Dublin student Reese Kilbride got more than he bargained for recently when he wrote to the Queen asking her to return the six counties of Northern Ireland to the Republic.

The Australian government has come under mounting pressure to appoint a head of state to replace the Queen, as the country celebrated its national day.

Buckingham Palace is considering taking legal action over leaked footage that shows Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as a child performing a Nazi salute with her family.

Buckingham Palace has defended footage from 1933 that shows a young Queen performing a Nazi salute with her family at Balmoral.

The Queen and Prince Phillip are to visit Rome and will have an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Buckingham Palace has said.