Tag: Elizabeth

Class war in the new Gilded Age

2012 was the first class-warfare election of our new Gilded Age. The first since the middle class has come to understand, in the words...

Liz Hurley and Warne still crazy about each other

Elizabeth Hurley and Shane Warne were spotted cozying up to one another while posing for photographs at the opening of the Ritz Carlton Hotel...

Elizabeth Taylor’s ‘Cleopatra’ trailer goes under the hammer

The lavish and one-of-a-kind vanity van of the late Elizabeth Taylor, which was used on the set of 1963 movie classic ‘Cleopatra’ is all...

Britain’s queen marks 86th birthday with husband at her side

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II officially celebrated her 86th birthday on Saturday, with her husband Prince Philip back at her side after he was hospitalised...

Kate Winslet gets royal honour from Queen Elizabeth

Kenneth Branagh received a knighthood and Kate Winslet received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, in the queen’s Birthday...

UK has changed for worse under Queen Elizabeth – poll

Almost half of Britons believe Britain has changed for the worse during Queen Elizabeth’s 60-year reign but most think that celebrations to mark her...

Elizabeth slams ‘talentless’ journalists

It seems Elizabeth has had enough of her share media attention. The former model and actress is now venting her anger on the media...

BHC holds Queen Elizabeth’s birthday party

In connection with the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, British High Commission (BHC) organised a get-together at a local hotel. Political dignitaries, business tycoons,...

Depp, Queen Elizabeth are cousins?

Johnny Depp might be upset about being left off the royal wedding guest list now that it's been revealed that he and Queen Elizabeth...

Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain’s second-longest reigning monarch

Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday became the second-longest reigning monarch in British history, clocking up a total of 21,645 days on the throne. Only Queen...

Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels, art, fashion to be auctioned

NEW YORK - Elizabeth Taylor's renowned collection of jewelry, works of art, clothing and memorabilia will be sold at a series of auctions, Christie's said on Saturday.
"Christie's will be selling the historic collection of Elizabeth Taylor," who died last month in Los Angeles aged 79, the auction house said in a statement.

Elizabeth Hurley files for divorce: report

LAHORE - Elizabeth Hurley filed for divorce from Arun Nayar, her husband of four years, on Friday, according to a U.K.'s newspaper. In papers filed in London's High Court, the Estee Lauder spokesmodel reportedly blamed Nayar's "unreasonable behavior" for the split, though it was Hurley's own behavior that grabbed headlines in December, when photos emerged of her kissing Australian cricket star Shane Warne outside a London restaurant. At the time, the model-actress took to Twitter to

Elizabeth Taylor late at her own funeral

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor was given a small private funeral service attended by family and close friends in the Los Angeles area on Thursday, a day after she died of congestive heart failure.
The Oscar-winning actress, 79, was laid to rest at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, outside Los Angeles -- the same place where her close friend, singer Michael Jackson, was buried in 2009.
Taylor's service was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., but started 15

Elizabeth Taylor passes away

LOS ANGELES - Legendary Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor, who captured hearts in "National Velvet" to launch a film career that spanned five decades, has died aged 79.
Taylor had been in hospital in Los Angeles for six weeks with congestive heart failure, a condition with which she had struggled for some years, and had recently suffered complications, a family statement said. "Legendary actress, businesswoman, and fearless activist Elizabeth Taylor died peacefully today in

Elizabeth Taylor: Violet-eyed movie queen

LOS ANGELES - Elizabeth Taylor, who has died at the age of 79, was the archetypal Hollywood movie queen, a violet-eyed beauty known equally for her stormy romances and eight marriages as her Oscar-winning performances.
Over a five-decade career she won two Academy Awards for best actress, including in the 1966 classic "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" one of many films where she played opposite her two-times husband Richard Burton. In later years as her health failed she retired

Actress Elizabeth Taylor passes away

WASHINGTON - Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, a two-time Oscar winner and one of the most alluring actresses of the 20th century, has died at age of 79, her publicity agent said.

Equality means business: Elizabeth Benham

KARACHI: The International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW) President Elizabeth Benham in an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today during her visit to Pakistan last week, stated she had been informed there was no 'pay gap' between the genders in Pakistan and that local companies had managed to boost their profits by up to 30 percent, merely by introducing three or four women on their board of directors.
Moreover, corporations have decided to disclose the