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Prince William, Princess Charlotte fly chopper at Commonwealth Games in Birmingham

Prince William, Princess Charlotte fly chopper at Commonwealth Games in Birmingham

Prince William has taken the term “helicopter parent” to a whole new level.

The Duke of Cambridge flew a chopper, with daughter Princess Charlotte riding co-pilot on a very special trip to the Commonwealth Games.

The royals were spotted arriving in Birmingham on Tuesday in the Bell 429 Global Ranger.

The royals were spotted arriving in Birmingham on Tuesday in the Bell 429 Global Ranger.
Camera IconThe royals were spotted arriving in Birmingham on Tuesday in the Bell 429 Global Ranger. Credit: Cobra Emergency /Youtube

Prince William, who previously served as a Royal Air Force search and rescue pilot, executed a perfect landing.

Footage of the royal arrival was uploaded to YouTube by Cobra Emergency — a channel featuring security, military, emergency vehicles, and other transport for enthusiasts.

Eagle-eyed fans spotted Charlotte waving to cameras as the chopper landed before a black Range Rover arrived and ferried the group away.

It seems there was no room in the aircraft for the Duchess of Cambridge who traveled to Birmingham by train with the other peasants.

It comes only weeks after the Queen reportedly scolded the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for using the royal chopper too much.

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Fresh heartache for the Queen as close confidante and childhood friend Lady Myra Butter dies

Fresh heartache for the Queen as close confidante and childhood friend Lady Myra Butter dies

Queen Elizabeth II has reportedly lost one of her close childhood friends and a member of her inner circle.

Lady Myra Butter died aged 97 on July 29 in her London home, according to a death notice published in the UK’s Daily Telegraph.

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Elizabeth and her late sister Princess Margaret were childhood friends with Lady Myra and attended her 1946 wedding to Major David Butter.

Myra was a part of the first Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides with Elizabeth in 1937 – back when the Queen was still a princess.

Last year, Lady Myra looked back on her role in the Girl Guides, telling The Telegraph: “They got hold of some girls to be part of the thing to make it more fun.

Queen Elizabeth II in 2017. Credit: Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage

“In the Guides and the Brownies it was a real mixture, which was really nice, some friends, friends of (the family), and all the people in the royal mews, their children, they were Brownies and Guides. Just a normal sort of pack really.”

Lady Myra remained in Elizabeth’s inner circle and was a source of comfort after the Queen lost her husband Prince Philip in April 2021, aged 99.

Lady Myra was also a cousin of Prince Philip and descended from Russian royalty.

Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret at Myra Butter’s wedding. Credit: Fox Photos/Getty Images

After Philip’s death, Lady Myra spoke publicly about the impact he had in supporting the Queen throughout her reign.

“There’s nobody, in my mind, who could have done that job. Nobody. Dedicated to it, and very intelligent and youthful,” she told The Telegraph.

She added Elizabeth has a “very good sense of humor which has gone on for all her life”.

Queen’s year of heartbreak

Along with losing her husband in 2021, the monarch farewelled two ladies-in-waiting.

Ann Fortune FitzRoy, the Duchess of Grafton died on December 3 at the age of 101.

From 1967 until her death, she had worked as the Queen’s Mistress of the Robes.

Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne at the age of 25. Credit: Bettmann Archive

The Queen also lost Diana Maxwell, Baroness Farnham who died at the age of 90 in December. She had served as the Queen’s Lady of the Bedchamber for 34 years.

In January, the Queen suffered her third blow in just over a month with the death of long-time friend, racing journalist, author and horse trainer Ivor Herbert.

Herbert, a regular visitor to the Queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, died on January 5 at the age of 96.

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Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe calls the Queen a ‘coloniser’ in oath and gives Black Power salute as she’s sworn into parliament

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe calls the Queen a 'coloniser' in oath and gives Black Power salute as she's sworn into parliament

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has been forced to undertake her parliamentary oath for a second time after referring to the Queen as a “coloniser”.

The outspoken Senator for Victoria lifted her fist into the air in what appeared to be a black power salute as she marched towards the central table of the chamber on Monday morning.

She then sarcastically recited the oath of allegiance and added her own spin, which was swiftly shut down by other senators.

“I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will be faithful, and I bear true allegiance to the colonizing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said, drawing uproar from the Senate.

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“You’re not a senator if you don’t do it properly,” interjected one Senator.

“None of us like it,” Ms Thorpe said amid the commotion.

Senate President Sue Lines reprimanded Ms Thorpe for directing her “to recite the oath as printed on the card.”

Ms Thorpe reluctantly finished the correct oath and was sworn into Parliament.

She later took to Twitter to declare: “Sovereignty never ceded.”

Greens leader Adam Bandt threw his support behind Ms Thorpe’s gesture, tweeting: “Always was. Always will be.”

Ms Thorpe has been highly outspoken about the nation’s colonialist history, and has repeatedly argued the Australian flag represents “dispossession, massacre and genocide”.

“The colonial project came here and murdered our people well I’m sorry that we’re not happy about that,” she told ABC radio in June.

“I’m sorry that this flag represents so much trauma for so many people, not all people but so many and they’re the people that I’m representing.”

Last week, Ms Thorpe posted a tweet criticizing the oath of allegiance.

“It’s 2022 and we’re swearing allegiance to a queen of another country,” she wrote.

Politicians are required to recite the oath before taking their seat in parliament.

Ms Thorpe has previously revealed she was only a member to “infiltrate” the system.

“I am here for my people, and I will sacrifice swearing allegiance to the colonizer to get into the media like I am right now, to get into the parliament like I am every day,” she told Network Ten’s the Project.

“To make this country put a mirror up to itself and ask, who are we? Where do we come from and where are we going?”

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