Tag: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II

No nuke tests during queen visit, Major urged Chirac

by Robin MILLARD Agence France-Presse British urged France not to conduct controversial nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific while Queen Elizabeth II was in New Zealand, newly released government files showed Tuesday. The then-prime minister, John Major, told president Jacques Chirac nuclear tests would put the monarch in an “invidious position”, as nearby New Zealand’s head of state, according to the declassified documents from the National Archives. The underground tests were conducted on Moruroa atoll […]

Leaks show US commerce chief, UK queen’s offshore investments

by Issam AHMED Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has business ties to a shipping firm linked to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, according to a vast leak of financial documents that also revealed Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s investments in tax havens. It was also revealed that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top fundraiser and senior advisor Stephen Bronfman, heir to the Seagram fortune, moved some $60 million to offshore […]