Queen Elizabeth IIState & Ceremonial

Queen returns to London to receive Prime Minister after Parliament dissolved

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30th March 2015
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…
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Supreme Court allows Prince Charles's government letters to be released

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26th March 2015
The Supreme Court has today ruled that letters sent by The Prince of Wales to government ministers can be published. The hand-down of the judgement, which was delivered just after 09:45 GMT, ends a nine-year legal battle between The Guardian and the government. The Court was asked to decide whether Dominic Grieve acted unlawfully when he prevented their publication in 2012 as Attorney…
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Barbados may replace The Queen and move towards becoming a republic

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23rd March 2015
Freundel Stuart, the Prime Minister of Barbados, said that the nation will be moving towards becoming a republic, replacing The Queen with a President as Head of State. “We cannot pat ourselves on the shoulder at having gone into independence; having de-colonised our politics; we cannot pat ourselves on the shoulders at having decolonized our jurisprudence by delinking from the Judicial…
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Prince Charles government letters judgement set to be handed down by Supreme Court

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20th March 2015
The UK Supreme Court has today confirmed that it will hand down judgement next Thursday on whether the contents of letters sent between The Prince of Wales and government ministers should be revealed to the public. Prince Charles wrote a series of letters to seven government departments between 1 September 2004 and 1 April 2005. The Prince wrote the letters by hand before sending them to be…
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