http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/royals/ en-us Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:59:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099825/posts PRINCE Harry has won his battle with defence chiefs and will return to Afghanistan's frontline to take up the fight against the Taliban. The third in line to the British throne has already served one tour as a forward air controller directing air strikes against hostile forces less than 500m away. Now the 24-year-old is likely to be more in the thick of it as a lieutenant with the Blues and Royals, an amalgamation of the Royal Horse Guards (Blues) and The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) the history of which dates back to the 1600s. After his first deployment, Prince... News.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099825/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:59:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064475/posts London, Aug.19 (ANI): A terror cell caught with details of bomb making and suicide vests may have been plotting to attack Queen Elizabeth and members of the Royal family. According to The Telegraph, the cell, which included Britain's youngest ever terrorist; was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal. Also on the list were Princess Michael of Kent, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke and Duchess of Kent.  Aabid Hussain Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, had... newstrackindia. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064475/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064028/posts The cell, which included Britain's youngest ever terrorist, arrested on his way home from his GCSE chemistry exam, was found with information about the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh along with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal. Aabid Hussain Khan: gathered details of Royal residences Also on the list were Princess Michael of Kent, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and The Duke and Duchess of Kent. Aabid Hussain Khan, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, had compiled pictures, maps and details of the opening hours of official residences from information... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064028/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:24:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061777/posts Relying on "gigantic corporations" for food, he said, would result in "absolute disaster". "That would be the absolute destruction of everything... and the classic way of ensuring there is no food in the future," he said. Snip.."If they think this is the way to go....we [will] end up with millions of small farmers all over the world being driven off their land into unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness." Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061777/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:56:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060100/posts Jordan's King Abdullah II held talks Monday with Iraq's prime minister after coming to Baghdad on an unannounced visit, the first by an Arab head of state since the U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003. Abdullah urged Arab governments to "extend their hand to Iraq" because a strong Iraq "is a source of strength for the Arab nation," according to a statement released by the royal palace in the Jordanian capital of Amman. An Iraqi government statement said Abdullah had "frank and positive talks" with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on ties between the two states. Al-Maliki told the king... al Bawaba http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060100/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:09:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058402/posts A group of MPs is calling for the oath of allegiance to the Queen be scrapped. The 22 MPs want the Commons and the Lords to be allowed to swear allegiance to their constituents and the nation rather than to the monarch. The cross-party group, led by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, says MPs' "principal duty" should be to the people who elected them. The unofficial campaign caused dismay among Royalist MPs, one of whom accused the group of "constitutional vandalism". Currently, MPs must take the oath at the start of a new parliament, swearing on a bible or an... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058402/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 03:28:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051863/posts Barack Obama breezed into London and asked Gordon Brown every tourist’s favourite question: “Can you show me where the Queen lives?” The request prompted the PM to act as a VIP tour guide for the US senator hoping to become the most powerful man in the world. But alarmed US and British secret service officials curtailed their walkabout in front of a growing crowd of astonished tourists before the two leaders could get close to Buckingham Palace. Mirror.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051863/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:59:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049523/posts CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday he would like to give the king of Spain a hug when he visits Europe next week, but the outspoken leader, referring to a diplomatic spat last year, said he will not shut up. REUTERS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049523/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:30:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047823/posts Bayonetted and shot by drunken assassins, the slaughter of the Russian royal family shook the world. Now a new book reveals in compelling detail the horrifying final days of the Romanovs. As the light faded, a train halted in the siding near the remote railway station of Lyubinskaya on the Trans-Siberian railway line. Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047823/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:29:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046916/posts Russian Orthodox Churches have been holding services to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the murder of their last royal family. Processions were held in Moscow as well as the site of the killings - the city of Yekaterinburg near the Ural Mountains. Officials have re-affirmed that DNA tests on bone and teeth fragments discovered in a shallow grave a year ago belong to two of the children of former Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria were killed along with their parents and sisters by Bolsheviks on the morning of July 17 1918, but the whereabouts... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046916/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:44:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046945/posts News   July 17, 2008, 4:55DNA confirms TsarÂ’s family remainsDNA results have confirmed that remains found near Ekaterinburg a year ago belong to Prince Aleksey and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of the Romanov family. The announcement comes on the 90th anniversary of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family by Bolsheviks.On Wednesday, church services are being held across Russia to remember the tragic event. The last Tsar of Russia and his family were shot in the early hours of July 17 1918, less than two years after the abdication of Nicholas II, in the Urals city of... Russia Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046945/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:47:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045925/posts "A Defense Department DNA identification lab has helped bring to a close a near-century-old mystery, laying to rest a search for the remains of two children executed alongside the rest of the family of Russia’s last czar." "Now, the lab has again helped the Russian government by identifying the remains of those two children, found last year in a shallow grave about 70 feet from the larger gravesite." DefenseLink (DoD News) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045925/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:59:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040449/posts Seventeen women have been taken by police from a luxury hotel in Brussels amid allegations that they had been enslaved by an Arab royal family. Police officers and officials from Belgium's Labour Audit Authority raided the Conrad Hotel, the city's most prestigious and the preferred choice of many national leaders during European Union summits, on Tuesday evening. The operation was triggered by the apparent escape of a maid who was among 20 servants working for the widow of a senior royal figure from the United Arab Emirates and her four daughters who have rented the entire fourth floor of the... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040449/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040131/posts A deal to build Britain's biggest ever aircraft carriers is expected to be sealed today. The Ministry of Defence is poised to sign contracts worth around £3 billion for two 65,000-ton ships. The Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales will be built at Govan in Glasgow and Rosyth in Fife, as well as Portsmouth and Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. Measuring more than 300 yards in length, the ships will have a flight deck the size of three football pitches and space for 40 aeroplanes. They will be similar in size to the QE2 and are more than three times the... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040131/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:00:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035102/posts Are the ices of the Arctic north about to melt away for good? Rami Abdelrahman gets the views of a range of Swedish researchers. Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria is one of a number of Scandinavian royals making for the Arctic archipelago on the Swedish ice-breaker Oden this weekend to participate in an event to coincide with and promote International Polar Year. But will there even be a need for such ice-breaking vessels in years to come? Many commentators would have us believe that glaciers and ocean ice are about to go the way of the dodo. Upon their arrival at... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035102/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:33:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033684/posts <p>HONOLULU (AP) — Surrounded by royal guards and the occasional tourist, Her Majesty Mahealani Kahau and her government ministers hold court every day in a tent outside the palace of Hawaii's last monarch, passing laws and discussing how to secure reparations for the Native Hawaiian people.</p> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033684/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:10:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2032312/posts President George W. Bush (R) walks with Queen Elizabeth, followed by his wife Laura (obscured) and Prince Philip in the St George's Hall, Windsor Castle, southern England June 15, 2008 President Bush speaks to the press following a meeting with Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson (L) and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness following their meeting at Stormont Castle in Belfast, June 16, 2008. US president George W. Bush meets members of the PeacePlayers international Basketball Group at Loughview integrated primary school, as he ends his visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday June 16, 2008. PeacePlayers International-Northern Ireland... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2032312/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:11:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031585/posts The President and First Lady were in France this morning and attended the morning service at the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris. The First Lady visited the Marie Antoinette Exhibit at The Grand Palais. Later in the day AF1 flew into Heathrow where Marine One took them on what is about a 10 minute flight to Windsor Castle where they landed on the East Lawn where they had tea with the Queen and Prince Philip. According to FNC George W Bush is only the second President to have been afforded the honour of an invite to Windsor... www.yahoo.com/news www.whitehouse.gov/news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031585/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:38:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031269/posts AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031269/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:57:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031126/posts LONDON (June 14) -- Britain's Princess Eugenie has been reprimanded by her school after being caught frolicking naked on college grounds, it was reported Saturday. The 18-year-old daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah Ferguson, was apprehended for her involvement in end of term "high jinks" at the exclusive Marlborough College, west of London, the UK Press Associated said. A royal source told the Press Association: "It was nothing more than high jinks at the end of term in May. A group of them were reprimanded and that's the end of the matter." The tabloid Sun newspaper reported... CNN via AOL News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031126/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:38:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030934/posts Women face being turned away from the Royal Enclosure during Royal Ascot if their skirts are too short or if their dresses have straps less than an inch wide. Visitors who display their midriff or wear off-the-shoulder tops or halter necks will also be ejected on the orders of the Queen's representative, the Duke of Devonshire. The duke, the chairman of the course, has clarified the strict dress code for next week's event in guidance sent to all 80,000 Royal Enclosure badge holders. The code dictates that only "formal day dress" is acceptable and that ladies must wear hats or... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030934/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:29:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030724/posts The UN Human Rights Council said the UK must "consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican". The council has 29 members including Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Sri Lanka. It was the Sri Lankan envoy who raised concerns over the British monarchy. The resulting report said Britain should have a referendum on the monarchy and the need for a written constitution with a bill of rights. UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030724/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:26:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026758/posts Dubai: Roped in for a massive project to create 99 paintings on Arab culture by Qatar royal family, eminent painter M F Hussain, in self-exile after drawing the ire of Hindu outfits for his works, insists that art is India's "soul" and has the depth that is lacked by the West which has only "junk culture" to offer. In the last 60 years, India has emerged as a major force in many fields, including art, the 92-year-old artist said after inauguration of an exhibition in Omani capital Muscat. In India, art has a unique position. "It is our soul, a... Sify News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026758/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025475/posts The recent visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip to Turkey was hailed as a great success. The 82-year-old British monarch won favor with the local people by describing Turkey as a "confident and dynamic democracy" and praising close ties between Ankara and London. She underlined British support for Turkey's bid to join the European Union, showed respect for the past by visiting the tomb of modern Turkey's secularist founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Ankara and for the present government by covering her hair when she visited an ancient mosque in Bursa and listened to a reading from the... Asia Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025475/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:22:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023392/posts Gotta love PETA. Just gotta love ‘em. Well, not really. One of the animal rights group’s more obscure pressure campaigns involves trying to convince the Queen of England to give up the natural black-bear fur hats that Buckingham Palace guards have worn for 200 years. Because — y’know — British monarchs have always responded so well to public pressure from nitwits. Are black bears endangered? Nope. The species covers most of North America. And black bear populations are growing in Canada, where Her Majesty’s funny hats come from. So what’s the big deal? PETA hates people who wear fur. And... Deceiver http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023392/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 05:40:27 GMT