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By Hanna Rantala WINDSOR (Reuters) – Swans swimming along the bends of the River Thames and delighting visitors on riverbanks across Britain have a new owner. On the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s new monarch King Charles has inherited many of the country’s swans. “The king has the right to claim any swan …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth’s funeral will take place in London on Monday, Sept. 19, and a host of world leaders, royalty and other dignatories will attend. The following have said they will come to London: – Joe Biden and Jill Biden, President and first lady of the United States – Alexander Van der Bellen, …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s former king Juan Carlos will pause his self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. Juan Carlos and his wife have communicated their intention to accept the British Foreign Office invitation to attend the funeral on Sept. 19, the Spanish Royal House said on Monday. The former monarch left …

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By Luiza Ilie and Anca Cernat VISCRI, Romania (Reuters) – For many people in the Transylvanian village of Viscri in central Romania, Britain’s King Charles has been a gracious and engaged neighbour. The monarch, who is distantly related to Romania’s former King Michael, has bought and restored an 18th century Saxon cottage in the hillside …

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(Reuters) -Three Premier League games scheduled for this weekend have been postponed ahead of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral next Monday, including Chelsea’s home game against Liverpool on Sunday, the Premier League has announced. Manchester United’s home game versus Leeds United on Sunday has also been postponed while Brighton & Hove Albion’s match against Crystal Palace on …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Scottish police said they had made three arrests in Edinburgh relating to breaches of the peace – causing a disturbance – on Sunday and Monday as Queen Elizabeth’s coffin was moved around the city. Elizabeth died on Thursday in her holiday home at Balmoral, in the Scottish Highlands, at the age of 96 …

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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry paid a highly personal tribute on Monday to his “granny”, the late Queen Elizabeth, saying how he cherished the time he had spent with her and how he would honour his father as the new king. In a statement, Harry, who stepped down from royal duties …

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By Conor Humphries and Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) – Loyalists laid flowers by a huge mural of a young Queen Elizabeth in a fiercely British corner of west Belfast, looking back at what they saw as a glorious past, and forward to what they feared was an uncertain future. A few hundred metres away, across …

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