Queen Elizabeth.Photo: Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Queen Elizabethis known for her love of horses, but there’s a reason she hasn’t been spotted riding in recent months. The monarch, 95, has not ridden since early September during her summer break at her Balmoral estate in Scotland, according toThe Sun. “She was in quite a bit of discomfort,” a source told the outlet. “She adores riding and it has been part of her ritual for most of her life....

Queen Elizabeth.Photo: STEVE PARSONS/POOL/AFP via Getty Queen Elizabethis back on her feet. Just days after a sprained back caused the 95-year-old monarch to miss the Remembrance Sunday service, she welcomed General Sir Nick Carter, the Chief of the Defense Staff, in the Oak Room at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. In addition to it being her first official engagement since being absent from Sunday’s ceremony, it’s also her first in-person engagement since her October 20 hospitalization....

Queen Elizabeth.Photo: Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images Queen Elizabethis back to royal duty after the funeral for her husband of 73 years,Prince Philip. On Tuesday, the monarch made her first official appearance following Philip’s funeral on April 17. The Queen conducted two virtual audiences from Windsor Castle, where she has been staying for most of the past year amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Queen was seen smiling on the screen as she greeted Ivita Burmistre, ambassador from the Republic of Latvia, and Sara Affoue Amani, ambassador from the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, who virtually met with the monarch at Buckingham Palace....

Photo: John Stillwell/AFP/Getty Happy holidays from the Queen! Queen Elizabeth made her annual Christmas Day address on Friday. This year, the message was pre-recorded from Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabethgave her first broadcast live on the radio in 1952 and in 1957, her speech was televised for the first time. In this year’s message, the Queen described Christmas as “a time to remember all that we have to be thankful for....

Buckingham Palace was the Queen’s main residence since her crowning in 1953. However, in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, she temporarily moved to Windsor Castle and did not return to the Palace before her death. “They are incandescent with grief,” the insider said. “However much you are prepared for it, after a lifetime of service, it was still a terrible shock.” CARL COURT/POOL/AFP via Getty More than 2,000 people, including world leaders and foreign royals, gathered atWestminster Abbeyon Monday for the monarch’s funeral....

Jordan Royal Wedding.Photo:Jordan Pix/Getty Images Jordan Pix/Getty Images Queen RaniaandCrown Prince Husseinof Jordan are still swooning over hisroyal weddingtoPrincess Rajwa! The Queen of Jordan and her eldest son posted new photos from Crown Prince Hussein’sspectacular royal weddingto social media after he married his architect sweetheart in Amman on Thursday. Queen Rania, 52, posted 20 new shots across three carousels onInstagramrecapping the couple’s Islamic marriage ceremony at Zahran Palace, the grand procession to the reception at Al Husseiniya Palace, the celebration there and the glittering banquet that followed....

Photo: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock Rachel WeiszandDaniel Craigare new parents! TheDisobedienceactress, 48,revealed she was pregnantin an interview in April withThe New York Timeswhile promoting her film. “I’ll be showing soon,” she said, adding, “Daniel and I are so happy.” Continued Weisz, “We’re going to have a little human. We can’t wait to meet him or her. It’s all such a mystery.” Kevin Winter/Getty Weisz and Craig, 50,married in 2011, just six monthsafter they began dating....

Lil' Troy.Photo: ABC 13 Houston/ youtube Lil' Troy, a Houston-area rapper known for his 1999 hit “Wanna Be a Baller,” escaped from a massive fire that engulfed a truck he was driving this week. The musician, who traded in his rap career and now owns Birklett Trucking Company,according to theHouston Chronicle, spotted smoke rising from underneath the hood of his 18-wheeler while driving on a Texas highway, he toldABC 13....

Raquel Levissis taking action against herVanderpump Rulescostars amid hercheating scandalwithTom Sandoval. The Bravo reality star, 28, sent a legal notice to her castmates warning them not to share the recording ofher intimate FaceTime sessionwith Sandoval, which his then-girlfriendAriana Madixdiscovered on his phone. Letters were also sent to Sandoval and Madix, respectively. Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss.Amanda Edwards/Getty; Emma McIntyre/WireImage; Charles Sykes/Bravo/Getty The reality star’s lawyers ordered that anyone who has access to the recording delete it from their phones, the cloud or “any other manner or method in which the recording may exist....

Photo: Inks Lake State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife/FacebookThe “Devil’s Cigar,” a distinctive star-shaped mushroom that can make a “hissing” noise, has been spotted in Texas.Texas Parks and Wildlifeannounced the discovery in a Facebook post over the weekend, which included pictures of the fungus — known asChorioactis geaster— that was located along a trail in Inks Lake State Park.“The rare and rather unique, star-shaped fungus is highly selective about where it grows, mostly attaching to decaying cedar elm stumps in the central and northern parts of Texas,” the agency wrote on the park’s page....

Dr. Benjamin Aaron.Photo: Bettmann/Getty Dr. Benjamin Aaron, the surgeon who performed a life-saving procedure on former President Ronald Reagan after an assassination attempt, is recalling the operation 40 years later. On March 30, 1981,John Hinckley Jr., who was 25 at the time, shot Reagan, as well as White House Press Secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a police officer in front of a Washington, D.C., hotel while television cameras rolled....

The Drummondhousehold is in full wedding planning mode!In a newblog post, Ree Drummond shared all the latest details about her daughter Alex’s upcoming wedding to fiancé Mauricio Scott — including that the event will be held on May 1 at the family’s ranch in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.The Pioneer Womanstar, 52, said that while the couple — whogot engagedin August 2020 — looked at several venues in Tulsa, “Alex and Mauricio ultimately decided that the ranch would be the best place for them to say ‘I do....

Reese Witherspoon on Oct. 21, 2023.Photo:Monica Schipper/Getty Monica Schipper/Getty Reese Witherspoonknows what her fans want. As Witherspoon, 47, spoke during a panel discussion atHello Sunshine’s inaugural Shine Away Event in Los Angeles on Saturday, the actor and producer said she has always been “obsessed with comedy and things were light and optimistic” when asked what kind of stories she prefers to tell in her work. “I came to this realization, and I’m sure you guys are going to find this shocking: I’m not meant to be doing dark, heavy, intense, heavy horror, gore, darkness movies,” Witherspoon told the event’s attendees....