London 2012 chief Sebastian Coe described it as a symbolic moment when Queen Elizabeth toured the Olympic Park on Tuesday and planted the first of 4,000 trees that will landscape the site. The Queen, who last visited in 2005, also viewed progress on the Olympic Stadium which is now a feature of the east London skyline as work continues on the venues and infrastructure for the 9.3 billion pound project.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has suffered over one billion pound dip in the value of her properties owing to the current global recession.
The Mumbai terror attack was discussed during the State Banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth in the honour of President Pratibha Patil, with the British monarch paying tributes to the 'courage and steadfastness' shown by the Indian people, in the face of the appalling incident."We are mindful that in a month's time, India will mark the anniversary of the appalling terrorist attacks on Mumbai, in which so many Indians were killed," the Queen said during the Banquet.
The civil list, which pays for the running of the royal household, has not increased in the last 20 years. At the moment, any request for an increase in funds would be difficult to tackle as the UK is suffering from the global economic crisis. The queen has raided the reserve fund by pound 6 million to supplement the civil list. If she continues to draw on reserve funds at the current rate, she will run out of funds by the start of 2012.
Queen Elizabeth II's staff at Buckingham Palace has signed up with Toyota's 'Green Tomato Cars' to cut costs, after they found out about the car from Prince Charles's London office, which switched to its cheaper carbon-efficient Toyota Prius fleet. "They were very conscious of the savings they'd be making both in financial and carbon terms. Cost was certainly a major factor, so much so in fact that Clarence House negotiated a discount," said Tom Pakenham, director, Toyota.
Shree Jagannath Sena, a Puri-based outfit, submitted a memorandum to the President, seeking her intervention to facilitate the process of bringing back the Kohinoor diamond to the 12th-century shrine.
In an interview to BBC, the King said Saudi Arabia passed on to Britain information that might have helped avert the July 2005 bombings that killed 52 people.
An Indian barrister on Friday presented a petition to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II seeking the return of a 350-year-old sword of Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji to India, saying the sword is a symbol of the country's rich cultural heritage.
The opening day was washed out by rain on Thursday and there will be no extra day tagged on, meaning that the series decider is effectively now a three-day Test.
Wimbledon returned to something resembling normality at 4.48pm on Thursday when American John Isner punched away a backhand winner past Nicolas Mahut to win a match that had left the tournament in suspended animation. Not even Queen Elizabeth's first visit to the All England Club since 1977 or Rafael Nadal's flirtation with danger could overshadow a record-shredding contest that ended 70-68 in Isner's favour in the deciding set after 11 hours and five minutes.
The World War II veteran earned himself a knighthood after raising some 33 million for health service charities.
The 93-year-old British monarch and Head of the 54-member Commonwealth of nations which includes India, acknowledged the grief, pain and financial difficulties being faced the world over during this "time of disruption" and expressed the hope that the whole world was uniting in a 'common endeavour'.
The presence of an Indian origin man on the royal barge with Queen Elizabeth during Sunday's pageant on River Thames has raised a storm after it was revealed that he had been previously convicted and jailed for sex offences.
King Charles III acceded to the throne immediately following the death of Elizabeth II on Thursday, and described losing his mother as "a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family".
Queen Elizabeth returned to Wimbledon on Thursday for the first time in 33 years to enjoy Britain's Andy Murray win his Centre Court match with regal ease. The monarch certainly brings good luck to British players. The last time she visited the tournament in her 1977 Silver Jubilee year, Virginia Wade won the women's title for Britain.
Was descending into the telling of only Diana's tale in four long, slightly-draggy soap-opera-ish episodes of the last season the original premise of The Crown? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
The unfortunate associations with the name Charles for an English king -- one who was executed; the other with a very unsavoury reputation -- led royal observers to assume that Charles would not take his Christian name when he became king.
President Pratibha Patil was on Tuesday accorded a red-carpet welcome by British Queen Elizabeth II, marked by pomp and pageantry, as she arrived at the imposing Windsor Castle in a stage carriage pulled by six white horses.
During a four-hour-long heart to heart over lunch at Windsor Castle on Sunday, the 93-year-old monarch told the 35 -year-old Duke of Sussex that he was a "much loved" member of her family and that he will be welcome back with open arms if he changes his mind in future.
'Queen's mural is going to stay here for years and years to come.'
The king and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, travelled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey -- a distance of 2.2-km -- at a stately pace in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach bearing a gilded crown, which was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
Queen Elizabeth II used her banquet speech to subtly remind the visiting US President that the international institutions set up after the World War II were designed to ensure the horrors of conflict were not repeated.
Possibly in search of lionesses, two lion brothers swam 1.3 kilometres across an African river known to be infested with hippos and crocodiles, making it the longest documented swim for African lions with visual evidence.
Charles will be formally proclaimed as King at the Accession Council at 10am local time on Saturday in the State Apartments of St. James's Palace, Buckingham Palace has said. It will mark the first time in history that the ceremony will be televised.
Fan dressed up as Queen Elizabeth was spotted with a replica trophy on Day 2 of the first Ashes Test
Vikram Doraiswami, an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1992 batch, is the youngest Indian diplomat ever to be assigned to the Court of St James.
Britain's Prince Harry will attend the coronation of his father King Charles III next month, but his wife Meghan will remain in the United States with the couple's children, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday.
Ben Church (25), who worked in the Buckingham Palace as a property administrator, had put the gift from the Queen for sale on eBay.
In their first phone call since Truss assumed office earlier this week, Modi conveyed his condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth II on behalf of all Indians and paid tribute to the 96-year-old late monarch's "lifetime of service".
The Baton, which will stay in India for two days on October 12 and 13, will not, however, be taken in a relay by sportspersons, as is done normally, following IOA's decision to curtail the events here as there will not be adeqaute security arrangements in view of the Dussehra festival.
"God save the King" were the words with which those gathered reaffirmed the proclamation made by the clerk of the council.
The Wedding Party will be performed in an elaborate Bollywood style, by 250 performers of all ages, from London, Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester, Southampton and Newcastle.
While the UK's national mourning after the passing of Prince Philip last Friday will run until the morning after his funeral at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on Saturday, the royal family is observing two weeks of mourning.
Beatrice, 31, and Mozzi, 37, had been due to marry at the Chapel Royal, at St James's Palace in London with 150 guests in May but postponed the plans amid the coronavirus lockdown.
The five-day a week job involves cleaning and caring for interiors and items from carpets and furniture to historic vases and irreplaceable paintings to the highest standard.
While the palace has not specified the form of cancer, it said the 75-year-old monarch has started treatment and remains 'wholly positive'.
He last visited India in November 2019 and also celebrated his 71st birthday with schoolchildren in Mumbai and earlier this week he told British Indian peer Lord Karan Bilimoria at a pre-Coronation reception that he looks forward to making a State Visit to India soon.
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