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If you have the tube one, or if you're surfing during commercials of the ball game..flick over to C-span 3..for the entry into the WH for the gala formal for the Queen..guests include Elizabeth Hallesback, and spouse ( but NOT Rosie ) David Gregory and spouse ( why, lawd? )and Henry Kissinger ( is he still alive ?) and Tony and Mrs. Snow....YIPPEE!!

The guest list for Monday night‘s state dinner in honor of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, as released by the White House. The Countess Of Airlie, DCVO, DCVO, lady in waiting. Anne Armstrong, former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and James L. Armstrong (son). Sid R. Bass, president, Sid R. Bass Inc., and Mercedes Bass. Rep. John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, House minority leader, and Deborah Boehner. Calvin Borel, jockey, winner of the 2007 Kentucky Derby, and Lisa Funk (guest). Miss Barbara Bush and Jay Blount (guest). Jeb Bush , former governor of Florida, and Columba Bush. Vice President Dick...

WASHINGTON, May 4 — How does George W. Bush, a towel-snapping Texan who puts his feet on the coffee table, drinks water straight from the bottle and was once caught on tape talking with food in his mouth prepare for a state dinner with the queen? With tips from an etiquette guide, of course — and a little gentle prodding from his wife. The White House is atwitter over the visit on Monday by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. This is the first visit by the queen since 1991, when Mr. Bush’s father was president....

President Bush met today with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Oval Office. (Transcript) Later, the president hosted a Cinco de Mayo celebration in the Rose Garden (Transcript) Vice President Dick Cheney welcomed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to America and escorted the Queen on a tour of Jamestown, Virginia, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the first English settlement. (Transcript) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continued her meeting with the Iraq conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheik in Egypt. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates traveled to Fort...

RICHMOND, United States (AFP) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II headed Thursday for a rare state visit to the United States, to mark the 400th anniversary of an English settlement that laid the foundations of history's greatest superpower. After arriving on a chartered British Airways jet, Elizabeth was due to start her six-day trip in the Virginia capital Richmond and address the state's legislature, which is America's oldest representative body. Virginians from Governor Tim Kaine down brushed up on royal protocol as they prepared to greet the British queen during a walkabout and musical concert at the grounds of the newly...

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, stepped off a chartered British Airways airplane just after 3 p.m. Thursday in Richmond, Va., signaling the beginning of a six-day American trip. It is her first visit to the United States in 16 years. The queen stopped at the end of a red carpet while both British and American National Anthems were played. Her motorcade left shortly afterward. On Thursday evening, she was expected to take a horse-drawn carriage through Colonial Williamsburg. And while the queen represents a monarchy the United States went to some trouble to get rid of, her...

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Terry O'Neill was just a wee lad from Liverpool the last time he got within a few feet of Queen Elizabeth II. Years later, the burly owner of the Beatles-influenced Penny Lane Pub in Richmond plans to have a second brush with English royalty on Thursday -- with a little help from his friends. O'Neill and his wife, Rose, were among thousands of people expected to jam Capitol Square for a glimpse of the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, when the royals arrive to mark the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown colony. "I left England...

A U.S. Marine helicopter pilot who helped save a British marine?s life in Iraq was awarded the British Distinguished Flying Cross on Wednesday, the first time an American has received the honor since World War II. In a Buckingham Palace ceremony in London, Queen Elizabeth II pinned the medal on U.S. Marine Maj. William D. Chesarek Jr. He has served as the weapons and tactics instructor with the British 847 Naval Air Squadron since 2005 as part of an exchange program between the two countries. His actions during a deployment last year to the British area of operations in Iraq,...

JAMM AQUINO /ALEXANDRE DA SILVA / The Queen Elizabeth 2 made its way into Honolulu Harbor early yesterday morning. During its journey, the ship was hit with a norovirus outbreak on its Acapulco, Mexico-San Francisco leg and was met by the CDC after it docked in Honolulu. The stomach flu outbreak sickened at least 276 passengers and 28 crew members amid its around-the-world journey. CDC greets cruise ship A stomach flu virus seems to be under control aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 Passengers and crew members aboard a cruise ship in which hundreds fell ill with a highly contagious stomach...

London: The queen is growing increasingly "concerned" that the Prince of Wales is embarrassing other members of the Royal Family in fighting a public eco war. Senior royal sources said Her Majesty fears his green revolution is leading to tensions within the family. Both Prince Edward and Prince Andrew have been criticised recently for their use of royal flights. It is felt Prince Charles's campaigning is putting others under scrutiny to prove their own green credentials. A senior source said: "There is growing concern in the royal household and in the family itself that the Prince of Wales's worthy determination...

The Queen is growing increasingly 'concerned' that the Prince of Wales is embarrassing other members of the royal family in fighting a public eco war. ... Senior royal sources said Her Majesty fears his green revolution is leading to tensions within the family.... A senior source said: ... "Some of the more junior members of the family have been embarrassed by it. Perhaps one should remember that, while Her Majesty remains Head of State of this country, all the royal family must be seen to be working hard under her stewardship and, of course, in harmony." ... Charles took a...

BRITISH Muslims as young as 12 are being urged to attack the QUEEN. They hear hate-fuelled rants of banned Islamic fanatics like Omar Bakri Muhammad in an internet "mosque". People investigators listened as a British-born follower of exiled Bakri spouted a shocking online sermon branding Her Majesty "a vile woman and enemy of Islam." The fanatic, whose identity is known by The People, added: "We declare animosity towards her." British Muslim kids who log on to the cyber mosque and other sinister websites can also: WATCH a cartoon of a Muslim child being shot by Western soldiers and then going...

The Muslim month of Ramadan is being celebrated in Windsor Castle with the blessing of the Queen, it was revealed. A special prayer room has been set aside in Her Majesty's favourite residence for the Islamic month of fasting. The room is being used by just one person who works in the gift shops at the castle. Every workday at 1.30pm visitor services assistant Nagina Chaudhry locks herself in the room to roll out her prayer mat and point it towards Mecca. She then dons her hijab - headscarf - and begins the half-hour lunchtime prayer required of all Muslims...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President's vacation in Crawford ended today with his arrival back at the White House. He was accompanied by his two Scotties, but not the First Lady. She stayed on at the ranch another day before resuming her busy schedule campaigning for Republican candidates. Mrs. Bush will attend a Peter Roskam for Congress luncheon in Chicago tomorrow before flying to St. Louis where she will attend a Republican reception at a private residence. The event is closed to the press. Throughout the week, the First Lady will be stumping for Republican candidates in Kentucky, Ohio...

BRITAIN'S Queen Elizabeth is the most popular member of the royal family and more than half her subjects want her to reign for the rest of her life, a poll ahead of her 80th birthday suggested today. Some 26 per cent of respondents plumped for the monarch - who turns 80 on Saturday - as their favourite royal compared to just one per cent for Camilla, the second wife of Prince Charles, the Queen's eldest son and heir apparent. Prince William, 23, second in line to the throne and Charles' elder son, was second with 21 per cent followed by...

LONDON (AFP) - Showing few signs of slowing down, Queen Elizabeth II -- Europe's longest serving monarch -- marks her 80th birthday on Friday with a host of parties and engagements that run until June. It looks set to be a colourful affair as the royal family enjoys a period of calm compared with a decade ago, when divorce and scandal put the House of Windsors in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. But the celebrations will also be on a smaller scale than a four-day party thrown for Queen Elizabeth's golden jubilee in June 2002, as her 80th...

CAMBERLEY, England - With her 80th birthday less than a fortnight away, Queen Elizabeth II was travelling to Britain's elite Sandhurst military academy for the passing out of a fresh crop of young army officers -- including her own grandson Prince Harry. Harry's father Prince Charles, heir to the throne, will also be at the parade ground on Wednesday when his 21-year-old younger son -- who has a reputation for hard partying -- gets his commission as a second lieutenant. Up to 447 cadets were to take part in the ceremony at Sandhurst, in the town of Camberley, southwest of...

THE Queen has arrived in Melbourne ahead of tonight's opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games. Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, the royal couple touched down at Melbourne Airport at 12.30pm (AEDT). The chartered British Airways 777 taxied to a secure area of the tarmac where about 150 people were waiting to greet the couple. The crowd – a mix of Games volunteers, airport staff, and families – cheered as the Queen, wearing a lime-coloured dress and hat, left the plane. The Queen shook hands and greeted several members of the crowd before leaving in a black limousine. Commonwealth Games...

TONIGHT Australia's greatest and most historic arena will be the setting for reaffirmation of Melbourne's fame as the nation's sporting capital. At the MCG the flags of 71 Commonwealth countries will flutter colourfully as about 4500 athletes march into the hallowed ground. Local and overseas VIPs will watch from the stands as the Queen opens what is the 18th in the series of unique sporting contests, which began in Canada in 1930. They were the Empire Games then because the contest was between the colonies, dominions and territories of an Empire on which the sun never set. Times change and...

Money: WELFARE QUEEN - Queen Elizabeth II received more than $1.7 million in farm subsidies from the European Union over the past two years by Timothy Lamer Queen Elizabeth II doesn't exactly fit the American Gothic image, and it's difficult to picture her milking a cow, but it turns out that the queen of England qualifies as a farmer. In today's world, that means she receives farm subsidies from taxpayers, regardless of the fact that she has a net worth that runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Using an overseas version of the Freedom of Information Act, the...