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Prince George has a polo instructor


Britain's Prince George has already got a polo instructor.
The prince - who turns two-years-old next month - has inherited the Duke of Cambridge's left handedness, which means he won't be able to play polo unless he learns to use his right hand.
For this reason, his father has already lined up his friend and England polo player Jamie Morrison - who runs the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club - as the prince's future polo instructor to teach him to use his right hand.
Speaking to the Mail Online, a source said: "Obviously George is far too young to be learning polo yet. It won't be for quite a few years, but George will have to learn to play with his right hand, as you can't play polo with your left."
Meanwhile, Prince George's parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been making new friends in the shape of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
The 'Fury' star reportedly attended a tea with his wife and the two royals on Friday (26.06.15), after trying to organise a date for months.
A source shared: "Everyone got on splendidly.
"Brad and Angelina spent much longer with the Duke and Duchess than planned. They ended up staying for almost a few hours."
Brad and Angelina - who have Maddox, 13, Pax, 11, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, nine, and six-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne - are also believed to have offered the royal couple a present for their newborn baby, Princess Charlotte.

Duchess of York ‘besotted’ with Manuel Fernandez


Britain's Duchess of York is "besotted" with Manuel Fernandez.
Sarah Ferguson, 55, took the 47-year-old internet entrepreneur to a motor race at London's Battersea Park, where she was presenting the trophy yesterday (28.06.15), along with her daughter Princess Beatrice, and had spent the evening at a party in Sussex together too.
The Duchess - who lives at Royal Lodge in Windsor with her former husband and father of her children Prince Andrew - met Manuel 18 months ago, and, according to the Mail Online, he has stayed more than once with Fergie at the £13million Swiss ski chalet she recently bought with Andrew.
However, friends have insisted Fergie and Manuel - who has devoted his life to campaigning against domestic violence following the brutal murder of his 50-year-old sister Maria in 2008 - are "just good friends".
Meanwhile, Princess Beatrice is also coy when it comes to her love life.
She has been dating her boyfriend Dave Clark for over seven years and finds it "difficult" when people ask her questions about him.
A family friend previously said: "[Beatrice is] very steely under everything - she is a strong character but a little bit more sensitive.
"[The questions] must be difficult for her".

The Queen and Prince Phillip ‘shocked’ by Tunisia attack


Queen Elizabeth has sent her "sincere condolences" to the families of those killed in the Tunisian beach massacre.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were "shocked" by the gun attack on Friday (26.06.15) - which has left 38 dead - and also offered their "deepest sympathy" to the injured, according to the BBC.
15 British deaths have already been confirmed, but officials fear the UK death toll from the shooting - carried out by 23-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui, who had links with Islamic State - is in the mid to high 20s, and relatives of others still missing are anxiously awaiting any news.
Scotland Yard says its investigation into the attack is likely to be one of the largest counter-terrorism deployments since the London 7/7 bombings in 2005, which killed 52.
Three people from Ireland were also killed in the horrific attack, while other countries affected by the shooting include Belgium, Germany and Ukraine.
Rezgui's father, who had been detained for questioning, told ITV News he was "ashamed" of his son's actions and wished "it had never happened".
The beach where Seifeddine Rezgui stood on Friday, pulled a Kalashnikov from his parasol and unleashed Tunisia's worst ever terror attack, has already reopened.

Queen Elizabeth visits Bergen-Belsen


Britain's Queen Elizabeth has met survivors and liberators of Bergen-Belsen.
The 89-year-old monarch and her husband Prince Philip - both of whom have travelled to Germany on an official state visit - spent time at the former Nazi concentration camp, where the Queen laid a wreath at a memorial to the 70,000 Jews, Russians and other prisoners.
They were met at the camp by Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, who helped liberate the site and he recalled: "It was utterly, utterly horrific. Firstly there were 10,000 bodies littered around, and the worst thing to me was that the [survivors] had been dehumanised. They were like animals because they would urinate and defecate wherever they were. They had lost all dignity, they were dying, none of them looked as if they would live.
"Some of the bodies had been thrown into open graves but most were just lying around. There were pits 10ft deep which had bodies piled 10ft high in them, mostly women. There were bodies literally everywhere."
Captain Brown has returned several times since and he still finds it an intense experience.
He told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "The thing that always strikes me is that when you get here, there is a clammy feeling, it almost envelops you. There's not a bird in sight - and you're in a forest - the birds have abandoned it and there is the pall of death everywhere.
"I still wake up the odd morning and the stench of Belsen is in my nostrils. It's the stench that stays with me. God that smell was fearsome."

Prince George visits petting zoo

Britain's Prince George enjoyed a visit to a petting zoo with his grandmother this week. The 23-month-old prince was taken by Carole Middleton - whose daughter is his mother Duchess Catherine - to Bucklebury Farm Park, close to her Berkshire home, and...

Princess Eugenie hired dwarves


Britain's Princess Eugenie hired seven dwarves to accompany her to her birthday party.
The princess recently celebrated her 25th birthday with a lavish Disney-themed party at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park and as she decided to dress as Snow White, she contacts Cheeky Events to gain companions for the evening, at a cost of around £100 per hour each.
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, the dwarves accompanied Eugenie wherever she went and she made sure she danced with each of them, while friends who wanted to dance with them had to ask her permission first.
Eugenie had asked other friends not to dress as Snow White but there were many other costumes on display, with her father Prince Andrew as Prince Charming, mother Sarah Ferguson as Dorothy from 'The Wizard of Oz' and her sister Princess Beatrice as the Little Mermaid.
However, her cousin Prince Harry bent the rules and opted to go as Nintendo hero Super Mario instead.
Revellers reportedly changed out of their fancy dress into club wear at around 1am and the festivites, which were due to end at 2am, eventually stopped at 5am, over 11 hours after the first of the guests had arrived.
A source said: "Some guests threw up outside in the grounds. It became extremely raucous by about 2am, with people literally falling over drunk.
"One couple were caught heavy petting."
Music was described as "middle-of-the-road chart hits and lots of R&B and rap" and there were no speeches.
A firework display had also been mooted during the early planning stages, but was eventually axed due to costs.
A source explained: "Talk of fireworks was shelved after it was realised the ones they wanted -- the go-on-for-hours, accompanied by music variety -- were going to be way too expensive. They decided it was better to have none at all rather than a cheaper, quicker display."

Queen Elizabeth’s German lunch


Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip enjoyed lunch with his German relatives yesterday (25.06.15).
The royal couple dined in Frankfurt's city hall and chatted - Philip in fluent German - with members of the Battenberg, von Baden and Hesse families, before later meeting with them at a reception at the British Embassy in Berlin.
Along those at lunch were Philip's 81-year-old nephew, Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, and his distant cousin, Prince Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse.
Donatus, 48, shared a table with the queen and German president Joachim Gauck and was seen laughing with the monarch.
He said afterwards: "We had a good table and I know her of course as a relative and I see her once in a while.
"I was only able to talk to Prince Philip for a second, we weren't on the same table. I'm related to both the Queen and Prince Philip, because Prince Philip is a Battenberg.
"Mountbatten is Battenberg and Battenberg is coming from my family and I'm also related to the Queen through Queen Victoria - she's my great, great, great grandmother, something like that.
"Normally I see the Queen in England at Windsor so it's lovely to see them here."
Philip, 94, makes regular private trips to Germany to see his family, while they are frequent visitor's to the couple's Windsor Castle estate.

James Corden receives OBE


James Corden felt "undeserved" to receive an OBE.
The 36-year-old presenter flew back to the UK from Los Angeles to receive his honour from Britain's Princess Anne yesterday (25.06.15) and was "overwhelmed" by the occasion.
He said: "It's a little overwhelming really the things that have happened in the past few years. I feel very undeserving, particularly when you hear what some of the people have done and the sacrifices they have made in their lives. You wonder what you've done to be on such a list. But I feel very grateful and overwhelmed that I am here."
The 'Late, Late Show' host was bestowed the honour for services to drama and he admits he isn't sure now whether he is more of an actor or a presenter.
Speaking to ITN after the ceremony - for which he was joined by wife Julia - he said: "I don't know what I see myself as really. To just have a varied career is all I ever wanted. Just to get to perform is all I've ever wanted to do."
And James also admitted he would love to get a member of the royal family on his talk show to take part in the popular Carpool Karaoke segment.
He said: "I can absolutely say that any member of the royal family, should they wish to, the invitation will always be there to do a Carpool Karaoke.
"I don't imagine they'll take me up on it, but should they ever wish they are all welcome, yes."

Scottish devolution ‘will not change the royal budget’


A devolution of power in Scotland will not impact the budget of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
Earlier this week, it had been suggested that devolution would lead to a reduction in the 89-year-old monarch's annual budget - but Sir Alan Reid, the keeper of the Privy Purse, has denied that would be the case.
He said: "Scotland contributes in many ways to the Treasury's consolidated fund - out of which the Sovereign Grant is paid.
"We said explicitly that to imply Scotland would not pay for the monarchy was simply wrong and we accept unreservedly the assurances of the Scottish Government that the Sovereign Grant will not be cut as a result of devolution of the Crown Estate."
This echoes the comments of a Scottish Government spokeswoman, who confirmed earlier this week that a devolution of power in the country will have no impact on the amount the country pays to the monarchy.
The spokeswoman explained: "Scotland will continue to make the same financial contribution to the monarchy as at present - there will be no reduction in the sovereign grant as a result of devolution of the Crown Estate."

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