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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…

President Nelson Mandela never forgot the Queen’s refusal to travel to South Africa during the apartheid years – despite the differing views of her Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – which would have given the country’s racist policies tacit approval

New British Prime Minister Liz Truss has a lot on her plate, but who is she and what does she stand for?

The Kiln theatre’s Handbagged, about the monarch’s meetings with Margaret Thatcher, has opened in a week of mourning. Its stars reflect on the play’s humour and their tears in rehearsal

Queen Elizabeth II was well known for her record-breaking reign, but did you know she was bilingual, raced pigeons and (kind of) owned a fast-food restaurant?

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

Ex-cabinet secretary Lord Butler said the new PM risks compromising the independence of the Civil Service.

The cost of living, as now, was the focus for households when the Queen came to the throne in 1952

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

ONE of the first actions by Liz Truss was to sweep out senior ministers loyal to her rival Rishi Sunak and install a Cabinet featuring more hardline…

Award-winning actress portrayed the Queen in The Crown in episodes spanning 1964 to 1990