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The King's lifelong connection to the skies was marked in Bedford on Sunday with the small red aircraftin which he learned to fly delighting aviation and military enthusiasts in Bedford.The 70-year-old Royal de Havilland Chipmunk WP903 was among the vintage aeroplanes to take to the skies on Sunday for Shuttleworth aerodrome's King and Country Air Show.

Britain crowned its first new monarch of the 21st century on Saturday as King Charles III swore an oath of duty not to be served, but to serve seven months after the death of his mother.His wife Camilla was crowned Queen.Cheers, bells and gun salutes nationwide marked the historic moment in a ceremony with one or two modern touches but mostly tradition including persistent rain that fell just as it had 70 years ago, in 1953.

It rained.Of course it did.It wouldn't have been a proper coronation if it hadn't.Brits wouldn't have had it any other way.We were born to suffer.Keep calm and carry on.The first guests had started arriving at Westminster Abbey from early in the morning.Among them the lucky MPs who had received an invite.

King Charles and senior royals held last-minute coronation rehearsals followed by a walkabout on Friday as it emerged neither Prince Harry nor Prince Andrew will play any formal role in the ceremony.Meanwhile, William and Kate joined the monarch for a stroll on The Mall to meet crowds braving the British weather ahead of the historic event.

Almost 9 million people watched King Charles's coronation live on TV in France, where the pomp and ceremony sickened the radical left while impressing the far right.As the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who is close to Charles, attended the service at Westminster Abbey, congratulating the monarchy who he said were friends to France, the French media's massive focus on the event with souvenir front pages and lengthy TV specials across different channels caused high emotions across the polarised political landscape.

Britons would rather see Prince Andrew attend the coronation of King Charles III than the Duchess of Sussex, new polling suggests.In an exclusive survey for The Independent, 43 per cent of people thought the Duke of York should attend the historic service marking his brother's ascension to the throne.

Emily Maitlis has recalled how she felt really sick ahead of her BBC Newsnight interview with the Duke Of York.The journalist, who grilled Andrew over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, is executive producer of a new Channel 4 documentary, which forms part of the broadcaster's programming around the coronation.

Plans to ask the public to pledge their allegiance to the King during the coronation have been branded offensive, tone deaf and a gesture that holds the people in contempt by a pressure group.Charles's coronation will include the first Homage of the People a modern addition to the ancient ceremony that will see people across the UK and overseas realms invited to swear an oath of allegiance to Charles.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prince Andrew runs a terrible criminal risk if he decides to reopen his sexual abuse case, his accuser's lawyer has warned.David Boies, the lawyer for the Duke's accuser Virginia Giuffre, challenged Prince Andrew to contact him if he wanted to overturn their multi-million settlement.

The Duke of Sussex has marked the 40th anniversary of the UK's leading HIV and sexual health charity, Terrence Higgins Trust.In a letter, released on Monday (6 March), Prince Harry said his work with the charity is a big piece of his mother's legacy, referencing Princess Diana's philanthropic work with people living with HIV and AIDS.

Harry, wearing medals pinned to his suit jacket, chatted to his cousin Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi as he entered Westminster Abbey on Saturday in the drizzling rain.The Duke of Sussex then took his seat alongside Jack Brooksbank, together with Eugenie, in the third row at Westminster Abbey and Beatrice and her husband behind Prince Anne and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.

Prince Andrew was booed by members of the public as he was driven down The Mall in a state car.The Duke of York does not have a formal role in the coronation of his brother, King Charles III, Buckingham Palace confirmed today, but is attending the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.Andrew stepped down from royal duties in 2019 over his links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prince Andrew is in despair that the King has not shared out their mother's inheritence, according to reports.King Charles was the sole beneficiary of the Queen's 650million estate, under a 1993 agreement meaning no inheritance tax was owed.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson has said he still does not understand why he was fined over the Partygate controversy.As prime minister, the now-Conservative backbencher was photographed pictured drinking and enjoying several gatherings with staff at Downing Street for which he was fined 50.

Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has said that the well-known photo showing the Duke of York next to Virginia Giuffre is fake.Maxwell, 61, who was convicted of sex trafficking, has previously cast doubt on the authenticity of the photo, said to have been taken inside her Mayfair home, showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Ms Giuffre with Maxwell in the background.

Boris Johnson urged a hard egg approach to the Northern Ireland peace process in 1996 in the belief Britain could crush the IRA, according to declassified documents.The then deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph favoured a security-led policy over political talks that led two years later to the Good Friday agreement.

Channel 4 promoted its forthcoming TV musical based on the Duke of York's life with a mobile billboard outside the branch of a pizza chain restaurant that Andrew referred to in his Newsnight interview.The van carrying the slogan If you miss it, you'd better have a decent alibi  a reference to his disastrous interview with Emily Maitlis  appeared outside Pizza Express in Woking, Surrey, on Thursday morning.

A man charged with breach of the peace after allegedly heckling the Duke of York during the Queen's funeral procession will be spared court, prosecutors said.Live broadcast footage showed a man shouting at Prince Andrew over allegations related to his former friend, American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as he walked behind his mother's coffin up Edinburgh's Royal Mile on 12 September.