Usually, I can tell if someone's bored with me by a slight wandering of the eye (eyes, center!), but it's a whole other game when hobnobbing with the queen of England. We may know how to address her, but here are a few key signs that signal her handlers to intervene when she's through with a conversation. When she's ready to wrap it up, but not necessarily royally bored or annoyed, she'll switch Read more

For the little girl who turns her nose up to tiara-clad Barbies and plastic castles, there's now a princess prep camp for little American girls with loftier royal aspirations. Complete with butlers, chefs, etiquette lessons, and palace visits, it's a great way to enable your daughter's realistic lifetime goal of becoming "the next Kate Middleton." The princess mania has been in full force this Read more

Prince William agrees with the 82 percent of TrèsSugar readers who say they'd rather have a small wedding than a large one. The future king plans to model his wedding after Grandma's, figuring that current times are more like the post-World War II era than the flashy 1980s when his parents were married. When Queen Elizabeth married in 1947, World War II had just ended and the royal family Read more

Forget everything you learned watching The Princess Diaries — although I'd still like to imagine Queen Elizabeth II teaching Kate, I mean Catherine, how to wave properly. Modern-day queens-in-waiting learn how to fill their royal role with good old-fashioned premarital counseling. Kate Middleton will participate in "training sessions" aimed to help her avoid the depression her fiancé's Read more

There's no rule that Americans can't marry into the British royal family (although, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936 to wed an American divorcée), but if you didn't grow up in the UK it might take you a while to tell the Princess Royal from the Duke of Gloucester. Prince William's off the market, so before Prince Harry goes, let's brush up on common royal titles. King and Queen: If Read more

Yesterday, the Daily Beast's Tina Brown put royal-wedding fever in the air when she noted June 3 and 4 are "mysteriously blocked out" on Buckingham Palace's calendar. The only reason imaginable for such secrecy is a major announcement, like say the long-suspected engagement of 27-year-old Prince William and 28-year-old Kate Middleton. If the June engagement is true, Brown predicts a November Read more