Prince uses speech at St James’s Palace to single out ‘confirmed sceptics’ and environmentally unfriendly businesses The Prince of Wales has criticised “corporate lobbyists” and climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a “dying patient”, in his most outspoken attack yet on the world’s failure to tackle global warming.…
Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander became Europe’s youngest monarch on Tuesday after his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicated and his country hailed the avowedly 21st-century king with a massive, orange-hued party. “I Queen Beatrix… abdicate in favour of my son Willem-Alexander,” the act said, as read out before the signing that was…
The prospect of becoming a grandfather to the baby of Prince William and his wife Catherine has strengthened Prince Charles’s determination to fight climate change, he said in an interview broadcast Monday. The heir to the British throne, an outspoken environmental campaigner, said he did not want his first grandchild…
Prince Charles expressed shock on Friday at the devastation that still scars Christchurch, the New Zealand city rocked by an earthquake last year that claimed 185 lives. On the final day of a Pacific tour marking Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, Charles and his wife Camilla visited the South Island…
Britain’s Prince Charles and wife Camilla begin a tour of Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand on Saturday with traditional sing-sings and Maori nose-rubbing welcomes awaiting them. The November 3-16 trip is the latest to the Commonwealth by senior royals to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, a landmark…
Home movies filmed by Queen Elizabeth are to be released for the first time Friday, giving a glimpse of life behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace and showing a softer side of Britain’s royal family. The informal footage will be screened on Friday evening as part of a tribute documentary…
Prince Philip received bedside visits from the Queen and Prince Charles on Saturday as he recovered from heart surgery in hospital. Buckingham Palace said 90-year-old Philip spent a “good night” at Papworth hospital in Cambridge, eastern England after he was rushed there from the Sandringham estate where the royals are…
Prince Charles urged the world not to forget the victims of the Pakistan floods of more than three months ago, saying their suffering was being overlooked. The Pakistan Humanitarian Forum, a network of the 41 largest international charities, says more than five million people were affected by the floods. Around…