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  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    News in-depthUK foreign policy
    Macron rolls out red carpet for King Charles

    Monarch’s three-day trip comes as Franco-British relationship is on stronger footing after tense Brexit period

    French president Emmanuel Macron greets the then Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in London in 2020
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Police halt probe into cash-for-honours claims against King’s charity

    Scotland Yard shelves investigation into alleged payments by Saudi businessman to Prince’s Foundation

    King Charles arrives in Balmoral
  • Saturday, 12 August, 2023
    Offshore wind boom gives King Charles a 45% pay rise

    Public funding increase for UK royal family casts doubt on likelihood of paring back the institution

  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    British royal household faces cut in share of government funding

    Sovereign grant level to be lowered to 12% of Crown Estate’s profits after wind farm boon

    From left: Prince George, Prince Louis, the Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales, Princess Charlotte and King Charles III on the balcony of Buckingham Palace last month
  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    Crown Estate
    Wind farms drive 42% surge in Crown Estate’s property profits

    Boost for UK’s public finances after King’s decision to reduce take for ‘wider public good’

  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Prince William’s latest campaign may invite awkwardness with politicians

    Heir launches five-year project aimed at ending homelessness, a popular cause that governments have historically deprioritised

    Prince William speaks to a resident in Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    News in-depthSport
    Royal Ascot looks to a future without Queen Elizabeth

    Famous event faces financial uncertainty and challenges from animal rights campaigners without its royal champion

    King Charles, left, with Queen Camilla at Ascot racecourse on Tuesday
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    Jeffrey Epstein
    Epstein claimed to have set up meetings with senior UK ministers

    JPMorgan report describes how sex offender offered to act as intermediary between Jes Staley and British government

  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Prince Harry
    Prince Harry attacks Mirror Group for ‘industrial-scale destruction of evidence’

    Duke of Sussex alleges journalists covered their tracks to conceal illegal phone hacking

    Prince Harry arrives to give evidence at the  High Court in London on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    Prince Harry
    Prince Harry says UK government at ‘rock bottom’

    British royal describes ‘incredibly invasive’ articles as he begins testimony in phone-hacking case against Mirror Group

    Prince Harry arrives at the High Court in London on Tuesday
  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    Prince Harry
    Prince Harry subject to illegal activity from childhood, High Court told

    Judge expresses surprise at Duke of Sussex’s absence on first day of civil case as barrister sets out arguments

    Prince Harry
  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Anti-monarchist Graham Smith: The British royals are ‘tax-funded Kardashians’

    Head of the campaign group Republic on why the monarchy should be abolished and the government’s protest laws revoked

    Graham Smith
  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    Phone hacking
    Prince Harry takes on Fleet Street over phone hacking

    New round of lawsuits brings scandal back to fore and poses fresh financial risks for tabloid media groups

    Prince Harry leaves the High Court in London with his legal team
  • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
    Camilla Cavendish
    By meddling with justice, UK politicians are undermining it

    Both Conservatives in Westminster and the SNP at Holyrood are weakening our legal safeguards

    Illustration of blindfolded Lady Justice, with Big Ben as her body, tilting over. In one hand she holds broken scales and behind her back she holds a large sledgehammer with the UK Parliament’s portcullis emblem engraved on it.
  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    Phone hacking
    Prince Harry accused of ‘highly publicised smearing’ in phone hacking trial

    Lawyers for Mirror group say royal claimant and three others a ‘long way off’ proving publisher gathered information unlawfully

  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    News in-depth
    Coronation day arrests transform the profile of UK republicans

    Police attempts to curb protests have unintentionally boosted anti-monarchy movement as young lose faith in institution

  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    American mockery of Britain masks a deeper insecurity

    Laughing at us from across the Atlantic does not make problems at home go away

    Ben Hickey illustration of a figure sat on a US flag pointing at a figure sitting on a British flag
  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    Mirror Group PLC
    Mirror accused of ordering ‘unlawful activities’, High Court hears

    Piers Morgan knew of phone hacking while he was editor, court told in lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and others

    Prince Harry leaving the Royal Courts of Justice in London in March
  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
    King Charles III
    Met ‘regrets’ arresting anti-monarchy protesters during coronation

    Police apologise hours after Sunak backed their security operation for Saturday’s procession

  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
    UK society
    Coronation Weekend’s ‘Big Help Out’ aims to kick-start volunteering sector

    Royal approval used to reverse drop in community participation since Covid-19 pandemic

  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
    ReviewMusic
    Coronation Concert — a cheesy display of undazzling star-wattage

    Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and three-fifths of Take That failed to upstage the newly crowned King and Queen

    A woman in a glamorous dress stands on stage singing into a microphone with one arm raised
  • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
    King Charles III
    Coronation ceremonial gives way to communal celebration

    Thousands across Britain get together for street lunches after the formal crowning of King Charles on Saturday

    Slideshow of images from the coronation weekend
  • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
    UK society
    Coronation day arrests prompt fears for UK civil liberties

    Police arrested 52 people including republican protesters and council volunteers after warning against disruption

    A police officer makes an arrest close to the route of the coronation procession in central London on Saturday
  • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
    King Charles III
    At the coronation, even the royals opt for a bit of ‘stealth wealth’

    The procession was full of British pomp — sans the tiaras and legendary jewels

  • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
    LexUK equities
    UK equities: changing of the guard as new king takes over Premium content

    Today’s markets share strong similarities with those at the time of the late Queen’s coronation 70 years ago

    A woman wearing a handmade royal hat ahead of the coronation of King Charles in London
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