The royal family has proved yet again that it’s rather good at weddings. At marriage, however, it sucks.
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How the Monarchy Allows Britannia to Make Waves
At the Portmeirion pottery works at Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, the kilns are fired up to get out the Kate and William commemorative cups and saucers. And so too at the Tangshan Hengrui Ceramics factory outside Beijing, where tens of thousands of “happy couple” plates are in production
The Royal Wedding: How Much Do Brits Really Care?
Jean Stewart, a 62-year-old retired restaurateur in Arbroath, a town of 20,000 on Scotland’s rugged northeast coast, recently dispatched invitations for a ladies’ tea party to watch the television coverage of the wedding of Prince William of Wales to Catherine Middleton on April 29.
Will William and Kate Make Up for Charles and Di?
As the royal wedding approaches, I find myself thinking back to the other wedding 30 years ago that I helped cover as a young reporter in London and wondering from afar how the extravaganza on April 29 — and, beyond that ritual, the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton — will differ. During the summer of 1981, all of England seemed to have wedding fever, even my socialist pals.
Two Journalists Arrested in Britain’s New Phone-Hacking Probe
When a reporter from Rupert Murdoch’s British Sunday paper the News of the World was jailed, along with a private detective, in 2007 for hacking into the cellphone voicemails of aides to the royal family, the paper insisted it was a one-off — a “rogue reporter” operating without the knowledge or approval of his bosses. That assertion prompted two reactions from those in the U.K
Modern-Marriage Report: Not as Necessary Yet Still Desired
The wedding of the 20th century, in 1981, celebrated a marriage that turned out to be a huge bust. It ended as badly as a relationship can: scandal, divorce and, ultimately, death and worldwide weeping
Shell shake-up to shed 5,000 jobs
Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday that a total of 5,000 staff would be leaving the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas group as part of a restructuring begun earlier this year.
Latest floating ‘foot’ turns out to be a hoax
What was believed to be the sixth human foot to wash up on the shores of British Columbia in recent months proved to be a fake, authorities said Thursday.
Saudi royal survives bomb at palace
A top Saudi official and member of the royal family survived an assassination attempt at his palace in Jeddah, according to the Royal Court.
The Pain in the Reign in Spain
When Spain’s King Juan Carlos verbally slapped down bad boy Hugo Chavez at the Ibero-American summit, it came, to say the least, as a surprise. For a man who normally is the very embodiment of decorum, Juan Carlos’ retort to the Venezuelan president — “Why don’t you shut up?” — seemed shockingly uncharacteristic.