[ad_1] When Princess Anne married Captain Mark Philips at Westminster Abbey – on colour TV! – they set the template for many royal marriages to come, and the public lapped it up. Anne, then 23, was at the height of her glamour while 25-year-old Mark Phillips, was every inch the dashing officer from the Queen’s…
[ad_1] New Zealand has removed the last of its remaining Covid restrictions after more than three years of heavy-handed pandemic protocols. Chris Hipkins, the country’s prime minister, said the requirement to wear masks in hospitals and other healthcare facilities would end at midnight, as would a requirement for people who caught the virus to isolate…
[ad_1] Royal superfans have been soaked by torrential downpours today as the heavens opened up over London just a day before King Charles’s historic Coronation. Though the capital was drenched in heavy rain, spirits remained high as fans flock to the Mall to await the magnificent procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey tomorrow, where Charles will…
[ad_1] King Charles ‘is planning Royal Family’s biggest ever global tour to kick off his reign’: Monarch ‘will visit Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean in two-year blitz to shore up support for the Crown’ in echo of the Queen’s 1953 Commonwealth tour The King and Queen Consort are planning the Royal Family’s biggest-ever world…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain’s new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike. Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and even journalists at the…
[ad_1] Prince Harry has been accused of ‘appropriating’ Maori culture after he appeared in a bizarre advert to plug his eco-travel firm Travalyst. The Duke of Sussex appeared in the five-minute video yesterday and delivered several phrases in Te Reo Maori. Launching his campaign on Maori Television’s current affairs programme Te Ao with Moana, Harry described New…
[ad_1] A Kiwi comic who starred alongside Prince Harry in a bizarre video skit promoting eco-travel once called Jewish people ‘expendable’, said Hitler ‘had a right’ and that HIV sufferers deserved to be ‘roasted’ in a brutal comedy roast more than a decade ago, it has emerged. Dave Fane, the creator of animated TV series…
[ad_1] Prince Harry to make a major announcement TONIGHT as he launches a new project Down Under Prince Harry will make a major announcement on New Zealand TV tonight Details of his new project will be revealed during an exclusive interview Māori TV presenter Moana Maniapoto says it has been inspired by Māori values By Cameron Carpenter…
[ad_1] Guests at one of the couple’s high-profile royal events has compared their appearance to that of a “witness protection program”. A guest at one of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s royal engagements is said to have described the experience as “joyless” – comparing it to a witness protection program. The Duke and Duchess of…
[ad_1] Fury has erupted after academics in New Zealand were threatened with expulsion from the Royal Society for criticising plans that would see Maori knowledge added to the school curriculum. Current and former professors at the University of Auckland wrote a letter to the editor of the New Zealand Listener criticising a government working group’s…