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Here are some photos of the royal family going to Easter church service yesterday at Windsor Castle. Missing from the group: Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William, Prince Harry and Duchess Kate. I don’t see Princess Anne or Prince Philip either (update: Anne was there, I missed her). But Queen Elizabeth was joined by her youngest sons, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex (Andrew and Edward). The Queen was also joined by Peter Phillips, who is Anne’s son, and Peter’s wife Autumn. Autumn is very pretty!

Who else? Princess Beatrice of York was there, as was the Countess of Wessex and her daughter Lady Louise Windsor. Quick question: why isn’t Louise a princess? And why is she a Windsor rather than a Wessex? Surely her title should be Princess Louise of Wessex? Andrew’s daughters are princesses, and they go by “York,” his ducal title. I’m fascinated by titles and who gets to be called what. I still maintain that Kate is not now and has never been a princess, other than “Princess William of Wales.”

There’s also an interesting update on the Beatrice situation. Back in February of this year, the British papers began to note that Beatrice, 26, seemed to be on some kind of extended holiday following her exit from a cushy job at Sony in London. She quit working back in December, and then spent two months going on endless vacations and partying up a storm (or as Will and Kate call it, “business as usual”).

When she was criticized for her seeming aimlessness, Beatrice’s people quickly announced that she had just started a dodgy-sounding “finance” program in America. In the middle of February. Which made no real sense. Anyway, the UK papers now say that Beatrice is “considering” a permanent relocation to America, specifically to NYC. Which is weird, right? Because we were told in February that she had already moved to America. As it turns out, Beatrice “recently completed a finance course at a university in San Francisco” (there’s a B.S. University in San Fran?) and now she’s interviewing for some financial positions in NYC, hoping to move there permanently. True story though: I have no idea when her San Francisco finance course was supposed to happen, because she was photographed in and around London throughout March. Very fishy.

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Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
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