Britain's Princess Beatrice celebrated her 18th birthday with a star-studded banquet on Saturday (07/15/06).

The young royal wore a stunning £10,000 silk gown - flown over from New York fashion house Marchesa as a gift - to the Victorian-themed masked ball held at Windsor Castle.

A cameraman has claimed he had two-and-a-half minute sex romp with Britain's Princess Diana.

Sebastian Rich, 52, makes the sordid claim in his autobiography - which he is currently offering to the publisher with the highest bid.

Britain's Prince William has run a mile to raise money for the Sport Relief charity.

The 24-year-old royal, who described the event as "awesome", completed the race on Saturday (08.07.06) at Sandhurst Military Academy, where he is training to be an army officer.

British royals blew about $10 million last year -on travel.

Buckingham Palace accounts - published on June 27 - showed a $905,246 increase in royal expenditure on travel from the previous financial year.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth 'costs' taxpayers about $112 a year each - a new report has revealed.

The Queen's financial public accounts - published on June 27 - also state the annual 'cost' of the monarch has risen by 4%, and now stands at the total of about $68 million.

Britain's Prince Charles earns $25,504,567 million a year and pays $5,465,593 million in tax - a report has revealed.

The Prince of Wales revealed his financial situation for the first time ever yesterday - in a bid to become more "transparent and open" about the Palace's spending.