Frank Langfitt

The 93-year-old monarch urged self-discipline and resolve amid the pandemic. "I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge."

As the coronavirus spreads, there is growing public concern over some of the methods being used by governments to enforce containment methods.

The British government is under fire for only testing a tiny percentage of National Health Service staff as deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom quickly rise to nearly 3,000.

Despite the near-total lockdown in the U.K., people are out walking along the River Thames — but they are keeping a safe distance from each other.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his health secretary have both tested positive for the coronavirus. Johnson says he has mild symptoms, but will continue to lead the government.

Boris Johnson announced on Twitter that he's developed mild symptoms of the Coronavirus, and took the test on the advice of the chief medical officer. Johnson is working from home.

The future King of the UK tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement from the prince's royal office in London. His wife tested negative. Both are in isolation in Scotland.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced strict lockdown measures on the entire country, ordering Britons to stay home unless going out for essential work and purchases.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now enacted a stay-at-home order to stall the coronavirus, after a glorious spring weekend in much of Great Britain brought many thousands of people outdoors.

Many supermarket shelves have been stripped bare as the coronavirus spreads in Britain, which led to this tearful Facebook video that has struck a nerve across the country.

The British government has denied reports that it would soon shut down London, although the coronavirus is spreading faster there than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

The British government wants to keep schools open so health workers don't have to stay home to look after their kids, but some teachers say that's putting them and their pupils at risk.

The virus pandemic comes at a vulnerable time for the Britain's overburdened public health care system.

The United Kingdom was not included in President Trump's ban on travel from Europe, despite a growing wave of coronavirus infections there.

The Republic of Ireland was created nearly a century ago, and for most of that time two center-right parties dominated politics. But a recent election ended that cozy duopoly.

The recent election in the United Kingdom saw the Labour Party resoundingly defeated by a populist Conservative incumbent. Some are wondering if there might be lessons for the U.S. Democratic Party.

Boxer and laborer Eric Tucker created hundreds of paintings of his home town — and kept them secret, stashed around his house. Now, almost two years after his death, he has a museum exhibition.

The U.K. has officially left the European Union. But little will change for the rest of 2020 while a new relationship is negotiated between Britain and the EU.

Forty-seven years after it joined, and 3 1/2 contentious years after the Brexit referendum, the U.K. will formally leave the European Union on Friday.

At long last, Brexit Day is here. After more than three years of deep division and political chaos, Britain leaves the European Union on Friday.