Topic: Western Europe

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...
Queen cost UK taxpayers less than $1 each last year, but royal coffers face further squeezeLike millions of her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II is going to have to make do and mend — cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal ...

Buckingham Palace accounts reveal cost of royals

The royal family cost Britain's taxpayers £38.2 million in the last financial year, according to accounts released by Buckingham Palace Monday. The figure, which represents 62 pence per person, was released with Britain facing deep public spending cuts as the coalition government ...

Fan incident blown out of proportion, says Beckham

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The fan who gained access to England's dressing room after Friday's 0-0 draw with Algeria was neither aggressive nor violent and the incident had been blown out of all proportion, said David Beckham. The supporter eluded security at Cape ...
FIFA: 'Unacceptable' for angry fan to breach security, confront England team in locker roomFIFA says it's unacceptable that an angry fan broke through security lines and entered the England players' locker room in Cape Town after the 0-0 draw with Algeria. FIFA ...

Guyon rides to Ascot victory at first attempt

Maxime Guyon won for France at Royal Ascot with his first ride in Britain aboard Byword in the Prince of Wales's Stakes here on Wednesday. The 21-year-old jockey had never ridden at the Royal meeting before, and with a cool performance to ...

Prince Philip has hand surgery

Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip has had surgery to cure a problem with his left hand, Buckingham Palace has said, in the latest health problem to hit the royals. The Duke of Edinburgh, who turns 89 on Thursday, had the operation ...
Palace: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will visit ground zero in New York as part of US tripBuckingham Palace says that Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will visit the former site of the Twin Towers as part of her forthcoming tour of North America. ...
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