A photo of Prince of Wales playing with puppies has been posted by Kensington Palace to mark his 43rd birthday. “Happy birthday! Love C, G, C, L, Orla and the puppies!” it wrote alongside the previously unseen picture of Prince William, referring to his wife, the Princess of Wales, their children George, Charlotte and Louis,...
Crowds cheered as King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the Trooping the Colour parade to mark the monarch’s official birthday. The royal couple rode in a carriage in the military procession along the Mall and into Horse Guards Parade where the King reviewed guardsmen on parade. This year the King asked members of the Royal...
Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West The Deaf Academy Peter Burroughs was appointed an MBE for services to education Fifteen people from across Devon have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025. Two people from Devon were appointed CBEs, four OBEs, seven were appointed MBEs and two appointed BEMs. Peter Burroughs, 80, from Yelverton,...
Knighthood David Beckham (former England footballer), for services to sport and charity Billy Boston (former rugby league player), for services to rugby league football Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Virginia Wade (former tennis player), for services to tennis and charity Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Alistair Brownlee...
David Beckham is set to be awarded a knighthood in King Charles’ Birthday Honours list. The former England football captain, 50, was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2003. But BBC Sport has been told he is now in line to receive further recognition for both his football career,...
The Duchess of Sussex has posted intimate family photos of Princess Lilibet to mark her fourth birthday. Meghan shared a black-and-white snap of her cuddling her daughter, who is sat on her lap, with the pair both sporting windswept hair, appearing to be on a boat. The second image shows Meghan tenderly cradling the princess...
Jonny Humphries BBC News, Manchester BM Photos uploaded by the far-right group showed them displaying flags and eating a cake with a Swastika symbol on the icing Nine people have been arrested and weapons and Nazi memorabilia seized after a group “celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday” in an Oldham pub. Members of the far-right group British...
A new photograph showing a smiling Princess Charlotte has been released by Kensington Palace to mark her 10th birthday. The image was taken by her mother Catherine, Princess of Wales, using an iPhone, during a trip to Cumbria earlier this year. The photograph was put on to the Kensington Palace social media channels with the...
FAMILY HANDOUT Lucy will run the London Marathon in memory of her mother, who died of cancer The youngest participant in the 2025 London Marathon will celebrate her 18th birthday on race day. Lucy, from Hull, will run her first marathon on Sunday alongside her dad to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Charity in memory...
A new photograph marking the seventh birthday of Prince Louis has been released by Kensington Palace. The youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales appears in a picture taken in Norfolk earlier this month, with the photo posted on their social media platforms. It was taken by photographer Josh Shinner, who has taken...
America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS),...