Kate still waiting for her royal reward – TVNZ
Kate Middleton is a patient gal, but her perseverance is unlikely to be rewarded with an engagement ring from Prince William this Christmas. The rumour mill had been running hot earlier this year that a royal engagement was on the cards for this Christmas, with a wedding to follow in the middle of 2009…

Bookmakers take bets on Prince William shaving beard – Telegraph
Ladbrokes is offering odds of 3/1 that the 26-year-old will be clean-shaven by December 25. Keeping the beard would mean plucking up the courage to sport it for the Royals’ Christmas Day service at Sandringham, which will be broadcast on television…

Prince Phillip’s secret letters to the showgirl – Daily Mail
But legend or not, Pat Kirkwood lived for six decades under the cloud of suspicion that she had been the mistress of Prince Philip. The more she denied the rumour, the more it was believed. Philip himself, adhering to the Royal Family’s tradition of declining to comment on matters relating to their private lives, failed to come to her defence…