Hi Royal Clubbers, it’s Iona here.
First up, here’s the best of the royal coverage over on HELLO! today.
Prince William's photo with children reemerges as photographer talks behind-the-scenes
Prince William and Princess Catherine to embrace 'sporty' family passion at private new home
Queen Mary borrows designer blouse from Princess Josephine's wardrobe
And the winner is…
Yesterday I asked if you would include nuts in your brownie recipes. Many went against Prince William's nut-free recipe as 62 per cent of you said you would include nuts!
I’m now tempted to try baking a nutty brownie at the weekend to see if they do taste better... I’ll report back with my findings (as you can probably tell, I enjoy this type of royal news – and I always love a food poll in my daily newsletter).
Poll of the day
As you will have read, Prince William’s photographer shared some behind-the-scenes insight from a fun family snap with the royal children.
It got me thinking if I’ve ever taken photos of any royals?! After racking my brains, the answer is sadly no – which is somewhat disappointing given I grew up in Windsor (King Charles appears not to do his own shopping in Waitrose). This being said, I do appear in a photo with a royal.
When I was a Brownie (probably around 2007), I met Prince Philip when he came to open our town hall. I was selected to hold a flag and stand at the front next to him. It’s actually a really sweet photo – I was about eight and he was one of the first ‘celebrities’ I met.
I’ve tried to locate it and will include it in tomorrow’s newsletter if I manage to track it down!
In the meantime, today’s poll…
I’m keen to know – have any of you ever snapped a photo of a royal? Let me know, I love hearing your stories!
Picture of the day
Prince Harry began his engagements today with a visit to the Centre for Blast Injury Studies in White City, London. He met with former Army captain David Henson, who previously captained the British team at the Invictus Games.
I don’t know about you but it’s quite bizarre seeing Harry back in London on official engagements – I’m more used to seeing him appear in a Netflix show instead! He almost seems to live two lives: carrying out official duties here, then returning to his relaxed Californian lifestyle.
One must give him credit for managing both – it must be nice to return to the Montecito sunshine…
Wednesday’s puzzles
See you tomorrow, Royal Clubbers!
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Further reading
Could Harry meet Charles today?
WATCH: I interviewed Prince Harry last night – here are my three takeaways
I do enjoy taking photos I mainly use my phone but I do have quite expensive camera it does quite a lot of things and I have used it before although it’s cumbersome I should use it more really.
I have about 19,874 photos on my apple iPhone that’s quite a lot of photos.
Of course Harry is doing exactly what the Queen and his father and brother objected to: being a half in, half out Royal. He is participating on his own terms, not taking on the real burdens of being a working royal.