Royals Archives

King Charles III (left) seems to share few personality traits with Donald Trump (right), making for strange bedfellows when he hosts the US President in Britain this week for an unprecedented second state visit.

World

Trump and King Charles: heads of state with opposing personalities

Donald Trump may adore Britain’s royal family but the brash US leader could not be more different from King Charles III, a passionate environmentalist...

AFPSeptember 14, 2025

King Charles III will host Donald Trump at Windsor Castle as the US president receives his second UK state visit

World

Trump heads for historic second UK state visit

Donald Trump will get the red carpet treatment this week on an unprecedented second UK state visit, as Britain counts on royal pomp and...

AFPSeptember 14, 2025

Prince Harry's memoir 'Spare' further strained already rense relations with his family

Life

Prince Harry says has ‘clear conscience’ over explosive memoir

Prince Harry has defended his tell-all autobiography "Spare," insisting he had no regrets after its publication more than two years ago.

AFPSeptember 14, 2025

Thaksin greets supporters at the Supreme Court in Bangkok ahead of the verdict

World

Thaksin termination? Prison term latest chapter in political odyssey

Loved and loathed in almost equal measure, Thaksin Shinawatra transformed Thai politics in the early 2000s with populist policies that won him and his...

AFPSeptember 9, 2025

Britain's Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, looks on as his father leaves Westminster Abbey after being crowned King Charles III in 2023

World

Will Harry meet King Charles on trip to UK?

Prince Harry returns to London on Monday for a children’s charity gala. But the question on everyone’s lips is whether after years of tensions...

AFPSeptember 7, 2025

The nephew of Emperor Naruhito, Prince Hisahito will don a swallow-tailed headpiece as he formally enters adulthood within an institution that remains hugely symbolic in Japan

Life

Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms

Japan heralded the coming-of-age of Prince Hisahito with an elaborate ceremony at the Imperial Palace, where a succession crisis is brewing.

AFPSeptember 5, 2025

Anchan Preelert (C) was initially sentenced to 87 years under Thailand's lese-majeste law but the court halved it because she confessed

World

Thai woman jailed for 43 years for lese-majeste freed

A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom’s longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on Wednesday under a mass pardon...

AFPAugust 27, 2025

Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will learn his fate in a royal insult case that could see him jailed, as the political dynasty he founded falters

World

Thai ex-PM Thaksin acquitted of royal insult charges

Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared Friday of royal defamation charges, relieving a threat to his embattled political dynasty which has dominated...

AFPAugust 22, 2025