous – you may just become the subject of a set of paper dolls!

Paper dolls make for imaginative and fun play for children of all ages. Cutting out the dolls and their clothing improves fine motor skills, while dressing the Prince and Princess gives your kids a piece of royal history in their playroom! If you have not received an invitation to the Royal Wedding, then this is an enjoyable activity that will allow your children to take part in the festivities from afar. This is one of those Royal Wedding souvenirs that does not just sit on a mantel collecting dust; rather it aids the development of the imagination in a tactile manner.

As of the publication of this book, the Royal Wedding has not yet taken place. Therefore, the book includes instructions how you can download and print Kate’s wedding dress and William’s wedding attire to add to the royal paper doll collection!

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Of all the Royal Wedding souvenirs out there, this is one that truly takes the cake! And, it’ll take your vegetables, fruits, eggs, and meats as well! The William and Kate Refrigerator is being manufactured to celebrate the wedding of the century!

Having the image of Prince William and Princess Kate embossed upon your fridge is definitely a step above the way the rest of us commoners display photos in our kitchens – with decidedly old-fashioned magnets. It is unclear if the surface of the Royal Fridge is magnetic or not – however, I am certain that you would have no intention of marring William and Kate’s royal image with a non-royal shopping list and magnet.

It is entirely possible that food stored inside the William and Kate fridge will last longer, taste better, and have a higher nutritional content than food which is stored in ordinary, commoners’ refrigerator. I’m not saying that the quality of the food in the Royal Fridge will definitely be improved, I’m just saying that it’s possible. After all, when appliance manufacturers market fridges as royal wedding souvenirs, then anything is possible!

The Royal Fridge was the brainstorm of a Facebook discussion by a distributor for General Electric appliances in the UK. This is one piece of memorabilia that literally takes the cake – and so much more! David Garden, a director for GE at GDHA has really high hopes for this 5’9″ royal wedding souvenir. “Who knows,” he says. “Perhaps Prince Charles or Camilla will buy one as a gift for William and Kate.” After all, “Commemorative tea towels are so 1981.”

Well, it certainly beats sticking their engagement photo to the fridge with a magnet! Don’t you think? I can’t help but wonder where William and Kate will keep their shopping list in their kitchen if they choose not to hang things on this fridge. Perhaps they will receive a royal notepad from the Queen?

The new GIU21XGYFKB fridge freezer from GE can be personalized to meet specific color schemes and design trends using removable bespoke panels designed and manufactured to individual requirements. Does that mean that the fridge need not be destroyed in the unfortunate event of a royal divorce; the photo panels can simply be updated? Let’s not think in that direction, and let’s hope that this fridge keeps the royal love fresh forever.

P.S. While we are on the topic of Facebook, have you joined our FB page to get the latest photos of Kate? Like us here: http://www.facebook.com/princesskatephotos.

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Thousands of details for the upcoming Royal Wedding are being planned, and the Royal Carriage has just been chosen to carry Prince William and his bride Princess Kate on their wedding day!  In a move that disturbed fans of the Royal Family, Kate has chosen to arrive at Westminster Abbey via car, not coach!  Perhaps the royal bride wanted to minimize comparisons to her Princess Diana’s wedding, or she felt that she was arriving as a commoner and would leave in a royal carriage as royalty.

The line up of horses that will lead the procession of Royal Carriages is currently being chosen, and you can see how the coaches are cared for and get a close-up view in the video below.

But here’s what I want to know:  How do they train those horses to avoid pooping right in front of the newly wed Prince and Princess??

The open coach was manufactured in 1902 for King Edward VII, and it is frequently used by Her Majesty The Queen when she entertains foreign dignitaries.

And what if – horrors – it rains on the day of the wedding of the century? Fear not, the Palace has a plan! In case of a rainy day on April 29, an enclosed glass carriage will be used instead of the open-topped carriage. This is the very same coach that carried Princess Diana and Prince Charles on their royal wedding in 1981. Do you remember that magical feeling of watching a fairy tale come true as Diana stepped out of the glass carriage for the very first time in her ivory gown?

If you are disappointed that Kate won’t be arriving at Westminster Abbey in a carriage and worried that she may arrive in a beat-up sedan, never fear! The Royal Family’s Rolls Royce Phantom VI will bring Princess Kate and Michael Middleton to the wedding in style. This luxury vehicle is currently being repaired, as it suffered minor damage when rioters pelted the car which held Prince Charles and Camilla several months ago. Palace officials are unworried about the damage; it was just paint and other body work that needs attention, yet it takes a while to address as the parts for this Rolls Royce must be custom ordered. However, it does remain to be seen how Carole Middleton will get to the ceremony.

After the one hour wedding ceremony, a procession of five carriages will leave Westminster Abbey carrying the wedding party:

• William and Kate
• The best man (Prince Harry), the bridesmaid (Kate’s sister, Pippa), along with the young pages and bridesmaids
• The Queen and Prince Philip
• Michael and Carole Middleton
• Prince Charles and Camilla

I have come across all kinds of royal wedding souvenirs, from the breathtakingly beautiful to the outright wacky – however – I have not yet seen any replica royal carriages for sale! What are you royal wedding memorabilia manufacturers waiting for? We might want tiny carriages to display on our mantels and full sized replicas for use with our horses!

Will you watch Princess Kate get the ride of her life in one of these historic carriages live?  Or will you sleep through the wedding (in USA timezones) and watch the royal wedding videos later?

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A royal mystery for you:

Traditionally, married women take on the surname of their husband. That leaves us wondering about Princess Bride: What will Kate Middleton’s last name be after her marriage to Prince William?

On this copy of Prince William’s birth certificate from 1982, you can see that a blank line runs through the field for “surname”. (Incidentally, the newborn’s father’s occupation is listed as: Prince of the United Kingdom!)

Would you be shocked to learn that there are civilized people in the year 2011 who do not have last names? Well, that is the case for the Royal Family. Which does leave us wondering: What does it say on William’s credit card? Or does he always pay for things with his bodyguard’s plastic?

A story is told about the time William and Kate were at a convenience store in an out-of-the-way location in Britain when William brought several items and, embarrassingly enough, discovered that he had no cash on hand. (Or ‘Grannys’, as Princess Diana famously taught Wills and Harry to call the UK bills which feature the countenance of Queen Elizabeth!) “Are you Prince William?” asked the young cashier.

Tired of the publicity, Wills stared down at his shoes and mumbled, “No.”

However, without a means of paying for his groceries, he went outside to ask Kate to pay. The royal girlfriend presented her credit card to the cashier who now knew the identity of the couple in her aisle, as the card read, “Catherine Middleton.”

When Prince William was in uniform in the Royal Air Force, his uniform identity tag read “William Wales” although that is not his last name.

The Royal Family does not use last names, thus, William’s full name is Prince William Arthur Philip Louis.

In 1960, Queen Elizabeth decided that her descendents would all be known as the house of Mountbatten-Windsor. If a surname needs to be used for whatever reason (and God knows that William doesn’t need a credit card!) then Mountbatten-Windsor is what is used.

Prior to 1960, the family who descended from Queen Victoria was known as the house of Windsor, as declared in 1917 by King George V.

The British Royal site explains the technicalities of royal surnames in great detail. However, we are sure that when hearing about ‘Princess Kate’ there is nobody on Planet Earth who will respond, “Princess Kate WHO?“

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Although Kate Middleton’s sheer black dress may not be as well known as the blue Issa dress she wore to her engagement announcement, or her breathtaking wedding dress, or even her famous brunette ‘Princess Kate hair’, this little number can lay claim to having sparked the romance of the century.

Kate donned this translucent little black dress for a student fashion show raising money for charity. It was a this even that the wheels of royal romance began to spin. William spent 200 pounds (or Granny’s as Princess Diana taught the princes to call the British bills with the face of Grandma, or Queen Elizabeth) on a front row seat at the fashion show.

When Kate Middleton made her appearance wearing a strapless bra and panties under the see-through tiny dress, William exclaimed to a friend, “Wow, she’s hot.” Indeed, right now, Princess Kate may just be be the hottest woman on the face of the globe.

This tiny sheer dress cost under $50 to create, and it was actually intended to be a skirt when it was first made! It sold at the Kerry Taylor Auctions Passion for Fashion, and it was displayed among designer dresses from the closets of Princess Diana and Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor. However, this little black dress that sparked the romance of the century was the spotlight of the auction!

This sexy black number was designed by thirty-one year old Charlotte Todd. She created the dress for her university assignment entitled ‘The Art of Seduction’ which is a name that is quite telling of the romance that was soon to bloom.

Although Todd has never had the pleasure of meeting Kate, she says that she is thrilled to have had a part in the meeting of Prince William and Kate. “Everyone says that the fashion show was when the romance started and when she bagged her prince, so a small part of me will always be part of royal history. It’s madness!”

At $125,000, the winning bidder at the auction has one of the priciest royal wedding souvenirs on her hands. Congratulations!

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