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Queen Elizabeth II puts on lipstick in the Royal Box at the Windsor Horse Show on May 11, 1985. Prince Phillip was about to enter the dressage ring with his horse team. (David Levenson/Getty Images)
1946 ASIATIC LAND TENURE AND INDIAN REPRESENTATION ACT

The Queen was my mother’s style icon, but my dad wasn’t a fan

I felt curious grief, gut-wrenching sadness at the passing of a woman I did not know and had never me

  • Charmain Naidoo
8 min read
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Archbishop panel member believes gay people can ‘change’

A leading member of the Church of England who believes gay people can be counselled to suppress their sexuality is helping select the next archbishop.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
Archbishop of Canterbury meets Mugabe
ANGLICAN CHURCH

Archbishop of Canterbury meets Mugabe

The head of the worldwide Anglican church on Monday met with President Robert Mugabe to speak about abuse the church experiences in Zimbabwe.

  • Gillian Gotora
2 min read
Rowan Williams front, sixth from left leads a march through central London last month calling on world leaders to keep their promises to deliver the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP
ANGLICAN CHURCH

Faith 1, charity 0

After weeks of peacemaking over homosexuality, Rowan Williams points the finger of blame at North American churches.

  • Riazat Butt
3 min read
ANGLICAN CHURCH

– but Williams kept his flock together

The 2008 Lambeth Conference was held amid an atmosphere of boycotts over the 230 bishops who stayed away- and one who was never invited.

  • Riazat Butt
4 min read