The king’s speech pushed in interesting ways at the boundaries of what a British monarch might be expected to have said in Trump’s America.
- Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
The affair pales in significance beside the abdication crisis of 1936.
Help! might sit uncomfortably for a lot of viewers today but it should not be allowed to fall into obscurity
Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.
Prince Andrew is an ideal target but to focus solely on him is to overlook serious flaws elsewhere.
There is no avoiding the UK’s issues of colonial legacy.
The sovereign grant will rise to £132 million next year.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Kigali, Rwanda will be complicated by the UK’s plan to send refugees to Rwanda.
Internal affairs of the bloc may dominate the summit which seeks to address a wide range of international issues.
Despite its Imperial origins, the Commonwealth has a strong radical tradition. If it wants to remain relevant to Africa in the 21st Century, that radicalism needs to be rediscovered.
A myth is doing serious injustice to the way historians have approached decolonisation.
Two decades ago, MI5’s archives were surrounded by secrecy like that of the royal archives. There’s a reason this has changed.
Defenders claim Prince Charles was just trying to educate himself. But shouldn’t he know better?
The monarch can return to London now the awkward prospect of a hung parliament has passed.
Party manifestos reveal a decidedly luke-warm attitude to what was once an important institution.
The British public have come to expect impartiality from the monarchy under Elizabeth II.
For those who enjoy debunking the reputations of national heroes, there can be few softer targets than Winston Churchill. The phrase “flawed hero” could almost have been invented to characterise his long…
On July 23 the Queen will open the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In the process, she will no doubt also fire the starting pistol on the latest round of a favourite British pastime: worrying about…
A matter concerning Prince Charles, letters written to government ministers and a bid by the Guardian to make them public has been playing out in British courts and the media for the past few years. It…
Royal finances have come under close scrutiny in recent days after the Public Accounts Committee told the royal household it must earn more and spend less – a bit like the rest of the country in an era…
It is difficult to do justice to the mood of despair that has been haunting the corridors of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s headquarters in Marlborough House in recent months. The decision to hold the…
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