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# Catherine Mayer


## Catherine Mayer


## Catherine Mayer


* ![PrinceCharles©LesleyDonald](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7690750a31a38f9/69877ecef887dcf33ce8a0ec/prince-charles-time.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 12, 2015  
### [The Men Who Would Be King](https://time.com/3706682/the-men-who-would-be-king/)  
The ties that bind Prince Charles and his sons  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Prince Charles visits Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, Feb. 8, 2015.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ace4fab0375df81/69877e4e06f2c1549d333ded/prince-charles.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 9, 2015  
### [Prince Charles to Stress Christian Suffering in Saudi Arabia](https://time.com/3700684/prince-charles-saudi-arabia/)  
The Prince of Wales is also likely to ask for clemency for a jailed Saudi blogger and two women arre...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Boris Johnson \(Mayor Of London\)](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte21d68d6847e7067/69877b2ef887dce3ace89a87/boris-johnson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 29, 2015  
### [Boris Johnson’s Quest for 10 Downing Street](https://time.com/3687301/boris-johnsons-quest-for-10-downing-street/)  
He’s the mayor of London, and the joker of U.K. politics. But he wants to be the next prime minister...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![BRITAIN-RUSSIA-BRITAIN-POLITICS-SPY-CRIME-FILES](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3286de5c5032c491/69877c2635ba6fa4cec06c00/alexander-litvinenko.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 27, 2015  
### [Putin's 'Mafia State' Under Examination in U.K. Inquest Into Spy's Radioactive Death](https://time.com/3683785/litvinenko-inquest-london/)  
The High Court in London opens a 10-week hearing into the 2006 death of the former Russian intellige...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Boris Johnson \(Mayor Of London\)](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte21d68d6847e7067/69877b2ef887dce3ace89a87/boris-johnson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 22, 2015  
### [Boris](https://time.com/3678249/boris/)  
He’s the mayor of London, and the joker of U.K. politics. But Boris Johnson has his eyes set on 10 D...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Jan 20, 2015  
### [Why Taking a Page Out of a U.K. Tabloid Is Good for Women](https://time.com/3674684/sun-page3-is-no-more/)  
Britain's biggest tabloid, Rupert Murdoch's the <i>Sun</i>, plans to retire its regular feature show...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![People raise pens and signs during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, at Trafalgar Square in London, Jan. 7, 2015.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8614a6a486d05f3a/698778ba06f2c15b89333439/london-charlie-hebdo-vigil.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 7, 2015  
### [_Je Suis Charlie_: Crowds in London Stand With _Charlie Hebdo_](https://time.com/3658499/london-crowds-unity-charlie-hebdo/)  
People protesting the Paris killings met in Trafalgar Square as British Prime Minister David Cameron...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Dec 22, 2014  
### [A Spare Heir](https://time.com/3643819/a-spare-heir/)  
Sorry, George, there's a new royal in town  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Dec 22, 2014  
### [Europe Plays Out Its Anxieties](https://time.com/3643787/europe-plays-out-its-anxieties/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Dec 17, 2014  
### [In Praise of Jennifer Aniston and Other 'Selfish' Childfree Women](https://time.com/3637407/jennifer-aniston-childless-selfish/)  
'Tis the season for tipsy truths and one of these is that women do better when they focus on their c...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![Vigil outside the hospital that treated Tugce Albayrak in Offenbach am Mein, Germany, Nov. 28, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1231b4dd1c01dbb8/69876b9906f2c1102933287b/tugce-albayrak.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 1, 2014  
### [The Killing of This Student Teacher Has Galvanized Germany](https://time.com/3611517/tugce-albayrak-germany-killing/)  
More than 141,000 people have signed a petition demanding a posthumous medal for Tugce Albayrak, a 2...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Pope Francis delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Nov. 25, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe1740e5a7ce9799/69876adccd68485f0c0983a8/pope-francis2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 25, 2014  
### [Pope Urges Europe to Accept Migrants and Reject Hunger](https://time.com/3604648/pope-francis-european-parliament/)  
The Pontiff uses address to the European Parliament to argue that migrants need "acceptance and assi...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Then-Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry in 2013.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ee2766a291bad0b/69876a3a0b72e3f65f6dc147/emily-thornberry.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 21, 2014  
### [Why a British Politician Resigned Over This Tweeted Photograph](https://time.com/3599163/uk-politics-tweet/)  
The image showed a house, a van and English flags. What's so controversial about that?  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Nov 19, 2014  
### [Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It's Captain Euro](https://time.com/3594520/captain-euro-european-union-superhero/)  
But is he in time to save the European Union and the world?  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Nov 19, 2014  
### [Terrorism Suspects to be Excluded From U.K Even If It's Their Home](https://time.com/3594021/u-k-isis-al-qaeda-exclude-citizens-syria-and-iraq/)  
Counter-terrorism legislation aims to halt jihadis who want to come home from Syria and Iraq  
[WORLD](/section/world/)

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