King Charles

King Charles II paid the debt for the crown jewels worn last week by giving 95,000 acres to the royal goldsmith back in 1661

London Letter: Members of anti-monarchy group arrested hours before coronation kicked off, despite being assured their protests were of no concern to police

Why a dress is never just a dress at a major occasion of state

Charles allegedly remarked ‘we can never be on time’ after being forced to wait for William and Kate, who arrived late at Westminster Abbey

Sky’s Martin Tyler may have been following from afar as he tried to figure out which words to watch

Saturday’s coronation was followed by a series of quintessentially British community events

A London church congregation ‘from six continents’ celebrates the coronation of King Charles III: ‘His duty is to serve God’

‘There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK,’ says leader of anti-monarchy group, who was released from custody Saturday night

From a concert to mark the coronation of King Charles to Ireland’s Eurovision semi-final

In Tamnificarbett Orange Hall, celebrations are subdued, and there’s a sense of both communities being keen to maintain mutual respect

King Charles’s coronation ceremony proves that, for all its current problems and strife, Britain still knows how to throw a royal party

As the crowds stake their place on the Mall for the coronation, talk is more about Diana and Meghan Markle than the new king

Leo Varadkar expresses hope king will visit Ireland ‘in due course’

Leo Varadkar and Michael D Higgins among 2,200 invited guests at coronation in Westminster Abbey

The DJ and podcaster has written her second novel, but she’s still ‘scarlet’ at the prospect of being called a writer

Anointing of Charles is excuse to celebrate unabashed Britishness but UK’s problems have not evaporated with it

Paul Johnston believes Ireland manages to combine a great deal of pride in being a successful modern republic with a great deal of underlying affection for the UK

British ambassador among guests at Classiebawn Castle to mark links with Mullaghmore

Worldview: Millions will swear allegiance to the new king this weekend. But allegiance to royalty is a fast-vanishing commodity

Saturday, May 6th, 2023

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

King Charles's coronation: Royal watchers from home and abroad have descended on the capital to witness history

The republican-royal reconciliation, after decades of unrest, has more to do with party’s wider political ambitions and attracting more centrist voters in the Republic

It will be ninth time the two heads of state have met, with Michael D Higgins becoming first President to attend coronation

The problem is that this show is a giant signifier with very little left to signify

Patrick Freyne: Britain’s new monarch is speaking his truths. I’m reaching for my truth in the thatch as I watch

Prince Harry may find the Dutch royal family admirably modern, but more and more people in the Netherlands think their monarchy belongs to a bygone era

Hundreds of officers, including covert, firearms and search specialists, will police Windsor, the biggest focal point for event outside of London

Archbishop Martin also attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth last September, another first for hundreds of years

The key times to tune in for the big events of the day

An intimate conversation between King George VI and the then Irish ambassador reveals what he really thought about de Valera - and the ordeal of coronations

Taoiseach’s remarks about 2014 water charges protest ‘scandalous’, says People Before Profit TD

Opposition TDs Paul Murphy and Richard Boyd Barrett critical of State broadcaster’s plan to air four-hour ceremony

So strong was Camilla’s bond with the future king, it shattered both their marriages, outraged the establishment and saw her cast as a marriage-wrecker

Australia is a country that doesn’t mess around much with its constitution. There have only been eight changes since 1901 compared to Ireland’s 32 since 1937

Man questioned after throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into grounds ahead of coronation

It may be 101 years since independence - but you wouldn’t know it from a stroll around the halls of British power

The Problem Prince is a compelling documentary about one of the most extraordinary interviews in the history of British television

Amid waning support for the monarchy, a delicate problem of perception faces the broadcaster: how royal is too royal?

People to be asked to swear an oath out loud during ceremony to crown King Charles