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A Central Criminal Court judge sentences Dutch-Somali terror convict Aweys Shikhey to eight years with an extended licence of four years. Shikhey received international attention for fantasy chats with a Kenyan online about murdering David Cameron, Queen Elizabeth II, Jews, and football fans.
2018-04-6

The Royal Bank of Scotland announces that it will pay US$1.1 billion to resolve some of its mortgage claims in the United States.
2016-09-28

The Government of the United Kingdom sells 5.4% of the Royal Bank of Scotland raising £2.1bn.
2015-08-4

The Royal Bank of Scotland will fire 14,000 staff as they retreat from geographic positions in US and Asian markets.
2015-03-3

In her Royal Christmas Message, Queen Elizabeth II praises aid workers for fighting ebola in West Africa.
2014-12-25

The United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II announces she will miss a Commonwealth meeting for the first time in 40 years. Prince Charles will attend on her behalf.
2013-05-7

The former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin, is named as allegedly having had an affair with a colleague after the High Court of England and Wales lifts an injunction.
2011-05-19

Queen Elizabeth II starts her first state visit to the Republic of Ireland, the first visit of a British monarch since Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom in 1921. Elizabeth is also the first British monarch to visit Ireland since George V's state visit in 1911.
2011-05-17

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, a Liberal Democrat member disclosed, with the protection of parliamentary privilege, the fact that the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland has obtained an injunction banning the publication of information about him, even the simple identification of this individual, Fred Goodwin, as a banker.
2011-03-10

Queen Elizabeth II accepts an invitation from President of Ireland Mary McAleese to visit Ireland in May.
2011-03-4