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20th September 2022

As I watched the sad news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth unfold that bleak Thursday afternoon – news which none of us had wanted to hear and perhaps best defined by Boris Johnson, when he said, “she seemed so timeless and so wonderful that I am afraid we had come to believe, like children,...

20th September 2022

There are buildings and functions long gone from Gibraltar’s streets. Some of my earliest memories are going to these places with my mother on a Saturday morning. Walking from one of town to the other and taking diversions into narrow lanes. The Post Office on Main Street. The tax office opposite Ince’s Hall. Some sort...

20th September 2022

The news of the Queen's death on Thursday, September the 8th, 2022 hit the United Kingdom like a freight train. A train we all knew was coming, but not quite when it would reach its final destination, and one that shocked us nevertheless. After the last few years of political warfare, unprecedented environmental catastrophes, the...

19th September 2022

By PA reporters and Chronicle staff The Queen was laid to rest following 70 years of service after family, friends and the nation said a fond farewell to the late monarch. For the woman who was never meant to be sovereign, the Queen fulfilled her pledge to serve nation and Commonwealth and came to earn...

19th September 2022

By PA Reporters The Queen was laid to rest following 70 years of service after family, friends and the nation said a fond farewell to the late monarch. For the woman who was never meant to be sovereign, the Queen fulfilled her pledge to serve nation and Commonwealth and came to earn the respect of...

19th September 2022

By PA Reporters The Queen’s coffin has begun its final journey from Westminster Abbey to Windsor Castle where the late monarch will be reunited with her beloved husband. Hundreds of thousands of well-wishers flocked to London and are lining the route through the capital to say their last goodbyes, while millions around the globe are...

19th September 2022

By PA Reporters The Archbishop of Canterbury has described the Queen as having touched “a multitude of lives” and being a “joyful” figure for many, in his sermon at her state funeral. With the grieving royal family sitting nearby and thousands of mourners filling London’s streets, Justin Welby said the outpouring of emotion “arises from...

16th September 2022

Gibraltar plays two crucial Nations League C group matches which will determine whether they will have an automatic place in League C in the next edition or whether they will have to battle it out in a play-off to secure their place. Two points behind Bulgaria, their first match against the same side will be...

15th September 2022

Spanish police arrested one of Europe’s biggest money launderers accused of handling over 200 million euros of dirty money through a centuries old underground banking system known as ‘hawala’. The suspect, who was arrested in Malaga by the Guardia Civil, is alleged to be linked to Ireland’s notorious Kinahan clan, who police say used a...

15th September 2022

By Rebecca Speare-Cole, PA, and Chronicle staff Thousands of mourners queued overnight in London for the Queen’s lying in state. Members of the public can pay their respects to the late monarch’s coffin for 24 hours a day at Westminster Hall, with queues along Lambeth Bridge and Albert Embankment continuing to flow all night. The...

15th September 2022

Scores of churchgoers paid their respects on Wednesday during a requiem mass for the repose of the soul of Queen Elizabeth II. Inside the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned, every pew was filled, with latecomers standing behind and in the side aisles to catch a glimpse of the proceedings. The sombre occasion saw the...

14th September 2022

By Tony Jones, PA Court Correspondent The Queen was handed to the care of the nation for a period of lying in state after her family marched in homage behind her coffin as it was carried to Westminster Hall. A gun carriage that had borne the coffins of her mother and father carried the late...

14th September 2022

By Joe Adambery It was lunchtime at 52 Kingsway House Alameda Estate on the day that I, as a six and a half year old, heard my late father give us the news that King George had died in his sleep (Feb 6. 1952). He also said that young Princess Elizabeth would be proclaimed Queen...

13th September 2022

By Katrine Bussey, PA Scotland Applause rang out in the heart of Edinburgh as the Queen left the Scottish capital for the final time. The body of Elizabeth II had been lying in rest in its oak coffin overnight in the city’s St Giles’ Cathedral. Tens of thousands of people had paid their last respects...

13th September 2022

Yes, maintenance, `The process of preserving a condition or situation, or the state of being preserved,’ says the dictionary, and who am I to argue with that! Of course, I’m not suggesting for one moment we don’t all know what the word means, but I just wonder and wonder if we give it the priority...

13th September 2022

Hundreds of people gathered in Convent Place on Sunday to watch the Governor of Gibraltar, Vice Admiral Sir David Steel, proclaim King Charles III as King of Gibraltar. Sir David, a former Aide de Camp to the Queen, read the proclamation statement from the balcony of The Convent watched not only by onlookers below but...

13th September 2022

by Chronicle staff and PA Six officers of the Royal Gibraltar Police have travelled to London to help their colleagues in the Metropolitan Police provide security for a "hugely complex" policing operation in the days leading to the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19. Huge crowds are expected to pay their respects...

13th September 2022

If ever a reminder was needed that Gibraltar is British, we saw it this weekend as history unfolded before our eyes. After 70 years of the Queen’s reign - for most of us, all our lifetimes - it felt strange to proclaim God save the King, as if we’d somehow got the words wrong. On...

12th September 2022

The Governor, Vice Admiral Sir David Steel, and Chief Minister Fabian Picardo will represent the people of Gibraltar at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19. In keeping with Royal Protocol, the Government of Gibraltar on Monday confirmed that Gibraltar would follow the UK and declare a bank holiday in Gibraltar on...

12th September 2022

By Dominic McGrath, PA The King promised “faithfully to follow” the example of his mother in a speech in Westminster Hall as both Houses of Parliament gathered to express their condolence to the new monarch. In a short response inside the hall after a formal expression of condolence from MPs and peers, the new King...

10th September 2022

By Tony Jones, PA Court Correspondent King Charles III paid tribute to the reign of the late Queen, “unequalled in its duration, its dedication and its devotion”, as he was formally declared the nation’s new monarch. During a poignant and sombre meeting of the Accession Council, the King spoke movingly about his mother and the...

10th September 2022

By Laura Elston, PA Court Reporter The King has delivered a historic televised address to the nation, paying a poignant and moving tribute to his “darling Mama” in his first public broadcast as monarch. Charles said of his “beloved mother” the late Elizabeth II: “We owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe...

9th September 2022

This is the full text of a statement made by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo following the death of Queen Elizabeth II My dear fellow Gibraltarians and residents of Gibraltar, The death of Queen Elizabeth the Second has been a dreadful blow for all British people and for the people of all Her Realms and Commonwealth....

9th September 2022

There were hour-long queues at The Convent on Friday as hundreds of people waited to sign a book of condolence and laid flowers outside following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday afternoon. Many of those waiting fought back tears and they reflected with emotion on the loss of a globally-respected figurehead who had...

9th September 2022

By Tony Jones and Laura Elston, PA The nation’s new King has described the death of the Queen, who he called his “beloved Mother”, as the “greatest sadness” for his family. One of the first acts of the new monarch – whose title has been confirmed by the Prime Minister as King Charles III –...

9th September 2022

By Richard Wheeler and David Hughes, PA Political Staff Liz Truss hailed the Queen as the “rock on which modern Britain was built”, as she led tributes to the country’s longest-serving monarch. The Prime Minister said the death of Elizabeth, aged 96, was a “huge shock” to the nation and to the world. Speaking in...

9th September 2022

News of the Queen’s death on Thursday night was deeply felt in Gibraltar. We have grown up with the Queen as our monarch and head of state, both as individuals and as a community forging a modern identity over the past seven decades. Young or old, monarchist or republican, few could fail to acknowledge Queen...

8th September 2022

The Governor and Gibraltar’s political leaders last night paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and her “incomparable” lifetime legacy of service to her people, including the Gibraltarians. As the news broke of the monarch’s death following hours of mounting concern as the members of the royal family rushed to Balmoral, bells tolled from the Cathedral...

8th September 2022

Within minutes of the news that the Queen had passed away, people were congregating on Main St some watching coverage on their phones, others talking about what an amazing woman she was. One person who had a special connection with the Queen was Lt Wing Commander (Rtd) Roger Vent, who worked for her for three...

8th September 2022

By Laura Elston, PA Court Reporter The Queen has died, Buckingham Palace has announced. Elizabeth II, 96, was the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, serving as head of state for more than 70 years. The Prince of Wales is now King, having acceded to the throne immediately on the death of his mother. In a statement, the...