Palace: Zara Phillips engaged to be married

Palace: Zara Phillips engaged to be married
LONDON - Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have company on the royal Wedding calendar. Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, is engaged. Phillips, an accomplished equestrian, will marry Longtime Boyfriend Mike Tindall, the palace said. No date has been set yet. Phillips is close friends with her cousin, Prince William, who plans to marry Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29. Their Engagement was announced last month. Phi...

Palace: Zara Phillips engaged to be married
LONDON (AP) - Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have company on the royal Wedding calendar. Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, is engaged. Phillips, an accomplished equestrian, will marry Longtime Boyfriend Mike Tindall, the palace said. No date has been set yet. Phillips is close friends with her cousin, Prince William, who plans to marry Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29. Their Engagement was announced last month. P...

Palace: Zara Phillips engaged to be married
Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have company on the royal Wedding calendar. Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, is engaged. Phillips, an accomplished equestrian, will marry Longtime Boyfriend Mike Tindall, the palace said. No date has been set yet. Phillips is close friends with her cousin, Prince William, who plans to marry Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29. Their Engagement was announced last month. Phillips, 29, is 1...

Zara Phillips & Mike Tindall Engaged
Scroll down for pictures of the happy couple! Text by the Associated Press LONDON -- Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have company on the royal Wedding calendar. Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, is engaged. Phillips, an accomplished equestrian, will marry Longtime Boyfriend Mike Tindall, the palace said. No date has been set yet. Phillips is close friends with her cousin, Prince William, who plans to marry Middleton at West...

Zara Phillips, Prince William's Cousin, Engaged
Mike Tindall and Zara Phillips at the Sport Industry Awards on May 13, 2010 in London. (Neil Mockford/Getty Images) LONDON (CBS/AP) Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have company on the royal Wedding calendar. Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter is engaged. Phillips, an accomplished equestrian, will marry Longtime Boyfriend, rugby player Mike Tindall. "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are delighted with the news," the p...

Zara Phillips engaged to England rugby star Mike Tindall
Zara Phillips is to marry her rugby player boyfriend Mike Tindall in a move that could make 2011 the year of royal Weddings. The Queen’s 29-year-old granddaughter said she was astonished by Monday evening’s proposal - despite a seven-year courtship. And the level of her surprise was evident as she and Tindall, 32, posed for hastily arranged photos outside their Gloucestershire home. As she showed off her diamond and platinum Engagement Ring, it was painfully clear that Zara had...

Prince William's Cousin Zara Phillips Is Engaged
Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon have another royal Wedding to attend - one that isn't their own. William's cousin Zara Phillips, 29, is now engaged too, after her boyfriend, England rugby player Mike Tindall, popped the question at their home in Gloucestershire on Monday. There is no news on a Wedding date or whether the blonde showjumper - who, as the daughter of William's aunt, Princess Anne, is 12th in line to the throne - will beat William and Kate to the alta...

UK royal to marry rugby star
The Queen's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips has got engaged to her long-term boyfriend, the England rugby union player Mike Tindall. A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said Mr Tindall, 32, had proposed to Ms Phillips, 29, on Monday night at the couple's Gloucestershire home. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are said to be "delighted" by the news. The news comes just weeks after the announcement that Prince William and Kate Middleton are to marry in 2011. Ms Phillips, who is 12...

Zara Phillips to wed rugby star Tindall
Buckingham Palace has announced that the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips is engaged to her long-term boyfriend, England rugby star Mike Tindall. The palace said on Tuesday that 29-year-old Phillips, 12th in line to the British throne, had accepted a proposal from Tindall. Phillips is the daughter of Princess Anne and her ex-husband Captain Mark Phillips and is the Queen's eldest granddaughter. She has a successful career as an equestrian. Her cousin, Prince William, announced his engagement ...

Royal rugby romance
She is 12th in line to the throne and an eventing champion, he is a World Cup-winning rugby union international. And it was during that successful campaign for the England team in Australia in 2003 that Zara Phillips first met Mike Tindall. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are said to be "delighted" by the news. The couple often make the sports pages for their endeavours, but have tried to keep their relationship private wherever possible. Photographs of the couple usually show them...

Queen's granddaughter engaged to marry
Zara Phillips, daughter of Britain's Princess Anne and Capt. Mark Phillips and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, announced her engagement Tuesday to English rugby star Mike Tindall. That faint sound you just heard was actually a tiny, little blip on a radar far, far away. Click here to cancel reply. “This Just In” is CNN's news blog. This is where you will find the latest news and information from CNN’s correspondents and sources around the world. We’ll cove...

Prince William approves wedding souvenirs for sale (AP)
LONDON – Britain's royal Wedding is still four months away, but the first official Memorabilia went on sale Monday — a range of Wedding China personally approved by the couple. Prince William's office said the items had been commissioned by the palace department responsible for the royal family's art collection and made in Stoke-on-Trent in central England, a traditional center for British ceramics. The three souvenirs — a tankard, plate and pill box — each feature the ...

William's "Recurring Nightmare" about Kate
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS) It looks to all the world like a storybook romance now, but some real-life chapters in the story of Britain's Prince William and his new fiancée, Kate Middleton, were anything but. In his new book, "William and Kate: A Royal Love Story," best-selling author Christopher Anderson chronicles the royal couple's relationship. And, on "The Early Show" Tuesday, Anderson told co-anchor Rebecca Jarvis about some of their rockier times - and what binds William and Ka...

Official royal wedding souvenirs not likely to be a hit: Experts
The official royal Wedding China has been released just in time for Christmas. But experts say the plates, pillboxes and mug won't likely be a hit because they don't bare a picture of Prince William and his bride-to-be, Kate Middleton. "It doesn't matter that these bone China items have been approved by Kate and William, the most popular collectors' items have faces on," Ron Smith, who runs the website commemorabilia.co.uk, told The Sun newspaper. "The good quality ones with portraits on are wha...

Zara Phillips's Engagement Ring (PHOTOS)
Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall stepped out into the snow outside their Gloucestershire home on Tuesday, after announcing their engagement. Zara kept it casual for the occasion in a ski vest, Baseball hat and boots...and a pretty big rock on her finger! The Daily Mail has the details: Rather than opt for an antique or a family heirloom, Mike Tindall had a bespoke diamond and platinum Engagement Ring made by a jeweller. In the centre is a single, solitaire diamond sitting on tens of pavé set d...

Official Royal wedding china goes on sale
An official range of Royal Wedding China to mark the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton has gone on sale. The three pieces - a tankard, plate and pill box - by the Royal Collection have been personally approved by the Prince and his fiancee. Handcrafted in English fine bone China and featuring 22-carat gold, each item has been decorated with the couple's entwined initials. A spokeswoman for the Royal Collection said its staff had been employed flat out since the engagement was ann...

Yvonne Yorke: Obama Not Invited to Royal Wedding? Not So Fast
A British paper reported last week that, according to palace courtiers, President Obama will not be invited to Prince William's Wedding. Hang on a minute. Since when does the Queen or the palace make that sort of announcement? Whether Obama will be invited or not is one thing, but it's unlikely the palace would be so ungracious as to publicly announce who they're excluding from the guest list. In fact, the palace typically won't even say who they have invited, just who have accepted and are e...

Prince William approves wedding souvenirs for sale
LONDON - Britain's royal Wedding is still four months away, but the first official Memorabilia went on sale Monday — a range of Wedding China personally approved by the couple. Prince William's office said the items had been commissioned by the palace department responsible for the royal family's art collection and made in Stoke-on-Trent in central England, a traditional center for British ceramics. The three souvenirs — a tankard, plate and pill box — each feature the co...

Royal wedding: souvenir china unveiled
Prince William and Kate Middleton's official range of Royal Wedding China has gone on sale at the Royal Collection shops just in time for Christmas....

Kate Middleton Prince William wedding souvenirs get royal approval
Kate Middleton and Prince William: The three souvenirs — a tankard, plate and pill box — each feature the couple's entwined initials, the prince's coronet emblem and the date of the Wedding — April 29, 2011....

Prince kept abreast of FA search
Prince William is taking an active interest in the Football Association's search for a new chairman, the BBC has learned. The future King, who is president of the FA, has asked officials at the governing body to keep him up to date with the process. He has been told the final shortlist of two or three names being put forward to a board meeting at Wembley on Wednesday. And he could even meet the preferred Candidate to replace Lord Triesman, who resigned in May, ahead of that meeting if a consen...

Harry Potter actress beaten by her brother after relationship with a Hindu man
Afshan Azad, 22, who played Harry Potter's classmate Padma Patil, received death threats from her father and was beaten by her brother during a violent confrontation at her home, Manchester Crown Court heard. Prosecuting QC Richard Vardon told the court that Mr Azad was woken up by his son shouting: 'Sort out your daughter! She's a slag!' Vardon added: 'He continued to assault her, shouting, 'Just kill her!' Abul Azad, 53, and his son Ashraf, 28, were charged w...

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U.S. population grew slowly since 2000, Census Bureau says
The population of the United States grew 9.7% to 308.7 million people over the past decade - the slowest rate of growth since the Great Depression - the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday. Click here to cancel reply. “This Just In” is CNN's news blog. This is where you will find the latest news and information from CNN’s correspondents and sources around the world. We’ll cover fresh stories big and small - stories that are breaking, developing or otherwise driv...

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