LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators granted emergency approval and the world’s first roll-out begins next week, reports late Saturday said. The monarch, 94, and her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip are in line to get the jab early due to their age and will not receive preferential treatment, the Mail on Sunday reported. The newspaper said Britain’s most senior royals would […]
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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 agrees ‘period of transition’ for Harry and Meghan
SANDRINGHAM, United Kingdom (AFP) — Queen Elizabeth II on Monday said Prince Harry and his wife Meghan would be allowed to split their time between Britain and Canada while their future is finalised. The couple said last week they wanted to step back from the royal frontline, catching the family off guard and forcing the monarch to convene crisis talks about the pair’s future roles. The 93-year-old queen, her son and heir Prince Charles, […]
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 […]
Queen guitarist Brian May releases tribute to NASA spacecraft
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Jamming and astrophysics go hand-in-hand for Queen lead guitarist Brian May, who announced Wednesday he is releasing a musical tribute to a far-flung NASA spacecraft that is about to make history. The US space agency’s New Horizon’s spacecraft will soon make the most distant flyby of a cosmic object ever, zipping by an object called Ultima Thule — a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on January 1. A […]
Britain’s Prince Charles steps up as Queen steps back
by Robin Millard © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — On Remembrance Sunday, Prince Charles will lay Queen Elizabeth II’s wreath honouring Britain’s war dead as she watches on — a rare public symbol of the 91-year-old gradually scaling back her duties. It will be a milestone moment in the otherwise imperceptibly slow-motion process, as her eldest son, now 69, increasingly steps up on her behalf. Experts said Britain’s oldest-ever monarch would never consider abdication or […]
Queen Elizabeth in sapphire jewellery to mark Sapphire Jubilee
Reuters — A photograph by David Bailey showing Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II wearing a suite of sapphire jewellery given to her by her father King George VI as a wedding gift in 1947 was reissued by Buckingham Palace to mark the queen’s Sapphire Jubilee. Monday (February 6) marks the queen’s Sapphire Jubilee – 65 years on the throne, the first ever British monarch to have reached such a milestone. The 90-year-old queen acceded to the […]
Queen try to stop Trump using ‘We Are The Champions’
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The iconic British rock group Queen is trying to stop Donald Trump from using their hit song “We Are The Champions”, lead guitarist Brian May has revealed. The rock star said property tycoon Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential elections, was using the song without permission. May, 68, said he had received an “avalanche of complaints” about Trump using the anthem during an appearance on US television […]
Queen shows no signs of slowing down on eve of 90th birthday
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is hard at work on the eve of her 90th birthday, carrying out official engagements in Windsor. Royal watchers say despite her advancing years, she’s showing no signs of slowing down.





