Mmmmm, Rick O'Connell.

Oh, Princess Masako :(

I've met Prince Philip (long story) and he's ridiculously twinkly and charming. You can tell he's spent his entire adult life conversing with people he's never met for a living, because he manages to make it seem as though your small talk is the most fucking fascinating thing he's ever heard!

London isn't representative of the rest of the UK, though. The UK is 86% white according to BBC News - the big cities (London, Manchester, Birmingham) have a drastically different population to much of the rest of the country.

Has she read any Tamora Pierce? Her earlier books are definitely on the child-appropriate side of YA and they feature awesome heroines! Also, I loved Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson at that age. And all of Garth Nix's books are great, particularly the Old Kingdom series, which I think I first read at about…

I found Smart Bitches Trashy Books thanks to a Jezebel recommendation, and they got me hooked on Sarah Maclean, Tessa Dare, Loretta Chase... god, I haven't read a non-historical romance for so fucking long, but they're always so damn FUN. And I have a Kindle so I can read them on the tube without judgement.

"Clariel" by Garth Nix. I've been waiting SO LONG, and it didn't disappoint.

Surrey is gorgeous, and about as quintessentially English looking as it gets - bluebell woods and Hobbiton-esque rolling hills abound!

Nope.

Quick correction - he'll be Prince of Wales after the Queen dies. After Charles dies he'll be King!

I'm pretty sure the Duke of Surrey title exists and is available. I'm biased, though, since I live there.

The titles they give out tend to be old aristocratic titles that have died out due to lack of male heirs - they would have once had an estate associated with them, but they've usually been long sold off, or sometimes incorporated into the Crown Estates.

No. If Hiddles is going to date a 24-year-old, it's going to be me. Obviously. We went to the same university! We both love quoting Shakespeare at every opportunity! We'd have cute curly-haired babies! IT'S MEANT TO BEEEEEEE!

In 20 years we'll look at these "beachy waves" and they'll look as dated as Farrah Fawcett's flicks do now.

Ha, exactly what I thought. I'd kill for her outfit, and a gorgeous ski chalet in which to lounge in front of the fire while Tom Hiddleston pours me a glass of wine, because those are the only surroundings that deserve it.

I got given that book for Christmas no less than three times because my family loves to mock my love of the Royals. It's actually... quite cute, if unbelievably basic in both senses of the word.

It may not strictly speaking be grammatically correct, but it's a common Britishism. As in you get bored with someone, and you get bored of something.

Katharine Kent isn't Prince Edward's wife, she's like eighty. She's the Queen's cousin. She is, however, awesome, and taught music at a primary school.

Or a Duggar. He looks like a young Jim Bob.

I miss Chuck. I miss Gossip Girl, back when it was good. Such great fashion porn.