King Charles addresses the nation
This evening King Charles III addressed the nation for the first time as sovereign. He reflected on his mother’s life-long…
Why the Queen loved Balmoral
Balmoral, where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away yesterday afternoon, was one of her favourite places to be. Queen Elizabeth inherited…
Parliament’s poignant tributes to the Queen
That so many people have wanted to say something about how the Queen touched their lives, whether or not they…
Why even Vladimir Putin has paid tribute to the Queen
It is a mark of the Queen’s standing that even Vladimir Putin, in the midst of an undeclared economic and…
Lessons for life from the Queen
Having taken the Queen’s remarkable longevity, good health and work ethic for granted right until the end, might her subjects…
Watch: Theresa May’s cheese tribute
There’s a grim mood in parliament today. Across the House, MPs are queuing up to pay tribute to Her Majesty…
Watch: Boris Johnson’s tribute to the Queen
There’s a sombre mood in parliament today as MPs gather to pay tribute to the Queen. Over the following days,…
The New York Times’s tasteless Queen op-ed
The Queen’s death has prompted an outpouring of mourning around the globe. But that sense of loss apparently doesn’t extend…
How the newspapers covered the Queen’s death
As the nation wakes up to its first day after the Queen’s death, newspapers in Britain – and around the…
A republican’s tribute to the Queen
I am a republican, always have been, and yet I now feel a great sense of loss. And not only…
The Queen was the model constitutional monarch
There are events in politics that everyone knows are coming but no one can quite anticipate what they will mean. The…
Britain will be a lesser nation without the Queen
The loneliest thing about being as long-lived as the Queen, at 96, is that you have few or no contemporaries.…
The good and faithful servant Queen
‘Her Majesty The Queen’. With two male monarchs lined up to follow King Charles III, these four words are unlikely…
Christmas without the Queen will never be the same
For most of my life, I’ve tuned in to the Queen’s Christmas message. Her observations on the year gone would…
16 reasons why you need to buy an electric car
You have a penchant for Tolstoy, but never got around to reading War and Peace. Now you can devour this…
Remembering Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
A sea of people are gathering in the twilight in front of Buckingham Palace – they will do so throughout…
Duty, service, and change: vale Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, it was said, had one duty above all others – to never let the Queen down. Her Majesty,…
Our country’s saddest day
This is our country’s saddest day. In the hearts of every one of us there is an ache at the…
Queen Elizabeth II: in tributes
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died this afternoon at Balmoral, the royal family confirmed. The gravity of the news has…
Britain will now enter ten days of mourning
When word of the Queen’s illness spread, the House of Commons quickly emptied. Liz Truss had just announced her fuel…
We will all miss Her Majesty
When the 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth became Queen in February 1952, the average age at which her subjects died was, at…
Vale Her Majesty The Queen
The Spectator Australia is deeply saddened and shaken by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at 96 after…
My beloved mother
The death of my beloved mother Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and…
The Prime Minister’s tribute to Elizabeth II
We are all devastated by the news we have just heard from Balmoral. The death of Her Majesty the Queen…
Queen Elizabeth II, our remarkable monarch
Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96, was the longest-serving British monarch. From the uncertain beginnings of…
