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Read: Prince William’s tribute to the Queen
On Thursday, the world lost an extraordinary leader, whose commitment to the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth was absolute.…
How the Commonwealth reacted to the Queen’s death
Without Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth, there would be no Commonwealth today at all. Long after the organisation…
The King’s speech: six reflections
King Charles III gave us plenty to reflect on with his first speech last night. He spoke movingly about his…
The poignancy of preparing a service after the Queen’s death
Thursday was a curious day for us all. Anyone watching the news was treated to the complexity of commentators trying…
Watch: Charles is proclaimed King
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When the 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth became Queen in February 1952, the average age at which her subjects died was, at…
