Theresa May has appointed her close
friend Damian Green to fill in the position of First Secretary of
State as pressure mounts on the Prime Minister to resign. Mr Green,
who was appointed Secretary for Work and Pensions by Mrs May less
than a year ago, has been an MP for 20 years and has known the
Theresa May for around 40 years. He is a pro-European MP, and the
Prime Minister is hoping that he…
President Donald Trump’s State Visit to
the United Kingdom has been cancelled indefinitely at the
request of The White House. In a phone call to Theresa May,
President Trump expressed that he does not want to visit the UK
until the British perception of him has been…
A Dutch palace is to be partly converted
into a hotel following a bid of 1.7 million euros. The purchase
follows a competition in which the government sought to find a new
function for Soestdijk Palace. Over a hundred ideas for the future
of the palace were submitted and…
On 10 June 1993, then-Prince
Abdullah married Rania al Yassin in a traditional Muslim
ceremony in Amman. The 31-year-old Prince and his 22-year-old
fiancé had only been dating for a few months, after meeting at a
dinner party in August of 1992, when they became engaged in January
1993. Abdullah would tell People Magazine a few years later that
“It was love at first sight.” What…
As voting booths across the United
Kingdom close, it can be revealed that no party is expected to
command a majority in the House of Commons, meaning there will be a
Hung Parliament. The exit poll conducted by the BBC and Sky
suggests that Theresa May will lose her majority…
London Bridge is closed this evening
following a ‘major police incident’ in which armed officers are in
attendance. Eyewitnesses report that a car hit around a dozen
pedestrians on the bridge. London Bridge Station is closed and
people have been told to avoid the…
At night, a historical attraction somehow
acquires an entirely different authenticambience, with the sense of
its past rendered more palpable by the feeling of exclusivity –
there is a sense of being a private guest at a bygone court.
Entering any residence at night emphasises this idea, something
which the sequence of a royal apartment’s series of…
Jeremy Corbyn says that if elected Prime Minister next week, he won't abolish the monarchy
29th May 2017
Jeremy Corbyn has reaffirmed that if
elected Prime Minister in the General Election next week, he will
not seek to abolish the monarchy. When quizzed during the Battle
for Number 10 leaders debate, Mr Corbyn said that the matter
was out of the question. Moderator Jeremy…
Have you ever dreamed of being near
royalty? How about counting them as neighbors? And better still,
calling upon Her Majesty for tea? If you have £4.35 million you
could buy one of the six apartments just put up for sale by the
Beauchamp Estates Private Office. The luxury…
Outside the Houses of Parliament,
standing rather boldly with a hand on his sword and the other
clutching a Bible, stands a statute of Oliver Cromwell. For a time,
Cromwell was the sole interruption in a long line of English
monarchs, during which the British Isles were no longer governed by
a monarchy but instead by a republican “Commonwealth of England,
Scotland and Ireland”. This…
