When will Kate's words count more than her image?

Kate's latest speech has made headlines

(photo Province of British Columbia via Flickr)

When I woke up this morning to see 'The Duchess of Cambridge' trending on Twitter, my first thought was baby. After all, Kate's last engagement was the day before last and with no appearances or anniversaries to make her name flash up on the most popular talking topics of the day, bambino number three seemed a possibility. It turns out that everyone was talking about Kate talking, for a change. But does this mean we want to listen to Kate more now that click on photos?

Buckingham Palace: time for a rethink?

The Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace - is it time to turn it from home to office?

(photo by Carfax2 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons)

At a time of year when many of us need a new boiler, repair bills are never far from thoughts. But when the repair bill is 369 million, that really concentrates the mind. Buckingham Palace is getting a refit and the invoice has not only caused a huge row, it's reignited the debate about where the Royal Family should live and who should foot the bill. So is it time to change things up at Buckingham Palace?