“I don’t get to give this one out very often. Well done.” And with those touching words The Queen pinned the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour, onto the tunic of Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey. He is the first living serviceman to receive the medal for service in Afghanistan.
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Paratrooper Joshua Leakey was presented with his Victoria Cross…
It was the room where Queen Victoria entertained European royalty in the later part of her reign, and designed as a state setting in what had, until then, been her family and personal retreat. Now the Durbar Room at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight has been restored to…
Prince Harry ‘just rocked up’ in Wuggubun this week and charmed the residents who want him to go back again
The last time we saw him he was charming crowds in Canberra, and now Prince Harry has been winning fans in a place, so remote most maps miss it out. The…
The White House has not ruled out the possibility that the President of the United States could be standing next to The Queen at Runnymede in June when the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta is marked.
There has already been speculation that the President will be at the commemorations. Now local news source, Get Surrey, has directly approached the White House about whether Barack…
Hers is a line which has ruled Britain for almost 200 years and which has given us two of the longest reigning monarchs in our history. So allegations that Queen Victoria wasn’t really a (British) royal certainly raised eyebrows. But now the doubts over her lineage have…
A queen in waiting? A new poll has found that almost half of those asked believe that the Duchess of Cornwall should be known as queen when Prince Charles takes the throne
Almost half of the British public who took part in a recent poll think that the Duchess of Cornwall…
Prince Harry arrived for his attachment to the Australian Defence Force with a letter of thanks from The Queen to deliver to his hosts.
It’s always good to have your family’s backing on a new venture and Prince Harry is in no doubt this morning that his royal relations are well and truly behind his four week stint with the Australian Defence Force. The Queen has sent a letter to the…
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