23rd July 2012
I spent last weekend with friends in Bran, the favourite mountain refuge of Queen Marie of Romania in her later years. I’m reading her biography at the moment, and came across a lovely entry in her diary in 1934. Queen Marie was in the UK in the spring of that year to promote her book, […]
11th June 2012
Astăzi organizăm o serie de evenimente în București dedicate sărbătoririi a 60 de ani de domnie a Majestății Sale Regina Elisabeta a II-a a Regatului Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei de Nord. Se întâmplă doar a doua oară în istorie când un suveran britanic sărbătorește un Jubileu de Diamant și sunt bucuros că pot […]
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11th June 2012
Today we are holding a series of events here in Bucharest to mark the 60th anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is only the second time in our long history that the British sovereign has celebrated a […]
30th May 2012 Islamabad, Pakistan
It is 6.30 am Saturday morning in Lahore, the room service waiter points at the TV news and says “that’s you”. I agree that it is, as footage plays of a meeting I had the day before with Nawaz Sharif, PML-N political leader and twice former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and, Shabaz Sharif, his brother […]
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