Prince William says his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, inspires him to do good works

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - Queen Mother was angry and defensive after her daughter, the Queen, was criticized by the public for her actions after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car accident in 1997, it has emerged. The Queen's apparent "business-as-usual" approach to take Princes William and Harry to church at Balmoral just hours after Prince Charles had told them of their mother's death had made the public angry.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Prince William has said his idea of royal duties was not to be "an ornament". The second in line to the British throne confessed at a St James' Palace forum that "there is a place" for shaking hands on official visits but he would rather be more involved than just "turning up and opening things".

September 17th, 2009 LONDON - The younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II destroyed letters from Princess Diana in a bid to protect the British royal family, a new book reveals. The late Princess Margaret told a friend that she had ordered the destruction of large bin bags full of personal papers "because they were so private", says the book - a biography of Queen Elizabeth II's mother, who died in 2002 at age 101.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Prince William confessed to having "sweaty palms", even as he held a giant Mexican Red-kneed spider in his hands. William was attending the inauguration of the 78million-pound Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in West London.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has reportedly reprimanded Prime Minister Gordon Brown for handling the war in Afghanistan poorly, especially on the issue of equipment shortage for troops. Leading historian and journalist Andrew Roberts, who has close links with the Royal Family, said he had learned of the Queen's anger through a member of the Royal Family, a serving general and a recent Cabinet minister.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Prince William has let slip his plans to go to Australia next year. The 27-year-old heir to the throne is believed to be planning to go to Australia as an official representative of the Queen at the request of the Foreign Office next spring.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Heir to the British throne, Prince William, has been made an honorary barrister at one of the ancient Inns of Court but promised not to practice. Prince William visiting the Queens room in Middle Temple, on the occasion of his Call to the Bench.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prince Charles is expected to represent Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony to mark the landing of Allied troops on a beach in Normandy, France. Pressure from the White House has forced the French Government to invite the British royal family for the D-Day commemoration ceremony on June 6 in Normandy.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - A collection of personal letters and photographs addressed to a friend by Queen Mary have come into the limelight for the first time and are set to go under the hammer. The collection, spanning half a century, unravels the correspondence between the royal and her friend, Kate Rube, and later Rube's daughter Elizabeth Gillman.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - Prince William had to apologise after a 109-year-old woman wrote to the Queen to complain that Her Majesty wore the same yellow dress in all five royal birthday cards sent to congratulate her. Catherine Masters' letter compelled William to promise that his grandmother would wear a new outfit for the next card.

April 18th, 2009 LONDON - Prince Philip has become the longest serving royal consort in Britain after he took duties in 1952. The Duke of Edinburgh's became the consort on February 6, 1952, when his wife Princess Elizabeth was crowned as Queen.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prince Philip made a gaffe when U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle met the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - Prince William was recently spotted enjoying a night out with a friend at filmmaker Guy Ritchie's London pub, The Punchbowl. Wills, 26, who was having a day off from his RAF pilot training, was determined to make the most of it.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - The The Castle of Mey, the former Highland home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has become embroiled in an equality row after opening its doors to Christian weddings, while refusing to hold ceremonies for homosexual or lesbian couples. The trustees at the Castle of Mey near John o' Groats, said the late Queen Mother preferred that people were married in a Christian ceremony and that they had decided to offer only Christian weddings conducted by a priest or minister.

January 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prince William has taken Kate Middleton, his girlfriend of six years, on a surprise Scottish holiday with his father Prince Charles and stepmother Camilla Parker Bowles. The couple had been expected to visit the Alps but landed on New Year's Day at Birkhall, Prince Charles's private residence in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, reports thesun.co.uk.