British Royals

King Charles quietly makes two of Britain's most powerful appointments

The King has approved the appointments of two of the country’s most senior judges, marking a significant change at the top of England and Wales’ judiciary. Sir Colin Birss has been appointed Master of the Rolls, the second most senior judicial office in England and Wales after the Lady Chief Justice, while Lord Justice Warby will become the new President of the King’s Bench…
Read more
British Royals

Princess Anne backs ambitious new pledge for Armed Forces community

Princess Anne joined veterans and charity leaders on Wednesday as she celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Veterans’ Foundation, recognising a decade of support for serving personnel, veterans and their families across the UK. The Princess Royal attended the milestone celebration at the Honourable Artillery Company in London, where she met veterans, ambassadors and representatives from…
Read more
British Royals

The King grants Royal Prerogative of Mercy to the last woman executed in the UK

King Charles III has granted a posthumous conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, more than 70 years after her death. The pardon, granted under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy on the advice of Justice Secretary David Lammy, recognises what the Government described as the “historic injustice of the death penalty” in Ellis’s…
Read more
British Royals

Pizza Express investigated Prince Andrew's alibi — here's what it found

Pizza Express carried out its own internal investigation into the former Prince Andrew’s infamous claim that he was at its Woking restaurant on the day Virginia Giuffre alleged he sexually assaulted her. During his widely criticised 2019 Newsnight interview, Andrew insisted he had spent the afternoon of 10 March 2001 at Pizza Express in Woking with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, before…
Read more