Tag: Queen Elizabeth II

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Queen's speech: “priority has always been to secure UK's departure from EU on Oct. 31”

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday set out his government's priorities at a parliamentary ceremony full of pomp and pageantry attended by the queen, with Brexit top of the agenda.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  A “sheared” Johnson campaigns in Scotland; Monday he will insist again with a snap election

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson heads to Scotland on Friday in campaign mode despite failing to call an early election after MPs this week thwarted his hardline Brexit strategy.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 10:00 UTC

  Furious reactions, political and in the streets to the suspension of Parliament

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson manoeuvred on Wednesday to give his political opponents even less time to block a chaotic no-deal Brexit before the Oct. 31 withdrawal deadline, winning Queen Elizabeth II’s approval to suspend Parliament, but his critics were outraged.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Queen 'talked Lord Mountbatten out of 1968 plot to overthrow Labour government

  

  In an advance of a book to be launched this week, “The Mountbattens”, Lives & Loves”, author Andrew Lownie reveals how the Queen, in 1968, talked Lord Mountbatten out of leading a plot to overthrow the Labor government, then headed by Harold Wilson.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  World leaders join in south England to honor Allied soldiers on 75th anniversary of D-Day

  

  Queen Elizabeth II is set to join British Prime Minister Theresa May, other world leaders and World War II veteran on the southern coast of England on Wednesday to honor the Allied soldiers who risked and gave their lives in large numbers 75 years ago for the D-Day invasion that helped liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth joins the celebration of Sainsbury's 150th anniversary

  

  Britain's Queen Elizabeth popped down to the supermarket on Wednesday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the British high street chain, Sainsbury's. The 93-year-old queen visited a pop-up replica of the original Sainsbury's shop which was founded on London's Drury Lane in 1869, selling just butter, milk and eggs.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 08:24 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 93rd birthday on Easter Sunday

  

  Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's oldest and longest reigning living monarch, celebrated her 93rd birthday on Sunday, Apr 21, by attending the traditional Easter service at Windsor Castle.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Queen alludes to Brexit debate: calls for “common ground” and respect for “different points of view”

  

  The Queen has urged people to find “common ground” and to respect “different points of view”. Commentators say the remarks will be seen as referring to the Brexit debate, with MPs due to vote on the PM's deal for leaving the EU again next week.

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  “Peace on earth and goodwill to all, needed as much as ever”, Queen's Christmas message

  

  The Queen will say in her Christmas Day broadcast that the Christian message of “peace on earth and goodwill to all” is “needed as much as ever”. She will say the message is “never out of date” and can be “heeded by everyone”.

• Monday, April 16th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

  Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in London

  

  From this Monday 16 to 20 April 2018, the UK will host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) with leaders from members countries gathering in London and Windsor. The Commonwealth is a diverse community of 53 nations that work together to promote prosperity, democracy and peace. This Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) brings together leaders from all the member countries in London and Windsor.