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Britain's cruise ship QE2 arrives to Dubai

Britain's most famous luxury cruise ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, arrived in Dubai on Wednesday where it will turn into a floating hotel moored off an artificial palm-shaped island.

Britain's QE2 cruise ship sets sail in last voyage

Britain's most famous cruise ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, sailed out into the English channel Tuesday in its last voyage.

Queen Elizabeth 2 makes swan song visit to NYC

After four decades of plying the world's oceans, the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is making its final visit to New York before eventually sailing off to the Persian Gulf.

Queen Elizabeth II Is Style Icon

Queen Elizabeth II has been named one of the world's most glamorous women by British Vogue magazine.

XM Suspends Opie and Anthony for 30 Days

XM Satellite Radio suspended shock jocks Opie and Anthony for 30 days Tuesday, one week after they aired crude sex comments about Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush and Queen Elizabeth II and one day after they made light of the incident in their broadcast.

XM Shock Jocks Apologize for Sex Comment

XM Satellite Radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony apologized Friday for airing a homeless man's crude comments that he'd like to have sex with Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush and Queen Elizabeth.

Cate Blanchett to Play Bob Dylan in Biopic

Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, who has portrayed Queen Elizabeth and Katharine Hepburn, will add another legend to her resume: Bob Dylan.

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Revealed: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's secret plot to deny the Queen the throne
Source: Telegraph

Secret correspondence between the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their confidant Kenneth de Courcy has revealed a dastardly scheme to change the course of British history by denying Queen Elizabeth II the crown, says royal biographer Christopher Wilson

The GG's self-promotion
Source: Ottawa Citizen

It's embarrassing that the Governor General doesn't seem to know that she's not Canada's head of state. It's even more embarrassing that she and the prime minister are now engaged in a very public spat about it.

Queen wants double her income despite downturn
Source: Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

QUEEN Elizabeth is expected to ask the British government to double the income she receives from the civil list after accounts published yesterday showed she was living millions of pounds beyond her means.

Queen Elizabeth: Don't link my 60th Jubilee celebration to those 'flashy' Olympics
Source: the Mail online

The Queen has snubbed Government attempts to link her Diamond Jubilee celebrations with the 2012 Olympics, sources close to Buckingham Palace have disclosed.

Queen knights 'Count Dracula'
Source: msnbc.com

Newly knighted Christopher Lee's sonorous voice and burning black eyes made him a memorable arch-villain in films from "Dracula" to "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith."

Royal chauffeur suspended over security lapse
Source: msnbc.com

Buckingham Palace says a chauffeur has been suspended over allegations he gave undercover reporters a tour of Queen Elizabeth II's cars and other areas of the palace in exchange for money.

Queen Elizabeth Gets Gold-Plated Wii
Source: St. Petersburg Times > Local News

When President Obama visited Queen Elizabeth in Britain in April, he gave her an iPod. Now a gaming company has given Her Royal Highness a very special gold-plated Wii ( see a photo ).

The Royal Wii
Source: videogames.yahoo.com

Now even the Queen of England has a Wii!

Untouchability and the hug of the century
Source: Deccan Chronicle on the web

Those of us who stood for abolition of slavery, apartheid and untouchability of all forms felt that Martin Luther King Jr's dream had come true when we watched the First Lady's left hand encircling the body of the Queen.

Much ado about hugging

Michelle Obama is a hugger. I know this personally because, the last time I saw Michelle, she gave me a hug.

Foreign Policy Protocol Fail: Obama Bows To King of Saudi Arabia [Video]
Source: Michelle Malkin

So I hope all the lefties who tore into Bush over his Saudi prostration will express equal disgust with President [Obama]'s literal bowing and scraping to King Abdullah.

Michelle Obama Charms Queen in Breaking Protocol
Source: Yahoo! News

Michelle Obama has done what few others have managed — getting Queen Elizabeth II to break protocol.

Politico cited criticism of Obama's iPod gift by etiquette expert, but WH says queen requested it
Source: Media Matters for America

Summary: The Politico reported that President Obama presented Queen Elizabeth II with "a personalized iPod," and noted criticism of the gift by an "etiquette expert," but did not mention that the White House reportedly said Queen Elizabeth asked for the iPod.

Summit rocked by violence (But does President Obama need lessons in the art of diplomatic gift-giving?) - G20 London, Day 2.

There were ugly scenes in London today when protesters to the G20 summit, many obviously bent on trouble, with masks over their faces, battled with police in a way reminiscent of the violent protests of the '60s and '70s.

Queen to launch new-look website
Source: BBC News

The Queen is to relaunch her website at a Buckingham Palace reception in the company of the world wide web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Princes William and Harry set up own office
Source: msnbc.com

Princes William and Harry said Tuesday they have been granted their own royal household by their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

King George VII? Palace plotters' plan would have kept the Queen from the throne
Source: the Mail online

It seems incredible. But tantalising new evidence shows how, if Palace plotters had won the day, balding ex-army officer the Duke of Kent could have been giving yesterday's royal message instead of the Queen . . .

Conductor quits birthday concert for Charles
Source: the Mail online

The reason for Muti's hissy fit is that the Queen and the birthday boy himself had the temerity to question his carefully crafted musical programme

How the Queen transformed into a glam granny
Source: the Mail online

After years of being criticised for her staid image, she appeared on an official engagement in Slovakia today looking younger and cooler than ever.

Queen greeted with beer and a mountain singsong
Source: The Times

the Queen has walked the Great Wall of China, ridden elephants in India and been carried out of the sea in a canoe by South Sea islanders. But never, until yesterday, had she visited a ski resort.

The Queen has visited more than 120 countries, and all without a passport
Source: The Times

s head of the Commonwealth she has covered every corner of the old Empire and the other principal realms where she remains head of state, Canada and Australia, have each received more than a dozen visits.

Inside the Queen's travelling bedroom
Source: the Mail online

What is the royal train? It is the only private, non-commercial train service used by one family still in existence in the UK.

The Queen and her racehorses
Source: Telegraph

The Queen's reigning passion is her racehorses: she worries when they are injured and leaps in the air when they win.

Fascinator sales soar as her majesty abandons traditional wedding hat
Source: the Mail online

For many women not wearing a hat to a wedding would be simply unthinkable. Not so for the Queen, who appears to have abandoned the traditional headware

Queen's horse Monarch dies at 25
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online

THE Queen was yesterday mourning the death of one of her favourite horses.

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