A general election, a World Cup, an “environmental 9/11”, the biggest secret files leaks in history and news of a royal wedding. Channel 4 News looks back at the winners and losers in a hectic year.
The Royal Mint releases a coin for Prince William and Kate Middleton’s engagement – but the likenesses are somewhat dubious. An artist tells Channel 4 News a “warts and all” portrait is not the point.
Prince William will marry Kate Middleton on Friday, April 29 2011 at Westminster Abbey. Will you be taking part in royal wedding fever? Have your say on the #c4news live blog.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are to marry at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29 April 2011. Downing Street has announced the day will be a public holiday. FactCheck investigates.
Jon Snow
When I first joined Channel 4 News there was an informal acceptance that the programme didn’t “do” Royal stories. The death of Princess Diana saw that one off. But in truth what to do about a Royal Wedding does pose a challenge for all news outfits.
Nothing seems to provoke vitriol in some viewers more than a Royal story. The engagement of William and Kate provoked more than most.
The fanfare of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding is set to create a “bumper couple of years” for the economy alongside the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and London 2012, Channel 4 News finds.
Gary Gibbon
If the Royal couple, Prince William and Kate Middleton, need a photographer, Labour Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson has a suggestion, as Gary Gibbon blogs.
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton could empty the Queen’s reserve funds ahead of her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, Channel 4 News discovers.
From flatmate to the future king’s first love, Kate Middleton is to marry Prince William amid traditional fanfare and a future of public scrutiny. Channel 4 News looks at the married couple to be.
Prince William is to marry girlfriend Kate Middleton next year after proposing last month, using his mother’s iconic engagement ring but hoping to “learn lessons from the past”, as Gary Gibbon hears.