Tag: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth

UK plans mass singalong for locked-down VE Day

  LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britons will be urged to join a national singalong from their doorsteps and hold 1940s-style tea parties to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day or Victory in Europe Day, under a coronavirus-appropriate programme unveiled Wednesday. Queen Elizabeth II will make a televised address to the nation on May 8 to mark the day the Nazis surrendered, bringing an end to World War II in Europe. It will be followed […]

Queen gathers royals for crisis meeting with Prince Harry

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Queen Elizabeth II and other senior British royals were gathering for a meeting Monday with Prince Harry in an attempt to solve the crisis triggered by his bombshell announcement that he and wife Meghan were stepping back from the royal frontline. Harry’s father Prince Charles and brother Prince William, with whom he has strained relations, will join the monarch at her private Sandringham estate in eastern England, according to British […]

UK Queen’s private estate invested in offshore funds: leaks

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Millions of pounds from the private estate of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II have been invested in offshore tax haven funds, a huge new leak of financial documents revealed on Sunday. Around £10 million ($13 million, €11.3 million) of the Queen’s private money was placed in funds held in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, according to the leaked papers, which were first reported in Britain by the BBC and the Guardian […]

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth visits the Chelsea Flower Show

MAY 19 (Reuters) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth attended the launch of the annual Chelsea Flower Show in London on Monday (May 18), where the finest horticulturists from all over the world exhibit their meticulously designed gardens. The Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh were joined at the lavish flower show by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as well as Prince Harry. She was shown around various gardens by officials and watched the […]