The most recent royal-related national holiday was the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002.
With the frankness of an old pro, at one point Ms Bradford names different schools of royal-watching.
Miss it, by gosh, since Sir Martin--he's also Britain's Astronomer Royal--figures our collective odds of survival are now dropping like a shot pheasant.
With the royal-wedding circus over, London is refocusing on its more down-to-earth pleasures, making the sunny days of early summer a strategic moment to pop over.
Suraf Asgedom pedaled along a lower Manhattan street on one of the royal-blue, quick-rental bikes, headed for a gourmet supermarket that's usually a 25-minute walk from his apartment.
The Langham London Hotel will offer the celebratory Tea Royale throughout April with royal-inspired bites such as sandwiches of Scottish salmon poached in pink Champagne and Westminster Abbey chocolate cake.
The Invincible Class ships - Illustrious, Invincible, and Ark Royal - will be replaced by larger Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers which will enter service in 2017, the MoD said.
People's royal-wedding issue sold more than two million copies on the newsstand, 80% above its average, while US Weekly's sold about 932, 000 copies, more than 40% above its average.
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Wedding fever gripped the UK as royal-watchers and the general public speculated for months about what Catherine would wear, her hair and the scale of the event in a country entrenched in austerity measures.
An initial police investigation into the newspaper resulted in two successful prosecutions that led to prison terms for the paper's royal-family correspondent, Clive Goodman, and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator hired by the tabloid.
The Arab royal-family-owned network will be entering a tumultuous, fragmented marketplace for news programming where the top-ranked cable news shows garner ratings only in the hundreds of thousands at any one time, not millions, analysts said.
More importantly, any firm sign that Princess is starting to consider alternative offers could prompt Royal - which has already shown signs of impatience at Princess's new dalliance - to pull out of the original merger deal.
The Ark Royal - which was in service for 25 years - was put up for sale on the Ministry of Defence's edisposals.com website, which sells off kit to raise money to equip the armed forces with everything from aircraft to clothing.
Augusta has not moved on the issue and it appears unlikely that Royal St George's - or indeed the all-male Royal and Ancient - will change either.
That latest nugget of intelligence may have slipped from the duchess' mouth as she chatted to Sandra Cook, a 67-year-old royal well-wisher Catherine met while on a trip to the town of Grimsby on Tuesday.
After landing at Berlin's Tegel military airport earlier on Tuesday, the Queen began her fourth state visit to Germany by being driven, with the Duke of Edinburgh, to the Schloss Charlotten presidential palace in a dual-fuel royal Bentley - a German-owned company.
In the BBC interview, he acknowledged that British soldiers - and the Royal Family - had suffered as a result of the Troubles.
The shredder that came into my life was a black-and-gray, 9-gallon model: the Royal 14-Sheet Micro-Cut.
Two of his cousins - members of the Jordanian royal family - have been mentioned as possible contenders for the throne.
Two London hospitals - Bart's and the Royal London - have already introduced yellow and red card systems to warn abusive patients that treatment could be withheld.
Malaga recently announced it was undergoing a process of "internal restructuring, " with owner Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nassar Al-Thani -- a member of the Qatar royal family -- reportedly wanting to sell up after only two years.
Four professional bodies - the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society - have all said use of "smart" drugs raise serious ethical, philosophical, regulatory and economic issues.
Four professional bodies - the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society - say that while human enhancement technologies might improve our performance and aid society, their use raise serious ethical, philosophical, regulatory and economic issues.
The funeral -- officially ceremonial rather than a state occasion in a distinction invisible to all but the most pedantic royal watcher -- was the first for a former prime minister and war leader since Winston Churchill's body was borne along the same route a generation ago.
Ms Royal part-owns three properties, including a holiday home in the south of France.
She has not just become a member of the royal family -- she's becoming its anchor.
Clement Danes -- the Royal Air Force Chapel -- on the Strand, before being transferred to the gun carriage.
Paris Match, which spices up current affairs with royal photo-shoots, began in 1949.
One of the more surprising supporters of an abandonment of royal business-as-usual is former newspaper editor Sir Max Hastings.
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