British royalty

Britain's Prince Philip adds to his list of gaffes

22 Feb 2013

The Duke of Edinburgh made the comment during a visit to Luton and Dunstable University Hospital to open a £5.5 million [HK$65 million] cardiac centre. The nurse appeared to take the comment in...

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Unpublished Princess Diana photo sells for US$18,000

27 Jan 2013

The picture shows Diana, possibly in a ski chalet, smiling at the camera as she lies comfortably in the lap of a young man reading a book.

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Letters to the Editor, January 6, 2013

6 Jan 2013

Party is stuck in universal suffrage rut

I refer to the report ("Democrats make Emily Lau leader", December 17).

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Did the Duchess of Cambridge conceive while on Asia Pacific 'second honeymoon'?

4 Dec 2012

The news that Britain's Prince William and Kate are to become parents has sent the world's media into overdrive. But one question that hasn't yet been asked is where the royal couple conceived the...

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Accountant Robert Brown fights to prove he is Princess Margaret's son

13 Nov 2012

A Jersey accountant is restarting his legal battle to find out if he is the late Princess Margaret's secret illegitimate son.

Robert Brown, 57, said he was prepared to spend up to £100,000...

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Man held for planning attack on royal couple

12 Nov 2012

Police arrested a man on suspicion of planning an assault before Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla met crowds in central Auckland in New Zealand, reports said on Monday.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

Updated 4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Prince Charles hits Bondi beach under a brolly

Britain’s Prince Charles needed an umbrella on Friday on Australia’s famous Bondi beach as a tropical storm hit during the royal visit.

The downpour scattered the waiting crowd as the...

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Prince Charles and Camilla set for Aussie barbecue

Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrive in outback Australia on Monday for a barbecue and a cold beer after a rousing reception in impoverished Papua New Guinea.

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UK royal couple win French injunction on topless photos

A French court on Tuesday banned a gossip magazine from further publishing topless photographs of the wife of Britain’s Prince William, the former Kate Middleton.

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ROYALTY

Italian magazine to print more Kate photos

The British royal family faced a multinational battle to contain the spread of topless photos of Princess William's wife Catherine, as an Irish tabloid published them yesterday and an Italian...

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MEDIA

UK royal couple to sue over Kate Middleton's topless photos

Prince William and his wife Catherine are to sue after a French magazine printed topless photos of her, saying it evoked painful memories of press harassment of William's mother Diana.

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BRITAIN

British royals 'saddened' by magazine's pledge to publish topless photos

An aide to Britain’s Prince William said on Friday Buckingham Palace will investigate a French magazine’s claim of having topless photographs of his wife, Kate.

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