As the roads filled up on the eve of lockdown, it seems not even the Queen could escape ‘Covid gridlock’. Eye-witnesses spotted her stuck in traffic on Wednesday afternoon as she returned to Windsor after an official engagement. Mobile phone pictures taken by a member of the public showed the Queen’s convoy of three Range Rovers … Read more
Thailand has entered ‘dangerous territory’ and is facing a ‘full-blown crisis’, an expert has warned, after anti-monarchist protesters openly defied the king with three-fingered salutes. Marchers returned to the streets of Bangkok on Thursday despite a state of emergency being declared overnight, a day after confronting King Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suditha as they passed through … Read more
The Queen’s address to the nation to boost morale during the coronavirus crisis has been hailed as her ‘finest moment’. In a rare televised broadcast, which was pre-recorded at Windsor Castle, Her Majesty urged Britons to steel themselves for challenging weeks ahead. Her message of hope reassured the locked-down public that ‘better days will come … Read more
Britain’s ‘quiet, good-humoured resolve’ can see us through this crisis’: Queen invokes the spirit of the Second World War in her rousing message to the nation Queen Elizabeth II will make an address to the nation on Sunday night Monarch will say our ‘quiet, good-humoured resolve’ can see us through crisis Broadcast has been brought … Read more