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The King and Queen arrived in Paris yesterday to start a three-day State Visit. It should have been their first State Visit of the reign, but was cancelled in March due to widespread riots in France, with their first State Visit instead being to Ireland.

King Charles III, resplendent as usual in his kilt of new King Charles III tartan, has visited the Cairngorms National Park. As the Head of State visited Tomintoul, the highest village in the Highlands (though not the highest village in Scotland), he complimented a woman for her magnificent...

Scotland 1-3 England England, ranked 4th in the world, put Scotland to the sword at Hampden Park in Glasgow tonight in a "friendly" match to mark the 150th anniversary of the first match between the two great footballing rivals - the two oldest international football teams in the world. The...

The imperial nostalgia of the EU flag-wavers When did Last Night of the Proms become a celebration of fealty to the Brussels bureaucracy? TOM SLATER EDITOR 11th September 2023 Spiked One of the many amusing things about the Remoaners, those well-to-do liberals who have never reconciled...

Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman BBC News 27th July 2023 The remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirror By Brodie Owen BBC News 27th July 2023 A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, was...

Great Fire of London: Man who first raised alarm identified By Tim Stokes BBC News 1st September 2023 The person who is thought to have first raised the alarm about a blaze at a bakery that became the Great Fire of London has been identified. The fire, which began in Thomas Farriner's...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he "will not accept" Chinese interference in the UK's democracy, after it emerged a parliamentary researcher was arrested amid accusations he spied for China. During the debate on the matter in the Commons, Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ordered MPs...

The King and Queen greeted well-wishers today outside a private church service to mark the first anniversary of the late Queen Elizabeth II's death. Charles III and Camilla made the short journey by car from the nearby Balmoral Estate to the Scottish church, at Crathie Kirk, Aberdeenshire...

Between 1952 and 2022 Accession Day was 6th February. Now Accession Day is 8th September. Gun salutes today marked the first anniversary of King Charles III's accession to the Throne.

Plans for a permanent memorial to the late Queen and a national legacy programme in her honour will be unveiled in 2026 to mark what would have been Queen Elizabeth II's centenary year...

King Charles III has attended the Highland Games for the first time as monarch. Attended by Queen Camilla and his sister Princess Anne and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, the King wore a kilt resplendent in the new King Charles III tartan for the Games not far from Balmoral in...

Mohamed Al Fayed has died at the age of 94. The Egyptian-born businessman was best known as a former owner of the Harrods department store and Fulham football club in London. He sold Harrods to Qatar Holdings in May 2010. Three years later, he also sold Fulham FC, to the US businessman Shahid...

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla are expected to mark the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's death in private at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire. Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral on Thursday 8th September 2022 after reigning for 70 years.

The King has received an official welcome to Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire today at a small ceremony outside the castle gates. King Charles III inspected a Guard of Honour formed by the Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland. He also met their mascot, Shetland...

This was the scene earlier in Stadium Australia in Sydney for the World Cup Final between Spain and England. Both teams are looking to win the World Cup for the first time. England win Euro 2022 last year. Can they now win the World Cup, too? Kick off is in 10 minutes.

British nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies. Letby, 33, is Britain's most prolific baby killer of modern times and will be sentenced on Monday.

English football dominates: On the day the Women's European Champions England reached the World Cup Final the English and European club champions Manchester City beat Sevilla (Seville) to win the Super Cup. It seems that, right now, almost nobody can beat Manchester City. The Super Cup sees...

European Champions England - winners of Euro 2022 - have reached the World Cup Final after beating Australia 3-1 in the Semi-Final in Australia. It is England Women's first World Cup Final where they will play Spain on Sunday. It is also Spain's first Women's World Cup Final. Will England add...