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16:52 UK time, Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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This was a confident Queen who didn't court controversy.
She tried a few gags. Once they had warmed up, her audience - which included political foes forced to sit next to each other and exchange pleasantries - laughed on cue.
14:07 UK time, Monday, 19 March 2012
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She's done tree planting. She's done walkabouts - with other Windsors and on her own. This was the latest stage of the former Kate Middleton's on the job royal training - a speech, which her official said, she'd written herself.
It's striking that it's taken 11 months for this moment to occur. Diana, Princess of Wales, delivered her first in Welsh and English just three months into her new role.
22:35 UK time, Sunday, 11 March 2012
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"I've had a gas" - not normally words you'd expect a Windsor to utter, in public at least.
But that's Prince Harry, an emotionally literate, relaxed young royal who had to restrain himself from wearing a pair of blue suede shoes on his trip earlier than he did.
18:18 UK time, Saturday, 10 March 2012
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Briefly, the spare was the heir.
When someone offered Harry a Prince William face mask, the jogging joker younger brother wore it.
07:14 UK time, Saturday, 10 March 2012
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From grandmother to government.
After a week in which he was touring countries where the Queen is head of state, Prince Harry is now in Brazil to promote the UK in the run up to the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee.
19:25 UK time, Thursday, 8 March 2012
It was a brief dash that could generate longer-term beneficial consequences for the trainer wearing prince.
When, in dubious royal fashion, Prince Harry seized the title of the World's Fastest Man from Usain Bolt, he injected fresh global interest into an ancient institution that can, at times, seem terribly out of touch.
17:02 UK time, Thursday, 8 March 2012
Prince Harry has paid a personal tribute to the Queen, describing her as a "wonderful, caring grandmother" to whom he is utterly devoted.
14:47 UK time, Thursday, 8 March 2012
I was there when Prince Harry took on Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt during his visit to Jamaica.
Here is my report:
21:01 UK time, Tuesday, 6 March 2012
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This was a light hearted encounter which played to Prince Harry's strengths. It was a clash of unequals, but a meeting of two performers.
Prince Harry, once a potential liability, is, for now, an obvious asset to an institution which withers if ignored.
07:41 UK time, Saturday, 3 March 2012
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This will be a significant moment for Prince Harry and the enduring institution he represents. With Prince Edward and his wife already in the West Indies and Harry visiting the Caribbean, it's a reminder the Queen still reigns in 16 countries.
That tally may reduce in coming years, with Jamaica talking of embracing a home-grown head of state and some Australians wanting to do the same.
16:50 UK time, Tuesday, 28 February 2012
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Simon Hughes, a man who by his own admission is not given to venting his spleen, used words like "unforgivable", "unacceptable" and "serious failure".
His ire was directed at the initial police response to phone hacking at the News of the World, which the Lib Dem politician believed was considered an "acceptable practice" at the tabloid.
18:07 UK time, Monday, 27 February 2012
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What a difference a day can make.
Only yesterday, Rupert Murdoch launched his latest product, the Sun on Sunday.
17:21 UK time, Tuesday, 7 February 2012
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When Lord Justice Leveson - ordinarily a mild-mannered man who deliberates over every word he utters - told a witness from America, "I'm normally much less aggressive" you knew this was a judge who was, in his own words, "extremely unhappy".
The source of his displeasure is an ongoing conflict between Hugh Grant and the Mail titles. After the actor suggested the Mail on Sunday may have hacked his phone, the paper's publisher responded by accusing him of "mendacious smears".
16:21 UK time, Monday, 6 February 2012
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For the Queen, this is a day of celebration - her great-great grandmother Victoria was the only other British monarch to achieve this milestone - and commemoration, marking as it does the anniversary of the death of her beloved father, George VI.
So, a significant moment will pass in a deliberately low-key manner with a visit to a town hall and a primary school in Norfolk.
19:40 UK time, Tuesday, 31 January 2012
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A lord and a knight came before the inquiry. One offered a vision of the future. The other delivered a defence of the past.
Lord Hunt's proposals, endorsed by the newspaper industry, show how far editors and proprietors are prepared to move to prevent the one thing most of them are opposed to - the state getting involved in regulating their industry.
17:59 UK time, Thursday, 19 January 2012
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When Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee the Parliamentarians of the day went to Buckingham Palace to listen to her address.
Two centuries on, the Queen will travel down the Mall for an occasion which, despite the length of her reign, is a rare one. Unlike when she attends the State Opening of Parliament - her words will be written for her by Palace officials and not by politicians.
17:02 UK time, Wednesday, 18 January 2012
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For two hours he was a senior judge, with considerable experience, on the edge of his comfort zone.
Lord Justice Leveson is not the sort of character to ask, "Who are the Beatles?" as a colleague is alleged to have done in the Sixties.
14:38 UK time, Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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There were gags. There were laughs. But the setting was a courtroom, not the Have I Got News For You studio.
From the man whose satirical magazine regularly pillories aspects of the press came a defence of the "importance" of newspapers - though Ian Hislop acknowledged it "wasn't always pretty".
18:38 UK time, Monday, 16 January 2012
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Monday's evidence touched on two key issues - phone hacking and the relationship between the press and the police.
There were three responses as to whether or not hacking occurred at the Trinity Mirror titles.
19:18 UK time, Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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The editors come and go. Lord Justice Leveson sits, listens and interjects. By September, he has to answer his own question, "who guards the guardians?". What does he do with the current system of self-regulation under the Press Complaints Commission (PCC)?
Today, there were hints as to his thinking. Of the PCC, the judge said at one point, "it isn't really a regulator at all. It's a complaints mechanism."
Peter has worked for more than 20 years as a BBC correspondent. He has covered the royals; politics; the evolving Northern Ireland peace process; and major events at home and abroad.
He conducted Prince William's first ever broadcast interview; and Prince Harry's first radio interview.
Peter worked in the US during the Presidential Elections and in Qatar during the Iraq War. He has also reported from Moscow, Croatia, South Africa, Kuwait and Hong Kong at the time of the 1997 Handover.
He has reported in the Iraq Inquiry; the Diana Inquest; the Golden Jubilee; the Seventh of July Inquests; and several General Election campaigns.
Peter grew up in Essex and graduated from the University of York. He joined the BBC as a News Trainee in 1988.
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