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17:59 UK time, Tuesday, 16 October 2012
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Prince Charles and his officials will be relieved the government has come to the aid of the future king.
One day of partially submerged headlines - the announcement has been made on a particularly busy news day - is preferable to several days devoted to the prince's thinking and style of writing.
19:24 UK time, Tuesday, 25 September 2012
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It has been likened to a weekly visit to a counsellor or a psychiatrist. At the Queen's audience with her prime minister, no one else is present - except the corgis.
As Sir John Major once remarked, "If they had ever been bugged, the Russians would have known all our secrets."
20:19 UK time, Saturday, 15 September 2012
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Wllliam and Kate face challenges in both the short and longer term.
In the coming days, they will have to decide what, if any, action to take against the Irish Daily Star.
12:04 UK time, Saturday, 15 September 2012
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After the anger and the hurt comes rare royal action.
On Monday a judge in Paris will be asked to grant an injunction preventing Closer magazine in France using these topless images again.
16:48 UK time, Tuesday, 11 September 2012
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In their second year of marriage, William and Kate are undertaking their second major overseas tour.
They will visit two former British colonies on behalf of the government and two realms on behalf of Prince William's grandmother. As things stand, in years to come, the tiny South Pacific islands will welcome the couple as their king and queen.
19:05 UK time, Wednesday, 15 August 2012
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At 91 - despite insisting last year he was "sort of winding down" - Prince Philip has maintained a busy schedule in recent months. Last week he was in a jovial mood at a garden party at Balmoral and at the start of this week, he attended the Cowes Regatta on the Isle of Wight.
It was after he returned to the Highlands, that the prince began to feel unwell.
18:00 UK time, Monday, 2 July 2012
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At a time of cuts, the palace is keen to portray itself as an institution which is sharing the pain.
But there are two challenges to this narrative.
17:23 UK time, Friday, 29 June 2012
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It's become a fixture of the royal calendar - a chance to peek at the prince's spreadsheets.
For a second year, the amount of taxpayers' money spent on the heir to the throne has gone up.
11:01 UK time, Wednesday, 27 June 2012
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The Queen doesn't give interviews and unlike other well-known public figures, she never bares her soul.
Her thoughts on meeting Martin McGuinness will be recorded in her diary, but not shared with the rest of us.
14:59 UK time, Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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A second former prime minister in two days. A second direct challenge to aspects of the evidence given by Rupert Murdoch, on oath, two months ago.
The proprietor - who didn't ask a prime minister for anything, according to his account - did, Sir John Major insisted, threaten to withdraw the support of his papers if the Tories didn't change their policy on Europe.
18:51 UK time, Saturday, 9 June 2012
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Outwardly, the signs are good.
After his second spell in hospital in six months - the first was to deal with a blocked coronary artery - Prince Philip walked out of the building, smiled and waved at reporters, and was driven to Windsor Castle. He'll celebrate his 91st birthday tomorrow.
19:16 UK time, Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Each Jubilee - Silver, Golden and now Diamond - offers an opportunity to pause and reflect on a central question.
Why has an institution abandoned in country after country through the ages, survived and prospered here?
23:48 UK time, Monday, 4 June 2012
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This is the second time in six months that the 90-year-old prince has had to go to hospital.
Having recovered from a blocked coronary artery - which was dealt with at Christmas by inserting a stent - the Queen's husband is now suffering from a bladder infection.
18:40 UK time, Monday, 28 May 2012
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"I didn't use texts or emails at the time," the once technophobic former prime minister acknowledged.
"It's something for which I'm profoundly grateful."
18:09 UK time, Wednesday, 23 May 2012
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This was unfamiliar territory for the man who once asked Michael Howard the same question 12 times.
He's rarely been treated to a delicate dose of his own medicine. He's probably never been called an "ungrateful little wretch" before.
20:42 UK time, Friday, 18 May 2012
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For a woman whose key role is to act as a unifying figure, this was a divisive lunch.
The Queen's supporters would argue it's not her fault. According to them, Elizabeth can hardly pick and choose between a Hamad, a Mswati or a Simeon. And anyway they continue, her government is keen on deepening relations with Bahrain.
15:14 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
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She was calm, composed and occasionally feisty.
She was under oath to provide an insight into her relationships with politicians which she enjoyed for more than a decade working for Rupert Murdoch.
21:00 UK time, Thursday, 10 May 2012
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When a witness declares in his statement that you are a "thoroughly decent, moral man", you can probably breathe a sigh of relief.
David Cameron, so described by Andy Coulson, will have seen his former employee's statement in advance. Mr Coulson's evidence will not have perturbed him greatly. But it has raised more questions about their relationship.
16:07 UK time, Friday, 4 May 2012
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"Forewarned is forearmed" could be a convenient mantra for a government dealing with a range of setbacks in recent weeks not just of an electoral nature.
After Jeremy Hunt's ministerial career was imperilled by the disclosure of documents detailing the closeness of his department and News Corporation during the company's bid for the whole of BskyB, someone somewhere in Whitehall clearly decided to act.
18:17 UK time, Thursday, 26 April 2012
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A rather different Rupert Murdoch was on display for the second day of his evidence.
Having emerged unscathed from Wednesday's grilling over his relationships with politicians, a penitent proprietor was this morning under oath as he faced questioning about the phone hacking scandal.
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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