January 31, 2002. Amsterdam is busy preparing for Saturday's royal wedding.
BBC News article
Aftenposten photo gallery of royal guests arriving for pre-wedding dinner (text in Norwegian)
A 19-year-old student driver was responsible for delaying Queen Elizabeth II's visit to an RAF base yesterday.
BBC News article
High Life magazine released a list of "new Elizabethans," fifty British people who "flourished" during Elizabeth II's reign, including the Prince and late Princess of Wales.
Telegraph article
A survey showed that young Britons are more interested in TV characters than the royal family, although a healthy majority still want to keep the monarchy.
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The Queen granted a royal warrant to her Sandringham mole catcher.
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Artist David Hockney's unpublished 1968 caricatures of Prince Charles will be auctioned next week.
A charity launched by the Queen Mother in 1934 is in danger of closing due to government cutbacks.
Guardian article
Royalist troups battled Taliban allies in Gardez, Afghanistan.
Telegraph article
January 30, 2002. The Queen was delayed for her first Jubilee engagement.
Among other details announced yesterday, Queen Elizabeth II will host the other crowned heads of Europe as part of her Jubilee celebrations.
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Guardian article
The Queen's Jubilee tour will take her throughout the United Kingdom.
Tony Blair is Elizabeth II's tenth Prime Minister--but only the fifth to invite HM to dinner.
January 29, 2002. Buckingham Palace released details of the Queen's Jubilee tour.
Telegraph article
Telegraph itinerary
BBC News article (Notice how this article sharply contradicts other media reports of a lack of public interest.)
HRH the Duke of York, President of the Football Association, will nevertheless return from the World Cup to participate in Jubilee events.
With the support of the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Northumberland is creating a spectacularly imaginative garden at Alnwick Castle.
Telegraph article
January 28, 2002. In 1952, many heralded Queen Elizabeth II's accession as the beginning of a new Elizabethan Age, but not all agreed.
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The health of HM the Queen Mother continues to improve.
Telegraph article
Archaeologists may have discovered the grave of King Richard II (1367-1400) underneath a shopping center.
Downing Street, planning to announce the Queen's tour, is increasing its involvement in the Jubilee.
Independent article
TRH the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester led Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration.
Telegraph article
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia received over 300 guests on Saturday.
New York Times article
January 27, 2002. Afghan leader Hamid Karzai may go to Italy so he can return with King Zahir Shah in March.
Queen Elizabeth II told well-wishers that her mother is getting "better all the time."
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The Labour Party is worried that its MPs are not sufficiently excited about the Jubilee.
Telegraph article
Britain's biggest names in pop music will perform for the Queen on June 3.
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Traditionally rival courtiers at St. James and Buckingham Palaces will work together for the Jubilee.
Guardian article
Tony Blair will announce the plans for the Queen's Golden Jubilee tour.
BBC News article
Neither of Maxima Zorreguieta's parents will attend her wedding to Crown Prince Willem of the Netherlands on February 2.
King Alexander the Great of Macedon may have been a military genius, but he also caused the first inflation.
Independent article
January 26, 2002. With Buckingham Palace's release of Fifty facts about the reign of Elizabeth II, the countdown to Jubilee Weekend has begun.
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Telegraph Jubilee calendar
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Sean O'Callaghan, the former IRA terrorist-turned-informer who saved the lives of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1983 by alerting the police to a plot to kill the royal couple, has been appointed researcher and spin doctor to Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble.
Telegraph article
New research reveals the causes of the painful death of the biblical King Herod.
Telegraph article
January 25, 2002. Buckingham Palace released a list of 50 royal facts in honor of the Golden Jubilee.
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A new landscape garden is being created for Windsor Castle.
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Telegraph chronology
The Prince of Wales and the Queen will form a new unified press office.
Guardian article
Labour's Jubilee minister Richard Caborn, who has reportedly never uttered "a word in favour of the monarchy or the jubilee," has not surprisingly failed to inspire enthusiasm.
January 24, 2002. The Queen Mother, confined to her room with "a bug," had to miss a Women's Institute engagement even though the meeting had been moved to Sandringham.
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An online chat with Crown Prince Willem of the Netherlands and his fiancee Maxima Zorreguieta was sabotaged by hackers.
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BBC News article
Republican MPs have formed a secret group to undermine the monarchy.
Guardian article
The British tourism industry is counting on the Jubilee to encourage people to visit the U.K. (I'm doing my part. Are you?)
Independent article
With 19 weeks still to go, Buckingham Palace is not too concerned about the lack of street party preparations.
Guardian article
BBC News article
Britney Spears claimed that she exchanged e-mails with Prince William but that then he decided not to meet her.
BBC News article
January 23, 2002. Latvia will take no further action against the girl who hit Prince Charles with a flower.
Jubilee coordinator Lord Levene of Portsoken resigned in August, disheartened by lack of organization, although his successor Lord Sterling says things are going well.
BBC News article
Plans for street parties have been hampered by bureaucracy and high fees.
The government's official celebration guide is 35 pages long.
January 22, 2002. Buckingham Palace is reportedly worried that public enthusiasm for the Golden Jubilee won't match 1977 (Silver Jubilee) levels.
But in 1977 there were similar worries, which proved to be unfounded.
Kevin Giddings, sweeper of the royal flues, was inspired to become a chimney sweep by the movie Mary Poppins.
January 21, 2002. Russia is planning to give its diplomats elaborate new uniforms reminiscent of the tsarist period.
The Queen approved her eldest son's plan to reduce his official engagements.
Princess Beatrice, 13, sang for her grandmother the Queen in a choir at a church service.
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January 20, 2002. Prince Charles plans to cut down on his official duties in order to spend more time with Prince Harry (who may be considering a military career).
Telegraph article
A new biography suggests that the young King George VI was not as awkward as previously depicted.
Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy hopes to recover her family's jewels from the Italian government.
January 19, 2002. Princess Martha Louise of Norway has decided to renounce her HRH status in order to have more freedom to pursue her career.
Aftenposten article
Queen Elizabeth II donated two birds to a charity pigeon auction.
BBC News article
The Queen's pension fund has been criticized for violating common ethical investment standards.
Guardian article
London Weekend Television's new series, Royal London, presented by Prince Michael of Kent, takes viewers behind the scenes in Buckingham Palace.
Telegraph article
The 107th edition of Burke's Peerage will be expanded to include knights, dames, and foreigners holding honorary titles.
Telegraph article
January 18, 2002. A official panel in Berlin recommended that a Prussian royal palace destroyed by the Communists in 1950 be rebuilt.
A French fashion magazine praised Queen Elizabeth II's style.
Italians have not been as kind when commenting on the Queen.
Controversial Deputy Press Secretary Mark Bolland is not the first royal favorite to make enemies.
Apparently the Cornwall widow whose estate would have gone to the Prince of Wales does have relatives after all.
Telegraph article
January 17, 2002. Sir Michael Peet, Keeper of the Privy Purse, explained why the Royal Train may have to be axed.
Telegraph article
Guardian article
Independent article
Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, may inherit the estate of a widow with no known relatives.
Telegraph article
Cooperation between News of the World and St. James Palace was made possible by connections among employees in both camps.
Guardian article
A soft drinks firm was granted a royal warrant for providing Buckingham Palace with spiced tomato juice--for "Bloody Marys"?
January 16, 2002. CNN's "Larry King Live" devoted Tuesday night's show to the Prince Harry story.
CNN transcript
The future of the Royal Train is in doubt as Buckingham Palace continues to look for ways to save money.
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Prince Harry's friend Guy Pelly denied reports that he had encouraged Harry to try drugs.
Telegraph article
The Queen's Jubilee Year got off to a rather rocky start.
Queen Elizabeth II and her mother invited the Sandringham Women's Institute to hold its next meeting at Sandringham House.
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