Queen Elizabeth II

Queen to attend launch of King George III's private archive online at Windsor Castle

A fantastic new project is being launched at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. With the enormous popularity of Queen Victoria’s Journals available online, the extensive collection of King George III’s papers will soon be available for the world to view on the web as well. The Queen will attend the event announcing the project to digitise King George III’s private papers. In…
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Queen Elizabeth IIState & Ceremonial

Queen returns to London to receive Prime Minister after Parliament dissolved

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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King Charles III

Supreme Court allows Prince Charles's government letters to be released

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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Queen Elizabeth II

Barbados may replace The Queen and move towards becoming a republic

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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