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The Duchess confirmed earlier this month that she would not be attending the May 6 ceremony at Westminster Abbey. However, she is expected to be included in a private Royal family celebration. She is also expected to join the wider family for the Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle on May …

King Charles gives permission for the Royal Kennel Club to celebrate its 150th anniversary in the garden of Buckingham Palace in May. Source link

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch might not seem like a desirable address, but coastal creatures are thriving on the floating rubbish tip, thousands of miles from home. Researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre found 484 marine organisms living on plastic items recovered from the gyre, of which 80 per …

Meanwhile, Prince George is set to become the youngest future king to play an official role at a coronation, having been named one of his grandfather’s four Pages of Honour. The nine-year-old will be tasked with carrying the King’s robes alongside three other Pages of Honour – schoolboys Lord Oliver …

The service has been planned to be representative of different faiths and community groups, in line with the King’s wish to reflect the ethnic diversity of modern Britain.  He will still pledge to be “Defender of the Faith” in the Coronation oath, but palace aides and church officials plan to …

Royal Mail and the CWU have been in discussions for almost a year over the biggest overhaul of working practices since the business was privatised under David Cameron in 2013. The company has said it is losing £1 million a day, with strike action by the CWU costing £200 million …

Royal Mail strike talks have collapsed after union leaders rejected a 10pc pay rise plus a bonus of up to £1,500. In an announcement that raises the spectre of a fresh wave of postal strikes, Royal Mail said it was “deeply concerned” that talks had failed to reach an agreement. …

With the situation described by insiders as “precarious”, Royal Mail is pressing ahead with plans to unilaterally make sweeping changes to working practices if the CWU rejects the latest pay offer. These include greater use of technology to automate sorting and other manual processes, as well as extending the working …

MPs have referred Royal Mail to the communications watchdog for not delivering letters across the country six days a week. The company was accused of having “systematically failed to deliver” its universal service obligation in a report by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee. The scathing document also …

A first class stamp is to cost more than £1 following an inflation-busting increase, Royal Mail has announced. The cost of sending letters overnight will rise from 95p to £1.10 in April, Royal Mail confirmed, months after the postal operator warned significant price rises would be necessary unless it was …