Tag: HM Queen Elizabeth II

• Monday, September 3rd 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Falkland Islands: New titanium collector crown coins feature the crab

  

  The government and treasury of the Falkland Islands issued on 30th August new collector crown coins which feature one of the region’s most familiar side-walking sea-dwelling creatures — the ever familiar crab.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 07:22 UTC

  RAF centenary celebration fly-past gathers thousands in London

  

  Thousands of people have gathered outside Buckingham Palace to watch a fly-past of aircraft to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force. Almost 100 planes representing the RAF over the years flew over The Mall following a parade by personnel.

• Saturday, April 21st 2018 - 07:12 UTC

  King-in-waiting confirmed as the next head of the Commonwealth

  

  Prince Charles has spent a lifetime waiting to be king. On Friday the 69-year-old heir to the British throne got another position to wait for — he was approved as the next head of the Commonwealth made up of the U.K. and the countries that once were its colonies.

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Queen hopes Prince Charles will lead Commonwealth; 53-nation summit decides

  

  Queen Elizabeth II opened a summit of the 53-nation Commonwealth on Thursday, and backed her son Prince Charles to be the next leader of the association of Britain and its former colonies. In a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, the queen said she hoped Charles would “carry on the important work” of leading the Commonwealth, a loose alliance of countries large and small that has struggled to carve out a firm place on the world stage.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:13 UTC

  Royal Air Force centenary: Queen praises shining example of tenacity and gallantry in “defending our freedom”

  

  The Royal Air Force (RAF) has “defended our freedom gallantly”, Queen Elizabeth said on Sunday as she sent her “heartfelt congratulations” to the service as it celebrated its centenary. One hundred years ago, on April 1st, 1918, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged to create the RAF — the world’s first independent air service.

• Tuesday, March 13th 2018 - 06:31 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth celebrates “diversity” in Commonwealth Day message

  

  Queen Elizabeth II has praised the “Commonwealth connection” that allows people from different nations to bond and celebrate “diversity”, in her Commonwealth Day message. London on Monday hosted a gathering of leaders from the 53 member nations, with the Queen's Commonwealth Day message featuring in a service at Westminster Abbey.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2017 - 07:44 UTC

  Queen honors Duke of Edinburgh as they celebrate 70 years of marriage

  

  The Queen has presented the Duke of Edinburgh with a rare honor as a special anniversary present as they celebrate 70 years of marriage. As the royal couple reached their milestone platinum wedding anniversary yesterday, Elizabeth II appointed Philip a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for services to the sovereign.

• Thursday, October 12th 2017 - 11:46 UTC

  Royals in transition: Prince Charles will take the Queen's place at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday

  

  The Queen will not lay a wreath at the Cenotaph this year as part of the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony. She will watch the event on 12 November in Whitehall from the balcony of the Foreign Office with Prince Philip.

• Friday, July 14th 2017 - 06:47 UTC

  Queen admits close allies UK and Spain “did not always see eye to eye” (Gibraltar)

  

  The Queen appears to have acknowledged the thorny issue of Gibraltar in a speech at the King of Spain’s state banquet. In what is likely to be interpreted as a reference to the dispute between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar’s sovereignty, the Queen said the two countries did not always see “eye to eye”.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2017 - 20:56 UTC

  Queen and Phillip formally welcome Felipe and Letizia at Horse Guards Parade

  

  The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on Wednesday formally welcomed the King of Spain to the UK with a military spectacle full of pomp and pageantry. Britain’s head of state and Philip warmly shook hands with King Felipe VI and his wife, Queen Letizia, at Horse Guards Parade, Henry VIII’s former jousting yard.