Get your fix of celebrity news, photos and inspiring stories with People magazine. Each issue has the inside scoop on today’s hottest celebrities, exclusive photos of your favorite stars and inspiring stories about real-life heroes.
2022: A JOYOUS JUBILEE Queen Elizabeth has appeared on the most famous balcony in the world countless times throughout her 70-year reign. But she never had quite as lively a sidekick as she did on June 2: her 4-year-old great-grandson Prince Louis, who launched a thousand memes and kicked off the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with unbridled, unscripted fun. “He’s a cheeky monkey—a typical third child,” says someone who knows the family. His famously stoic great-grandmother, 96, also had a ball—cracking a few wide smiles throughout the four days of celebrations. “The overwhelming feeling was of a tremendous flow of affection to the Queen from the public,” says her former press secretary Charles Anson, “whether they were monarchists or not.” —JUNE 20, 2022 THE STORY OF THE ROYALS: ANNIVERSARY EDITION…
Ancient palaces, horse-drawn carriages, crown jewels—the storybook trappings of royal life are enchanting. But more engaging are the real-life sagas: A shy 20-year-old marries a prince in a wedding watched by 750 million, only to learn that his heart belongs to another. A young mother ascends the throne after her uncle abdicates and her father dies suddenly; by the end of a record-setting reign she is a great-grandmother and a beloved global symbol of duty and distinctly British coziness. Little princes grow up and find princesses of their own, at college or on a blind date with a TV star. Since its founding in 1974, People has covered royals from the Grimaldis of Monaco (former U.S. film actress Princess Grace was an early cover favorite) to the Chrysanthemum Throne in…
…
SINCE THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF Windsor just over two years ago, his widowed duchess, now 78, has granted few interviews and is rarely photographed. Recently People visited the duchess in her home in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne. The taxi driver was awed and sheepish as we approached the gates: “Monsieur, if I had known I was coming here, I would have given my car a special wash and polish.” The Duchess of Windsor has become a sort of Parisian cultural monument, and her mansion, attended by 17 servants and once occupied by President Charles de Gaulle, is the center of a small court. Suddenly she is in the room, frail but regally elegant as she pauses to gaze out the half-opened French window at the perfect English…
HE IS A STORYBOOK PRINCE IN AN age that is bored with Kings. He is the world’s most-eligible bachelor but sometimes asks chums to fix up blind dates for him. He is in lifelong training for a job that is an anachronism. He is HRH Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, who is destined—some would say doomed—to become Charles III, 41st monarch of England. Prince Charles celebrates his 26th birthday Nov. 14. As he enters his second quarter-century, he is clearly coming into a vigorous and self-confident young manhood but shows no sign yet of picking the woman who will be the next Queen of England. Instead he has concentrated on turning a gangly, jug-eared adolescent into a poised, lively apprentice King. “In this position you meet…
MUSTIQUE, A 1,300-ACRE DOT AT the far end of the Caribbean, where Princess Margaret is known casually as “P.M.” The 45-year-old younger sister of Queen Elizabeth owns a $60,000 villa on the exclusive island to which she often retreats, unburdened by husband Lord Snowdon or her two children. None of the 32 homeowners on Mustique pay much attention to P.M., but last week the rest of the world was clucking: The princess and a blond Etonian young enough to be her son had spent three weeks in her four-bedroom villa Les Jolies Eaux (“Pretty Waters”). The brief idyll of Margaret and Roderick Llewellyn, 28, made headlines in the British press and reportedly infuriated Snowdon. When the princess flew back to London, he was conspicuously absent—engaged, it was explained, on…
