Tag Archives: The Queen

Royal Roundup: A Windsor Family Christmas

By | Posted on December 23rd, 2011
The royals at Sandringham, Christmas 2010. (AP Images)

Those royalty lessons Kate’s been getting must be working. The Duchess hasn’t made a misstep yet, though of course that might have just as much to do with her own innate poise and finely-tuned sensibilities as with any royal ...

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Royal Roundup: Queen Leads Tribute to Britain’s Fallen Soldiers

By | Posted on November 14th, 2011

Members of the royal family turned out in force on Remembrance Sunday to honor those who lost their lives in military conflicts since World War I.

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Royal Roundup: After Great Aussie Barbecue, Queen is Back Home

By | Posted on October 31st, 2011

The Queen’s trip to Australia is over, and pundits everywhere are calling it a complete success on every level.

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Royal Roundup: The Queen’s Not the Only Roving Royal

By | Posted on October 25th, 2011

The Queen continues her 10-day Australian trip, but other members of the royal family are on the move as well.

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Royal Roundup: Row Over the Bow, or, Case of the Missing Curtsy

By | Posted on October 20th, 2011

Who would have thought that the omission of a curtsy to the Queen would have caused an uproar in a country as informal and easygoing as Australia?

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Royal Roundup: Queen’s Trip Likely to Weaken Australian Republicans

By | Posted on October 12th, 2011

The Queen’s trip Down Under next week is likely to rekindle the debate over whether Australia ought to throw off the reigns of monarchy and declare itself a republic.

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Royal Roundup: Captain Harry Wales, Reporting For Duty

By | Posted on October 10th, 2011

As promised, there was no public fanfare to mark Prince Harry’s arrival at El Centro Air Force Base at the end of last week.

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Royal Roundup: Australia Trip to Put the ‘Queen Back in Queensland’

By | Posted on September 27th, 2011

When the Queen travels to Australia next month on an official ten-day state visit, she will officially open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth.

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Royal Roundup: The Queen is ‘Incredible,’ Says William in New Book

By | Posted on September 26th, 2011

“She’s my grandmother to me first, and then she’s the Queen,” says Prince William in the new book Our Queen. “Words that come from her, I take very personally and I really appreciate.”

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Royal Roundup: Zara Phillips Joins Her Husband in New Zealand

By | Posted on September 23rd, 2011

The Queen’s granddaughter, Zara Phillips, has joined her husband, Mike Tindall in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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