As some of you know, I’ve suffered from depression and anxiety for most of my life, and at the turn of this new year I’ve decided to inject a little positive thinking into my life. As opposed to making New Years Resolutions which I know will fall by the wayside by the end of January […]
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Duchess Kate doubles her engagements in 2014, but is still the least active senior royal
The annual tabulation of the British Royal Family’s engagement numbers by Tim O’Donovan has been released… and I’m super confused. There is no one way of how to count Royal engagements, and it seems everyone’s tabulations differ (and apparently I’m the most generous of the lot). Going off of the O’Donovan numbers, almost every royal […]
Sophie, Countess of Wessex gets emotional during visit to hospital that saved her life during birth of Lady Louise
The Countess of Wessex has been getting a lot of coverage lately—which is awesome. Yesterday, Sophie visited Frimley Park Hospital where she nearly died giving birth to Lady Louise in 2003. Sophie suffered a placental abruption at 36 weeks which caused her to lose a lot of blood. Marcus Setchell delivered her via an emergency […]
Sophie, Countess of Wessex, shows off her hockey prowess
The Countess of Wessex was out and about yesterday (March 11), visiting the England hockey team at Bisham Abbey National Sports Center in her role as Patron of England Hockey—she’s been patron since January 2007. Sophie talked to the staff and players and got in on the action by playing a bit with player Shona […]
Prince Edward and Sophie visit primary school on his 50th birthday
To celebrate his 50th birthday Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex visited Robert Browning primary school in Walworth, London to observe work being carried out by Kidspace, a charity preventing childhood bullying, who received money from the Wessex Youth Trust. The Wessex Youth Trust is a charity set up in 1999, after the Wessex […]
Kate opened an Art Room–wearing $14,000 in jewelry
Sophie, Countess of Wessex steps out for school visit
Kate’s 2013 public engagement numbers are ridiculously low
The official numbers for engagements undertaken by the British Royal Family were released. Now, the DM posted a story about the number of days each royal (including the European royals) worked during 2013, but that was a Danish study of number of days worked, not the British compilation of number of engagements done—the royals often […]