Britain's Princess Anne has visited a racing school exactly 25 years after her brother, Prince Charles, opened it.

The 58-year-old royal paid a visit to Suffolk's British Racing School on Tuesday where she met representatives from Forest Heath Council, East Cambridgeshire Council and school staff.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth has ordered the royal family to avoid flaunting their wealth in public during the current global financial crisis.

The monarch - renowned for her thrifty ways - has reportedly told senior royals, including Prince Charles and his sons Prince William and Harry to swap extravagant spending for public engagements, with the younger royals advised that to be seen in nightclubs would set a bad example.

Britain's Prince William has been left off a list of famous students who attended his university.

The royal and his girlfriend Kate Middleton - who have been dating for five years after meeting at Scotland's St Andrew's University - were not included on a list of alumni at the institution's new $3 million museum.

A letter written by Britain's late Princess Diana on her honeymoon is set to be auctioned. The princess wrote to royal footman Mark Simpson two days after her July 1981 wedding to Prince Charles to thank him for looking after her while she stayed at London's Buckingham Palace during the run up to her big day.

In the note - which is expected to fetch up to $5,200 when it is sold at auctioneers Reeman Dansie in Colchester, Essex - the princess admits feeling "terribly lonely" in the days before her wedding.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is set to step down from the throne and allow her son Prince Charles to become the country's monarch in five years' time, according to senior palace sources.

The 82-year-old monarch has reportedly told confidantes she is planning to abdicate when she is 87 and allow Charles to become king at the age of 65.

Britain's Prince Charles has posed for a formal, but casual portrait to celebrate his 60th birthday.

The future king, who appears with one arm draped across the back of a 19th century gilt-wood armchair given to him by his grandmother, the late Queen Mother, chose a relaxed image of himself wearing the ceremonial uniform of the Welsh Guards.