Comment about "Brown draws election battle lines" Phone Name Comment 0 UK News - Queen's speech Brown draws election battle lines PA Britain's Queen Elizabeth II addressing the Lords during the State Opening of Parliament in Westminster, London, yesterday.

It was the bow that launched a thousand blog posts. But while conservative commentators complained that President Obama should not have bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito last week during his inaugural presidential trip to Asia, experts on protocol say the president's real faux pas came when he combined the bow with a handshake, a breach of Japanese ...

Christopher Wilson, an acknowledged expert on the Royal family, with copies of the correspondence.

George and Rose Gentle look down as the coffin of their son, Fusilier Gordon Gentle, 19, is carried from the church during his funeral at St James's Church in Glasgow, Scotland.

Aerial view of Windsor Castle. Mark S.Jobling November 20, 1992: Part of Windsor Castle burns .

British soldiers conducted house-to-house searches for those trapped by floods as deep as 8 feet .

Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain and Lt. Philip Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh, were married on Nov.

Gordon Brown uses state opening of parliament to showcase series of initiatives designed to draw battle lines between parties Queen's speech: Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace in a horsedrawn carriage to attend the state opening of parliament.

Prime Minister Gordon Browna s government today will put a crackdown on U.K. banker bonuses at the heart of his Labour Partya s election-year agenda.

THE British Government has vowed to slash the nation's massive deficit and tighten up rules for the financial services industry as the countdown to the general election begins.

The funnyman was a guest on Australian TV show Good News Week on Monday night when he began the shocking tirade.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will woo British voters with promises of new social programs and a clampdown on financial sector excess when the government's plans for the next parliamentary session are announced Wednesday by Queen Elizabeth II.

History records the Normandy Invasion as the pivot point in World War II. Several tri-county veterans participated in the campaign.

There was once a time when a royal visit to Canada was the stuff of fairytales and legends.

US investment bank JP Morgan Chase wants full control of 190-year-old London stockbroker Cazenove by buying the 50-percent stake which it does not already own, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

Colin Firth, who has made a career out of playing the slightly nervous love interest, may be headed for an Oscar nomination with a new kind of role in A Single Man .

Why Canada needs the monarchy In 1963, the historian W. L. Morton published a splendid one-volume history of Canada.

A worker prepares for opening night inside the newly renovated Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.

According to a poll taken last year, 50 per cent thought it was Steven Harper and one-third thought it was Michaelle Jean, the governor general.

So Charles and Camilla popped in last weekend for a bit of a visit. Actually, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall are on an 11-day trip to visit Canada, part of their Commonwealth.