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India’s last Viceroy and the £450,000 battle to read his diaries
Anger as Queen bags ‘generous’ gift from dictator
Our Men in Manila
Prince William petitioned by Kenyan land grab victims
UK deployed 31 nuclear weapons during Falklands war
Prince Andrew’s Saudi trip made Foreign Office “extremely grateful”
The Dubai dictator who is the Queen’s close friend and untouchable king of British horseracing
The Queen of England’s friend, Sheikh Mohammed — the repressive, billionaire ruler of Dubai who is holding his daughters, Latifa and Shamsa, hostage — has been allowed by the UK authorities to become the kingpin of Britain’s massive, world-renowned horse racing industry. For how much longer can that industry remain silent on its benefactor’s crimes?
Queen Elizabeth’s support for Gulf kings ‘puts love of horses ahead of human rights’
As new evidence emerges of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed holding his adult daughters ‘hostage’, Declassified has found that Queen Elizabeth has met the repressive leader on at least 10 occasions since the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’.
Prince Andrew helped deepen UK relations with Gulf regimes for eight years after Epstein scandal
The queen’s second son has held 70 meetings with repressive Middle East monarchies in the decade since the Arab Spring uprisings. Most meetings took place after Prince Andrew’s role as official trade envoy ended in 2011 amid the Epstein scandal, with UK diplomatic support for his Gulf trips lasting into 2019.