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Queen Elizabeth II

August 2024

  • Lord Fellowes with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles at Royal Ascot in 2017.

    Lord Fellowes obituary

    Private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II during the divorces of three of her children and the death of Princess Diana

June 2024

  • David Cameron pointing up at something while talking to Queen Elizabeth II

    A constitutional ‘pickle’: how Cameron’s election victory split Buckingham Palace and No 10

  • Derek Birdsall with Francis Bacon in the Omnific studio with pages from a projected volume of the artist’s work, 1990.

    Derek Birdsall obituary

  • Jeannette Charles as Queen Elizabeth II in a scene from The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988).

    Jeannette Charles obituary

  • Actor Jeannette Charles, Queen Elizabeth II impersonator, photographed at her home in Essex. She has died at the age of 96.

    Jeannette Charles, actor who played Queen Elizabeth II in dozens of films and shows, dies aged 96

May 2024

  • Clockwise (left to right from top): Burberry bags in a store, Moët & Chandon champagne, Gieves & Hawkes of Savile Row, and Wilkin & Sons, which is behind the Tiptree jam brand.

    From sporrans to chandeliers: King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants

    A year after coronation, firms that were under patronage of Queen Elizabeth II or former Prince of Wales reapply, while others get in on act

April 2024

  • Memoir from former British PM Truss.

    Today in Focus
    Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’

  • Queen Elizabeth II welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland

    Liz Truss says in book queen told her to ‘pace yourself’, admits she didn’t listen

March 2024

  • The then Prince Charles with the Duchess of Cambridge in September 2021.

    Britain’s slimmed-down monarchy has been left vulnerable in wake of cancer diagnoses

  • Standing in their best outfits on the balcony

    Royal family’s cancer diagnoses echo the ‘annus horribilis’

  • Stephen Bates

    Editing photos to make the family look good? Kate’s just following royal tradition

    Stephen Bates
  • Queen Elizabeth II with some of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren

    Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and family was enhanced at source, agency says

January 2024

  • Members of the royal family gather on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

    National Archives censor files showing late queen concealed relative’s wealth

    Documents recording request from monarch to keep secret the will of a relative partly withdrawn from public view
  • King Charles and Queen Camilla

    Pass notes
    Royal nicknames: why Camilla is called ‘Lorraine’ –and Charles isn’t happy

    What’s in a nickname? A right royal ruckus, when it comes to the affectionate monikers used for both our current and former queens
  • The early morning rehearsal for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London

    Sole rehearsal for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral was ‘comedy of errors’

    Only practice procession saw marchers out of step and Gentleman at Arms almost crushed, royal biography says

December 2023

  • Princess Diana interacts with the crowd in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 29th June 1992. Princess Diana had an ‘obvious ignorance of or disregard for constitutional niceties’, according to the then Irish ambassador to the UK.

    Diana apparently believed Northern Ireland part of the Republic, archive shows

    Briefing papers newly released by Ireland’s national archive talk of princess’s ‘obvious ignorance’ of constitutional position
  • Queen Elizabeth II waiting in the drawing room at Balmoral before receiving Liz Truss on 6 September 2022, three days before she died.

    Late queen worried dying at Balmoral would make things ‘difficult’, says Anne

    Princess Royal shares details from Elizabeth II’s final days in BBC documentary to be broadcast on Boxing Day
  • Stephen Bates

    So, farewell to The Crown. All of it was true, apart from the bits that weren’t

    Stephen Bates
    Those who follow the royals were unsurprised, and those who don’t were entertained, says Stephen Bates, a former Guardian royal correspondent

October 2023

  • The actors playing Prince William and Kate Middleton in season 6 of The Crown.

    First part of The Crown’s final season to be released on 16 November

  • Court sketch of Jaswant Singh Chail

    Man who broke into Windsor Castle with crossbow to kill Queen jailed for nine years

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