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Queen Elizabeth shared warm relationships with many US presidents

I spent Black Wednesday – the day the markets successfully bet against the power of the British government to prop up the pound sterling – on the 28th floor of Dresdner Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt. I had just been hired as an exchange-student intern in the back office for currency…

Film and TV depictions of her reign tapped into our collective urge to peek behind the royal curtain, but the popularity of multiple Emmy winner The Crown did something more.

Former cabinet secretary says move by Liz Truss on her first day in office was ‘very unusual and very regrettable’

The politicians deliver the words but who writes them? We talk to the experts whose job is to come up with the memorable phrases

By being such a constant source of comfort and object of pride, she masked Britain’s relative decline

Elizabeth II got on well with PMs of widely differing politics and backgrounds and played a key role in the background of British politics

Five former prime ministers including Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major were among the Privy Counsellors who heard Charles proclaimed as the new King.

Some Zimbabweans criticise the late monarch for failing to ‘promote the interests of Africans in the colonial era’.