The Latest Breaking News from Buckingham Palace

The Leeds-born Spice Girl is being honoured for her work with charities

Others collecting awards on Wednesday include radio presenter Simon Mayo and actress Ruth Wilson.

It's exactly 11 years ago today that Prince William and Kate Middleton married in a huge ceremony at Westminster Abbey that had the world watching - so do you remember these details from the big day in 2011?

British pop superstar Ed Sheeran will headline the finale of four days of public celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking 70-year reign, organizers said on Tuesday. The multi-award-winning singer-songwriter has been booked to deliver the climax of the so-called "People's Pageant" outside the 96-year-old monarch's Buckingham Palace home on…

One in five Nottinghamshire residents couldn't locate Sherwood Forest

During a long weekend of royal pageantry devoted to Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne, the British people will take center stage in at least one event. More than 10,000 performers, including schoolchildren, community groups and military bands, are expecting to troop to Buckingham Palace on June 5…

The lineup for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been announced to much fanfare online, with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Sir Cliff Richard and Bill Bailey getting involved in the biggest celebration of “Britishness” since the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. The “People’s Pageant” is to begin on Thursday…

Royal author Tina Brown writes of the royal household’s ‘mistake’ in her new tell-all book

The 350 saplings that make up the structure will be given to people to plant across the UK as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative