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Watch: Charles is proclaimed King

10 September 2022 7:15 pm

King Charles III has been proclaimed monarch of the United Kingdom. At a ceremony at St James’s Palace – attended…

The end of the Elizabethan age

10 September 2022 6:00 pm

The Queen’s fragile smile in the official photograph released as she waited to appoint Liz Truss as her 15th Prime Minister…

When the Queen worked her magic on the BBC

10 September 2022 4:00 pm

The Queen and Prince Philip had written their names in the visitors’ book at a country house where I was…

The Archbishop of Canterbury has risen to the occasion

10 September 2022 4:01 am

Archbishop Justin Welby has done a good job of relating the Queen’s virtues to her Christian faith. This is no…

King Charles's first address as monarch in full

10 September 2022 3:55 am

I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty the Queen – my beloved mother…

King Charles addresses the nation

10 September 2022 3:02 am

This evening King Charles III addressed the nation for the first time as sovereign. He reflected on his mother’s life-long…

Why the Queen loved Balmoral

10 September 2022 12:14 am

Balmoral, where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away yesterday afternoon, was one of her favourite places to be. Queen Elizabeth inherited…

Parliament's poignant tributes to the Queen

10 September 2022 12:11 am

That so many people have wanted to say something about how the Queen touched their lives, whether or not they…

Why even Vladimir Putin has paid tribute to the Queen

9 September 2022 11:41 pm

It is a mark of the Queen’s standing that even Vladimir Putin, in the midst of an undeclared economic and…

Lessons for life from the Queen

9 September 2022 11:30 pm

Having taken the Queen’s remarkable longevity, good health and work ethic for granted right until the end, might her subjects…

Watch: Theresa May's cheese tribute

9 September 2022 10:07 pm

There’s a grim mood in parliament today. Across the House, MPs are queuing up to pay tribute to Her Majesty…

Watch: Boris Johnson's tribute to the Queen

9 September 2022 9:40 pm

There’s a sombre mood in parliament today as MPs gather to pay tribute to the Queen. Over the following days,…

The New York Times’s tasteless Queen op-ed

9 September 2022 9:05 pm

The Queen’s death has prompted an outpouring of mourning around the globe. But that sense of loss apparently doesn’t extend…

How the newspapers covered the Queen’s death

9 September 2022 8:15 pm

As the nation wakes up to its first day after the Queen’s death, newspapers in Britain – and around the…

A republican's tribute to the Queen

9 September 2022 4:54 pm

I am a republican, always have been, and yet I now feel a great sense of loss. And not only…

The Queen was the model constitutional monarch

9 September 2022 4:33 pm

There are events in politics that everyone knows are coming but no one can quite anticipate what they will mean. The…

Britain will be a lesser nation without the Queen

9 September 2022 4:10 pm

The loneliest thing about being as long-lived as the Queen, at 96, is that you have few or no contemporaries.…

Our country's saddest day

9 September 2022 5:20 am

This is our country’s saddest day. In the hearts of every one of us there is an ache at the…

Queen Elizabeth II: in tributes

9 September 2022 4:50 am

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died this afternoon at Balmoral, the royal family confirmed. The gravity of the news has…

Britain will now enter ten days of mourning

9 September 2022 4:19 am

When word of the Queen’s illness spread, the House of Commons quickly emptied. Liz Truss had just announced her fuel…

We will all miss Her Majesty

9 September 2022 4:07 am

When the 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth became Queen in February 1952, the average age at which her subjects died was, at…

My beloved mother

9 September 2022 4:00 am

The death of my beloved mother Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and…

The Prime Minister's tribute to Elizabeth II

9 September 2022 3:44 am

We are all devastated by the news we have just heard from Balmoral. The death of Her Majesty the Queen…

Queen Elizabeth II, our remarkable monarch

9 September 2022 3:40 am

Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96, was the longest-serving British monarch. From the uncertain beginnings of…

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has died at the age of 96

9 September 2022 3:31 am

The Queen has died. Buckingham Palace has just confirmed that Her Majesty passed away at Balmoral this afternoon. It was…