State & Ceremonial

BBC presenter Lynn Faulds Wood turns down MBE saying honours need to be dragged "into 21st Century"

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30th December 2016
Lynn Faulds Wood, the former presenter of consumer affairs programme BBC Watchdog, has turned down an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours, saying the system has to be dragged “into the 21st Century”. The Scottish television presenter said that she would be a “hypocrite” to accept the honour for her work on consumer safety. The New year Honours list, which is due to be released late on…
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Remembering those who died in 2016

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28th December 2016
Many friends and relatives of the Royal Family have died this year, as well as royals from across Europe and the world. Here we remember some of those who passed away in 2016. The Duke of Westminster In August, Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, The Duke of…
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Prince Charles was 2016's hardest working royal, followed by Princess Anne

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28th December 2016
The annual survey of the Royal Family’s public engagements has been released in the customary letter to the Times from the paper’s ‘unofficial royal archivist’, Tim O’Donovan, now on his 38th year of conducting the survey. A total of 3,725 engagements were performed by the 15 members of the Royal Family classed as working royals within the Court Circular. The total number of engagements…
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Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen once again tops Christmas TV ratings

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26th December 2016
The Queen’s Christmas Day Broadcast has once again topped off the TV ratings as almost 8 million viewers tuned in to watch in just the UK alone. The traditional speech was watched by a combined 7.7  million people on the BBC and ITV. The true figure is probably much higher, however, as it does not include the people watching on Sky. The figures are slightly up on last year when 7.5 million UK…
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Queen Elizabeth II

Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2016

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25th December 2016
In her annual Christmas Broadcast to citizens of the UK and the Commonwealth, The Queen has said that she draws strength from “ordinary people doing extraordinary things”. She said that volunteers, carers, community workers and good neighbours are unsung heroes in…
Prince & Princess of Wales

The Cambridge family attend Christmas Day Church service in Berkshire

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25th December 2016
The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, alongside Prince George and Princess Charlotte, attended a Christmas Day Church service in Berkshire this morning with the Middleton family. Embed from Getty Images The service was held at St Mark’s Church in the village of Englefield. Also present were The Duchess of Cambridge’s parents, her brother, James, and sister, Pippa. The Cambridge family opted to…
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