Prince Harry, in the dress uniform of his British army regiment, paid tribute Friday to US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan on day two of a US tour dedicated in good part to war veterans. With white-gloved hands behind his back, he strolled alone through rows of white headstones in a section of the sun-kissed Arlington National Cemetery reserved for those who died in America's most recent wars.

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine spent their second wedding anniversary apart on Monday, with Kate visiting a hospice on her own. Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, spent the day chatting to children at the hospice while her husband was on duty as a search and rescue helicopter pilot. It was in marked contrast to their glittering wedding in London's Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011, watched by an estimated two billion people around the world and about one million on the streets.

British royal officials on Thursday dismissed media reports that Prince Harry is to spend six months on assignment to the Australian army. Australia's News Limited newspapers had reported that planning was under way for Harry, third in line to the throne, to be formally embedded in an Australian army unit or make an extended visit as an observer. But a spokeswoman for his St James's Palace office told AFP: "There are no such plans. He is still very much engaged in the military here. It's business as usual."

The head of an Italian publishing group and a French photographer were charged this month over the publication of intimate photos of Prince William's wife Catherine sunbathing topless in France that sparked a furore. The photos were printed in two publications in September, one of which displayed shots of the former Kate Middleton half-naked having suncream rubbed into her buttocks by William at a private chateau in the south of France. The grainy snaps triggered an immediate furore in Britain, and the angry royal couple launched legal proceedings in France.