Buckingham Palace

Plymouth team win prestigious award

A virtual team, based primarily in Plymouth, has been awarded for their work at the Civil Service awards ceremony held at Buckingham Palace on 12 November.

Land Registry won the Digital Award for its work on the MapSearch project, reducing its huge volume of paper transactions by offering customers digital alternatives – making the transactions faster and cheaper for the Government and...

Queen should open palace to raise funds

MPs today said that Buckingham Palace should be opened to more paying visitors when the Queen is not in residence to fund improvements to the royal estate.

The influential Public Accounts Committee criticised the Royal Household for mismanaging its finances.

Chairwoman Margaret Hodge said there was "huge scope for savings" on the annual £31m of taxpayer funds given to the Queen...

Palace announces Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall are expecting a baby

Buckingham Palace has announced that Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall are expecting a baby in the New Year.

The baby will be the first child of the couple who married in 2011.

Zara Phillips, 32, is the daughter and youngest child of Anne, Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips who divorced in 1992. She won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006. Later that year she...