Royal family 11 - 12 November: Meghan's Veterans Day message as Princess Kate leads tributes on Armistice Day

Happy Monday - it's Danielle here, HELLO!'s Online Royal Correspondent, bringing you all of the news as it happens this morning. 

It comes after I joined the royal family at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, where the King led tributes to those who have lost their lives in conflict. 

Today, we're expecting Princess Anne to continue her official visit to Australia with Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, while the Duke of Edinburgh will hold a dinner for the representatives of the Australian Award at Windsor Castle.

The Prince of Wales has opened up about the challenges of speaking to his three young children, following Kate's cancer diagnosis in 2024.

The Princess confirmed she was in remission in January, but has also spoken candidly herself about the ups and downs of recovery after cancer treatment. 

William told Brazilian TV show host, Luciano Huck, in an interview filmed in Rio last week: "Every family has its own difficulties and its own challenges, and I think it's very individual as to how you deal with those problems. We choose to communicate a lot more with our children, that has its good things and its bad things, sometimes you feel you're oversharing with the children when you probably shouldn't."

Read the full story here.

The Australian Governor General, Sam Mostyn, has shared new photographs of the Princess Royal as Anne attended a Remembrance Sunday Service at the Anzac Memorial in Sydney.

The Princess Royal, Governor-General, and Governor Beazley laid wreaths in honour of the service and sacrifice of Australian and Commonwealth service personnel. 

Anne is continuing her Australian visit this week, ahead of travelling to Singapore on Wednesday.

Prince William and Kate have quietly made a small change to their social media platforms following a big week for the royal family. 

The couple, who were reunited on Sunday following an action-packed week for William in Rio de Janeiro, updated their profile photo on X (formerly known as Twitter) to a new temporary bio image. 

The photograph in question featured the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance in 2024.

See here.

 The Princess of Wales has penned a special message to mark the 20th anniversary of her patronage, Evelina London Children's Hospital building.

Kate, who took up the role in 2018, wrote she is "filled with hope" as she praising the hospital as a place that "symbolises love, healing and hope".

Read her message in full here and see photographs of her previous visits.

Documents gathered by a research team investigating allegations of unlawful information gathering against the publisher of the Daily Mail from a group that includes the Duke of Sussex must be "properly searched", a High Court judge has ruled.

Prince Harry and six other high-profile individuals, including Sir Elton John, his husband David Furnish and Liz Hurley, are bringing legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL).

The group alleges that the publisher carried out or commissioned unlawful activities such as hiring private investigators to place listening devices inside cars, "blagging" private records and accessing private phone conversations.

Actress Sadie Frost, campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence and politician Sir Simon Hughes are also in the group.

ANL firmly denies the allegations and is defending the legal action, previously describing the claims as "lurid" and "simply preposterous". A trial is expected in January.

Reporting by PA.

The Prince of Wales has revealed that his children,  Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, ten, and Prince Louis, seven, are not allowed to have mobile phones, which has "become a little bit of a tense issue" with his eldest son. 

Prince William spoke to Brazilian TV show host Luciano Huck during his trip to Brazil last week, where he staged his Earthshot Prize.

"It's really hard," said the future King. "Our children don’t have phones. I think when George moves on to secondary school, then maybe he might have a phone that has no internet access.

"And to be honest, it’s getting to the point where it’s becoming a little bit of a like tense issue. But I think he understands why, we communicate why we don’t think it’s right. And again, I think it’s the internet access I have a problem with.

"I think children can access too much stuff they don’t need to see online, and so having a phone and text message, the old sort of brick phone as they call them, I think that’s fine."

Read more here. 

Princess Anne is known for her elegant and simple approach to dressing, which she showcased on 8 November when she landed in Australia ahead of a four-day visit to the Commonwealth country. The sister of King Charles, 75, was spotted wearing a blue and white sundress, featuring a checked design. Read what HELLO!'s Lifestyle Writer Katie Daly said about the royal's autumnal look here. 

Princess Beatrice stepped out in London on Monday for a visit to a charity. The princess toured the Borne research laboratories on Monday afternoon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she prematurely gave birth to her youngest child Athena in January.

It marks Beatrice's first public charity appearance in the UK since her father Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his prince title and his dukedom over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Read the story here. 

The Duchess of Edinburgh has embarked on a nine-day visit to South and Central America, Buckingham Palace has announced. During the solo trip, Sophie, 60, is expected to visit Peru, Panama and Guatemala at the request of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from Monday to Wednesday. She will also visit Belize, as part of the royal family's engagement with the Realms.

Get the details about Sophie's itinerary here. 

Vogue Williams has given her social media followers an insider look at her famous sister-in-law Pippa Middleton’s 10,000-acre private family estate. Vogue, 40, is married to Spencer Matthews, who is the brother of James Matthews, husband to the sister of the Princess of Wales. In a short video posted to her Instagram Stories over the weekend, Vogue gave her followers a tour of the family’s sprawling Glen Affric Estate in Scotland. 

Watch it here. 

The release date for the Duchess of Sussex's holiday special of her Netflix lifestyle show, With Love, Meghan, has been announced. Meghan shared the exciting news on her Instagram page, revealing that the festive special, With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration, will arrive on December 3. 

Princess Kate noticeably wore three poppies during the Remembrance Sunday service at the weekend, which has become her preference over the years - but what's the significance behind it?

One theory is that the royals wear multiple brooches to honour family members who have fought and died in wars. Another theory is simply because a number of poppies is much more visible than one. While the reason for Kate wearing multiple poppies has never been confirmed by the palace, find out more here. 

That's all the royal news we have for you today, but come back right here early tomorrow for more all things royals from us at HELLO!

Cheers!

While we wait for the royal outings today, we can flashback to Remembrance Sunday. During the ceremony, the Princess of Wales paid a subtle tribute to her late grandfather. Get all the details here...

Hello royal fans, it's set to be a poignant day for members of the royal family, with several out at events today for Armistice Day. The Princess of Wales will visit the National Memorial Arboretum. The King will also be hosting a reception for veterans of World War II later in the day.

Away from Armistice Day, Queen Camilla will also host a reception for the Booker Prize and the newly announced Children's Booker Prize.

Ahead of her Booker Prize reception, Queen Camilla headed to Chippenham for a touching tribute on Armistice Day. The royal took part in Great Western Railway's Poppies to Paddington initiative. The initiative sees poppies transported from stations on the network to Paddington station.

Kate has now been seen in Staffordshire. The royal will join attendees in observing the two-minute silence at 11am before laying a wreath in remembrance of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice and all those who have served in the Armed Forces.

For all of the details on Kate's outing, see our article here.

During the two-minute silence, the Princess of Wales could be seen in deep reflection.

Away from the UK, Princess Anne is in Australia as she marks the 100th anniversary of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, of which she is Colonel-in-Chief. On Tuesday during an outing to Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane, Anne was charged with starting a relay race for serving members. Check out the picture below to see the Princess Royal in action.

If you've got any questions over Princess Kate's fashion for her touching outing, then click here.

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Kate's hairdo was a thing of beauty when she stepped out earlier today to attend the Armistice Day Service of Remembrance on the Armed Forces Memorial.

It featured a braided side bun, allowing for her beautiful hat. It comes after she wore her hair half up on Remembrance Sunday.

Kate was seen laying a beautiful wreath during the service. It featuerd a hand-written note which read: "In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we will remember them". It was signed off with her signature.

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain have touched down in China. 

The couple attended a cultural event marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Spanish poet Antonio Machado at the memorial to Chinese poet Xue Tao in Wangjianglou Park in Chengdu.

Before that, the royals attended the Spain-China Economic Forum at the Gran Hotel Melia in Chengdu, China. The outing kicked off day one of the three-day state visit to China. 

During her outing to the cultural event marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Spanish poet Antonio Machado at the memorial to Chinese poet Xue Tao in Wangjianglou Park, Queen Letizia of Spain looked pretty in pink.

She was seen wearing a fuchsia tweed midi dress featuring a round neckline and three-quarter-length sleeves. It was paired with black kitten heels and a matching handbag.

Princess Kate's full black outfit was visible as she walked around the memorial following the service and wreath-laying.

Queen Camilla was seen traveling by train from Chippenham in Wiltshire to London Paddington, as part of Great Western Railway's Poppies to Paddington initiative.

Poppies to Paddington is an annual event which takes place across the Great Western Railway network. Wreaths or poppies are transported to Paddington train station as an act of remembrance, and it is extra special this year, as 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.  

Camilla walked from Platform 2 to the memorial on Platform 1 for a service of remembrance during which she laid a wreath. Afterwards, she met several GWR employees, including administrator Jane Brook, whose great-uncle, Harry Charles Western, worked at Exeter as an engine cleaner but was tragically killed in World War One.

Queen Camilla was seen being presented with a crocheted poppy wreath by Eira, 10, as she attends the Great Western Railway's Poppies to Paddington initiative at Chippenham train station.

Teachers looked on proudly as the children spoke with the Queen on the platform after Camilla travelled there from Paddington in London.