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Princess Kate has been praised for her modern approach to social media.

The 42-year-old often shares heartfelt statements on the official Prince and Princess of Wales pages, which one expert said has started to make official Palace statements look “stuffy”.

Jennie Bond exclusively told OK!: “This is such an effective and modern way of using her influence and staying in touch, even when she is not making personal appearances.

“Official statements from the Palace now seem quite stuffy and extremely formal by comparison.

“Social media can be a source of awful abuse, but Catherine and William are showing that it can be used to spread goodwill and kindness.”

According to reports, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have recently brought a holiday home in Portugal, just a few hours away from the UK.

Pauline MacLaran, a professor and author of ‘Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture’, believes Princess Eugenie having a home in Portugal would have swayed the couple’s decision to buy the new abode.

She said: “I would think this will have greatly influenced their purchase and will provide them with a familiar friendship circle for their stays there, as well as a chance for their children to get to know their second cousins.”

Queen Camilla indulged in a relaxing mini-break abroad ahead of her and King Charles’s tour in Australia and Samoa, reports have claimed.

The Queen spent a week at a famous Ayurvedic spa in India with close family and friends, according to the Mail on Sunday.

Soukya, a £3,000-a-week holistic retreat in Bangalore, is said to feature other big names in its clientele, including Dame Emma Thompson and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

The late Queen was like “Taylor Swift” during royal tours in Australia, a previous member of her staff has said.

The late Queen’s former press secretary Ailsa Anderson told The Sun Online in the latest episode of the Royal Exclusive series that she visited Australia with the late Queen in 2011.

During this visit, the then-monarch visited Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and was reportedly met with huge crowds wherever she went.

Ms Anderson said on the show: “I remember the crowds, the big Aussie barbeque in Perth, which was the last big event. It felt like the Queen was Taylor Swift.”

Meghan Markle‘s journal could be turned into a memoir in years to come.

BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond suggested that it means Meghan’s option of an expose book is “in her back pocket.”

She said: “Obviously, the journal she mentioned will remain a potential weapon in her back pocket if she ever feels the need to seek some sort of revenge. But she has behaved with discretion and dignity ever since Oprah and the documentary series.”

Royal fans have praised Queen Camilla today as the Australian part of the royal tour comes to an end.

The Queen, 77, appeared in Sydney with her husband today before preparing to travel to Samoa together.

She received praise from royal fans for both the white dress she was wearing and the support she has shown the King. One royal fan wrote on X: “Lovely photo. Camilla doing a fabulous job supporting her King and is an absolute credit to the Crown. Thoroughly earned her stripes, and then some.”

When paying a visit to Burghead Primary School in Moray, Scotland, last year, Catherine was seen telling pupils how much she liked the school.

The Princess of Wales gave out a high-five to one student and then went to speak to some of the other children. One of them innocently asked her who she was to which she humbly replied: “I’m married to William,” while pointing at the Prince of Wales.

During the school visit, Kate chose to not mention her royal titles when speaking with the pupils.

In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry claimed that Princess Kate, 42, had been asked to change the spelling of her first name by the King.

Harry said the King and Queen wanted Kate to spell her real name Catherine with a K instead of a C as there were already two royal cyphers with the letter C in them.

This change was reportedly refused by Kate.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are “below Prince Andrew” on the official royal website bringing a new bout of humiliation for the couple – who find themselves right at the bottom of the pecking order.

On the page which shows the “role of the Royal Family”, King Charles and Queen Camilla evidently take the top spot – closely followed by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

The couple are below Prince Andrew on the list. They quit life as senior members of the Royal Family in 2020.

Royal expert Ingrid Seward said that Harry and Meghan’s Australian royal tour in 2018 was when cracks began to appear for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as part of the Royal Family.

Speaking to The Sun, Ms Seward said: “I think it was a bit of a shock [that] she was being told what to do, she was being told where to go and she was being told how to do it. She was taking a starring role in the actual size of the monarchy, she was just a little pinpoint.

“At that moment in Australia she was a starring role, but she wasn’t really, she was just a cog in the wheel.

“I think it was an eye opener for her that she was always going to be a cog in the wheel because she was married to number two man [and] not the number one man, which would have been [Prince] William.

“I agree with the royal commentators, that was definitely when the rot began to fester a little bit.”

Princess Charlotte could become the “next Princess Anne” after Prince William takes on the role of monarch, it has been reported.

When The Prince of Wales, 42, becomes King, it is believed Charlotte, 9, could take on Princess Anne’s current title of Princess Royal.

The title is typically bestowed to the monarch’s eldest daughter. This means as William’s only daughter, she could likely take the title. Thus it is not likely it would get passed down to Princess Anne’s own daughter, Zara Tindall.

Despite this, it’s not a guarantee that Charlotte will take on the title as it is typically awarded rather than inherited. Princess Anne, 74, was given the title by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 when she was 36-years-old.

The Princess of Wales reportedly made a very ordinary dash to Sainsbury’s with Prince George and Princess Charlotte back in 2019.

The trip came as the royal was spotted shopping for Halloween costumes for her two eldest children in the local branch of Sainsbury’s on the Hardwick Industrial Estate, Norfolk.

She was heard chatting to her children about their ideas for their costumes, before being seen using the self-service checkouts alongside a bodyguard.

Queen Camilla, 77, was spotted sharing an adorable moment with a newborn baby while greeting fans in Sydney today.

In a sweet moment caught on camera, the Queen could be seen touching the baby’s feet as she spoke to the newborn’s family member.

She looked delighted to see the baby and even gave the young child a wave before moving on to speak to other royal fans.

Grant Harrold, who was the butler for King Charles between 2004 and 2011 when he was the then Prince of Wales, exclusively shared with Express.co.uk what his life was like working for the Royal Family.

While he has many fond memories, including dancing with the late Queen at Balmoral, the ex-butler shared one memory he has that not many will know about.

He told Express.co.uk: “She always used to do things that were fun and unexpected. I remember once racing down a corridor with her.

“The guests weren’t in the room in time so we arrived at the corridor and obviously the guests should have been in the room first and they weren’t so I ran down the corridor with her.

Although there lives are very different, Princess Kate and Meghan Markle have one key similarity that bonds them together.

Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond told The Sun: “Catherine and Meghan are indeed two very different women and are now on very different paths.

“Everything Catherine does is to help others, the disadvantaged, the young, and now those suffering from cancer.

“It’s not for money, or fame or self-aggrandisement. It is to help people who are in trouble or difficulty and to do good. I believe Meghan is also using her star power to bring attention to certain causes and people who need help.”

Queen Camilla wore a special brooch on the Australian tour yesterday. The Queen was handed the brooch by the late Queen Elizabeth II following her death.

The brooch, which was made in 1919, is believed to be worth £30,000 according to diamond expert Maxwell Stone, of Steven Stone.

He said: “Featuring pave set diamonds around a single pearl, the scallop shell brooch was made in 1919 – it was left to Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) by Courtauld-Thomsen’s sister, Winifred Hope Thomsen.”

Good afternoon. It is royal reporter Jasmine Carey here and I will be bringing you all the latest updates on the Royal Family this afternoon and evening.

Meghan Markle has been issued a scathing four-word remark by the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, who slammed the Duchess for her poor judgement.

Tina Brown accused Meghan for “getting it all wrong” after previously calling her and Prince Harry‘s exit from the Royal Family a “disaster” and accusing them of being “addicted to drama”.

During an appearance on The Ankler podcast with Janice Win, Brown went after the former working royal once again, saying she has the worst judgement “in the entire world”.

A royal author has shed light on the one Royal Family member who might have “greatly influenced” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s decision to purchase a holiday home in Portugal.

It is reported the home is in a resort located just an hour’s drive south of Lisbon on Portugal’s west coast, between Comporta and Melides, which has become a popular holiday destination for the rich, thanks to it being relatively untouched by tourism.

The Sussexes’ purchase of the property was said to have been prompted by Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, who also own a home in Melides, just south of Lisbon.Pauline MacLaran, a professor and author of ‘Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture’, believes Princess Eugenie also having a home in Portugal would have swayed the couple’s decision to buy.

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The King and Queen arrived at Parramatta Park in scorching sunshine and were welcomed by a Smoking Ceremony and a Didgeridoo player.

Charles and Camilla reunited after conducting separate engagements this morning, with the King being introduced to the Premier of NSW, Chris Minns and his wife Anna, while the Queen was introduced to the deputy Premier of NSW, Prudence Car and her husband Brad Hulls.

Moving towards to smoking ceremony, Their Majesties took it in turns to waft the smoke over themselves, a tradition that is meant to be good luck and clear away bad spirits.

King Charles was heckled at an appearance in Australia’s senate yesterday by a pro-republic MP.

Australian senator Lidia Thrope heckled the King shouting: “This is not your land, this is not your land, you are not my King, you are not our King.”

The incident has raised the issue of how long the monarch might remain as the Head of State of countries across the globe in the modern age.

Andrew Walkling, Professor at Binghamton University in New York believes that it is inevitable that King Charles will be the last British monarch in some of the overseas realms, with the idea of having a British monarch leading countries overseas increasingly being perceived by many as a “relic of a past notion”.

Meghan Markle has been praised for making a key change which could positively impact a number of businesses.

Celebrity stylist Martine Alexander told the Daily Mail that the duchess, 43, is embracing current fashion trends by wearing oversized and baggy clothes.

However, instead of just wearing clothes from well-known brands, Meghan is also wearing items from smaller businesses, giving them the much-needed exposure to become a successful business.

Prince Harry will not reconcile with the Royal Family anytime soon despite his latest purchase of a holiday home in Europe that is close to one of his royal relatives, a royal commentator has claimed.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have bought themselves a new holiday home in the same area where Harry’s cousin, Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank also own a property.

Harry’s latest move prompted several royal watchers to question whether it could provide a potential path for a reconciliation between the duke and his estranged family. The Princess of York is known to have a close bond with Harry as well as the rest of the royals.