Britain's Queen Elizabeth smiles as she arrives at a pageant to celebrate 200 years of Gurkha service to the British Crown in London, June 9, 2015. REUTERS/Leon Neal/Pool By Michael Holden LONDON ...

An appeal has been made for a copy of the Magna Carta to be returned to Surrey for its 800th anniversary. Surrey County Council is calling for a copy to be loaned to a new visitor centre planned in ...

Residents consider a local authority as a single entity. They have little knowledge of or care about the business lines and structures of the organization. Yet the business processes and the ...

Plans for a visitor centre on the site where the Magna Carta was sealed in Surrey are "very much alive", a council has said. A bid for lottery cash for the project failed this month, but the council ...

More than 4,500 invited guests celebrate 800th anniversary of Magna Carta The Queen, David Cameron and Archbishop of Canterbury were at Runnymede Prince William unveils art installation, The Jurors, ...

Monday, June 15 marks that 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, a British legal document that laid the foundation for some of the key principles of democracy. The document outlined and established an ...

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The U.K. celebrates the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede, near Windsor, on June 15, 1215. LONDON—In a muddy field in 1215 at Runnymede, some 20 miles from ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth will return on Monday to the setting where 800 years ago one of her predecessors accepted the Magna Carta, the English document that put limits on the power of the ...

The Magna Carta, Latin for " Great Charter ", was ratified by King John of England in June 1215, at Runnymede, about 20 miles west of London, after an uprising by his barons. It established certain ...