A dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, when she danced with John Travolta at a White House state dinner has been sold at auction for NZ$440,000.

The Duchess of Cambridge has told a soldier she would like her baby to be a boy as she attended a St Patrick's Day parade at a military barracks.

She is more robust than most 86-year-olds could ever hope to be, but questions will inevitably be raised as to whether the Queen is being asked to do too much.

Men around the world will be disheartened by the news that royal in-law Pippa Middleton is "happy'' with her new boyfriend, a self-made millionaire stockbroker.

Large numbers of journalists and photographers were on hand to watch the duchess as she visited a centre for recovering addicts. It was one of her first public appearances since announcing in December that she was pregnant.

Vivienne Westwood has called on the Duchess of Cambridge to stop buying so many different outfits.

An Australian women's mag has joined an Italian gossip magazine in deciding to print photos of Kate Middleton's bikini baby bump.

Kate Middleton is facing a fresh set of paparazzi problems after being snapped in a skimpy bikini.

The Queen dutifully sits through hours of displays of military pomp rehearsed to the second - and secretly loves it when everything goes wrong, Britain's pageant master says.

A 19-year-old Kiwi has had a rare encounter with royalty in London after achieving a prestigious award.

The Queen has declared that if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a daughter she will be titled Princess.

The Queen looked past scandal that has at times this year shaken the royal family to send out a global thanks to those who helped celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said.

Prince Harry has killed his first Taliban commander.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide.

Jacintha Saldanha, the London nurse at the centre of a prank call scandal involving Kate Middleton, has been farewelled at a graveyard in the village of Shirva.

This country offers me beaches and mountains and lakes to explore, with good roads and an adequate car, writes Peter Durney. Many people cannot even aspire to owning a car.

When Fiji was booted out of the Commonwealth in 2009, the organisation's Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said he was taking the step "in sorrow".