Uh-oh! Kate Middleton and Camilla Parker-Bowles are reportedly in a tenser and bitter royal conflict again. The reason? The Duchess of Cornwall has been encouraging Queen Elizabeth II to secretly undergo a few Botox injections.

The ladies of the British Royal family have been recently making headlines after reports claimed that they have been unobtrusively sneaking off for Botox injections. According to Celeb Dirty Laundry, a Palace insider revealed that Duchess Camilla has relied on Botox and fillers for years to make the lines and wrinkles on her aging face disappear.

The source also added that the 68-year-old Duchess of Cornwall has been urging the Queen to secretly undergo a few Botox injections. She even assured the royal matriarch that there were no side effects.

The celebrity gossip site further claimed that royal sources disclosed the Queen ordered the family's trusted dermatologist to Buckingham Palace and received a few injections over a period of six months. Unfortunately, the Queen has been in unbearable pain.

"[Queen Elizabeth II] can barely move her jaw to speak," royal sources reportedly said. "Now, it's also difficult for [Queen Elizabeth] to chew food. And smiling is out of the question."

Duchess Kate, on the other hand, has been apparently furious with Duchess Camilla for causing Queen Elizabeth unnecessary pain. Prince William's 34-year-old wife also despised the Duchess for exposing the penchant of the royal ladies for Hollywood-style cosmetic surgery. Thus, Prince Charles' wife has been banished from Buckingham Palace.

Meanwhile, Duchess Kate's sister Pippa has recently flaunted her adventurous and sporty sides as she competed in the Inferno Cross Country race in Murren, Switzerland on Saturday, Jan. 23, Daily Mail noted. The 32-year-old socialite confidently took the slopes in what has been dubbed as the world's longest downhill ski race.

Pippa Middleton completed the race in just 12 minutes and 28 seconds. People magazine has learned that she came in 67th out of 105 participants who joined the race.

In other news, Prince William's friend Henry Worsley, the former SAS officer who was raising money for the Duke of Cambridge's Endeavour Fund with his polar trip, has died at 55 after he tried to recreate Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic Antarctic crossing.

Worsley's wife announced that her husband was found to be suffering from exhaustion, dehydration and bacterial peritonitis. He was airlifted to a hospital in Chile on Friday but the perilous expedition has cost him his life, Daily Telegraph reported.

As Worsley's friend, the 33-year-old Duke led the tribute to him, praising him for his "courage and determination."

"Harry and I are very sad to hear of the loss of Henry Worsley," Prince William said. "He was a man who showed great courage and determination and we are incredibly proud to be associated with him."

Worsley had known Prince William since 2011 when the Duke agreed to be a patron of the Scott-Amundsen Centenary Race, in which Worsley led a team of six soldiers along the original 1912 route taken by Norwegian Roald Amundsen when he became the first man to reach the South Pole.

Meanwhile, Worsley's fellow explorers have suggested that his "extraordinary" journey would place him in the Pantheon of Antarctic pioneers alongside the men he was trying to follow such as Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott.

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