Topic: Gordon Brown

Blair memoir lifts lid on Iraq, alcohol and royals

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 ...

Royal family attend Easter service at Windsor

Queen Elizabeth II and members of the royal family attended the traditional Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle and were greeted by bright sunshine as they left the church.The supreme governor of the Church of England went to St George's Chapel in ...

Prince Charles defuses Franco-British D-Day dispute

Prince Charles is to attend D-Day commemorations in France next weekend, his office said Tuesday, defusing an embarrassing diplomatic tussle over whether Queen Elizabeth II should attend.The announcement came a day after the White House unexpectedly intervened to try to untangle what ...

Prince Charles to attend D-Day ceremonies in France

Prince Charles is to attend D-Day commemorations in France next weekend, his office said on Tuesday, defusing an embarrassing diplomatic tussle over whether Queen Elizabeth II should have been invited.The announcement came a day after the White House unexpectedly intervened to try ...

Prince Charles defuses Franco-British D-Day snafu

Britain's Prince Charles is to attend D-Day commemorations in France next weekend, his office said Tuesday, defusing an embarrassing diplomatic tussle over whether Queen Elizabeth II should go.The announcement came a day after the White House unexpectedly intervened to try to untangle ...
Prince Charles will accompany Prime Minister Gordon Brown to this year's 65th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France.. The move follows outrage at an initial snub of British veterans. Following previous major commemorations, British officials had decided not to officially mark D-Day again ...

Service for dead in copter crash

Gordon Brown and Prince Charles will join hundreds of mourners today at a memorial service for 16 men who died when their helicopter crashed in the North Sea.. Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond and the Duchess of Cornwall will also be among ...

British PM eyes royal reform: reports

Britain is mulling reforms to a 300-year-old law which bars royals from taking the throne if they marry Catholics, and puts women on an equal footing in the royal line, reports said on Friday.Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Buckingham Palace officials have ...

PM, palace in talks on bar on Catholics

Gordon Brown and Buckingham Palace have discussed reforms to a 300-year-old law which bars royals from taking the throne if they marry Catholics, and puts women on an equal footing in the royal line, reports said Friday.The prime minister and palace officials ...

PM and Palace discuss royal reforms

Gordon Brown and Buckingham Palace have discussed plans to scrap the ban on heirs to the throne marrying Roman Catholics and to give royal daughters an equal claim to the throne, a Downing Street source has said.. Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris ...
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