January 14, 2002. Queen Elizabeth II approved of her son's actions regarding her grandson.
BBC News article
Reactions to Prince Charles's handling of the situation are mostly positive, although not all agree.
BBC News article
New York Times article
News of the World has not been widely criticized for publishing its revelations.
BBC News article
Police have refused to rule out action against Prince Harry.
BBC News article
The media have been warned that Prince Harry's privacy is still to be respected.
BBC News article
More articles on Prince Harry, from the Telegraph:
Praise for Charles's treatment of Harry
Long summer at Highgrove when the 'home-alone' Prince discovered drugs
Bouncers drafted in at students' pub haunt
Eton is no worse than other schools
Handful Harry becoming 'increasingly unmanageable'
Bodyguards are not judges of behaviour
From the Guardian:
Prince praised for stance on Harry's drug use
From the Washington Post:
A Young Royal Has His First Whiff of Scandal
This probably isn't clear from the amount of links I've chosen to post here, so I should say that my personal opinion is that the coverage of this "scandal" has been excessive, to say the least. However, monarchists have to be aware of what the media is reporting, so I've read and included all these stories, even though I wish there were not so many of them!
In his historic address to a congregation including the Queen, Roman Catholic Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor talked about the importance of Mary to all Christians, avoiding controversial issues like the Act of Settlement.
Guardian article
Independent article
January 13, 2002.
In contrast to Buckingham Palace's initial denial of the famous "cherry brandy" incident almost 40 years ago, this time the royal family cooperated with the media when it became clear that Prince Harry's alcohol and cannabis use would be made public.
BBC News article
Prince Harry returned to Highgrove to be with his family in the wake of the drug revelations.
BBC News article
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy hopes that the incident could open the way to a debate on decriminalizing cannabis.
BBC News article
Drug prevention experts and Prime Minister Tony Blair praised the way Prince Charles handled the situation.
BBC News article
St. James Palace acknowledged that the incident was a "serious matter."
BBC News article
The Prince Harry rehab/pub fight story, now being reported throughout the media, is not the first drug scandal to touch the royal family.
BBC News article
Telegraph article
Observer article
Observer profile
Independent article 1
Independent article 2
New York Times article
Prince Harry was "humbled" by his sobering visit to the Featherstone Lodge clinic.
Telegraph article
BBC News article
Queen Elizabeth II has privately expressed her concern about the situation in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has become increasingly tyrranical.
The Prince of Wales has endorsed the work of a scientist who believes that human mad cow disease may be caused by pollution.
Telegraph article
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor addressed the Queen at Sandringham. (Of course, this historic event received much less attention than the astonishing revelation that the Queen's 17-year-old grandson is...a teenager.)
BBC News article
January 12, 2002. The tabloid News of the World has reported that Prince Harry was sent by his father to visit a rehabilitation clinic after admitting use of alcohol and marijuana.
BBC News article
BBC News profile
Ananova article
The 17-year-old prince has also reportedly been barred from a pub after a "mock fight" incident.
Ananova article
In her first public engagement since her ectopic pregnancy, HRH the Countess of Wessex visited a nursery.
Telegraph article
BBC News article
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, visiting the Queen at Sandringham this weekend, will be the first Catholic clergyman to preach to a British monarch since the 1688 Glorious Revolution.
BBC News article
A company partially directed by Queen Elizabeth II's grandson Peter Phillips offers clients the chance to "live like royalty."
January 11, 2002. A group of MPs would like to see the BBC reinstate the national anthem (God Save the Queen) at the end of normal programs.
BBC News article
Paul Burrell, former butler to the late Princess of Wales, will stand trial next October on charges of stealing from her estate.
Telegraph article
American actress Nicole Kidman will portray Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) in the upcoming movie Court and Spark.
Telegraph article
January 10, 2002. Three months after moving to England, Princess Madeleine of Sweden has left London to get away from the attention of the paparazzi.
Telegraph article
January 9, 2002. Graham Turner's series on Elizabeth II sheds new light on the Queen's relationships with her Prime Ministers and the Commonwealth.
Telegraph article
Turner series Part 3
Historian Sir Dimitri Obolensky, a member of one of Russia's oldest aristocratic families, died at 83.
Prior to the latest incident with Prince William, photographer Clive Postlethwaite had been rebuked by the prince's father and aunt.
Guardian article
January 8, 2002. Turner series Part 2
At the Beaufort Hunt, Prince William reportedly angrily told a photographer to get out of the way.
Telegraph article
The loya jirga, Afghanistan's traditional method of national decision-making, has a long and varied history.
New York Times article
January 7, 2002. Australian aborigines want the Queen to apologize for a "patronising" depiction of some of their ancestors in a 1901 photograph of her grandparents, the future King George V and Queen Mary.
The Telegraph is presenting a new three-part series on Queen Elizabeth II by Graham Turner.
Telegraph article
Turner series Part 1
January 6, 2002. Prince Charles was photographed for Vogue by a favorite photographer of his late former wife.
Telegraph article
Queen Elizabeth II will make a historic first visit to the Republic of Ireland, possibly in summer 2003.
January 5, 2002. Britain was a very different country when the present Queen's reign began in 1952.
Telegraph article
January 4, 2002. On June 22 Queen Elizabeth II will become the fourth longest-reigning monarch in English history, after Victoria, George III, and Henry III.
Telegraph article
The Queen named her Jubilee charities.
January 3, 2002. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran is the most credible alternative to the repressive Islamic Republic.
Buckingham Palace is searching for people born on February 6, 1952 to be special Jubilee garden party guests.
Towns throughout the UK hope to be granted city status in honour of the Jubilee.
BBC News article
Britain's Royal Mint unveiled a new five-pound coin to commemorate the Golden Jubilee.
Telegraph article
Aware of shifts in popular opinion during the past 25 years, Buckingham Palace is anxious not to overhype this Jubilee.
BBC News article
Michael Parker, Prince Philip's former private secretary, died at 81.
January 2, 2002. Prince Harry, 17, passed his driving test.
A scandal involving Governor General Peter Hollingworth could distract from the Queen's visit to Australia.
BBC News article
Londoners warmly welcomed Jubilee Year.
The Prince of Wales visited restorers at Peterborough Cathedral, which was damaged by fire in November.
Telegraph article
Princess Anne's hairstylist was awarded a Royal Victorian Medal.
Telegraph article
Art restorers hope to discover the identity of the artist who painted a unique portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots.
John Grigg (formerly Lord Altrincham), the journalist notorious for his 1957 criticisms of the Queen, died at 77.
January 1, 2002. Almost 400 years after her death, Queen Elizabeth I still impresses the British people.
Telegraph article
London marks the arrival of Jubilee Year today with a grand parade.
HM the Queen Mother, 101, is still one of the hardest working members of the royal family.
BBC News article
Thirty years ago, the Queen secretly suggested scrapping the royal yacht Britannia and worried about chicken pox; Prince Philip's comments on Europe caused a stir.
Telegraph article
Guardian article
BBC News article