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This Incredible Photo of the Royal Family Was Taken on an iPhone


A near-perfect shot of the royal family as they walked by for Christmas Day service at Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham estate was taken by an unsuspecting subject. No, it wasn’t a paparazzo or famous photographer who took the snapshot of the year, but a regular British person standing in the crowd. They managed to snap a glorious photo of Prince William, Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, after grabbing their attention with a quick “Merry Christmas!” greeting.

The Telegraph reports that Karen Murdoch, a 39-year-old British mother, took the photo with her iPhone on Christmas Day before tweeting it out to the general public. Nearly every major newspaper in England, from the Daily Mail to the Daily Telegraph, used the image on their front pages on Tuesday. The Sun‘s royal photographer, Arthur Edwards, told the press, “We had probably the 20 best photographers in the country there, and she’s scooped us all.”

After receiving attention from thousands of Twitter accounts, the photo went viral, and Murdoch hired celebrity agent Ken Goff to manage the money the photo is expected to make so that she doesn’t have to give the photo up for free. Hiring Goff is a smart move, as he projects that the perfect royal image may bring in thousands of pounds for Murdoch, who plans to spend the money on her 17-year-old daughter Rachel’s university expenses. Murdoch, who works at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, told the press her daughter would like to join her by working at the same hospital one day, revealing, “I hope this will help because she wants to go into some form of nursing. I want to be able to support her as her mum. Now I want to save money for my daughter for (university), and if I can do that and can get that opportunity, that’s amazing.”

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Meghan Markle Joins Kate Middleton and the Rest of Royal Family for Christmas


Meghan Markle‘s first Christmas with the Royal Family is currently underway, and while we all sit around the tree in our onesies, she’s already packed in a full half a day.

The (younger) royal couples—Kate Middleton and Prince William, Meghan and Prince Harry—all took what looks like a gorgeous walk from Queen Elizabeths’s house to the Church of St. Mary Magdalene on the Queen’s Sandringham, England estate.

Extremely adorable was the fact that Meghan and Kate looked like they were best friends along the way, as they smiled and laughed together on the stroll to church. Meghan and her fiancé looked brilliantly happy together, too.

Prince Charles (William and Harry’s dad), Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and the cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were all at church for the service, too. A crowd had been lined up since close to 2:30 A.M. waiting to get a glimpse of the family (in happy Christmas news, two proposals were made—and accepted—during the wait). Prince Harry and Meghan stopped by and chatted to a few of the people in line.

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PHOTO: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Members Of The Royal Family Attend St Mary Magdalene Church In Sandringham

PHOTO: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Members Of The Royal Family Attend St Mary Magdalene Church In Sandringham

PHOTO: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

After church, everyone will sit down for a turkey lunch at Queen Liz’s place (birds from the estate, of course), and then watch the Queen’s Christmas address, because families support each other like that. (Gifts were already exchanged yesterday.)

Of course, this isn’t Meghan’s first holiday event with the royals: The festivities actually started almost a week ago. On December 20, she joined the family for a pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace (an event marred by the fact that Princess Michael rocked up wearing a racist brooch).

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Meghan Markle Joined the Entire Royal Family for a Pre-Christmas Lunch With the Queen


Meghan Markle is well on her way to becoming a full-fledged member of the royal family: she’s already spent one-on-one time with Queen Elizabeth II and moved to Prince Harry’s Nottingham Cottage, next door to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s home on the Kensington Palace grounds, and now, she’s celebrating the holidays with her fiancé’s extended family.

According to People, Meghan and Harry joined Will, Kate, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and more than 50 other members of the royal family for the queen’s annual pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. Harry and Meghan were photographed driving to the palace in a Land Rover shortly after Will, Kate, and their kids arrived in their own Range Rover. People reports that all of Queen Elizabeth’s four children were in attendance, as well as most of her eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; Prince Charles, Duchess Camilla, Princess Eugenie, Princess Beatrice, and Zara and Mike Tindall were all spotted at the palace. This was reportedly the first time Markle attended a lunch with the entire family at the palace.

PHOTO: Philip Toscano – PA Images

The couple on the way to holiday festivities.

QEII’s annual pre-Christmas lunch kicks off her multi-day Christmas celebrations, for which Markle will also be in attendance. The queen and her family will spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in Norfolk, about a three-hour drive north of London. According to People, they’ll spend Christmas Eve exchanging gifts at her Sandringham House country estate, attend church at nearby St. Mary Magdalene Church the following morning, then feast on a Christmas lunch at the estate. As Us Weekly previously reported, Meghan and Harry will most likely stay with Will and Kate at their own Norfolk estate, Anmer Hall, for the holidays.

Meghan’s inclusion in the queen’s Christmas festivities marks something of a break with tradition. In December 2010, one month after her own royal engagement, although Kate did attend the pre-Christmas lunch with the rest of the extended family, she was not invited to Sandringham House for Christmas Day celebrations.



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Meghan Markle Is Breaking Royal Protocol by Spending Christmas With Prince Harry


One of the most charming anecdotes to come out of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s first sit-down interview last week was about the Queen’s band of corgis. According to Prince Harry, the dogs are typically temperamental and take a while to warm up to new humans; however, they took an instant liking to Markle, cuddling up on her leg as she sat down with the Queen for tea. Dogs are pretty excellent judges of character, TBH, so it’s no wonder Markle was fully and warmly embraced by the Royal Family in such a short period of time. When you have the corgis’ seal of approval, everything else is a piece of cake.

Including scoring an invitation to the Queen’s Christmas party. According to Us Weekly, the annual gathering has historically been “spouses only,” but the Queen bent the rules for Markle. “Attending as a fiancé is a first for the family,” a source tells the magazine. “Given that Meghan doesn’t have family in the U.K., it’s only right that she spends Christmas with Harry and his.”

Just imagine: Had the Queen not granted permission for Markle to attend, she would’ve spent her first Christmas in the U.K. alone. What would she have done? Watched old Suits reruns? Done a private reenactment of her Hallmark movie Sparks Fly? Royal protocol, man. It gets in the way of everything!

“To be able to meet [the Queen] through [Prince Harry’s] lens, not just with his honor and respect for her as the monarch, but the love that he has for her as his grandmother, all of those layers have been so important for me,” Markle said in her sit-down interview last week. “When I met her, I had such a deep understanding and, of course, incredible respect for being able to have that time with her.”

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Meghan Markle Shows Off Her Engagement Ring From Prince Harry at Royal Photo Call


The fairytale is officially happening, people: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are engaged. Kensington Palace formally announced the news this morning, and the Internet is currently having a meltdown. Markle and Prince Harry, meanwhile, are in total romantic bliss—that’s what these snaps from their royal photo call on Monday (November 27) suggest, at least. Markle and Prince Harry made their first (brief) appearance as an engaged couple at the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, where they posed for several pictures and answered a few questions from the press. Markle showed off her engagement ring, too and it’s—no surprise—a total stunner. Click through this gallery to see it for yourself, along with some other pictures from their photo call.



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Kate Middleton Just Stole the (Royal Variety) Show in This Icy Blue Gown


Kate Middleton has rightfully been a style icon ever since she stunned the world with her iconic Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen wedding gown in 2011. She and stylist Natasha Archer are collectively genius at incorporating looks from the high street (that’s British for “stores we normal people shop at”) into her wardrobe, leaving us #blessed with outfit inspiration courtesy of favorites like L.K. Bennett, Zara, and J.Crew. But one thing she’s always been incredible at? Getting dressed up to the nines—we’re talking glittery, gorgeous gowns that are truly fit for a princess.

On Friday night, Middleton and Prince William attended the Royal Variety Performance in London where she made a statement in a gown one of her go-to designers, Jenny Packham. She walked the red carpet in an icy blue, floor-length dress that makes her look exactly like a certain Disney princess from Frozen.

The gown’s entire sheer blue overlay is embellished with silver and blue sequins and transparent floral beads. Kate paired it with a pair of silver heels to match. Take a look at the whole ensemble—gorgeous, no?

PHOTO: WPA Pool

Here’s a closer look:

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We’ve seen this color on her before—she seems to keep it in rotation in her wardrobe, and she looks fantastic each time. She wore a similar shade of silvery blue, this time with a lace overlay, back in October for her first appearance after announcing her third pregnancy. This latest evening-wear pick, however, also reminds us almost exactly of a very Blair Waldorf look she had going earlier this year in March during a visit to Paris. Also by Jenny Packham, her Paris gown shared the icy blue, sheer neckline, shimmery embellishment of her most recent dress—although the latter was definitely the most glam out of the two.

After all, when you know what you like, stick with it—and that guidance definitely extends to royalty, too.

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