The Queen’s proclamation – approved in a
meeting of the Privy Council earlier today – was read out in London
and Edinburgh today, setting out the date when Parliament will
formally return following the General Election on 7th May. [youtube
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Read at both the Royal Exchange in the City of London and Mercat…
The Duke of Cambridge started his first
day at Bond Air Services as he begins his training to be a pilot
for the East Anglian Air Ambulance. Prince William previously
piloted Sea King helicopters for the RAF in Anglesey. During the
next months, he will undergo specific…
The Australia Magna Carta Embroidery - commemorating the spread of law and order throughout the world
30th March 2015
The Australia panel of the twelve panel
Magna Carta embroidery is now completed. The latest delicately
embroidered, highly detailed piece, tells the story of how the
abiding principles of the Magna Carta influenced and remained the
basis of common law in many countries…
The Queen made a sudden return
to Buckingham Palace on Monday morning to receive the Prime
Minister David Cameron after the dissolution of Parliament. The
Queen, who is residing at Windsor Castle for the next month for
Easter Court, received Mr Cameron shortly after 11 o’clock as he
travelled the short journey to the Palace from Downing Street
by car. Thanks to the Fixed Term Parliaments…
Elizabeth Tower fell silent on Saturday
night. A team from the Palace of Westminster Clockmakers climbed
the tower to physically move the clock’s hands from Greenwich Mean
Time to British Summer Time. Besides the clock at the Elizabeth
Tower, the team of clockmakers…
In this new ongoing series of articles,
we will be delving in to the world of the House of Stuart, a royal
dynasty who first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland in the
late 14th century before eventually inheriting the Kingdoms of
England and Ireland in the early 17th…
Prince Charles paid a visit to his local
small community hospital in Tetbury Friday in his capacity as
Patron of Friends of Tetbury Hospital, which raises funds to
maintain it. The Prince opened the recently upgraded X-Ray unit.
The £108,600 needed for the upgrade took Friends of Tetbury
hospital around 12 months to raise. The hospital receives money
from the NHS for the patients, but it seeks…
Today, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick
Clegg announced that – following the much-awaited enacting of the
necessary laws in Australia – the changes to royal succession have
finally been implemented. It’s taken four years since the Perth
Agreement in 2011 to…
Under the former law, dating back to
1701, women were succeeded by their brothers in succession even if
they were the first born. The act also allows the future monarch to
marry a Roman Catholic. The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 came
into force after being approved by…
Star of Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch,
will read a poem at the re-internment of the last Plantagenet King,
Richard III, on Thursday. The re-internment service will take
place at Leicester Cathedral three years after his remains were
discovered at the site of an archaeological excavation on a
Leicester City Council car park. The actor will read verses of a
poem written by Poet Laureate, Carol Ann…
