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A report reveals that Prince William had an interesting request for his grandmother after his wedding to Kate Middleton in 2011; however, it ended up being declined. More on this story, below.

Prince William’s Request To His Grandmother

As per a report by The Telegraph, Prince William made an interesting request to Queen Elizabeth after he and Kate said their “I do’s”.

William was hoping to use ‘Prince William’ as his name after he and Kate got married, with her official name becoming ‘Princess Catherine’. He did not want to use the Duke of Cambridge and Duchess of Cambridge titles. Sadly, for William, The Queen didn’t agree to what was asked, and the request was denied.

The Queen’s Reasoning For Decline

While William may not have been happy with Queen Elizabeth’s answer, there is good reason for it. According to Royal historian, Kenneth Rose, princesses generally...

On September 16, two years ago today, King Charles led his siblings to carry out the Vigil of the Princes at Westminster Abbey.

Queen Elizabeth’s Vigil Of The Princes Was The Third Ceremony Of Its Kind

Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward stood surrounding their late mother’s coffin for ten minutes as her body lay in state. Princess Anne made history as the first female to participate in the ceremony.

Slowly and in unison, they turned outwards. The Queen’s four children turned outwards. They were silent and motionless as they bowed their heads.

This was the four siblings’ final ceremonial tribute to the monarch, their mother, and the Queen. It was the third ceremony of its kind ever. The Vigil of the Princes is relatively new compared to other royal traditions. The royal tradition dates back to 1936, after King George V passed.

King George VI, King Edward VIII,...

It is no secret that Prince Harry and his Royal family, which includes King Charles, Prince William, and Kate Middleton, have strained relations.

The animosity between them seems so great that, as Monsters and Critics have reported, King Charles may never see his grandchildren, Prince Louis and Princess Lilibet, again.

King Charles was at Balmoral during August and reportedly made plans for the monarchy’s future without Prince Harry or Meghan, which doesn’t bode well for their relationship.

While Kate and Prince William’s children visit Balmoral this summer, no one can mention Prince Harry and Meghan’s names around the children.

Prince Harry and Meghan have a lot of work to do to repair these relationships, but there hasn’t been much progress, even in the wake of King Charles’ cancer diagnosis.

As Prince Harry and Meghan are touring the world instead of visiting with King Charles and fixing things,...

King Charles has been officially crowned.

As important as who came to the coronation ceremony, however, is where they were seated.

People reports that while Charles and Queen Camilla were given the seats of honour in Westminster Abbey, his son Prince William and his family were seated in the front row.

5-year-old Prince Louis, his 8-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte, and then Kate Middleton were seated beside him. 9-year-old Prince George wasn’t with his family as he was attending the ceremony as a Page of Honour.

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The remaining front row seats were reserved for King Charles’ brother Prince Edward and Sophie, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.

Bringing up the second row were Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester (a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth), the Duchess of Gloucester, Sir Timothy Laurence, Princess Anne and Prince Edward,...

"Damsel" is the upcoming live-action fantasy feature, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo starring Millie Bobby Brown, Nick Robinson, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright, Ray Winstone, Brooke Carter and Shohreh Aghdashloo, streaming October 13, 2023 on Netflix:

"... a princess is shocked to discover that she’ll be sacrificed to the kingdom’s sacred 'cave dragon', after being married to her prince charming.

"She must survive long enough until someone comes to save her – only no one is coming..."

Millie Bobby Brown is 'Princess Elodie', Nick Robinson is 'Prince Henry', Angela Bassett is 'Lady Bayford', Robin Wright as 'Queen Isabelle' and Ray Winstone as the 'King'.

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"Damsel" is the upcoming live-action fantasy feature, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo starring Millie Bobby Brown, Nick Robinson, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright, Ray Winstone, Brooke Carter and Shohreh Aghdashloo, streaming October 13, 2023 on Netflix:

"... a princess is shocked to discover that she’ll be sacrificed to the kingdom’s sacred 'cave dragon', after being married to her prince charming.

"She must survive long enough until someone comes to save her – only no one is coming..."

Millie Bobby Brown is 'Princess Elodie', Nick Robinson is 'Prince Henry', Angela Bassett is 'Lady Bayford', Robin Wright as 'Queen Isabelle' and Ray Winstone as the 'King'.

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Kate Middleton honoured the late Queen Elizabeth II with a fashionable tribute during Remembrance Day weekend.

The Princess of Wales wore two pieces of jewellery from her grandmother-in-law’s collection while attending the Festival of Remembrance event at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Prince William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester — Photo: Chris Radburn - Wpa Pool / Getty Images

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The stunning pieces included a pair of Bahrain pearl drop earrings, which were a gift to Queen Elizabeth for her wedding to Prince Philip, according to People.

The 40-year-old also donned a pearl choker necklace with a diamond in the centre belonging to the Queen.

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Now that Millie Bobby Brown's Enola Holmes 2 has been released on Netflix, it's time to look ahead to her future projects. The Sherlock Holmes spin-off has been potentially the most important project for Millie Bobby Brown to date as she has worked alongside huge stars like Henry Cavill and taken on the role of producer for this sequel. Having gained prominence for her portrayal of Eleven in Netflix's Stranger Things, Brown is proving herself to be a versatile actor keen to branch out and try her hand at new roles.

Millie Bobby Brown is also not short of more work as she has been announced to be taking a significant role in no less than four upcoming projects with the possibility of others not yet made public. Along with finishing out the final season of the hit show Stranger Things, Brown is set to add further acting credits...

Michael Showalter is preparing to adapt Robinne Lee’s best-selling romance novel into a film for Prime Video called The Idea of You. Anne Hathaway is already signed on to star and will be joined by Nicholas Galitzine for a story that finds its characters attending a music festival.

Showalter is directing The Idea of You, which tells the story of Sophie (Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother. Sophie’s husband Dan ended their relationship to be with a younger woman, and now he’s canceled plans to take their 15-year-old daughter to Coachella, one of the largest (and hottest) concert events of the year. Sophie, fed up with Dan’s negligence, decides to take Dan’s place as their daughter’s chaperone. During the fest, Sophie meets Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), the 24-year-old lead singer of the world’s most popular boy band, August Moon. Wow, between 4*Town in Turning Red...

In Amazon Prime Video’s “The Idea of You,” Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway stars as a divorced mother who sparks a passionate love affair with a pop star she meets after taking her daughter to a music festival. And now, the object of her on-screen desire has been cast.

Nicholas Galitzine will play Hayes Campbell — the 24-year-old lead singer of the “hottest boy band on the planet,” August Moon — who has been speculated by fans of Robinne Lee’s bestselling debut novel to be inspired by Harry Styles.

The film follows Hathaway’s Sophie, who saves the day after her ex-husband Dan (who left her for a younger woman) cancels his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. When she decides to brave the crowds and desert heat to take her daughter to the music festival, Sophie meets Hayes (Galitzine), and the 40-year-old’s life really heats up.

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Queen Elizabeth II‘s body has left Buckingham Palace for the last time. Mourners came out in droves on Wednesday to see the historic procession of the late British monarch as her coffin travelled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.

Somberly walking behind Her Majesty’s casket was her son, King Charles III, and two grandsons, Prince William and Prince Harry.

Other royals included in the procession were Elizabeth’s other children, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward. Both Harry and Andrew were not wearing their military uniforms as both have stepped down as senior members of the royal family in recent years.

On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex released a statement to royal reporters about Harry’s reaction to not being allowed to wear his uniform despite his decade of service.

“Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, will wear a mourning suit throughout events honouring his grandmother,...

Tony nominee Sharon D Clarke, Thomas Flynn and Malcolm Atobrah are the latest to join the cast of Prime Video’s romantic comedy “Red, White & Royal Blue,” written and directed by Matthew López.

Based on Casey McQuiston’s best-selling novel, the movie centers on Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the Mexican American son of the U.S. president (Uma Thurman), and his royal counterpart Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine).

According to the official logline, the plot kicks off when the two feuding political progeny, and longtime rivals, get into an altercation, and the tabloids get hold of a photo of the incident, prompting their handlers to “devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce.” Their fake friendship soon evolves, growing into “something more meaningful than either Alex or Henry could have imagined,” the description explains. “Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry...

Stars: Tim Cartwright, Emma Spurgin Hussey, James Swanton, Reece Connolly, Jake Watkins, Richard Rowden, Rory Wilton, Grace Blackman, Derek Nelson | Written and Directed by Charlie Steeds

Originally titled The Haunting of the Bloody Tower and shot back to back with Werewolf Castle, The Haunting of the Tower of London sees writer/director Charlie Steeds go off in another new direction with his films. Where Werewolf Castle was more of a medieval fantasy, The Haunting of the Tower of London is a historical horror/mystery that plays a bit like a mix of the Vincent Price films The Tower of London and Witchfinder General with a supernatural element added in for good measure.

Based extremely loosely on actual events The Haunting of the Tower of London opens with the discovery of the corpses of two missing princes. The future Richard III, currently the Duke of Gloucester and “the most feared man...

If Prince Harry and Meghan Markle need to borrow a royal cup of sugar, they don’t have to go very far!

The newly engaged couple have plenty of royal neighbors just a stone’s throw away from their cozy cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace.

First on the list is, of course, Prince William, Kate Middleton — and Harry’s adorable niece and nephew, George and Charlotte. The family of four (soon-to-be five!) reside in Apartment 1A. But this isn’t just any apartment — it boasts an impressive 22 rooms. Will and Kate moved into the large residence in 2012 after announcing their first pregnancy.

Sneak Peek footage, images and synopsis from the upcoming 'royals' TV series "The Crown", created by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures, starring Claire Foy as young 'Queen Elizabeth II' debuting November 4, 2016 on Netflix:

"...'The Crown' will trace the life of 'Queen Elizabeth II' from her wedding in 1947 to the present day, spanning 60 episodes over 6 seasons..."

Cast also includes Matt Smith ("Dr. Who") as 'Prince Philip', Jared Harris as 'King George VI', Vanessa Kirby as 'Princess Margaret' and John Lithgow as 'Winston Churchill'.

Also starring are Greg Wise as 'Lord Louis Mountbatten', Victoria Hamilton as 'Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother', Stephen Dillane as 'Graham Sutherland', Andy Sanderson as 'Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester', Michael Culkin as 'Rab Butler', Nicholas Rowe as 'Jock Colville', Rita McDonald Damper as...

We already know that Benedict Cumberbatch is devastatingly fluent in pillow talk, having recently ignited the Internet with the sexiest violin metaphor ever. As his alter ego Sherlock Holmes, "I'd know exactly how to please a woman, I'd know exactly where to put my fingers, where to put my tongue, where to put my - his, I should say - his fingers, his tongue," he recently told Elle UK. "Think about violinists, think about what they can do with their fingers." (Breathe.) More of a mystery, however, is the woman who captured his heartstrings: fiancée Sophie Hunter. Here are five...

Judi Dench is set to play Cecily, Duchess of York opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role of The BBC's upcoming TV adaptation of Shakespeare's "Richard III".

The telemovie will be part of the second series of "The Hollow Crown," following on from 2012's successful four telemovie adaptations of Shakespeare's historical plays. That series, starring the likes of Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston and Ben Whishaw, adapted "Richard II," "Henry IV Part 1," "Henry IV Part 2" and "Henry V".

"The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses" will adapt the other famed historical tetralogy of Shakespeare - the three parts of "Henry VI" and "Richard III". One difference this time out is that the telemovies will be trilogy with "Henry VI" being shrunk from a three-part play into a two-part telemovie.

Tom Sturridge ("On the Road," "The Boat That Rocked") has been cast as Henry VI in both parts of that production.

The BBC has added more star power to its upcoming TV adaptations of Shakespeare plays. The producers previously said that Benedict Cumberbatch would play Richard III. On Thursday, the BBC revealed that Judi Dench would play Cecily, Duchess of York, alongside the Sherlock star. Meanwhile, Hugh Bonneville, known for portraying Robert Crawley in Downton Abbey, will play Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in the first part of a two-part adaptation of Henry VI. Neal Street Productions, Downton Abbey-maker Carnival Films, part of NBCUniversal, and Thirteen are producing the three Shakespeare adaptations under the title The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the

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Stage and screen actor known for playing battle-axe aunts, village gossips and servants

When Mel Brooks visited the film set of Up at the Villa (2000), in which his wife, Anne Bancroft, was starring, he proclaimed Barbara Hicks, who has died aged 89, the funniest woman he had ever met. This stalwart character actor, always lodged some way down any cast list as if to prove the truth of Stanislavski's dictum that there are no small parts, only small actors, was a fund of stories, many of them unprintable. And Hicks, though slight of build, with a long face and asymmetrical features, was certainly not a small actor.

As another admirer, Alan Bennett, once told her wistfully: "When you go, Barbara, there'll be a terrible hole in Spotlight." And so there is, for since first appearing on television in 1962 playing Miss Print, a comedy sidekick to Richard Hearne's popular Mr Pastry,...

The joy of succession. On Thursday, the Palace released four official portraits showcasing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their son, Prince George, taken after the young royal was christened on Wednesday. In one of the historic photographs taken by celebrity photographer Jason Bell Queen Elizabeth sits with three generations of heirs - the Queen, 87, poses with son Prince Charles, 64, grandson Prince William, 31, and 3-month-old Prince George. The image pays homage to a photograph taken in 1894 of Queen Victoria with her four living immediate heirs at the christening of then Prince Edward Albert of York. Taken in the Morning...

Sneak Peek new images from "The White Queen", Season 1, airing August 10, 2013 on Starz.

Set in the year 1464, the series is based on a trilogy of books by author Philippa Gregory, narrated through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - 'Elizabeth Woodville', 'Margaret Beaufort' and 'Anne Neville', who in their quest for power, will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.

'Edward IV' is crowned 'King of England' with the help of  master manipulator, 'Lord Warwick'. But when Edward falls in love with  'Lancastrian' commoner, 'Elizabeth Woodville', Warwick's plan to control the throne comes crashing down.

Cast includes Aneurin Barnard as 'Richard Duke of Gloucester', Rebecca Ferguson as 'Queen Elizabeth', Amanda Hale as 'Lady Margaret Beaufort', Faye Marsay as 'Anne Neville', David Oakes as 'George Duke of Clarence', Max Irons as 'King Edward', Tom McKay as 'Jasper Tudor', Ben Lamb as 'Anthony Rivers',...

The White Queen star Aneurin Barnard has defended the show's historical inaccuracies.

The BBC show's supposed lack of authenticity has displeased some viewers and critics, who believe the series should portray the true events of the time.

However, Barnard has claimed that the show would be "pretty boring" if it told the truth all of the time.

He told the Radio Times: "This interpretation is based upon historical events but it has to reach certain standards of entertaining the audience.

"What kind of scene will entertain them more than if we just played the truth? Because the truth can be pretty boring. You have to up the stakes and make something up or twist it to make it a little bit more exciting."

Barnard plays Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) in the adaptation of Philippa Gregory's 2009 novel.

The 26-year-old actor said he supports the series's more favourable portrayal of Richard III.

Aneurin Barnard is set to star alongside Ray Winstone in Sky1's brand new family drama Moonfleet, a two-part adaptation of the much loved John Meade Falkner novel, written by Ashley Pharoah.

Aneurin (represented by Ken McReddie Associates), won an Olivier award in 2010 for best actor in a musical for his West End debut as Melchoir in musical Spring Awakening after graduating from Rwcmd in 2008. He will next be seen as the lead in feature film Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box and on TV as the Duke of Gloucester in BBC One's The White Queen.

Set in the small Dorset village of Moonfleet, Aneurin plays young John Trenchard who is desperate to join the local band of smugglers led by Elzevir Block (Winstone). Together they embark on an adventure full of action, friendship and humour, and hunt for a fabled lost diamond. Their journey takes them from 18th Century Dorset,...

More than 500 years later, historians and archaeologists have unearthed, and then validated the skeleton remains of the two-year term King of England, and in the same token, the Criterion folks issue the crisp, restored Blu-ray edition of Laurence Olivier’s Richard III, his third feature as a director following 1944′s Henry V and 1948′s Hamlet. In 1957, the film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. During the same year, the film won Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film.

The great Olivier is Richard the Duke of Gloucester, a man with an insatiable appetite for power. He often smiles but his heart is full of poison. Assisted by the corrupt Duke of Buckingham (Ralph Richardson, Doctor Zhivago), he plans to kill his brother George (John Gielgud, The Elephant Man) and two nephews, while winning the heart of the vulnerable The Lady Anne (Claire Bloom,...

"I can smile, and murder while I smile," confides that notorious noble, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, "and frame my face to all occasions." For Laurence Olivier, pronouncing "frame" like "feign," it's an auspicious beginning. In Shakespeare's words, he finds his performer's credo. Spoken in the opening moments of "Richard III" (1955), the third in actor/director/adapter Olivier's cinematic trilogy of Shakespearean works, they are the Bard's words, and Gloucester's, too. But they do not in fact appear in "Richard III" -- rather, Olivier's pilfered them from Gloucester's monologue in Act III of "Henry VI, Part 3." The lines flow seamlessly from the original text -- it was only in searching for an accurate quotation that I discovered the discrepancy -- and yet illuminate Richard's damaged dissembling. Olivier knew, almost preternaturally, that the interest lay in the interpretation, in twisting the page to fit the screen, though only to a point. This...

This week: Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt is the highlight of "Hyde Park on Hudson," which should in no way be considered a historically accurate account of Fdr's meeting with the King and Queen of England in 1939.

Also new this week are two Criterion Collection Blu-ray debuts: Laurence Olivier's "Richard III" ("My kingdom for a horse!") and David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch" ("Exterminate all rational thought").

'Hyde Park on Hudson'

Box Office: $6.4 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 38% Rotten

Storyline: Based on the private journals and diaries of Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley (Laura Linney) that were found after her death, this biographical comedy drama takes a look at the events surrounding a pivotal historical meeting in upstate New York between President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and the King and Queen of England on the eve of World War II. The British royals walk into an awkward domestic situation as Fdr's wife,...

Blu-ray Release Date: April 23, 2013; DVD Release Date; April 9, 2013

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95

Studio: Criterion

With the 1955 historical war drama film Richard III, director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) brings Shakespeare’s masterpiece of Machiavellian villainy to mesmerizing cinematic life.

Olivier is downright diabolical—and captivating–as 15th Century England’s Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who, through a set of murderous machinations, steals the crown from his brother Edward.

Co-starring including Ralph Richardson (Long Day’s Journey into Night), John Gielgud (Arthur), and Claire Bloom (The King’s Speech), the classic Richard III is filmed in the gloriously widescreen VistaVision format and Technicolor, making it one of the most visually inspired of all big-screen Bard adaptations.

Criterion previously issued a single disc DVD edition of Richard III back in 2004. The new Criterion release is a two-disc set that includes all the bonus features that appeared on the first incarnation, as well...