Digested week: From Cruise in Paris to … Truss in Beccles
Emma Brockes
Plus: Zuckerburg’s tribute to his wife, Clooney’s non-tribute to Tarantino and an ode to Velamints
Take it from a veteran flight attendant – these tricks will get you through your journey
Meryl Love
The late Queen apparently brought her own pillows. There are plenty of ways for ordinary passengers to improve their experience, too, says crew member Meryl Love
Lord Fellowes obituary
Private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II during the divorces of three of her children and the death of Princess Diana
June 2024
A constitutional ‘pickle’: how Cameron’s election victory split Buckingham Palace and No 10
Derek Birdsall obituary
Jeannette Charles obituary
Jeannette Charles, actor who played Queen Elizabeth II in dozens of films and shows, dies aged 96
May 2024
From sporrans to chandeliers: King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants
A year after coronation, firms that were under patronage of Queen Elizabeth II or former Prince of Wales reapply, while others get in on act
April 2024
Today in Focus
Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’
Liz Truss says in book queen told her to ‘pace yourself’, admits she didn’t listen
March 2024
Britain’s slimmed-down monarchy has been left vulnerable in wake of cancer diagnoses
Royal family’s cancer diagnoses echo the ‘annus horribilis’
Editing photos to make the family look good? Kate’s just following royal tradition
Stephen Bates
Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and family was enhanced at source, agency says
January 2024
National Archives censor files showing late queen concealed relative’s wealth
Documents recording request from monarch to keep secret the will of a relative partly withdrawn from public view
Pass notes
Royal nicknames: why Camilla is called ‘Lorraine’ –and Charles isn’t happy
What’s in a nickname? A right royal ruckus, when it comes to the affectionate monikers used for both our current and former queens
Sole rehearsal for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral was ‘comedy of errors’
Only practice procession saw marchers out of step and Gentleman at Arms almost crushed, royal biography says
December 2023
Diana apparently believed Northern Ireland part of the Republic, archive shows
Briefing papers newly released by Ireland’s national archive talk of princess’s ‘obvious ignorance’ of constitutional position
Late queen worried dying at Balmoral would make things ‘difficult’, says Anne
Princess Royal shares details from Elizabeth II’s final days in BBC documentary to be broadcast on Boxing Day
So, farewell to The Crown. All of it was true, apart from the bits that weren’t
Stephen Bates
Those who follow the royals were unsurprised, and those who don’t were entertained, says Stephen Bates, a former Guardian royal correspondent