Hollywood star Katie Holmes has said she would love to see stars such as Kate Middleton and Adele wearing her Holmes & Yang range. The actress has a long list of famous faces, including the Someone Like You hitmaker, that she would love to see wearing the collection she created with pals Jeanne Yang and Heather McQuarrie. Holmes, 32, told Vogue.co.uk: “We love Adele. Alicia Keys. There are women, from rock stars to heads of state, who we’d love to dress – but I love hearing mums, teachers, anyone love our clothes. But, here in England, we love Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. I’d love to dress her.”
Kate Middleton’s Reiss dress is going up for auction to raise money for charity. The 29-year-old wore the Shola dress from Reiss to meet the US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle at Buckingham Palace last month and the dress soon sold out. She also wore Reiss’s Nannette dress for her official engagement photos and that also sold out quickly. Fans are now being offered the chance to get their hands on one of the gowns as both a Shola and a Nannette dress has been donated by Reiss to Marie Claire’s Trust in Fashion charity event on June 29. The auction and VIP catwalk show will take place at One Mayfair and is being hosted by Sadie Frost.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have reportedly scrapped plans to meet with Arnold Schwarzenegger following his love-child scandal. The newlywed royals fly to Los Angeles on July 8 and had been planning to meet the former governor and movie action hero. But now it has been scrapped after Arnie was exposed as a love cheat who fathered his maid’s child and kept it a secret for over a decade. “Organizers of the royal visit had been talking about a private meeting with Schwarzenegger at the British consul-general’s Los Angeles residence. But now that plan has been abandoned,” a source insisted. A spokeswoman for Clarence House said, “We cannot confirm any details about the engagements the Duke and Duchess will undertake in California at this stage.” A spokesperson for Schwarzenegger insisted the meeting with the royals was never scheduled in the first place. He said, “There were never any plans for them to get together. Never even discussed. “There was some rumour that was out there on the Internet, I don’t know where it came from. There were no discussions on either side about a visit.”
Prince William and Kate are reportedly set to keep costs down on their forthcoming tour of Canada by leaving the private jet at home. Kate is also believed to have turned down the chance to have a hairdresser and lady-in-waiting with her when they carry out their first tour together next month, while William has refused to take any more staff than is absolutely necessary. According to The Sun, that and their decision to fly with British Airways will save British tax payers in the region of £200,000, while Prince Charles’ 2005 visit to the US by private jet is believed to have cost £300,000. A source told the newspaper, “William wants to distance himself from any claims he is extravagant or wasteful like other family members. “But the fact he is flying home on a normal airline will make it even harder for the likes of [Prince] Charles and Andrew to justify private jets.” William and Kate will tour eight Canadian cities in nine days and then head to Los Angeles for a two-day visit.
The dress Kate Middleton wore to meet US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle has sold out in the US and online. Newlywed Kate, 29, was looking tanned as she joined her husband Prince William, 28, at Buckingham Palace to greet the couple and was pictured wearing a taupe dress from the high-street store Reiss. The Shola dress was priced at £175 and Reiss has confirmed that limited numbers of the dress are still available after she opted to wear the outfit for the important meeting. Reiss wrote a message on their Twitter page saying: “To all our Shola fans!… The dress has now sold out online and in the US, with very limited stock left in UK stores.” The website also crashed for around two hours after she was pictured in the dress as fans rushed to get their hands on it. At the time, they wrote: “Due to unprecedented demand, Shola mania has crashed our website!”
Newlyweds Prince William and Kate are reportedly planning to get around their honeymoon island in the Seychelles by bicycle. The couple are said to have turned down the offer of an electric golf buggy in a bid to get back to nature during their two-week stay on the private island, and William is even planning to catch fish for their meals. A source told The Mirror, “William wants Kate to be completely relaxed and for it to be just the two of them. This is the perfect place. “They hope to turn off their mobiles, shut out the modern world, and reflect. This will be the ultimate relaxing break for them.” The couple are believed to be staying in a villa which can cost up to £6,000 a night.
Newlyweds Prince William and Kate Middleton have already made a new addition to their family by adopting a baby penguin. Given as a wedding present, the little Humbolt penguin called Acorn lives at Chester Zoo in England. The animal will remain with the other penguins but staff at Chester Zoo are hoping the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are now officially known, will come and visit him. “Hopefully the happy couple will come and see little Acorn playing in his pool very soon,” a zoo spokesman told Us Magazine. “It’s a real honour to be able to boast Prince William and Kate as penguin adopters.”
German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has compared newly-wed Kate Middleton to the likes of Lindsay Lohan. Karl believes the 29-year-old young bride is like troubled Hollywood starlet Lohan, 24. He said: “Kate is a young, modern woman. She’s a Lindsay Lohan and she wasn’t going to miss her moment.” However, Lagerfeld, 77, did hail her Alexander McQueen and Sarah Burton wedding dress as ‘elegant and chic’. Commenting on today’s wedding ceremony for French television, he said: “It’s a bridal gown of very refined detail, much more refined than the one Diana wore. “Alexander McQueen’s dresses are always very elegant. It’s very pretty, and relatively classic, but that goes with the decor, with a little touch of the 1950s that recalls Marilyn Monroe or Queen Elizabeth II’s dress. “The lace is pretty, especially the embroidered veil and the tiara not too high, without too heavy a bun. It’s ravishing and the length of the train is perfect.” He added: “It’s all elegant and chic – you don’t need to be born a royal princess to be like that.”
Two billion people are expected to watch Kate Middleton tie the knot with Prince William next week giving it the biggest live TV audience in history. The couple will marry at Westminster Abbey on April 29 and the whole world is expected to be watching them as they make their vows. It is thought it will be the most watched TV event in history taking over from the 1966 World Cup Final, which was seen by 32million people. If two billion people do tune in then it will double the amount of people who watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. And three times the amount of people who saw Prince William’s parents, Princess Diana and Prince Charles, marry in 1981.
Bride-to-be Kate Middleton and Prince William will exchange vows on YouTube. Live streaming of the royal wedding will be broadcast on YouTube to boost the couple’s 21st century credentials. The event will also be chronicled on an official website, as well as on Facebook and website Flickr, while William’s press office will also comment on a blog. There will be a video wedding book for the public to sign. Middleton, 29, is set to marry William, 28, at Westminster Abbey on April 29.
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