As expected, the glamorous third wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy stole the show from him and Queen Elizabeth when the First French Couple visited Windsor Castle on Wednesday. From her Christian Dior outfits to her controversial nude photos, Carla Bruni was the talk of a royalty-obsessed nation that compared the 40-year old former supermodel to two global icons of beauty and style - Princess Diana and Jacqueline Kennedy.

A photographer had put out a call for a Gordon Brown lookalike, which she said was urgently needed. The artist was 37-year old Alison Jackson, who has been known to take and publish photographs of mirror images of such figures as Princess Diana, David Beckam, George Bush, and the Queen herself. The notoriety of her photographs stems from the fact that the photos she takes are of the lookalikes in compromising positions.

Paul Burrell, Britain's late Princess Diana's former butler, is set to launch a range of bath products. The former royal servant - who Diana once famously described as "her rock" - is reportedly planning to create a line of soaps and bubble bath. A source told Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "The word is, he'll soon be putting his name to a range of bubble baths and soaps.

A car once used to chauffeur Britain's Princess Diana around raised just a little more than $12,000 at an auction on Thursday. The Jaguar Sovereign, a 1992 model in Westminster blue, went under the hammer along with 30 other vintage cars in the sale at Manchester's Simon Charles Auctioneers. The vehicle - made to order for Buckingham Palace - sold for a modest $12,065, well under the price expected by the auctioneers.

Britain's late Princess Diana's childhood bicycle is to go on show at an Essex toy museum Friday. The Tracker bike - which the princess rode when she was aged seven - will be displayed at Standsted's The House on the Hill Toy Museum. Alan Goldsmith, owner of the Essex attraction, which claims to be the largest privately owned toy museum in Europe, purchased the bike for $ 2,671.