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‘Queenie’ author chats BLM and society changes
She’s been described as the Black British Bridget Jones – and now the fictional character Queenie is making the leap from the printed page to TV.
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Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter on Amsterdam’s dark history of Nazi occupation
The Oscar-winning ’12 Years a Slave’ director Steve McQueen and his wife, historian Bianca Stigter, have brought Amsterdam’s Nazi history out of the shadows in their new film, ‘Occupied City’.
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King’s ‘active life’ should aid cancer recovery, says Queen’s former press secretary
We spoke to Charles Anson who was Press Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, for seven years.
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Denmark crowns new King as Queen Margrethe abdicates
When Denmark’s much-loved Queen announced the end of her reign two weeks ago, her country was shocked. Today, her abdication was completed with the handover to her rock music fan son who is now King Frederik X. His coming to the throne was typical of the way the Scandinavian royals go about things.
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Man who took crossbow to “kill Queen” jailed for 9 years
A man who broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow to kill the late Queen has been sentenced to nine years in jail for treason.
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AI warfare ‘more likely’ to make battlefield mistakes, says Queen Mary University senior lecturer
We spoke to Dr Elke Schwarz – she is an associate professor of political theory and the author of “Death machines: The ethics of violent technologies”.
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Christine and the Queens: ‘The violence of the patriarchy is everywhere’
French popstar Christine and the Queens is known for being a little Avant-garde and in his latest album the musician talks about angels, samples a seventeenth-century composer and collaborates with Madonna.
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Tina Turner: world mourns queen of rock and roll
Not just the Queen of Rock and roll, but a great survivor with a powerful connection to her adoring audiences.
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‘We’ve been awake most of the night’: Crowds camp overnight to get a glimpse of King and Queen
For the vast majority on the streets of central London, it was all very British. People quietly queuing in the rain. Many had waited overnight, some for even longer, to get a good glimpse of the King and Queen on the 1.3 miles between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey.
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Co-writer of Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save the Queen’ reveals updated version and lyrics for Charles
It was the anthem designed for the Queen’s jubilee year, but not in the way supporters of monarchy wanted. The Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save the Queen’ was released in 1977 and reached number two in the charts – many suspecting that officialdom kept it off the number one spot. Now the Pistols’ bassist Glen Matlock,…
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Drag Queen Story Hour: why does it make some people angry?
Drag Queen Story Hours are an American import that have been taking place in the UK since 2017.
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Man pleads guilty to treason over Queen crossbow threat
A former supermarket worker who climbed into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow and said he was “here to kill the Queen”, has pleaded guilty to an offence under the Treason Act.
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Queen Elizabeth did not make an effort to confront the history of the British Empire, says writer Sathnam Sanghera
In 1947, on her 21st birthday Princess Elizabeth famously declared her “whole life whether it be long or short” would be “devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong”.
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Mourning and celebration in crowd waiting for last glimpse of Queen
The grounds outside Windsor Castle have emptied now , but they were filled with a sea of people throughout the day.
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Queen’s funeral brings ‘outpouring of love’ across faiths and communities
In this morning’s sermon, the Archbishop of Canterbury remarked on how so few leaders receive the kind of “outpouring of love” for the Queen which we have seen today.
