Topic: Queen

• Will Ireland be won over by the Queen?

  Posted on 12 May 2011. Tags: Ireland, Queen, Queen Elizabeth II

  Mary Kenny says that Queen Elizabeth II’s historic trip to the Republic of Ireland next week could be her most challenging state visit

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• Nuncio takes horse-drawn carriage to Buckingham Palace

  Posted on 09 March 2011. Tags: Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Buckingham Palace, Queen

  Archbishop Antonio Mennini was presenting his diplomatic credentials to the Queen

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• The Queen may not have produced a rosary, but she did conduct herself with dignity

  Posted on 17 September 2010. Tags: BBC, Blessed Dominic Barberi, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Ian Paisley, Queen

  At 83, she has seen a great many state occasions in her lifetime

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• The Pope’s address in Westminster Hall is one of his most important ever

  Posted on 15 September 2010. Tags: Papal Visit 2010, Pope Benedict XVI, Queen, St Thomas More, Westminster Hall

  His address to the Queen will be equally historic, but it’s the one at the Palace of Westminster which will have a lasting impact

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• The Pope’s trip follows two state visits by the Queen to Rome

  Posted on 13 September 2010. Tags: Carlo Ciampi, Papal Visit 2010, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Queen

  In 1961 and 1980 she made official visits to meet John XXIII and John Paul II

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• Peter Mandelson is not wise, old, or grumpy enough to be a national treasure

  Posted on 06 September 2010. Tags: Jonathan Miller, PD James, Peter Mandelson, PG Wodehouse, Prince Philip, Queen, Sir John Betjeman, Stephen Fry, Winston Churchill

  Here are five simple criteria for anyone wishing to achieve national treasure status. Prince Philip makes it; Peter Mandelson and Stephen Fry do not

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• Pope’s visit will be a lesson for secular Britain, says Archbishop

  Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: Archbishop Vincent Nichols, L’Osservatore Romano, Papal Visit 2010, Queen, secularisation

  Archbishop Nichols says it will be a chance to show secularised society that faith is a gift, not a problem

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• Vatican announces ‘once in a lifetime’ display of Raphael works at the V&A

  Posted on 15 July 2010. Tags: Papal Visit 2010, Queen, Raphael, Sistine Chapel, V&A, Vatican Museums

  Yesterday, for the first time since 1983, the Vatican hung the tapestries on the walls of the Sistine Chapel where they are thought to have originally been located

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• The Pope won’t be flying with British Airways

  Posted on 05 July 2010. Tags: British Airways, easyJet, Holy See, Papal Visit 2010, Pope Benedict XVI, Queen, security, Vatican

  The detail emerged as the Holy See formally announced the Pope’s state visit

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• Britain’s reputation is at stake during papal visit, says Lord Patten

  Posted on 05 July 2010. Tags: Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Bellahouston Park, clerical abuse crisis, Cofton Park, Edward the Confessor, Hyde Park, Lord Patten, Papal Visit 2010, Queen, Rowan Williams

  Papal visit ‘will put an end to any Catholic feeling like a second-class citizen’

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