King Charles III will travel to France and Germany for his first state visits since becoming monarch, Buckingham Palace said Friday, underscoring Britain’s efforts to build bridges with its European neighbors following years of strained relations caused by Brexit. Charles…
Australia to remove British monarch from banknotes
Australia will remove the British monarch from its banknotes, replacing the late Queen Elizabeth II’s image on its $5 note with a design honouring Indigenous culture, the central bank said Thursday. The decision to leave her successor King Charles III…
UK Embassy in Sweden hired Johnson’s lookalike for Queen’s jubilee party in 2022
The UK Embassy in Sweden spent 7,000 pounds ($8,500) last summer to hire celebrity lookalikes for a party to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee, The Times reported Monday. The lookalikes included singers Baby Spice and David Bowie, as well as…
Coronation on 6 May for King Charles and Camilla, Queen Consort
King Charles III’s coronation is to be held on Saturday 6 May, at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace has announced. Camilla, the Queen Consort, will be alongside the King and will also be crowned in the historic ceremony. King Charles became…
Britain’s Royal Mint releases 1st official coins featuring King Charles III
Britain’s Royal Mint has released the first official coins featuring King Charles III, which will go out in circulation from December. The Royal Mint on Friday said that the 50-pence coins featuring the new monarch have been created by British…
Queen Elizabeth died of ‘old age’, death certificate says
Queen Elizabeth II’s cause of death is described as “old age” in the register of deaths released on Thursday. The registrar general for Scotland, Paul Lowe, confirmed that the Queen’s death was registered in Aberdeenshire on 16 September. The document…
Unbeatable legends of Nigerian political juggernauts — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigerian politicians of the present day are so boring that no high tension stories can be written about them. These politicians of nowadays cannot brew myths around their escapades as we used to have them in the good old days.…
Like the Queen, like Zik of Africa — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu 
I am yet to learn Queen’s English and now they have changed to King’s English. The Queen is dead; long live the King! The burial of the Queen was brought home to me when my friend and brother, Reginald Offodile,…
Around 250,000 people filed past Queen’s coffin in London – Official
Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan on Tuesday said a quarter of a million people paid their respects in person to Queen Elizabeth II by viewing her coffin as it lay in state in London. Donelan gave the figure after the nation’s…
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin topped with note from King Charles
King Charles III is saying goodbye to his mother. The new King, 73, wrote the handwritten note nestled within the flowers that topped Queen Elizabeth’s coffin at her state funeral at Westminster Abbey in London on Monday. As seen within…
