The royals articles

  • Jay Royals on doorstep of state baseball championship

    Grayson Shehan slid into home plate, flexed, put his emotion on display and ignited an eruption of cheers from his teammates in the dugout. Here at Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers on a hot and humid Wednesday afternoon, the Royals were now up two runs in the seventh inning of a 1A state semifinal against second-ranked Lafayette.
  • Time for a round of Happy Families in the Royal household

    ​There is no such thing as the perfect happy family and anyone who says theirs is, is frankly lying. We all have skeletons in our family tree, feuds that have lasted three generations, dads who drink too much, grannies who say too much, broken hearts and sometimes, broken limbs. The rift between Prince William and his brother Harry is a classic example of what happens to a pair of seemingly inseparable siblings when love and marriage intrude. Royal gossip suggests that the brothers fell out...
  • Centenarian appeals for return of stolen royal picture

    A sheltered home resident who lives near Holyrood Palace is appealing for the return of a treasured picture of her and the late Duke of Edinburgh in time for her 100th birthday celebrations. Hilda Miller met Prince Philip when he visited the Croft-an-Righ retirement housing complex in Abbeyhill, Holyrood in 2007, which he had opened some years earlier. Hilda thought that the original royal visit had not been properly recorded so she pleaded with Buckingham Palace to arrange a second trip so...