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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, father of Prince Charles and patriarch of a turbulent royal family that he sought to ensure would not be Britain’s last, died on Friday at Windsor Castle in England. He was 99. His death was announced by Buckingham Palace, which said he passed away...

The company is preparing to apply for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. But the shot may not be needed in the United States.The AstraZeneca vaccine was administered last week at the military hospital of Milan.Credit...Alessandro Grassani for The New York TimesThe coronavirus vaccine deve...

Want to live like a Bridgerton, the upper crust British family featured in the hit Netflix series? Promenading with handsome dukes and gossiping with a queen over macarons?Well, you probably can’t live like a 19th-century aristocrat. But you can clean like a scullery maid.English Heritage, an organization in Swindon...

Continue reading the main storyThe private investigator says the British tabloid The Sun paid him $2,055 in 2016 for private information about the couple, their family and friends that had been taken from a restricted database.Daniel Portley-Hanks, a veteran Los Angeles private investigator, says he was hired by The...

In explosive interviews separated by 25 years, the two women forced the royal family to confront the truth about itself.

Buckingham Palace said issues raised in the interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, “particularly that of race, are concerning.” Piers Morgan, a TV host who said he “didn’t believe a word” of the interview, resigned.

A quarter-century after Princess Diana broke her silence about life among the British royals, Meghan Markle did the same. Their stories were remarkably similar.

Many Black Britons found that the interview raised new questions about entrenched racism, both in the royal family and in British society at large.

Buckingham Palace says the husband of Queen Elizabeth is being treated for an infection and tested for a pre-existing heart condition.

Those who looked up just before 10 p.m. on Sunday were treated to the sight of a fireball meteor.

The development is a joyful bit of news after a turbulent year in which the couple broke away from the British royal family, started new lives in California and suffered a miscarriage.

If a second dose of one vaccine isn’t available, another may be substituted, according to new U.K. guidelines.

Health officials hope to soon vaccinate up to two million people per week as the country’s hospitals are overwhelmed by cases of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant.

The fact that the infected man had no travel history raises the worrisome possibility that the variant is already well established in his community — and perhaps elsewhere in the United States.

Britain is finally departing from the European Union, but its formal exit is only the beginning of a high-stakes experiment to unstitch commercial relations across an integrated continent.

The new rule, which takes effect on Monday, will apply to Americans as well as foreign nationals.

The trade agreement comes after months of negotiations, and still leaves critical details to be worked out.