Breaking news from the lesbian film desk! A new movie has been announced that sounds like just the fun, raucous comedy that we need after years of melancholic queer longing by the sea. Starring queer actors Kiersey Clemons and Barbie Ferreira, The Young King is set in the 90s drag king scene of Las Vegas....
Royalist is The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Prince Andrew and Prince Harry are to be further sidelined from the royal institution, with King Charles effectively removing them from the roster of royals called on to stand in for him...
Egypt has urged new prime minister Rishi Sunak not to ditch the UK’s climate leadership role just weeks before it takes over as host of the UN COP climate talks. As the Egyptians prepare to host COP27 in November, their lead negotiator told reporters that the UK “[showed] leadership in Glasgow,” where it held the...
Rishi Sunak, right, meets King Charles at Buckingham Palace. Aaron Chown via PA Wire/PA Images Rishi Sunak has been formally appointed prime minister, having met King Charles at Buckingham Palace. At 42, Sunak is the youngest U.K. prime minister in over 200 years. He is also both the country’s first Asian and first Hindu leader....
A king cobra is seen in its enclosure at the Bronx Zoo in New York, in a September 14, 2022 file photo. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Stockholm — A Swedish zoo has been partially shut down after a king cobra staged an impressive escape from its enclosure at the weekend, with staff on Monday still searching for the...
He inherits nothing short of an economic emergency, one that critics say his Conservative Party helped create through a decade of austerity and then Brexit. The U.K. is now mired in a daunting cost-of-living crisis that means millions of people are already struggling to eat and heat their homes — and it is likely to...
He inherits nothing short of an economic emergency, one that critics say his Conservative Party helped create through a decade of austerity and then Brexit. The U.K. is now mired in a daunting cost-of-living crisis that means millions of people are already struggling to eat and heat their homes — and it is likely to...
Rishi Sunak has been named as the U.K.’s new prime minister and the country’s first leader of color. Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — Rishi Sunak on Tuesday became the U.K.’s third prime minister of the year following a meeting with King Charles III. The tradition sees the monarch...
Good morning. Rishi Sunak will formally become prime minister on Tuesday despite losing the Conservative leadership contest to Liz Truss only six weeks ago. The former chancellor, who resigned from Boris Johnson’s government in July, will become the third Conservative prime minister in less than two months and the fifth in six years. Sunak takes...
Rishi Sunak, who will on Tuesday become the UKs 57th Prime Minister, is richer than King Charles III and, at 42, younger than every predecessor except William Pitt the Younger, the media reported. Sunak will also be the UK’s first ever person of colour to lead the country, and first Hindu Prime...