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Tony Blair does not regret the Iraq war despite the "nightmare" it unleashed, but feels "desperately sorry" for those who died, the former prime minister said in memoirs published on Wednesday. "A Journey", Blair's account of his decade in Downing Street from 1997 to 2007, also includes an unprecedented attack on his "strange" successor Gordon Brown, whose premiership he ...

Support for Australia becoming a republic has slumped to a 16-year-low, according to the results of a poll released Sunday which found that one-in-three people never want to break ties with Britain. Asked whether Australia should become a republic, 48 percent of the 1,400 polled said they wanted to keep things as they are for now -- with Britain's ...

Mohamed Al Fayed, the former owner of Harrods, said Sunday he had the plush London emporium's royal warrants taken down and burned. The Egyptian tycoon, in a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, called the endorsements a "curse" on the luxury department store. A royal warrant allows a supplier to advertise that they are used by the royal family. The ...

The lease on a tropical island owned by the king of Tonga has been put on the market in a receivership sale. Although the king -- George Tupou V -- has issued a proclamation that Nukunamo Island cannot be mortgaged or used as security "for any purpose whatsoever", the receivers believe they can sell the 99-year lease. The lease on the island ...

Australia should become a republic when Queen Elizabeth II dies or abdicates, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday, unexpectedly reviving an emotional debate just days ahead of national polls. Gillard, whose centre-left Labor Party is in a tight electoral race against the conservative opposition, said a new monarch would be an "appropriate" time for Australia to stop having a ...

Sitting in an ancient banyan tree in his remote village in Vanuatu, tribesman Sikor Natuan cradles a faded portrait of Britain's Prince Philip against his naked and tattooed chest. Natuan, who just weeks before danced and feasted to mark the royal's 89th birthday, is already preparing for next year's celebrations -- and he is expecting the guest of ...

Britain's Princess Anne is turning 60 and says she has no intention of slowing down. The avid horse rider who represented her country at the 1976 Olympics, Anne is still heavily involved in sport, serving on London's 2012 Olympic organizing committee. She's ...

At least three formal complaints have been filed against Swedish Crown Princess Victoria for corruption linked to honeymoon gifts she and her husband Prince Daniel accepted after their June 19 wedding, media reported Monday. "Complaints have been filed and I will hear the case next week," Sweden's top anti-corruption prosecutor Gunnar Stetler told the Expressen daily, adding that he ...

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, says she is doing everything she can to avoid declaring bankruptcy over business debts. The former wife of Prince Andrew said in a statement Sunday that she has paid off all her personal debts. The statement was issued in a response to ...

The Duchess of York?s debts have risen to almost £5 million, causing alarm in the Royal family, which now fears her best option is bankruptcy, the Sunday Telegraph reported, without naming its sources. Last month the Duchess, Sarah Ferguson, was forced to lay off 11 full-time and part-time staff but still her debts, with interest payments, are growing by ...