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BBC settles with Earl Spencer aide: Diana Panorama Interview

Alan Waller had claimed his bank statements were forged by Martin Bashir to help secure an interview with late Princes Diana in an effort to encourage her to be interviewed on Panorama. The BBC has reached a settlement with Earl Spencer’s head of security. 2021, an inquiry led by Lord Dyson found Bashir acted in…

A cheering crowd greet King Charles during his visit to Dunfermline

Large crowds in Dunfermline cheered King Charles and the Queen Consort on a visit to mark the former town’s new status as a city. The ceremony was their first public visit since the official period of royal mourning for the Queen ended. King Charles III said the event would “ gladden my dear mother’s heart”.…

Queen’s cause of death given as “old age”

Queen Elizabeth II died of old age at 15:10 on 8th September 2022 in Balmoral Castle at the age of 96, according to her death certificate, which has been released by the National Records of Scotland. Princess Anne is recorded as the person providing the information about the Queen’s death. Occupation of the deceased the…

The Cypher of King Charles III

The Cypher of King Charles III has been revealed, personally chosen by the King, from a range of designs produced by the College of Arms. The monogram combines his initial C and R for Rex, the Latin for King, plus III for the third King Charles. The cypher, a visual identity for the…

The Nation and the world bids farewell to Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth’s coffin is on its final journey to Windsor Castle being driven in the State hearse up the Long Walk. Windsor is a place that she called home and where she and the Duke of Edinburgh spent lockdowns during the pandemic and at St. George’s Chapel for the funeral of her husband just…

History is told in a most compelling way

Seven years of bloody and violent civil fighting, beginning in 1642 took place before the arrest of Charles 1 appeared in court to be told he was sentenced to death as a “Tyrant and Traitor’. He laughed at this and during the reading of the charge, the head of his cane broke off and fell to the floor.…

HM Queen’s Funeral

World leaders including US President Joe Biden and hundred of Presidents of foreign countries were among the guests who witnessed the Abbey Service remember Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth’s final farewell. Earlier, King Charles III led the procession behind his mother’s coffin from Westminster Hall to Abbey. The Queen’s coffin was conveyed in the first…

The Queue

Professor Keith Still from Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria who has been teaching and advising on crowd science for 30 years, helped to plan the five-mile length queue of people shuffling slowly along for between nine and 25 hours, sometimes overnight, patiently waiting to pay respects to the Queen as she lies in state in Westminster Hall. He…

The Queen’s eight grandchildren, for the first time in history, have taken part in a vigil

The Queen’s eight grandchildren, for the first time in history, have taken part in a vigil, standing beside her coffin in Westminster Hall, as their parents performed a vigil twice in the last week. Prince William and Harry wore military attire, and wearing black were Princes Beatrice and Eugenie, Zara Tindall and Peter Philips, and Lady…

King Charles III led standing vigil at Queen's coffin

King Charles III led a silent vigil at Queen’s coffin

Charles III and his siblings Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward stood vigil earlier at Westminster Hall. The wait time to see the Queen lying in state has gone down again to 19.5 hours, from 24 hours, according to the government’s live queue tracker. Stewards briefly stopped people from joining the queue due to…