The day after my last Christmas message was broadcast, the world experienced one of the worst natural disasters ever recorded.

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past … entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the “problem” of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both...

Go forth into the world in peace

but the seeds of recovery are being sown.

These natural and human tragedies provided the headline news; they also provoked a quite remarkable humanitarian response. It has been clear that in the course of this year relief workers and financial support have come...

[There are many festivals throughout the course of the year, and getting around town is easy thanks to the city’s subway and bus lines. Baby boomers may remember that in 1969 John Lennon and Yoko...

ROYAL ROMP

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Her mantra has always been ‘never explain, never apologise’ and she isn’t going to change her mind now.

If you want to win the heart and the mind of the Muslim community, you want to tell them, ‘God said…’ and ‘The Muslims said…’ and ‘Mohammed said…’, not ‘Tony Blair said…’ and

Tonight we celebrate the value of sport as a means of bringing together people of 71 nations and territories, and from a wide range of cultures, traditions and beliefs. It gives me the greatest pleasure...

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman. But I have the heart and stomach of a king – and of a King of England.

the dregs of society.