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PHOTOS: The Queen Celebrates At Epsom Derby!

Posted 06.02.2012

Diamond Jubilee celebrations finally began on Saturday. (If you're thinking, "wait... hasn't the Jubilee been happening for months now?", it's just be...

Biography of Queen Elizabeth

Sally Bedell Smith | Posted 03.17.2012

Sally Bedell Smith

None of the guests at the wedding party could have known that Charles and Diana's marriage was already beginning to unravel. The Queen couldn't avoid Diana's disquieting behavior. Nobody had ever flouted protocol as Diana did, or shown such disrespect to the Queen.

Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown!

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 07.06.2011

Lisa Mirza Grotts

The Windsors have tied the knot yet again. But the wedding of this century has turned out to be very different from the one in 1981 when Prince Charles wed Lady Diana Spencer.

Here Comes the Queen: A Sense of History

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Evelyn Leopold

Queen Elizabeth II addressed the UN General Assembly for the first time since 1957. The 2010 speech by the 84 year-old queen was much meatier than the 9 paragraphs she recited in 1957 and the sense of history was palpable.

A Queen for Today!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Henry Adams

Still reigning, still smiling, after 56 years! The Glorious Queen Elizabeth Rose Who has worked harder or better, and so long, at a tiresomely t...

April 6, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Valeriani

Alaskan volcano Mount Redoubt erupts. Volcanic ash so thick over Anchorage, Sarah Palin can't see Russia from her front porch.

Queen Plans Google Visit

The Guardian | Jemima Kiss | Posted 05.25.2011

The Queen will pop over the road from Buckingham Palace next month to visit the UK headquarters of US internet search giant Google. Accompanied by th...

Joan Rivers Meets The Queen, Drops 13 Swear Words

This is London | Posted 05.25.2011

Comedienne Joan Rivers unleashed a foulmouthed tirade in front of the Queen and Prince Philip at the 79th Royal Variety Performance - swearing 13 time...

Taking Aim At Corporate Bribery Between Brits, Saudis

New York Times | NELSON D. SCHWARTZ, LOWELL BERGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Late last month, five jumbo jets from Riyadh touched down at Heathrow Airport in London. They brought with them 13 members of the Saudi royal family, ...