Zara Phillips to wed rugby star Tindall

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...

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...

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...

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...

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
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Andrew Morton Writes Again: Famous Author Andrew Morton to Cover Royal Wedding
Kate Middleton and Prince William. Andrew Morton is hard at work with another book about the Royal Family. Morton, the same author who was first to write about Princess Diana's unhappiness in her marriage, has been tapped to author the story of Princess Diana's son Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton.  "The nuptials of the English royal family's most popular and glamorous couple are sure to be essential viewing - not just for England, but for the entire world - and this...

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...

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

Joan Rivers Talks Kate Middleton's Style, British 'IUD' Hats
The Cut tracked down Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa, and the duo weighed in on the topic du jour: Kate Middleton's style. And Joan had some nice things to say! Joan: I think she's going to be smarter than all of us put together. She's got the body, she's very thin, she's got a great style to her. The hats are the terrible [Philip] Treacy hats -- half of them I swear look like IUDs. But she knows what she's doing, she's smart, she's older -- it's not like Princess Diana at 19. I think she...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Joan and Melissa Rivers on the State of Red-Carpet Fashion, Living Together, and Kate Middleton
Last week, the New York Times credited Joan and Melissa Rivers with changing, for years, the way celebrities approached red-carpet dressing. E! eventually pulled them from the Red Carpet and from recapping awards-show Fashion. But a little over a year ago, their show Fashion Police returned to E! in a weekly format, with the always hilarious insights of Joan and her team on everyone from Snooki to Rihanna to Julianne Moore as they dress for celebrity life during and outside of awards season. And...

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....

Author Andrew Morton To Cover Royal Wedding: Same Author Who Wrote About Princess Diana
ThirdAge: Andrew Morton is hard at work with another book about the Royal Family. Morton, the same author who was first to write about Princess Diana's unhappiness in her marriage, has been tapped to author the story of Princess Diana's son Prince William's marriage to Kate Middleton. Read the whole story: ThirdAge Get HuffPost Books On Twitter and Facebook! Know something we don't? E-mail us at [email protected] ...