Topic: Royalty

Norway marks attacks with remembrance ceremony

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway holds a national ceremony of remembrance on Sunday for the 77 victims of the worst attacks on the country since World War Two, as it tries to move forward and return to something like normality.Anti-immigration zealot Anders Behring ...
Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine on Friday visited the Birmingham neighbourhood where three men were killed during the riots which rocked England last week.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met the parents of the three men, who were of South ...

India temple treasure brings riches, challenges

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - A stream of bare-chested religious devotees step gingerly through metal detectors at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in southern India as armed commandos with AK-47s guard perhaps one of the world's greatest treasures to surface in recent times.For months ...

Swedish heir to throne expecting first child

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Crown Princess Victoria, the heir to the Swedish throne, is expecting her first child, the royal court said on Wednesday."The birth is expected to take place in March 2012," the Swedish court said in a press release.The court gave ...
Norwegian pop group A-ha said Wednesday it would reunite to perform on August 21, a national day of mourning for the 77 people killed in last month's twin attacks in Oslo and on the nearby island of Utoeya."On 22 July, we, like ...

UK store plans cut-price Pippa Middleton dress

A copy of Pippa Middleton's bridesmaid dress at her sister Kate's wedding to Prince William is to go on sale in Britain, at about a 100th of the cost of the original, a store said Thursday.Middleton, 27, almost stole the show on ...

Police arrest "key figure" in News Corp hacking probe

LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a former senior figure at Rupert Murdoch's News International group on Tuesday as part of their probe into phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid, media reports said.Police said a 71-year-old man had been ...

Tech firm says News International deleted emails

LONDON (Reuters) - A technology firm has told British legislators it was aware of the deletion of hundreds of thousands of emails at the request of News Corp unit News International between April 2010 and last month, parliamentarian Keith Vaz said on ...

UK queen's granddaughter Zara weds in Scotland

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips married fellow athlete Mike Tindall on Saturday in a private ceremony in the Scottish capital Edinburgh.Prince William and wife Kate, who tied the knot in April in a public display of royal pomp and ...

Crowds gather for Britain's second royal wedding

The second British royal wedding of the year takes place on Saturday, as Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips and England rugby star Mike Tindall tie the knot in Edinburgh.But the marriage of the two world-beating sports stars has little in ...