Pippa goes Gatsby, with a dash of Angelina Jolie leg! 
More from our weekly Royal Watch. 

Pippa goes Gatsby, with a dash of Angelina Jolie leg! 

More from our weekly Royal Watch

Kate Middleton: The New Jewel in the British Crown.
Read about the Duchess of Cambridge’s domestic life with Prince William, including her beauty & fashion secrets and roast-chicken recipe.
Happy 30th Birthday, Prince William! 
Photograph by Mario Testino

Happy 30th Birthday, Prince William!

Photograph by Mario Testino

Vanity Fair’s Portraits of Royalty | Diana, July 1997 
Photograph by Mario Testino
Crowning glory!  The various hats of the QE2 monarchy, yall—in honor of her Diamond Jubilee. Let us know which is your favorite.  (We’re partial to her vintage-swim-cap-rubber-flower-hat phase, ourselves.)
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Crowning glory!  The various hats of the QE2 monarchy, yall—in honor of her Diamond Jubilee. Let us know which is your favorite.  (We’re partial to her vintage-swim-cap-rubber-flower-hat phase, ourselves.)

Click through, here.

Duchess Kate sans flesh-colored hose! Somewhere, the executives at Leggs are starting to worry.
More about the royal’s fashion-forward outing—and Pippa’s rumored move to New York City—in our Royal Watch column.

Duchess Kate sans flesh-colored hose! Somewhere, the executives at Leggs are starting to worry.

More about the royal’s fashion-forward outing—and Pippa’s rumored move to New York City—in our Royal Watch column.

A photogenic year in Will and Kate, on the royal-wedding anniversary weekend. Try to resist.

A photogenic year in Will and Kate, on the royal-wedding anniversary weekend. Try to resist.

Long ago, your Royal Watchers at VF.com always imagined that Kate would have the plummy, lusciously deep-ish inflection of a Rosamund Pike. Or maybe the syllable-savoring, tape-recorder-slowed-down languor of a Carey Mulligan.

What did you think she’d sound like?

Our grappling with the clipped, sunny tones of Kate’s speaking voice, here.

inothernews:

BUNCH OF FLOWERS!!!  Kate Middleton is presented with a Valentine’s Day gift by 8-year-old Jaqson Johnston-Lynch in Liverpool, England on Tuesday.  (Photo: Tim Hale / AP via MSNBC.com)

Watch your back, Wills! (Ok seriously this is adorable.)

inothernews:

BUNCH OF FLOWERS!!!  Kate Middleton is presented with a Valentine’s Day gift by 8-year-old Jaqson Johnston-Lynch in Liverpool, England on Tuesday.  (Photo: Tim Hale / AP via MSNBC.com)

Watch your back, Wills! (Ok seriously this is adorable.)

The puppy gazed out to sea. The news had just come—he was not drafted for the Puppy Bowl. The man on the phone was nice enough. Something or other about his visa.
“Ruff,” said the puppy.
[Will and Kate and puppy. Tell us what you think this puppy’s name is! Photograph from Bauer Griffin.]

The puppy gazed out to sea. The news had just come—he was not drafted for the Puppy Bowl. The man on the phone was nice enough. Something or other about his visa.

“Ruff,” said the puppy.

[Will and Kate and puppy. Tell us what you think this puppy’s name is! Photograph from Bauer Griffin.]