A show fit for queens

Helen Mirren was pretty persuasive playing Queen Elizabeth in The Queen, winning the best actress Oscar. But she may just have given an even more compelling performance as the English monarch for a terminally ill 10-year-old boy. Oliver Burton, who ...

London, May 20 (ANI): Dame Helen Mirren fulfilled the wish of a fatally ill young boy, who wanted to meet Queen Elizabeth, by dressing up like the British monarch. Visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace topped Oliver Burton's list of dream ...

An asteroid nine times larger than the mammoth ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is due to sail past the earth later this month. Luckily, the giant space rock will get no closer than 5.8 million km, or 15 times the distance between the earth and the moon.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometres), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than ...

Public opinion seems to indicate a surge in popularity for Prince Charles, as 50 per cent of those polled said he would make a good king a 13 per cent increase since May last year.

DMK president M Karunanidhi today cited the Queen Elizabeth-II's decision to keep away from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) meet in Colombo and wanted India too to boycott it by respecting the sentiment of Tamils.

For the first time in 40 years, Queen Elizabeth II will skip the Commonwealth summit to be held in Sri Lanka in November, deciding to send her son Prince Charles instead for the biennial event. Queen Elizabeth II, 87, will miss the Commonwealth Heads of ...

Margaret Thatcher made her final journey on Wednesday to St Pauls Cathedral for her funeral, where Queen Elizabeth II led mourners from 170 countries to bid farewell to one of Britains most influential and divisive Prime Ministers. Parliaments famous Big Ben ...

Queen Elizabeth II is set to approve a new succession law that will end the age-old precedence enjoyed by male heirs in line to Britain's throne, ending centuries of religious and gender discrimination. 'The Succession to the Crown Bill', which is set to ...