How Princess Anne is celebrating her 75th birthday
When a previous milestone was looming in the life of Princess Anne, her 21st birthday, the late Queen asked her…
Can the King save the Commonwealth?
When the King makes his first public address since his cancer diagnosis today, the occasion could not be more fitting.…
A King in a hurry
What will Charles III’s reign look like?
Common ground
The Queen’s devotion to the Commonwealth
The quiet radical
Luckily for us, the Queen has always trusted her instincts
Royal Notebook
The monarchy has a race problem. And it has much more to do with Theresa May and Boris Johnson than…
Royals and Romanovs
Prince Philip’s links with the Russian imperial court
Will the end of monarchy in Barbados spark a chain reaction?
As of this week, the Queen is down to 15 thrones, after the royal standard was lowered in Barbados in…
Royal Notebook
Not since the befuddled twilight of George III has a monarch been confined to Windsor Castle for such a duration.…
Robert Hardman: My private encounter with David Cameron and the Queen
David Cameron’s revelation that he sought ‘a raising of the eyebrow’ from the Queen during the 2014 Scottish referendum campaign…
The Queen can handle coups – she’s been on the receiving end of one
Supplies of Brexit invective are now almost exhausted. While the Prime Minister is denounced for denouncing Remainers as ‘collaborators’, his…
Why Ceausescu’s 1978 state visit was far more humiliating than Trump’s ever could be
The Queen has seldom had more holes in a state banquet seating plan. The leader of the opposition, the shadow…
Ireland’s strange decision to become a French colonial outpost
Seventy years ago this month, a prime minister led a divided nation towards the exit from what was then one…
Elizabeth, the Eurosceptic queen
There has been much inconclusive speculation on the Queen’s views on Brexit. In 2016, the Sun asserted that she was…
It’s not just the Queen who approves of Meghan – the corgis do, too
Meghan Markle certainly knows how to impress the in-laws. She has announced that she and Prince Harry are going to…
Diary
The Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations start this week with the real thing and barely stop until her official birthday in…
Escape to victory
Will politics take second place the day after the election?
D-Day Notebook
The phrase ‘ring of steel’ hardly begins to describe the operation here in Calvados country as we await the 70th…
