The Queen’s Speech has been
delayed because the government are having trouble transcribing
the text onto goatskin. Every year, the speech is read out on
goatskin parchment, however, it takes around a week for
the ink to dry meaning amendments cannot be made. As the
Conservative Party are currently undertaking negotiations with
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, the whole…
It has been confirmed that this year’s
Queen’s Speech has been delayed by a few days due to the
Conservative Party failing to reach an agreement with Northern
Ireland’s DUP. If an agreement cannot be made, then it is
likely that The Queen’s Speech…
Charlie Proctor: The Queen will be livid with the government if she is forced to miss Royal Ascot
12th June 2017
It never ceases to amaze me how things
can go from relatively calm to scenes of chaos within a matter of
minutes. I should imagine that the same situation unfolded in
Buckingham Palace this morning when Her Majesty found out that she
might have to miss Royal Ascot due to the…
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…
