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I don’t think that matters. My mother died of cancer when she was Kate’s age. At that time I was one year older than Prince George is now. I then lost my great grandmother to cancer 2 years later, and my grandmother was found to have cancer a year after that. It is a ghastly disease...

Nope. Again IIRC very little information was released about King George VI’s health. And also IIRC several times both Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were in the hospital and very minimal information was released.

IIRC when the surgery was first announced, it was stated that Kate would be recuperating and out of public eye until after Easter. Which is March 31, a week from Sunday. So why was anybody wondering where she was? And she is so much in the public eye, it's no wonder she didn't want to spill...

Oh no. No no no no. Catherine is exactly the same age my mother was when she was diagnosed with cancer, and George is the same age I was at that time. I do hope desperately that her treatment is successful and she recovers completely.

How are Harry and his family safer in the U.S. with private security (which may or may not be very good) versus in the U.K. With normal Royal protection? Not to mention the number of guns in circulation here. I’ve also read statements that H and M are angry that they did not get more...

I understand that he is not a head of state but I hope Justin Trudeau attends Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. He’s known her most of his life, back to when his father was Canada’s PM. And during his statement about her death he was close to tears.

I really don’t think a woman would marry into the British Royal Family wearing a borrowed dress. Seems like one of the occasions that requires a dress custom-designed for the bride. I’m no fashionista and don’t know Stella McCartney’s work, but given how significant the Beatles were to...

My guess is that this baby is a girl and will be named Charlotte Michelle for her two grandfathers.

MGrant, here's another yippee for NO Cameo tiara. I hate that thing.

"chose for herself what she wanted" Well, yes. She clearly doesn't want to bother with all this royalty stuff and is happy to leave her sister to deal with it. I thought siblings helped each other out, supported each other, etc.. Victoria, one day in the hopefully distant future, is going...

First: I truly hope that this couple is happy together and has a long and happy marriage. Second: I agree that no one outside of a relationship can really know what goes on between a couple, and yes, I know a lot of people who are happy together but I look at them and wonder "what on earth...

Champagne powder Dear Kataryn -- thank you very much for the video, I've never been skiing or understood the attraction of it but that really did look beautiful. And thank you also for the explanation of how the piste differed from off-piste. I had been figuring an avalanche could hit...

What a dreadful, dreadful thing for everyone concerned. All of it. I keep thinking about Mabel; she probably kissed Friso goodbye to go skiing, figuring he'd be back in a few hours and they'd have a nice dinner by the fire . . . and this happens. Ff the Prince is in a persistent...

Prince Friso and resuscitation Don't know what the usual European practice is, but here in the States, if a patient who has a head injury is otherwise in good health and relatively young, the emergency team -- be it doctors in a hospital or rescue personnel at an accident site -- are VERY...

My personal opinion is that Letizia is too thin -- but my doctor says I'm 40 pounds or so overweight, so I'm sort of biased. But IF Princess Letizia wants to gain some weight, I'll be happy to send her some since I have some to spare! :>)

Sure, Kiko didn't do too badly out of it -- but she married the younger son, and even at the time she married that younger son there were some comments about how he had an easier time finding someone to marry because he was the younger son, presumably not in line for the throne, so his wife...

If the IHA is upset about the gender of Naruhito's child, they should take it out on him, not Masako, since it's the father's genetic contribution that determines the gender of the child. And I'd be willing to bet also that whatever trouble Masako had in getting or staying pregnant was only...

1 -- Did anyone notice that when Naruhito, Masako and Aiko went to see the Emperor and Empress they only stayed for 2 and a half hours? That's not really very long for a visit from an eldest son and a granddaughter -- unless you don't like having them around. 2 -- someone said Queen Beatrix...

I bet part of the reason Masako looks so happy is that she is so glad to GET AWAY from the palace in Tokyo. The atmosphere there must have been awful -- the pressure to have a male heir would have been made a lot worse by what I gather is a very closed-in way of life there, very shut off from...

Oh, good. The King and Leonor. Now, those pictures, to me, look like grandfather-granddaughter pictures ought to look. Actually, they remind me a little of the pictures of my grandfather with me when I was a small baby. Like many men, my grandfather was a little bit hesitant around me...

Charisma is a lot like beauty -- it's in the eye of the beholder. For example: I'm an American and many people here talk about the charisma of John and Jacqueline Kennedy in the early sixties. Well, in the southern part of the U. S. where I lived at the time, they were not viewed as charismatic...

Dear Purple Platinum -- thank you for the picture of the King and Princess Letizia. I had not seen that one -- we don't get a very wide range of pictures of royalty here in the United States. Doesn't look like he objects to her too strenously, judging by the picture!! :>)

Larzen, thank you for the picture of King Juan Carlos displaying emotions. Too funny. I hope the lack of a picture of the King with Leonor is only because, when he is out in public, he's either busy on his racing boat, and Leonor and the Queen are on another boat, or it's the kind of public...

Thanks, Mapian!! :>) Leonor is an adorable little girl. Boy, in 50 years or so Europe is going to be great fun for monarchy buffs like us with Queen Ingrid Alexandra in Norway, Queen Victoria in Sweden, Queen Elisabeth in Belgium, Queen Catherine Amalia in Holland, and (possibly) Queen...

Are there any pictures of King Juan Carlos with his granddaughter Leonor? If there are, could somebody post them? I don't mean the formal christening-type pictures where he's standing behind the parents, I mean the Queen-Sofia-Holding-Baby kind of picture. Even though I'm a Yank I do get...