By Online Reporter, (The Sun)

SLOBBER-MOUTHED singer Avril Lavigne has apologised for spitting at the paparazzi last week.

The singer stunned guests at Hollywood hangout Hyde when she assaulted snappers with spray of spit.

The saga started when Avril emerged from the hotspot with husband Deryck Whibley and leaped into her car for a snogging session.

However, when the photographers tried to capture their steamy embrace, Avril leapt out and spat on the nearest camera lens.

Bizarrely, the Canadian singer decided to repeat the sloppy feat the next night.

"It's trying at best dealing with their insistent intrusions. I meant no offence to my fans, whose relationship I truly value. I have and will always go out of my way for my fans."

Despite the controversy, newly-wed Avril claims to be the happiest she’s ever been, and insists her new album reflects her joy.

SHAMED songstress Avril Lavigne could face six months in jail for hurling spit at photographers outside a Hollywood club.

Avril and her rock hubby Deryck Whibley spent two nights on the lash earlier this week and each time the Complicated singer shot saliva at waiting snappers as they left celeb hangout Hyde.

According to PerezHilton.com the two photographers she covered in saliva are considering pressing charges, especially as it was all caught on video.

According to American law, battery is any willful and unlawful act of force or touching against another person.

Wrongful touching doesn't need to inflict physical injuries and can be indirect such as throwing an object or spitting on someone.

Punishment is by a fine of up to £1000, up to six months in the county jail or both.

Avril’s gobby tirade began on Tuesday night when the singer spat at a snapper.

The following night Avril was at it again, this time shouting ‘bitch’ after dousing photographers in her spit.

SORRY, lads, it’s bad news – AVRIL LAVIGNE and rocker boyfriend DERYCK WHIBLEY are engaged.

The grungey teen rocker said yes when tattooed SUM 41 singer Derik got down on one knee and popped the question in California at the weekend.

The couple are said to be blissfully happy and Canadian Avril has been showing off her sparkling ring to mates.

A pal said: ''Avril has had a grin on her face ever since. She’s really excited.

''People tag her as this miserable teenager but she couldn’t be happier right now. She told her mum straight away and she has been totally buzzing.

They have gone to great lengths to make sure their touring schedules allow as much time for each other as possible.

He had previously dated posh hotels heiress PARIS HILTON but decided to switch from upper crust to plain crusty.

Deryck, sometimes known as BIZZY D, fronts – and I know I’ll get slagged off here – one of the most dreadful bands ever. They scream, spit and flip the one-fingered salute to anyone nearby.

No wonder he and Avril, best known for her Sk8er Boi hit, get on as well as they do.

Avril’s arch rival BRITNEY SPEARS is getting hitched to KEVIN FEDERLINE at Christmas and one thing is guaranteed.

SONIQUE is in trouble with cops after she allegedly got drunk and abusive on a flight to Los Angeles. The DJ was spoken to by officers on arrival in LA from London. Sonique’s manager had to apologise a year ago after she insulted a fellow passenger at Aberdeen airport.

She is plopped on a sofa backstage at Nation, the Washington nightclub, looking bored to the point of catatonia, her only vital sign the nonstop jiggling of a pink-sneakered foot. The unfocused stare, her barely audible voice – it all says she'd rather be anywhere but in this tiny room, hashing over her life, her music, her family and her seemingly instant rise from small-town obscurity to big-time "Britney killer" for the zillionth time.

The only topic that interests her in this interview is how little she enjoys interviews.

"No offense or anything, it's just, like, weird when someone's, like, 'So how does it feel?' "She murmurs."You just shake someone's hand, sit down and spill your guts. And they just want to know so much and you're just, like, 'Why do you care?' "

Why do we care? Well, girlfriend, let's start with your debut album, "Let Go," which has sold more than 4 million copies and is hovering like a UFO at No. 3 on the charts 31 weeks after its release. Let's move on to the five Grammy nominations, including nods for best song of the year ("Complicated") and best new artist. And let's not forget your role in bringing the sound of electric guitars to countless middle-school girls who are tearing down Britney posters, swearing off peekaboo halter tops and dreaming of starting a band that really ranks.

No offense or anything, but that sort of cannonball grabs the attention of everyone in the pool. According to fans, this 5-foot-1, 18-year-old Canadian is leading a counteroffensive against factory-made teen pop – one joined by Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton, among other artists. Lavigne (it's pronounced AV-ril La-VEEN) co-writes the songs, plays an instrument and doesn't dance. She dresses in baggy pants and T-shirts, like any sophomore skipping third-period French. She's tomboyish but cute, feisty but somehow indifferent, naughty enough to swear and flip the occasional bird.

It's a dressed-down rebuff to Britney's primped perfectionism. It's anti-style, and regardless of how much of it has been carefully anti-planned by Arista, her label, there's little doubt that it's working.

"She's not phony, not blond, not pop," says Jessica Grosche, 20, one of a couple thousand fans at Nation for the all-ages show. "I don't like Britney. Too pop, too repeated. There's too many Britneys out there."

Others are blunter. "Britney's a slut," says Paula Vogel, a smiling 12-year-old from Columbia shivering in the cold half an hour before the venue's doors opened. "She sells her body. Avril doesn't do that. She's real."

She certainly seems real enough during the interview, if only because there is no point in faking so much apathy. It's charming, paradoxically. Lavigne has been perfectly packaged, right down to the punky type font on her album, but she and the character she's playing onstage are the same person, and after all the beauty-pageant blankness of the midriff crowd, a kid so unprogrammed that she won't perk up for a chat is refreshing.

By show time at 7 p.m., Lavigne seems energized – a little. Her audience, by contrast, is frenzied. Girls are so crammed at the front of the stage that some are collapsing from heat exhaustion. Most are simply leaping up and down, waving their hands in the "Hook 'em Horns" configuration – pinkie and forefinger out, the other fingers tucked under the thumb – that Lavigne shakes at an audience when she gets emphatic.

She opens with "Skier Boy," a rock tale about status and romance. She barely moves, planting herself behind the mike, hip cocked a little, a few strands of hair floating up, blown about by a high-powered fan.

There's something gorgeously iconic about that image. It's going to launch a thousand bands.

A few songs later, she slips a guitar over her head and lets it hang to her knees. Everyone sings every line of "Complicated," her breakout single, and by the end of the show she's leaping up and down, spinning. When she leaves after 45 minutes, her audience doesn't seem to realize that it's supposed to clap for an encore. Chants of "AV-ril, AV-ril" finally ring out, which brings Lavigne back.

"She's so hot," says one of a pair of fans who look like sisters. "If I was gonna make out with any girl, it'd be her."

Lavigne comes from a town in Ontario called Napanee, population 5,000. Her parents are strict Baptists, and Avril spent far more time at church than playing records. Actually, she never owned any LPs or CDsgrowing up. Aside from a couple of cassettes – the Beach Boys, Dixie Chicks–she rarely heard any pop music. Last week she bought her first Ramones album.

"There was always music at the church," she says. "That's where I got my start."

At the age of 14 she won a talent contest and the right to share the stage for one song with Shania Twain. At the time, Lavigne's repertoire was parent-approved country-pop, in the Faith Hill vein. An Ontario-based manager later heard her singing in a bookstore and, at age 16, she'd stirred up enough interest at a festival called North by Northwest for an audition with an Arista talent scout, Ken Krongrad. He, in turn, was knocked out enough to urge Arista label head L. A. Reid to sign Lavigne, which he did, shortly after a 15-minute tryout in New York. The deal is reportedly worth $1.25 million for two albums.

"When I got signed," she recalls, "L. A. Reid had heard me sing three songs that were like nice little Celine Dion songs and he'd signed me off my voice and vocal performance. And as he got to know me I told him, 'I don't want to be singing those songs. I want to write my own songs. I want to rock out a bit.' "

"Graham sat down with the guitar and was, like, 'Listen to this little idea I have,' and I was like, 'Oh cool,' and then me and Lauren started singing to it. And we just recorded the guitar part and then went and lay on a blanket in the sun and wrote lyrics to it, Lauren and me."

All the "anti-Britney" talk that's trailed her since the release of "Complicated" annoys Avril. "It's mean," she says, "and stupid." But Lavigne does seem better suited for our times. Britney's jeweled costumes and Roman-candle production numbers worked when we were richer; she was ideal back-hum for the Nasdaq machine when it pedaled past 5,000 and our biggest problem was called Y2K. Lavigne and her no-frills quartet are the sound of the New Austerity, of rearranged priorities. Or maybe she's just part of pop's nonstop switch-off between glamour and grit, costumes and un-costumes, the cycle that took us from Ziggy Stardust to Sid Vicious to Duran Duran.

Prince Charles paid tribute to his "darling Mama" in a message to the nation on her 80th birthday last night.

The heir to the throne recalled she kissed him goodnight before her Coronation – while wearing her Crown so that she could get used to the weight.

In the radio and TV broadcast, Charles wished his mother the "happiest of happy birthdays" and praised her "remarkable steadfastness and fortitude".

Charles, 57, thanked the Queen for the "many wonderful qualities which she has brought to almost an entire lifetime of*service and dedication".

He has sometimes blamed her onerous duties for giving him less time with her than many sons have enjoyed with their mothers, and for creating a distance in his relationship with his parents. But no son could have been prouder yesterday.

Devotion. In the message, recorded at Birkhall in Scotland, he spoke about the separation from his parents as a child while they were away on overseas tours in the 1950s and his joy at being reunited with them.

Describing himself as a "proud and loving son", Charles heralded the Queen as an example of service and devotion to duty in a rapidly changing world.

"There is no doubt that the world in which my mother grew up and, indeed, the world in which she first became Queen has changed beyond all recognition," he said.

"But during all those years she has shown the most remarkable steadfastness and fortitude, always remaining a figure of reassuring calm and dependability – an example to so many of service, duty and devotion in a world of sometimes bewildering change and disorientation.

"For very nearly 60 of those 80 years she has been my darling Mama and my sentiments today are those of a proud and loving son who hopes that you will join with me in wishing the Queen the happiest of happy birthdays, together with the fervent prayer that there will be countless memorable returns of the day."

Charles said he found it hard to believe the Queen had turned 80. "As a child, I can just remember my great grandmother, Queen Mary, at 80. Then I recall so well the 80th birthday of my grandmother in 1980," he said.

"Now I find it hard to believe my own mother, the Queen, is today celebrating her 80th birthday, and it gives me enormous pride to be able to congratulate her publicly in this way, and to thank her on behalf of us all for the many wonderful qualities which she has brought to almost an entire lifetime of service and dedication to her country, to her family, to the realms and to the countries of the Commonwealth."

He added: "It is hard to believe that my grandfather, King George VI, was the same age as I am now when he died and that my mother succeeded him when so young – the same age, in fact, as my sons are now."

A day earlier, Prince Andrew had memorably recalled his own childhood memories, describing how his mother comforted him after his boyish scrapes and how they watched Doctor Who together in the Oak Room at Windsor Castle.

He spoke about his recollections of the Coronation and the build-up to the big day.

Charles, who was four at the time of the Coronation, said: "And then I have vivid memories of the Coronation – of my mother coming to say goodnight to my sister and me while wearing the Crown so that she could get used to its weight on her head before the Coronation ceremony."

He recalled how thousands of people gathered in The Mall outside Buckingham Palace, chanting: "We want The Queen".

And last night he was able to pay an even more personal tribute to his mother by hosting a dinner for her at Kew Palace attended by 26 members of the Royal Family.

The Prince of Wales last night paid an unusually personal tribute to the Queen on her 80th birthday, describing her as his "darling Mama" and as a "wonderful" monarch.

The Prince's televised address, the first from Birkhall, the favourite home of the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, revealed extraordinary insights into his childhood.

On the eve of the Coronation in 1953 the Queen conducted a mini rehearsal when she went to say goodnight to four-year-old Prince Charles and two-year-old Princess Anne.

Prince Charles said: "I have vivid memories of the Coronation; of my mother coming to say goodnight to my sister and me while wearing the Crown so that she could get used to its weight on her head before the Coronation ceremony."

The towering St Edward's Crown, the official Coronation crown, was made for Charles II in 1661 from solid gold and 444 precious stones. It weighs 4.51b (2.04 kg).

The Prince also talked about the pain of separation from his parents as a child when they were away on official tours and at the joy of being reunited on their return.

He recalled "determined attempts to speak to them on the telephone in far-distant lands when all you could hear was the faintest of voices in a veritable storm of crackling and static interference.

"I remember so well, too, the excitement of being reunited with our parents when my sister and I sailed out in the, then, brand new Royal Yacht Britannia to meet them off Tobruk at the end of their Commonwealth Coronation Tour in 1954 – a tour that had lasted over six months and taken in 13 countries," he said.

The Prince, who wrote the four-minute address himself, thanked the Queen for the "many wonderful qualities which she has brought to almost an entire lifetime of service and dedication".

In a message broadcast to the nation on radio and television, he wished his mother the "happiest of happy birthdays" and praised her "remarkable steadfastness and fortitude".

He lavished praise on the monarch as "an example to so many of service, duty and devotion in a world of sometimes bewildering change and disorientation".

He said: "But during all those years she has shown the most remarkable steadfastness and fortitude, always remaining a figure of reassuring calm and dependability."

At the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, the Prince referred to his mother in public for the first tine as "Mummy". This time he said: "For very nearly 60 of those 80 years she has been my darling Mama and my sentiments today are those of a proud and loving son who hopes that you will join with me in wishing the Queen the happiest of happy birthdays, together with the fervent prayer that there will be countless memorable returns of the day."

Prince Charles, 57, paid tribute to the way his mother had adapted at the age of 25 to becoming Queen in 1952.

"It is hard to believe that my grandfather, King George VI, was the same age as I am now when he died and that my mother succeeded him when so young – the same age, in fact, as my sons are now," he said.

Appropriate venue for a night to remember. Historic King palace, at the heart of the royal botanical gardens, was chosen by the prince of Wales as the setting for last night's birthday tribute to his mother.

The house has a poignant link to the Queen's ancestry as it was where George III, one of the last monarchs to live there, fought his well chronicled battle with mental illness.

The Prince has long been an admirer of the King, known as Farmer George because he experimented with planting crops, who he regards as one of the most misunderstood monarchs of all time.

Kew Palace, a pink lime-washed mansion, has been closed for ten years for a £6.5 million restoration project that only the Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall, from the Royal Family, have had a chance to see.

The Queen and the rest of the 26-strong royal party were last night given a guided tour of the four-storey building, home to the Royal Family between 1729 and 1818, which will be officially reopened by the Prince next month.

One of the pieces on show was a 19th century apothecary's cabinet – a reminder of George's illness, which is thought to have been a blood disorder aggravated by medicines containing arsenic. The Queen and her guests also saw a wax cast of George, his waistcoat and shirt.

Michael Fawcett, who owns a society catering company whose major client is the Prince, stage-managed the proceedings down to choice of spring flowers in each vase in consultation with Malcolm Moss, master of the household, and the Prince, who wanted to reflect his mother's taste.

Among them were narcissi from the Scilly Isles, tulips, lily of the valley and white forget-me-nots, favourites of the Prince and his mother.

A dozen musicians from the London Chamber Orchestra, whose patron is the Duchess of Cornwall, serenaded the royal guests with a selection of Handel's Water Music. Handel wrote the Water Music for King George I and first performed it for him at a river party on the Thames in 1717.

An 18th century walnut-cased harpsichord, which was owned by Frederick, Prince of Wales, and then passed to his son, George III, was among the instruments played for the Queen last night.

Outside the palace the Band of the Royal Marines played in the gardens to entertain an estimated crowd of 2,000 well-wishers, including staffs who work for the Queen and the Prince.

A ten minute firework display took place before the meal, which the Royal Family gathered on the steps to watch.

The Prince and the Duchess were first to arrive followed by other members of the family including the Duke of York and his daughters the Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the Princess Royal, Peter and Zara Phillips, and her husband, Rear Admiral Timothy Laurence.

Every member of the Royal Family, from Princess Margaret's children, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, and their spouses, were invited at the express wish of the Queen, who wanted a full turnout of the Windsor clan.

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