People: Prince William, Kate arrive in NYC

Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, arrived in New York City on Sunday, the royal couple’s first official visit to the U.S. and their first experience with the Big Apple.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s black Cadillac Escalade pulled up in front of the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan to a throng of media and shrieking admirers, who were kept behind police barricades across Madison Avenue.

Both smiled at the well-wishers with Kate, who is expecting their second child in April, showing off a small bump underneath her maroon coat.

“It’s good to be here,” William told the hotel’s managing director Giovanni Beretta, who was standing outside the entrance to greet the royal couple, who had just spent seven hours on a flight from London.

The Carlyle Hotel was a favorite of William’s mother, the late Princess Diana, during her frequent visits to Manhattan in the 1990s.

Marilyn Monroe’s love letters sold

Joe DiMaggio’s love letter to Marilyn Monroe has sold for $78,125 at a Beverly Hills auction.

Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills said the letter, written by the baseball great after Monroe announced she was divorcing him, was sold Saturday to an undisclosed buyer.

The letter during their brief, volatile marriage was among 300 items, dubbed “Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Archives,” that went on the block.

A handwritten letter from Monroe to her third and final husband, playwright Arthur Miller, sold for $43,750.

Monroe, who died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962, willed the collection of letters to her mentor, the legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg.

The birthday bunch

Flutist James Galway is 75. Rock singer-musician Gregg Allman is 67. Reggae singer Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals) is 66. Actress Kim Basinger is 61. Rock musician Phil Collen (Def Leppard) is 57. Singer Sinead O’Connor is 48. Actress AnnaSophia Robb is 21.