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Queen Elizabeth II turns 80 on April 21. In her 54 years on the throne, Her Majesty has presided over the emergence of a diverse and modern Britain, seen her family become tabloid fodder and declined all interview requests. Her third child, Prince Andrew, 46, a former Royal Navy pilot, sat with TIME's Catherine Mayer and J.F.O. McAllister at Buckingham Palace to discuss his mother's job, her love of horses and the time a footman pulled a chair out from under...
...cast-iron promises that it will not be attacked and working to normalize relations with the regime, in order to remove any incentive it might have for creating a nuclear deterrent. The conflict in strategies was visible this week when administration officials rebuffed the suggestion by Germany, backed by Britain, that Washington hold direct talks with Tehran to break the nuclear deadlock...
...killing may have been about much more than settling old scores. Donaldson was killed two days before the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, were due to launch a joint plan for reviving the faltering political process in Northern Ireland. Thanks to continuing mistrust between Protestant unionist leaders and Sinn Fein, efforts to restart the kind of coalition local government that was borne out of the 1998 Good Friday peace accords have been stalled for the past three years. And the murder of Donaldson, a convicted IRA bomber who served time in prison along with...
...certainly had enough motivation to do it. On the other hand, some members of Sinn Fein have implied that the same people who got Donaldson to become spy in the mid 1980s had their own reasons to silence him, since he remained a threat to divulge further details of Britain's counter-terror operations...
...Much of the current political stalemate in Northern Ireland, in fact, can be traced back to Donaldson himself. As head of Sinn Fein's administrative offices at the Northern Ireland assembly in the late 90s, Donaldson was accused by Britain of spying for the IRA, accusations which helped bring down Northern Ireland's landmark power sharing local government in 2002 amidst mutual suspicions and recrimination. Only after those charges were suddenly dropped against Donaldson and two others last December did he reveal on national TV the stunning news that he in fact had been on the British intelligence payroll...