Royal family

Queen Elizabeth looked every bit the monarch tonight, dusting off one of her most impressive crowns for a banquet in Perth. The 85-year-old monarch donned an impressive diamond and aquamarine crown to attend the Queen’s Banquet to celebrate the start of the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. In pictures: Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Australia […]

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A royal assassination attempt, an embarrassing afternoon for Prince Charles and a conversation with the queen about airplane food— it’s all just another day on the job for The Daily Mail’s royal correspondent Richard Shears. It’s downtown Dunedin in 1981 and royal correspondent Richard Shears is in the crowd of well-wishers waiting to welcome Queen […]

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip might be two of the world’s most famous people, but today they showed they are just like any other old married couple. The royals were in Brisbane’s South Bank region to open a new storm water storage facility. The queen rose to make a short speech, praising Queenslanders for their […]

When Arthur ‘Bushy’ Pembroke met a young Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in 1953, he was so overwhelmed by her beauty he wrote home to his fianc&eacutee in Australia, giddy with admiration for the royal. Yesterday, Colonel Pembroke and Her Majesty, 85, came face-to-face once again, and the war veteran says she was just as […]

Queen Elizabeth has a reputation for being frugal and she lived up to it today, recycling a favourite outfit to wear to church on the fourth day of her Australian tour. The thrifty 85-year-old monarch attended a special service at St John’s Anglican Church in Canberra wearing the same primrose yellow dress and coat she […]

Prince Philip might be 90 years old but his famous sense of humour is as sharp as ever, as he proved at a function in Canberra last night. The Duke of Edinburgh addressed a group of Commonwealth Study Conferences alumni at Government House. Philip founded the conferences more than 50 years ago and they quickly […]

When Queen Elizabeth arrived at St John’s Anglican Church in Canberra this morning the crowd erupted into cheers of ‘God save the queen’. In a country populated by people who usually only scream chants if they contain the words ‘Aussie’ and ‘Oi’ this behaviour was remarkable. But from the moment the Elizabeth and Prince Philip […]

Queen Elizabeth started the second day of her Australian tour with not one, but two, awkward bows from Julia Gillard. The monarch spent the morning in meetings with the prime minister, and, later, Opposition leader Tony Abbott. Gillard was the first to be received at Government House, greeting the queen with bows and a handshake […]

Queen Elizabeth gave a rousing address at Parliament House this evening, praising Australian’s bravery, generosity and fortitude. The 85-year-old monarch was the picture of poise as she delivered her only public address during her stay in Canberra. In pictures: Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Australia She began by expressing her joy at being back on Australian […]