Topic: Buckingham Palace

British monarch 'asked for heating handout'

Queen Elizabeth II asked the British government for money from a fund for poor people to help pay heating bills on her palaces, a newspaper reported on Friday.The request was rebuffed because officials feared the news would be a public relations disaster ...

Queen 'cedes control of finances' to govt

Queen Elizabeth II has been forced to give up the ultimate control of her finances to the government under a deal agreed in 2006 and kept secret until now, reports said Thursday.The revelation came in hundreds of letters obtained by a newspaper ...

Royal family posts pictures online

The royal family has opened an account on photo-sharing website Flickr, Buckingham Palace announced Sunday, in their latest attempt to move with the times.The free-to-access site will initially contain more than 600 photographs of Queen Elizabeth II on formal engagements, pictures from ...

Britain's royals post family pictures online

The British royal family has opened an account on photo-sharing website Flickr, Buckingham Palace announced Sunday, in their latest attempt to move with the times.The free-to-access site will initially contain more than 600 photographs of Queen Elizabeth II on formal engagements, pictures ...
After Twitter, YouTube, British royals expand online presence with Flickr photo-share accountThese aren't your average family snapshots.Queen Elizabeth II is joining other proud parents starting Monday in showing off and sharing her photo albums — and those of the House of Windsor ...

Queen Elizabeth to become great-grandmother

Queen Elizabeth II is set to become a great-grandmother for the first time at the age of 84 after Buckingham Palace announced Friday that the Canadian wife of her grandson is pregnant.Peter Phillips, son of the queen's daughter Princess Anne and 11th ...

Queen to become great-grandmother

The Queen is set to become a great-grandmother for the first time at the age of 84 after Buckingham Palace announced on Friday that the Canadian wife of her grandson is pregnant.Peter Phillips, son of the queen's daughter Princess Anne and 11th ...

Queen Elizabeth II to become great-grandmother

Queen Elizabeth II is set to become a great-grandmother for the first time at the age of 84 after Buckingham Palace announced Friday that the Canadian wife of her grandson is pregnant.Peter Phillips, son of the queen's daughter Princess Anne and 11th ...
The Queen is visiting New York, possibly for the last time. The Queen would not be particularly thrilled if any New Yorker, meeting her today, tried to show friendship by adopting an expression of moist concern and pressing a few crisp greenbacks ...
Only 94 cents -- or 62 pence -- per person a year, according to accounting released Monday by Buckingham Palace. More: "Britain's public sector is facing cuts as the government tries to eliminate a record deficit, and Alan Reid, Keeper of the ...