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  • Prince William loses to Princess in sporting battle

    Prince William loses to Princess in sporting battle

    The Prince and Princess of Wales displayed their competitive side once more on Tuesday, when they participated in activities at Aberavon Leisure Centre in South Wales.

    William, 40, and Kate, 41, jumped at the chance to get involved in a spin class at the Port Talbot Sports centre as the pair battled it out in the “Tour de Aberavon’ challenge.

    Kate removed her smart cream coat, and hopped on the spin bike in her £19.99 Zara skirt and high-heeled black boots, while William, calmly confident, kept on his suit jacket for the 45-second competition.

    Fellow class attendees cheered on both the Prince and Princess of Wales, but it was Kate who was ultimately victorious in the short, yes, strenuous, sporting challenge.

    The Prince and Princess of Wales are visiting communities and several mental health initiatives in South Wales ahead of St David’s Day, which takes place on March 1. They visited Aberavon Leisure Centre to promote how sport can help improve mental health.

    Their Royal Highnesses started their busy day with a visit to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre to launch their latest initiative: creating therapy gardens to offer mental health support across South Wales.

    Kate and William have long worked to highlight the importance of mental health services; through their Royal Foundation, they launched the Heads Together campaign alongside Prince Harry in 2016.

    The initiative is a joint effort between the couple’s Royal Foundation and a social enterprise called Life at No.27, which uses horticulture and counselling to help improve its service users’ mental health.

    While at Brynawel Rehabilitation Centre, Prince William and Kate visited the site that will be used for the new therapy allotment, which will feature a sensory and herbal garden, mud kitchen and an interactive learning space.

    The Princess of Wales got stuck in on the allotments, helping to plant seeds for a flower called the ‘Sweet William’.

  • The Prince of Wales to establish a mental health therapy garden in Wales

    The Prince of Wales to establish a mental health therapy garden in Wales

    The Prince and Princess of Wales will on Tuesday visit a mental health therapy garden that is under construction in South Wales with the aim of providing support to the local communities.

    The couple’s Royal Foundation has announced a new collaboration with horticultural therapy and mental health counselling provider Life at No.27 to help the charity scale up its mission.

    The Prince and Princess will visit the site where the first garden will be developed, at Brynawel Rehabilitation Centre near the town of Pontyclun, where individuals will eventually be able to learn and grow their own produce.

    It is hoped that the allotments and garden will provide individuals with a space to support their mental health as well as leave a lasting legacy in the community that the Royal couple visit.

    The garden, under development, will sit alongside a communal sensory and herbal garden, a mud kitchen, and an interactive learning space.

    The Royal Foundation has arranged for national and local organisations to support the design and development of the new garden, as well as provided funding, tools, plants, seeds and materials for landscaping.

    The garden and neighbouring allotments are being developed over the next few months, with the goal of offering free and low-cost gardening therapy and mental health support sessions for the Centre’s users and their families.

    It is hoped that residents in the wider local community who are suffering from mental health, loneliness or low confidence will eventually also have access to the therapy garden through a GP referral.

  • Prince and Princess of Wales releases family photo for official Christmas card

    The UK may have been blanketed in snow this week, but the image on the Prince and Princess of Wales’ official Christmas card suggests otherwise.

    The photo, which was shared on the royal couple’s official social media accounts, shows them on a sunny family walk with their three bare-legged children: Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4.

    Kensington Palace, the couple’s official home, tweeted the photo on Tuesday with a Christmas tree emoji and the message: “Sharing a new family photo for this year’s Christmas card!”

    Dressed in jeans and sneakers, the royal couple are pictured walking along a parkland path, hand-in-hand with their children.

    The casually color-coordinated image sees Prince George, who is second in line to the throne, dressed in a blue polo short and navy shorts, alongside Princess Charlotte in a short denim jumpsuit and Prince Louis in denim shorts and a striped, short-sleeved shirt.

    Shot earlier this year in Norfolk, eastern England by award-winning photographer Matt Porteous, the Waleses’ image was released less than 48 hours before the final three episodes of Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex’s docuseries hit the streaming service.

    Earlier this week, King Charles III issued the first official Christmas card of his reign.

    Chosen by the King and Camilla, Queen Consort, the photo was taken by Sam Hussein at the Braemar Games in Scotland on September 3, five days before Queen Elizabeth II died and when Charles was still the Prince of Wales.

    It features the couple looking at each other, with the King in profile wearing a beige suit and striped tie and Camilla in a green hat and jacket.

  • Why there have been arguments over titles for Archie and Lilibet behind the scenes

    Archie Harrison and Lilibet Diana’s names have not been changed, despite the fact that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s two children may be eligible for royal titles when King Charles became the monarch in 1917.

    After the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, her eldest son Charles ascended to the throne and declared his wife Camilla to be the next monarch.

    Additionally, Charles declared that his daughter-in-law Kate Middleton and son-in-law Prince William will succeed to the titles of Prince and Princess of Wales.

    Prince Harry and Meghan’s children were still referred to as “Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor” and “Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor” despite an update to the royal family website to reflect these changes.

    Behind the scenes, there have been arguments over titles for Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1.

    Under current guidelines, grandchildren of a monarch could be princes or princesses. A rule established by King George V after he issued a Letters Patent in 1917 read: “…the grandchildren of the sons of any such sovereign in the direct male line (save only the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) shall have and enjoy in all occasions the style and title enjoyed by the children of dukes of these our realms.”

    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.BEN STANSALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

    As monarch, King Charles III could change that rule, but it’s unlikely he’ll choose to do so.

    A spokesperson said that nothing would be decided or said about the issue while the family was in mourning, a period that lasts one week past the funeral.

    A source previously told PEOPLE: “Archie will almost certainly become a prince one day. Charles isn’t going to disavow his grandson, so it’s hugely unlikely that he’ll change the rules to stop it happening. The Charles also isn’t going to say that Archie can’t use the title any time soon.”

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    When Prince Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, were married in May 2018, the Queen gave them the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Archie was entitled to the “courtesy title” of Earl of Dumbarton upon his birth. However, the couple announced that they had not given him a courtesy title and he would be known as Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. Down the line, Archie could be given the secondary Sussex title, before inheriting the dukedom.

    The couple relocated to California after stepping back as senior members of the royal family in 2020.

    During Meghan and Prince Harry’s 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duchess of Sussex revealed there was a conversation about titles ahead of Archie’s birth.

    “They were saying they didn’t want him to be a prince or princess, which would be different from protocol, and that he wasn’t going to receive security,” Meghan said. “This went on for the last few months of our pregnancy where I was going, hold on for a second.”

    Meghan went on to say she would have accepted a title for Archie if it “meant he was going to be safe.”

    “And it’s not our decision to make,” she said. “Even though I have a lot of clarity of what comes with the titles good and bad…that is their birthright to then make a choice about.”

    In his first speech as monarch, King Charles mentioned his younger son and daughter-in-law.

    “I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas,” he said.

    Source:people.com