Imperial and Royal Matters

Entertainment One acquires Naomi Watts as 'Diana'

2013-05-23 12:37:00

Entertainment One acquired the U.S. rights to distribute the film “Diana,” starring Naomi Watts. The film, which will premiere in the U.K. in September, will hit U.S. theaters this year. Oliver Hirschbiegel, who was nominated for an...

Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth for dying boy when real monarch can't

2013-05-22 13:44:00

Helen Mirren was pretty persuasive playing Queen Elizabeth�in “The Queen,” winning the best actress Oscar. But she may just have given an even more compelling performance as the English monarch for a terminally ill 10-year-old boy. Oliver...

Prince Harry tours Sandy-battered N.J.: 'This used to be a house?'

2013-05-14 12:03:00

Britain's Prince Harry expressed astonishment at the damage still evident on the New Jersey shore from Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday as he toured hard-hit towns and took in the view of the historic Seaside Heights roller coaster, which was washed into the...

Prince Harry plays football, honors war veterans on U.S. visit

2013-05-13 17:50:00

Prince Harry has a future in American football if that whole royal heir/third in line to the throne thing doesn't work out. The young royal set out on his U.S. visit over last week and, over the weekend, he partook in a very� American pastime: football....

Princess Diana museum to close, contents go to sons William, Harry

2013-05-07 05:50:00

The museum dedicated to Princess Diana will close next year and her sons Prince William and Prince Harry will be taking possession of her belongings. Diana left personal items to her brother, Earl Spencer, to be "looked after" until her sons turned 30....

Queen Elizabeth II to skip first Commonwealth meeting in 4 decades

2013-05-07 10:54:00

LONDON – Ending four decades of perfect attendance, Queen Elizabeth II will skip the biennial meeting of Commonwealth leaders later this year as part of a rethink by palace officials of long-distance travel and public events for the 87-year-old...

Dutch get a new monarch: Willem-Alexander succeeds Beatrix

2013-04-30 03:39:00

LONDON -- With an exchange of smiles and the flourish of a pen, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated the throne and her son Willem-Alexander took her place Tuesday to become the country’s first king in more than a century. In a simple...

Queen Elizabeth: Should she stay or should she go?

2013-04-30 18:38:00

So here’s the real question about the Tuesday ceremony in Amsterdam in which Queen Beatrix abdicated and passed the robe (they don’t wear crowns) to her son, Willem-Alexander, who just turned 46: Did Britain's Prince Charles, who was in...

Six men plead guilty in Britain to planning terror attack

2013-04-30 09:48:00

LONDON -- Six men pleaded guilty Tuesday to planning a terrorist attack that failed only because the far-right rally they were targeting in central England ended before they arrived. Police discovered the plot after searching the men’s car...

Harry Potter and the royals' studio visit

2013-04-29 14:33:00

Two of America's favorite British things -- the royals and Harry Potter -- converged over the weekend. Nothing like that wee bit of magic to knock us off our broomsticks! Prince William, his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, (the former Kate...

The Week Ahead: A king at last, Obama to Mexico, Malaysia divided

2013-04-29 05:00:00

A man takes charge in the House of Orange-Nassau Tuesday, April 30 -– Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands becomes king, the first male head of state in 123 years. The 46-year-old heir to the throne will inherit the crown, scepter and...

The starkly new face of the Netherlands' monarchy

2013-04-27 18:36:00

AMSTERDAM — Even by the unconventional standards of the Dutch, their new king is going to be a bit of a novelty. He has a license to fly commercial airliners. He's married to a South American, a lively Argentine who's more popular than he is. He...

At left, Kate Middleton (in Issa London) and Prince William at their Nov 16, 2010, engagement announcement. At right, Araya A. Hargate at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

2013-05-23 08:52:44

Prince William speaks to David Beckham (C) and Prince Harry (R) at an FA reception at the Saxon Hotel on June 19, 2010 in Johannesberg, South Africa.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Wait staff and guests walk in the rain at the Greenwich Polo Club before Prince Harry arrives for a luncheon.

2013-05-15 08:37:00