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A police van arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court, in London, Saturday March 13, 2021. London police arrested a member of the force's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command on Tuesday as a suspect in the case of the disappearance of Sarah Everard. Late Friday police charged the officer, Constable Wayne Couzens, with kidnapping and murder. Couzens, 48, was due to appear in court on Saturday. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

London police tactics at vigil for slain woman draw scrutiny

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Britain's Prince William watches a child in the playground during a visit with Kate, Duchess of Cambridge to School21, a school in east London, Thursday March 11, 2021. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

Prince William defends U.K. monarchy against racism accusation

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

A customer takes a copy of a newspaper headlining Prince Harry and Meghan’s explosive TV interview at a newspaper stand outside a shop in London, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Britain's royal family is absorbing the tremors from a sensational television interview by Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, in which the couple said they encountered racist attitudes and a lack of support that drove Meghan to thoughts of suicide. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

The Latest: UK talk show host quits show over Meghan remarks

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This image provided by Harpo Productions shows Prince Harry, left, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, speaking about expecting their second child during an interview with Oprah Winfrey. &quot;Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special&quot; airs March 7 as a two-hour exclusive primetime special on the CBS Television Network. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP)

U.K. royals absorb shock of revealing Harry, Meghan interview

By Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 31, 2019 file photo, Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is being held in Iran poses for a photo with a giant Mother's Day card and flowers left on the steps of the Iranian Embassy, in Knightsbridge, London. The lawyer of Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British national detained in Iran on widely refuted spying charges has told The Associated Press that she has finished her five-year sentence, although it remains unclear whether she can leave the country. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP, File)

British-Iranian woman ends 5-year sentence, but not free yet

By AMIR VAHDAT and ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Dr Tamara Joffe prepares to administer a Covid-19 jab using the AstraZeneca vaccine to Leslie Reid in the back of a London Taxi cab during the pilot project of pop up vaccination drive 'Vaxi Taxi' in Kilburn, London, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. The pilot scheme, funded by the Covid Crisis Rescue Foundation, aims to help ferry supplies and patients to temporary clinics set up in faith and community centres across the capital. People don’t even need to leave the backseat if they didn’t want to in order to receive their inoculation. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Vaxi Taxi targets vaccine anxiety as UK minority uptake lags

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Police officers stand at an entrance to the King Edward VII Hospital where Prince Philip is being treated for an infection, as an ambulance is driven out, in London, Monday, March 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Prince Philip transferred to another London hospital for infection treatment

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VIRUS DIARY: It’s mud, mud everywhere in UK’s 3rd lockdown

By SHEILA NORMAN-CULP - Associated Press

A coach delivers passengers to the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel, near Heathrow Airport, London, Monday Feb. 15, 2021 where they will remain during a 10 day quarantine period after returning to England from one of 33 &quot;red list&quot; countries. New regulations now in force require anyone who has been in a 'high-risk' location to enter England through a designated port and have pre-booked a package to stay at one of the Government's managed quarantine facilities. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

UK opens quarantine hotels, pushes on with vaccine drive

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Two men from the Haredi Orthodox Jewish community arrive at an event to encourage vaccine uptake in the ultra-Orthodox community at the John Scott Vaccination Centre in London, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. In hopes of breaking down barriers that sometimes isolate the Orthodox from wider society, community leaders organized the pop-up vaccination event for Saturday night to coincide with the end of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Ultra-Orthodox Londoners roll up sleeves to fight COVID

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

In this Saturday March 7, 2020, file photo, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex with Prince Harry arrives at the Royal Albert Hall in London, to attend the Mountbatten Festival of Music. A British judge ruled Thursday Feb. 11, 2021, that a newspaper invaded Duchess of Sussex’s privacy by publishing personal letter to her estranged father. (Simon Dawson/Pool via AP, File)

U.K. judge says newspaper invaded Meghan’s privacy with letter

By Jill Lawless

Doctor Anil Mehta administers a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to a homeless person at the Welcome Centre in Ilford, east London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Mehta and his small team of doctors and nurses have been pitching up at homeless centers in his local area, a COVID-19 hotspot, offering a free jab to dozens who may otherwise get left behind in Britain's mass vaccination drive. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

In U.K., roving teams bring COVID-19 vaccine shots to homeless

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

UK tribunal to hear witnesses on China genocide accusations

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The AstraZeneca office building in Brussels, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Amid a dispute over expected shortfalls, the European Union is looking at legal ways to guarantee the delivery of all the COVID-19 vaccine doses it bought from AstraZeneca and other drugmakers as regulators are set to consider approving the Anglo-Swedish company's vaccine for use in the 27-nation EU. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

EU tightens vaccine export rules, creates post-Brexit outcry

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT and LORNE COOK - Associated Press

The encampment in Euston Square Gardens in central London, Wednesday Jan. 27, 2021. Protesters against a high-speed rail link between London and the north of England said Wednesday that some of them have been evicted from a park in the capital after they dug tunnels and set up a makeshift camp. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Protesters against UK rail link evicted from London park

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Thursday Sports in Brief

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FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 10, 2018, a six-meter high cartoon baby blimp depicting U.S. President Donald Trump in north London. The President Trump blimp will become part of the Museum of London's protest collection exhibition, which includes artifacts from the women’s suffrage movement, peace activists who opposed the war in Iraq during the early 2000s, and more recent protests against public spending cuts, the museum has announced Monday Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Trump baby protest blimp enters Museum of London collection

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FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 10, 2018, a six-meter high cartoon baby blimp depicting U.S. President Donald Trump in north London. The President Trump blimp will become part of the Museum of London's protest collection exhibition, which includes artifacts from the women’s suffrage movement, peace activists who opposed the war in Iraq during the early 2000s, and more recent protests against public spending cuts, the museum has announced Monday Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Trump Baby Blimp to be enshrined in museum

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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 24, 2020 file photo an almost empty Westminster Bridge stands backdropped by the early morning sun on the scaffolded Houses of Parliament and the Elizabeth Tower, known as Big Ben, on the first day of Britain's first lockdown to try to fight the spread of coronavirus, in London. The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Johnson under fire as UK again faces onslaught of COVID-19

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask, walks across Westminster Bridge past the Houses of Parliament in London, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a new national lockdown for England which means people will only be able to leave their homes for limited reasons, with measures expected to stay in place until mid-February. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK regulators approve use of 3rd vaccine against coronavirus

By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless - Associated Press