See the alert from The Monarchist League of Canada: Monarchist.ca

Lovely photos of Princess Michael (Marie-Christine) and her family at PrincessMichael.com. As you know, HRH has written three books. The most recent is “The Serpent and the Moon”. The others are “Crowned in a Far Country : Portraits of Eight Royal Brides” and “Cupid and the King : Five Royal Paramours”.

The Duchess of Cornwall is to carry out her first solo engagement as a member of the Royal Family. Camilla, who married the Prince of Wales last month, will visit Southampton General Hospital in her capacity as president of the National Osteoporosis Society.

The visit – her first official appearance without her husband – was originally to take place on April 25, but was postponed early last month. Clarence House said it would have been insensitive for the Duchess to visit a hospital in the run-up to the General Election.

Camilla, whose mother and grandmother both suffered from the crippling brittle bone disease, is to tour the osteoporosis unit. The Duchess described her mother Rosalind Shand’s agonising ordeal in a speech at an international summit on the condition in 2002. She described how her mother’s experience led to her own involvement with the society.

“The quality of her life became so dismal and her suffering so unbearable that she just gave up the fight and lost the will to live,” she said.

Camilla will also open the hospital’s Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre during the two-hour visit

The Royal Biographies have been updated: new photos and updated events.

A wedding page for Charles and Camilla has been added, though it is still in the formative stages.

Throughout the 2005 election campaign [The BBC] asked a panel of voters to share their views in text and in video, using 3G mobile phones and video cameras. BBC News will continue to ask the voters for their views on political developments in the months following the election.

Four of the panellists sent their comments about the tradition of the Queen’s Speech and the programme of legislation announced. For more, click here:

UK Voter’s Panel

It has been announced that HRH Prince William will visit New Zealand in early July. He was invited by British and Irish Lions Head Coach Sir Clive Woodward to join the team for the second and third tests against the All Blacks. This takes place on 2nd and 9th July. Prince William is also expected to attend a Lions training camp.

He is expected to represent HM The Queen at ceremonies in Wellington and Auckland to commemorate the end of the Second World War. Although details have not been finalised yet, he is also expected to visit a school, and undertake other duties while in the country. This visit includes the Prince’s first solo official engagement, and the first occasion upon which he represented HM The Queen.

It’s no wonder the rest of the world thinks we’re fools.