The Queen Articles

The word 'historic' is overused but this week’s first state visit to Britain by an Irish president qualifies for that adjective and marks another step forward in the previously troubled relationship between the two islands. The visit coincided with the anniversary of...

All of us will have special memories of 2012 that we will treasure for the rest of our lives. We will tell our grandchildren, nieces and nephews about the wonderful gold medal performances of David Weir, Mo Farah, Sarah Storey and Jessica Ennis; Bradley Wiggins...

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee proved to be a resounding success. For anyone near the river on Sunday, great roads such as the Strand and Whitehall became impassable for traffic and people from across the UK and indeed the world enjoyed the celebrations. Tributes poured...

I was fortunate enough to escape abroad for the jubilee. (I went to Paris on the basis that a republic with a socialist president can’t be a bad place to run away to at times of excessive demonstrations of monarchism). But I still didn’t escape the uncomfortable...