Prince William approves wedding souvenirs for sale (AP)

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...

William and Kate at charity gala
Kate Middleton and Prince William have made their first public appearance together since they announced their engagement last month. The couple attended the Teenage Cancer Trust charity Fundraising gala in Thursford, Norfolk. Miss Middleton, wearing a black and white dress and a fitted black jacket, walked by the prince's side as the couple arrived for the event. The couple will be married at Westminster Abbey on 29 April. The prince was guest of honour at Thursford Christmas Spectacular wh...

Snub for Obamas as Royal Sources Reveal They Will Not be Invited to Prince William's Wedding
© Getty Uninvited: Royal sources have revealed that President Obama and his wife Michelle are not going to be invited to the Royal Wedding as it is not classed as a state occasion American President left off the guest list as it is not a 'state occasion' Royal couple eager to ask ordinary citizens to attend rather than VIPs Heads of State who may attend include Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni President Obama and his wife Michelle will not be invited to Prince William's Wedding next...

Prince William, Kate Middleton at fundraiser
LONDON - Kate Middleton made her first public appearance Saturday night since announcing her engagement to Prince William, joining him at a Cancer charity Fundraising event in Norfolk. It marked a transition for Middleton as she made the first of what are expected to be many public appearances for a variety of good causes. Middleton, 28, is not officially part of the royal family until her marriage April 29, but this week she joined Queen Elizabeth II and the rest of the family's inner cir...

Prince William & Kate Middleton Make First Public Appearance Since Engagement Announcement (PHOTOS)
Prince William and Kate Middleton made their first public appearance since the announcement of their engagement on Saturday night, stepping out to the Thursford Christmas Spectacular in aid of the Teenager Cancer Trust in Fakenham, England. The BBC reports that all money raised from the evening will "go towards the £2.5m [$3.9 million] cost of building the first specialist cancer unit for Young People at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge." The couple was invited to the event by Prince Will...

Prince William, Kate raise cancer funds
Published: Dec. 19, 2010 at 12:37 PM LONDON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton have made their first public appearance since the announcement of their engagement, British officials said. The couple attended a Christmas variety show Saturday to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust, Sky News reported. Joking with onlookers, William told a group of teenagers dressed as elves they had "cool hats." The soon-to-be bride smiled, but said nothing. William was the guest o...

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....

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...

Kate Middleton steps out in Temperley - Wedding cups and plates approved - Wedding coin approved
If you’ve been feeling frustrated by Kate Middleton’s wearing her clothes inside buildings, away from cameras, join the club! All we’ve seen of her since the engagement have been the official engagement photos. On Saturday, she finally went out — dressed in an outfit! — to a charity event with Prince William. She wore a dress from Temperley’s fall 2009 collection that seems to be a non-runway look in keeping with her put-together, bland Fashion sense. She play...

Media Criticism: Is the N.Y. Times celebrating home-wrecking?
Turns out godless left-wing urban sodomites can get morally uppity too. With its genteel, Jane Austen-like formula, the New York Times' "Vows" section is the nation's most reliable weekly comedy of manners, a tale in which sexual chemistry and inevitable misunderstandings lead to showers of rice instead of Restraining Orders and inflammatory Facebook status updates. The usual narrative goes as follows: Unlikely yet well-heeled duo (Vegetarian/hunter, conservative/liberal, city slicker/country mo...

William and Kate's first royal visit
Kate Middleton has joined Prince William on an official royal Engagement for the first time. The prince was guest of honour at the Teenage Cancer Trust event in Norfolk. The BBC's Nicholas Witchell reports. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date Web Browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling styl...

When prince was a frog
It wasn't always a fairy-tale romance. When the royals were on the rocks, Prince William showed a more common side -- that of a cad who dumped Kate Middleton by cellphone, and then celebrated by getting hammered in a pub, according to an explosive new book. Until the heir to the British throne popped the question in October by slipping his late mother Princess Diana's ring on Kate's finger, William was sometimes more frog than prince. PHOTOS: PRINCE WILLIAM & KATE MIDDLETON In the upco...

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....

The 10 best places for a royal stag or hen party
The sandy paradise of Goa. (Neil Setchfield/LPI) Where Prince William and fiancé Kate Middleton will stage their stag and hen parties has been the subject of much speculation. For William, murmurings of his plans suggest anything from a shooting weekend in Scotland to a night of clubbing in London. For Kate, rumoured locations include London and Berkshire. Royal stag and hen parties should be affairs of style and adventure, and they create the perfect excuse to round up your mates and get o...

Kate Middletons commoner status stirs up Britons old class divide
LONDON - Since the royal Engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton, one word describing the bride-to-be has stood out more than any other. She may be beautiful, graceful and fabulously rich, but Middleton is still a “commoner.” Technically, the label fits. The 28-year-old daughter of former airline workers made good is not of noble blood and, hence, considered a commoner in the British tradition of class distinction. Yet the wide use of such an archaic and, to some, pejorative...

Extra, Extra
Flickr user Tim Schreier Remember to follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. From the Gothamist Newsmap: shotes fired on 8th Ave & 138th Street in Manhattan, a fire at Amsterdam Ave & W 63 Street in Manhattan and a stabbing at 3rd St & Driggs Ave in Brooklyn. No heat in your apartment? The Daily News to the rescue! Prince William was allegedly not so princely when he broke up with Kate Middleton for a while, telling her, "Do you know who I am! No one tells me what to do. I do what...

The commoner
According to newspaper reports, Prince Williams’s upcoming nuptials to Kate Middleton are facing criticism from some royalists within the British monarchy. The reason? She is too common. Yes, despite being particularly beautiful and having more family than Midas, Middleton doesn’t come from royal stock. In fact, she has some coalminer’s dust on her lineage, as they say in Old Britannia. (One of her ancestors actually worked in a coalmine.) We have royal families in America, too. The Bus

U.S. students crossing the pond for college
When Adelaide Waldrop learned that she had been consigned to the wait list at each of the four universities she wanted most to attend, it was as if all the excitement had drained from her collegiate quest. Then she remembered her wild-card school: the University of St. Andrews, the medieval cobblestone campus in Scotland. Now Waldrop, of Silver Spring, is a St. Andrews sophomore, one of a growing number of American Students who enroll at top-ranked British universities, which offer the prest...

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: 'Princess Catherine'? Queen Considers Unprecedented Title
As I reported on November 18, two days after the royal Engagement announcement, if Prince William doesn't receive another title before his marriage, his bride will officially become "Her Royal Highness, Princess William of Wales," not "Princess Catherine." The sons of the monarch traditionally receive a dukedom or an earldom when they get married, such as Prince Andrew who was made the Duke of York on the morning of his Wedding. Therefore, his bride Sarah Ferguson became Duchess of York, rathe...

Love Is Forever
For most teenagers love means trips to the movies, stolen kisses behind the bleachers and the heartbreak of that first breakup. For Sabrina Parker and Matt Scozzari it means a whole lot more. The two began dating after Matt, in his own words, got up the nerve to ask her out. Over the next three months things seemed perfect to them, but Matt noticed that Sabrina seemed ill. She was tired easily, she sometimes had trouble speaking, she was losing weight. When he asked if she was ok she told him ...

Village Bar The Stoned Crow Closing, Owner Selling All Decor
Courtesy Ultraclay Here's another unfortunate dive closing to round out 2010: longtime basement beer and burger joint The Stoned Crow is shutting its doors after 17 years. Ultraclay breaks the news, noting that The Stoned Crow "has been slinging one of the best burgers in town with little of the hype that has made nearly every other good burger in town an ordeal to get a hold of...Go inside and you'll be rewarded with a laid-back atmosphere, a beer selection that includes some craft beers but ...

Ex-NSU president who made Virginia history speaks at TCC graduation
NORFOLK Marie McDemmond is healthy, happy and a grandmother. Five years after stepping down as president of Norfolk State University, she was back in town as the Keynote Speaker for Friday's commencement at Tidewater Community College. The years she spent at NSU seem like a long time ago for a woman who has battled Cancer and, for the time being, won. "I am in remission, and I am doing quite well," said a vibrant-looking McDemmond, wearing an elegant black business suit trimmed in gold...

Hollywood-style special effects give girl new ear
WASHINGTON (AP) - Elise Lutz never let her friends see what was left of her ear. She'd carefully style her long hair into a one-sided ponytail, or swelter under a swim cap for hours at meets, to cover the molten lump from a severe burn as a toddler in her native China. But as a teenager, the North Carolina girl expressed her desire to be whole again with a simple request: She really wanted pierced earrings. Thus began a months-long quest for a new right ear, one made of silicone but so lifelik...

Hollywood-style special effects give girl new ear
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elise Lutz never let her friends see what was left of her ear. She'd carefully style her long hair into a one-sided ponytail, or swelter under a swim cap for hours at meets, to cover the molten lump from a severe burn as a toddler in her native China. But as a teenager, the North Carolina girl expressed her desire to be whole again with a simple request: She really wanted pierced earrings. Thus began a months-long quest for a new right ear, one made of silicone but so life...