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In the latest episode of the British Royal Family Soap Opera, the Crown Prince has finally got his girl. In short, Prince Charles is to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, the love of his life, and his mother, the Queen (who is also head of the Church) has given her blessing to the union. It is a truism that it isn’t easy being a Royal Family these days. It used to be so much easier. When the existence of social hierarchy was taken for granted, someone had to be at the top of it, rather like Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover. But nowadays, not...

Prince Charles claims he has been shown "no compassion" by the British public as a result of his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles. In comments made to a BBC reporter, Prince Charles claimed his private life had been compromised and hit out at those intent on scaling down the Monarchy. The Mail on Sunday said the prince made the candid remarks to journalist Gavin Hewitt in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2003. "I thought the British people were supposed to be compassionate. I don't see much of it," the Prince is said to have told Hewitt, when asked about the perception of...

Arrangements for the marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles were plunged into chaos today after claims that members of the public will have the right to attend the ceremony.The confusion surrounding the wedding deepened when it emerged that ceremonies held in approved civil venues must be "solemnised in premises with open doors". That could raise security dangers for the royal family and the royal protection squad has now found itself at loggerheads with lawyers over the arrangements. The prince has already been forced to abandon plans to marry Mrs Parker Bowles at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle...

The Church of England owes its creation to a royal spat over divorce and remarriage: Henry VIII broke with the Vatican after the pope refused to grant the monarch dispensation to wed his lover. Now, nearly five centuries later, questions over another wedding are pulling at Anglican unity " the planned marriage of Camilla Parker Bowles and Prince Charles, the first in line to inherit the throne and become the next titular head of the church. Conservative groups complain the scheduled April 8 civil ceremony and post-vows service by the archbishop of Canterbury " although fully legal " run counter...

CHURCHGOERS are to be commanded by royal warrant to pray for Camilla Parker Bowles as part of regular Sunday services after her marriage to the Prince of Wales on April 8. The Queen is planning to issue the warrant in formal recognition of her new daughter-in-law’s status as one of the most high-ranking members of the royal family. At the moment, only the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Charles are individually remembered by the Church of England in state prayers during services of matins and evensong. Meanwhile doubts have been raised by senior lawyers over the legality of Charles...

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To all the people of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, the United Kingdom - a very happy Accession Day. On this day in 1952 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second began her happy reign. As it represents the anniversary of the death of Her Majesty's father, understandably she does not celebrate publicly. God Save the Queen Almighty God, who rulest over all the kingdoms of the world, and dost order them according to thy good...

Gott im Himmel, what was Harry thinking? If you are a public figure, the great grandson of the last emperor of India no less, and you live in censorious — and camera-phone-saturated — times, attending a "Native and Colonial" party is almost certainly unwise. To do so in Nazi uniform is absolute madness. And after days of high drama, low farce, and massed denunciations, we all know the result. The "Clown Prince" and the Circus To take just a brief selection of the criticism, Harry is now the "Hitler Youth" (the Sun, a newspaper that dilutes its moments of moral...

Prince Harry, the younger son of the Prince of Wales and the late Princess Diana and third in line to the British throne dressed up as a Nazi at a costume party last week. You may have seen something in the press about it. In Britain the media has been full of the business for days. Actually, Harry is a bit of a mixed up kid (he's now 20). The uniform was supposed to be that of a soldier of Rommel's Afrika Korps, and yet he also wore a swastika armband, which no such soldier would have done. Also, the...

In case you missed last week's truly big story: Prince Harry, one of those royal things of which the English are so unaccountably indulgent, showed up at a costume party wearing a swastika. Instant scandal! Why? Oh, some might find it a bit déclassé for the scion of the British Empire to lounge around dressed like Hitler's driver, but really. Please. Maybe he was dressed up as a good, decent party member. Just because someone was a Nazi doesn't mean they were bad, after all. Lots of ordinary people were Nazis; you want to demonize them all? I know they...

It's a good rule of thumb that, no matter how big an idiot someone is, he can never compete with the political class's response to his idiocy. Thus, whatever feelings of unease I might have had about Prince Hitler were swept away the moment the rent-a-quote humbugs started lining up to denounce him. I say to Harry: you go, girlfriend, you Reichstone Cowboy you. It's uniforms night at my pad every Thursday and you're more than welcome, Your Royal Heilness. First off was Doug Henderson, former armed forces minister, who suggested that the Nazi dress sense should disqualify the young...

PRINCE Harry is making amends for his Nazi fancy dress shame — by mucking out his dad’s pigs. Angry Charles has ordered Harry, 20, to do a series of lowly jobs at his organic farm near Highgrove, Gloucs. A Royal source said: “His father thought a few days getting his hands dirty might focus his mind.”

In the wake of British Prince Harry's display of a swastika at a party last week, German politicians are calling for a ban on display of the Nazi symbol across the entire continent of Europe. Germany has already prohibited the insignia within its own borders, along with the notorious "Heil Hitler" salute. It's also against the law to distribute Hitler's book "Mein Kampf," which can be read in most countries, including Israel. "The whole of Europe once suffered under Nazi crimes, therefore it makes sense to ban Nazi symbols across Europe," Silvana Koch-Merin of Germany's Liberal Party told Scotland on...

This is LONDON 14/01/05 - News and city section Charles backs Harry By Robert Jobson Royal Correspondent, Evening Standard Prince Charles is refusing to force Harry to visit Auschwitz or make a TV apology for his Nazi fancy dress stunt. The Prince of Wales is angry that his son is being pilloried for what he regards as a silly but harmless prank and wants to shelter him from further bad publicity. But the outrage over 20-year-old Harry's decision to attend a party in a German soldier's uniform with a swastika armband continues to reverberate around the world. The royal family's...

Prince Harry has apologised after being pictured on the front page of The Sun in a Nazi uniform which he wore to a fancy dress party. The newspaper showed the Prince, with a cigarette and drink in hand, wearing a swastika armband. The 20-year-old said: "I am very sorry if I caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone." In a statement released by Buckingham Palace, he added: "It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise." On Harry's shirt collar was the badge of Wehrmacht - the German defence force. The Prince was at a fancy dress party...

Recent News! They discover proof that Atlantis did not submerge complete but only one part...By Salvador Morales. Atlantis News Agency. Madrid, Spain. 01-06-2005. The Spanish investigator and scriptologist, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, has discovered paleographical proofs that in fact the island or peninsula (Nêsos) denominated like Atlantis or Atlantic, it was divided in two parts below the sea. To date all atlantologists and students of the Timaeus and the Critias de Plato had thought that in texts of the Greek philosophist narrated the collapse of the all island or Atlantis peninsula, nevertheless, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano has reviewed the oldest texts known writings in...

AS PRESIDENT BUSH prepares to begin his second term, he has an opportunity to turn a page in U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia. In crafting his policy, the president should draw on American experience with another ideologically expansionist dictatorship--one successfully countered and transformed thanks in part to U.S. policy--the Soviet Union. The president may be aided in this by his former Sovietologist secretary of state-designate, Condoleezza Rice.There are many telling parallels between the Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia. First, the USSR led, and Saudi Arabia now leads, an ideological movement with global reach. From the time of the Bolshevik revolution...

/begin my translation Ryongchon Explosion: Kim Jong-il's Distant Relative Tried to Kill Him With Chinese Blessing The nephew of Huh Dahm, the former head of National Peace and Unification Committee, and 8 others are arrested and executed for attempted assassination 'Ryongchon Explosion Is An Attempted Assassination of Kim Jong-il' Intelligence Agency Files a Report Huh Chang-suk is Kim Jong-il's distant relative, a member of 'peripheral royal family' Pro-Chinese technocrats in their 40's angry about the third generation succession attempt (Kim Jong-il to his son) "China gave up on Kim Jong-il, condoning the (assassination) attempt" First Source Episode 1) At the...

<p>Carolyn Bessette cheated on new hubby JFK Jr. with "Baywatch" star Michael Bergin, the ex-flame claims in a bombshell new book. Bergin, also a top Calvin Klein underwear model, says Bessette told him she was convinced Kennedy was having his own torrid extramarital affair. The "Baywatch" hunk makes the claims in "The Other Man: A Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette, & Me" - which The Post will excerpt exclusively beginning on Monday.</p>

Prince Charles has touched down in Riyadh for a visit to Saudi Arabia. It is part of a Middle Eastern tour that has taken in Iran and Iraq. Earlier, he met survivors of the Iranian earthquake which devastated city of Bam. The visit to Saudi Arabia comes despite continued fears of terrorist attacks against westerners. Charles's visit was intended to offer solidarity to the kingdom after it suffered numerous fatal bombings over the past year. Terror attacks Current Foreign Office advice warns against all but essential travel to the region, but Charles landed in the capital, Riyadh this evening following...