Tag Archives: Royal Roundup

Royal Roundup: A Warm Windsor Welcome for London Games

By | Posted on July 24th, 2012

The whole royal family’s turning out for the Games.

Queen Elizabeth hosted a reception at Buckingham Palace on Monday for members of the International Olympic Committee.

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Royal Roundup: ‘The Man Who Should Be King’ Dies in Australia

By | Posted on July 6th, 2012

A 71-year-old Australian man named Mike Hastings died last week in a small town in New South Wales. At various points in his life he’d been a forklift driver, a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman and an agronomist.

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Royal Roundup: Historic Handshake for Her Majesty

By | Posted on June 29th, 2012

There will surely be tens of thousands, or more, news photographs of the Queen this Jubilee year, but none is likely to be as historically significant as the much-heralded photograph of the monarch shaking hands with former Irish ...

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Royal Roundup: The Queen Gets a Raise; William Gets an Inheritance

By | Posted on June 21st, 2012

These may be tough economic times, but you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the Queen is doing quite well.

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Royal Roundup: Republicans Coming Out for the Jubilee, Too

By | Posted on May 30th, 2012

 

You might think that for anti-monarchists the Jubilee would be a total nightmare.

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Royal Roundup: Bright Outlook for Prince Charles

By | Posted on May 29th, 2012
Prince Charles delivering the weather on Scottish television earlier this month.

After wrapping up last week’s whirlwind Jubilee visit to Canada, Prince Charles arrived back home for next weekend’s festivities to some very good news: a majority of people in the UK now support him as England’s next monarch.

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Royal Roundup: Charles and Camilla on Diamond Jubilee Trip to Canada

By | Posted on May 23rd, 2012

“Don’t expect dragon boat racing and street hockey this time around,” wrote the CBC News in advance of Prince Charles and Camilla’s Diamond Jubilee trip to Canada this week, predicting that it would be a “more sedate ...

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Royal Roundup: Princess Anne, Olympic Torchbearer

By | Posted on May 18th, 2012

In a rainy ceremony in Athens that included school children singing “God Save the Queen,” Princess Anne accepted the Olympic torch on Thursday as it was symbolically handed over to London.

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Royal Roundup: Queen Delivers Address to Parliament; Windsor Pageant Kicks Off Jubilee

By | Posted on May 11th, 2012

Amid pomp and ceremony, Queen Elizabeth traveled to Westminster on Wednesday to deliver her annual speech to Parliament outlining the government’s plans for the upcoming year.

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Royal Roundup: Mr. Wales Goes to Washington

By | Posted on May 8th, 2012
Harry Harry receiving humanitarian award from Colin Powell. (Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP Images)

Prince Harry received a prestigious award in our nation’s capital last night, but the young royal’s acceptance speech emphasized his belief that the real honors belong to soldiers injured in war.

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