Russians Oligarchs' London pad to rival Queen's palaceSeptember 27th, 2009 LONDON - A high-profile Russian political family is all set to give stiff competition to the Queen's Buckingham Palace, as they plan British capital's second biggest residential building at a cost of about 100 million pounds. The Witanhurst, a dilapidated mansion in Highgate, north London, was purchased for 50 million pounds by a British Virgin Islands-based company.
Letter reveals how Hitler gave Brit Queen Mum a knee-tremblerSeptember 13th, 2009 LONDON - A letter retrieved from the Royal Archives at Windsor Palace reveals Britain's late Queen Mother Elizabeth was left trembling with fear after a Nazi bomb landed on Buckingham Palace.he wrote: "My knees trembled a little bit for a minute or two after the explosions."
Referring to her husband, King George VI, she went on: "We both feel quite well today, tho' just a bit tired."
The letter was written to her mother-in-law Queen Mary, and will feature in her official biography next week. The insight into the Queen Mum, who died aged 101 in 2002, is fascinating because little is known of her personal views.
Ministry of Defense: Prince Edward visits British troops in AfghanistanSeptember 10th, 2009 Prince Edward visits British troops in AfghanistanLONDON — Britain's Ministry of Defense says Prince Edward recently spent two days visiting troops in Afghanistan. The ministry said Thursday that Edward visited the 2 Rifles Battle Group in the volatile Helmand province and had dinner with the soldiers.
'Royal protection officers played poker, traded porn in Buckingham Palace'June 30th, 2009 LONDON - A former royal protection officer, who has been accused of being involved in a 3-million-pound betting and property scam, has laid claims that his colleagues played poker and traded pornography while working at Buckingham Palace. Paul Page, 38, of Granville Road, Chafford Hundred, Grays, Essex, is said to have allegedly cheated colleagues and others out of their life savings.
Queen's advisers reject MPs demand to open Buckingham Palace more oftenJune 27th, 2009 LONDON - British monarch Queen Elizabeth II has said that she will not accede to an MPs demand to open Buckingham Palace more often to the public to generate millions in extra revenue for badly needed repairs. According to The Telegraph, the Commons Public Accounts Committee has urged the royal household to devise a business plan for keeping the building open longer to try to pay for a backlog of maintenance that has risen to 32 million pounds.
Buckingham Palace officials livid over Sarkozy's D-Day snub to QueenMay 27th, 2009 LONDON - Buckingham Palace officials are very angry with French President Nicolas Sarkozy because he has not invited the Queen as a guest at next week's D-Day 65th anniversary. Organisers have revealed that the French President is focused on the "main event" of hosting his US counterpart Barack Obama.
Queen's ex guardsman arrested for child porn possessionMay 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A former guardsman of Queen Elizabeth has been taken into custody after being caught having more than thousand child sex photos. Andre Dunn, who used to serve as a soldier with the elite Scots Guards regiment, was turned in by his own fiancie, who had seen him trying to tuck away computer equipment in a wardrobe at their house.
Queen's Senior Under Butler demoted for ogling at gay pornMay 5th, 2009 LONDON - Just a few days after the sex scandal on the Queen's front lawn came to light, a second one has been reported involving the Senior Under Butler of the Monarch. Robert Wilson, who held the job title Senior Under Butler to the Silver and Gilt Pantry, was discovered ogling at gay porn on his laptop, just minutes after he served Her Majesty and Prince Philip their afternoon tea at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
'Seinfeld' to turn into porn parodyApril 8th, 2009 LONDON - American TV comedy series 'Seinfeld' will soon be turned into a porn parody by an adult film studio. X-rated filmmaker Lee Roy Myers is currently filming 'Seinfeld: A XXX Parody!', reports thesun.co.uk.
'Busy bee' Jordan turns down lunch invite at Buckingham PalaceApril 8th, 2009 LONDON - Katie Price a.ka. Jordan has claimed that she was invited to lunch at Buckingham Palace but declined the offer because she was in America.
66pc of Brit women watch pornApril 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Sixty six percent of women watch porn, says a shocking new British survey. The study conducted by The Sun claimed that nearly nine out of ten men - 88 per cent - view it.
Equal right to royal women in Britain on anvilMarch 27th, 2009 LONDON - Britain could soon witness a historic change in the rules of succession to the throne, including giving royal women an equal right to access the throne. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held an important meeting with Buckingham Palace in this regard.
Buckingham Palace tops list of London's most environmentally damaging buildingsMarch 12th, 2009 LONDON - Using thermal imaging technology, a team of energy surveyors has determined that the Buckingham Palace tops the list of the "dirty dozen" league of London's most environmentally damaging buildings. According to a report in the Telegraph, the team labeled the palace "shocking and appalling", the biggest "central heating radiator" in the Capital and gave it a score of 0 out of 10.
Golliwog dolls withdrawn from British Queen's shopFebruary 4th, 2009 LONDON - A gift shop owned by the British Queen in northeast England has withdrawn golliwog toys that they were found to be selling. Managers at the shop in the Queen Elizabeth II's Sandringham estate in Norfolk apologised and a spokesman said they 'did not intend to offend anyone.'
The move followed the expulsion of journalist Carol Thatcher, daughter of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, from a popular BBC television show after she made an off-screen reference to a black tennis player as a 'golliwog'.
British queen's former butler jailed for child abuseDecember 22nd, 2008 LONDON - A former butler to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced by a court in Manchester city Monday to at least six years in prison for child abuse. Paul Kidd was found guilty of abusing underaged boys and possessing more than 18,000 images of child pornography.