Royal Mail says no pay rise for CEO

By Neil Maidment LONDON (Reuters) – The remuneration committee of British postal company Royal Mail ruled out a pay rise for Chief Executive Moya Greene on Tuesday, avoiding a potential run-in with its largest investor, the government. Royal Mail, at the centre of a political storm after critics claimed the …

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Philip’s battle against his viciously snobby Royal in-laws: They sneered at him for being ‘rough and uneducated’ as well as ‘rather Germanic’, reveals ALEXANDER LARMAN’s new book. But, despite being humiliated in a kilt, his love for Elizabeth won the day

As newlyweds, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had what their courtiers regarded as a thoroughly modern marriage. In July 1949, two years after their wedding, they moved into Clarence House, which had been refurbished with the extravagant gadgetry and luxuries that the Duke of Edinburgh desired. These included everything from …

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