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    Royals share photos to mark first Mother's Day without late Queen

    Royals share photos to mark first Mother's Day without late Queen BBC News Sunday 19th March 2023 The 1949 photograph of the future Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III was posted alongside a message By Maria Zaccaro BBC News King Charles has remembered the late Queen on his first...
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    Princess Charlotte set to inherit her grandmother's tiara

    Princess Charlotte, the third in line to the Throne, is set to inherit the Spencer tiara which was worn by her grandmother Princess Diana and which has been in Princess Diana's family for over a century. Princess Diana wore the tiara when she married the now King Charles III - Princess...
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    The King makes Prince Edward the Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday

    Prince Edward thanks people for welcoming him and his wife Sophie to Edinburgh on a day which he describes as “special and slightly overwhelming”. The visit came as his brother the King made him and his wife Sophie the new Prince and Princess of Edinburgh. The previous Prince and Princess of...
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    Princess of Wales gives shamrock sprigs to Irish Guards on St Patrick's Day

    Catherine, the Princess of Wales, today handed out shamrock sprigs to members of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards for the first time since the King made the future Queen the regiment's honorary colonel. The ceremony of a member of the Royal Family hanging out shamrock sprigs to the Irish Guards...
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    Britain bans TikTok from government mobile phones

    Good point. Nowadays watching the Parliament Channel and I see the Commons or the Lords all I see is MPs or Lords and Baronesses sat there looking at their phones, and I just think they're just busy posting crap on Facebook or Twitter rather than running the country. The Prime Minister and the...
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    Germany follows Britain by sending illegals to Rwanda

    Germany, the EU's largest and richest member state, has decided to follow the example of non-EU Britain by sending its illegal immigrants to Rwanda against the EU's wishes. So Germany has gone against the EU and has followed Brexit Britain...
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    Britain bans TikTok from government mobile phones

    The use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on phones and other devices issued to UK government ministers and civil servants has been banned. Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden told MPs the app would be banned on security grounds with immediate effect. TikTok has strongly denied...
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    Queen guitarist Brian May receives a knighthood from the King

    As for Queen: What a bunch of legends! Famous for their global megahits of the 1970s and for being the world's most successful band after The Beatles. And you can hardly get a better vocalist than Freddie Mercury. I quite like this song of theirs. Incredibly, the video was filmed when Freddie...
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    Queen guitarist Brian May receives a knighthood from the King

    As for Sir Brian May, 75, he's a very intelligent and very nice bloke. As well as being the guitarist of Queen, the fifth-biggest-selling music artists in the world after The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Elton John, he's also a qualified astrophysicist. In his doctoral research...
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    Queen guitarist Brian May receives a knighthood from the King

    If the British monarch knights you then you ARE a knight. As far as I know nobody else has the power to confer a knighthood onto somebody, unless that power has been given to them by the monarch when the monarch is unable to do it, like if they're on a State Visit somewhere.
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    UK Green Party leader Lucas copies skeletal cretin Pelosi

    And I'm sorry, Caroline, you can blather about "international law" all you like but Britain is a democracy and so domestic laws trump international laws. The laws our elected representatives make should take precedence over laws made by unelected foreigners. It's just basic common sense. Happy...
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    UK Green Party leader Lucas copies skeletal cretin Pelosi

    Virtue Signal Received! Green Party leader and MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas copied Skeletor Pelosi when she ripped up the Bill which ensures those immigrants arriving in Britain across the Channel have done so illegally. Of course, the Bill the trout ripped up is just a copy of the...
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    British PM criticised for not having dog on leash in Hyde Park

    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, 42, has been spoken to by the police for not having his dog on a leash in London's Hyde Park. If he is fined it would be his third police fine, coming just weeks after he was caught in a car without wearing a seatbelt. However, despite some of the Left Wing...
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    Queen guitarist Brian May receives a knighthood from the King

    Queen legend Sir Brian May has been given a knighthood by King Charles III for his services to music and charity. The guitarist responsible for some of the catchiest riffs on songs like 'We Will Rock You' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' received the honour at Buckingham Palace.
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    Aukus: Australia, UK and US unveil nuclear submarine project

    Aukus deal: US, UK and Australia agree on nuclear submarine project The three allies will jointly build a new class of submarines and the British and Americans will help the Australians acquire their first nuclear-powered subs By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Monday 13th March 2023 The leaders...
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    The King pays tribute to his mother on first Commonwealth Day of his reign

    The King received a traditional New Zealand Maori Hongi greeting of touching noses as he arrived at Westminster Abbey today King Charles III today paid tribute to his mother Queen Elizabeth II on the first Commonwealth Day of his reign. The new Head of the Commonwealth addressed dignitaries at...
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    The King makes Prince Edward the Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday

    King Charles grants Prince Edward Duke of Edinburgh title BBC News Friday 10th March 2023 Prince Edward paid a visit to Edinburgh after his new title was announced By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent Prince Edward has been named as the new Duke of Edinburgh, Buckingham Palace has announced...
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    Britain bans asylum for those arriving in small boats

    The UN is TRIGGERED by Britain's migration ban "Who are the UN to 'urge' Britain to change its mind? Who elected the UN? Our Common Law should reign over international law" British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has triggered the United Nations - so she must be doing something right.
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    Britain bans asylum for those arriving in small boats

    How very quaintly British: The Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle berating naughty MPs by telling them to get a strong cup of tea.
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    Britain bans asylum for those arriving in small boats

    "If you come here illegally you will be detained and swiftly removed!": British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defends his Government's new immigration policy during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, during which Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned the new policy