Stephen Bates

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Stephen Bates is a staff writer at the Guardian. As (formerly) its religious affairs and royal correspondent, he was named UK Religious Writer of the Year in the Churches' Media Council awards in 2005 and 2006. He is the author of several books, including A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality (2004) and God's Own Country: Religion and Politics in the USA (2007)

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Obama's stay at the palace: lunch, then a tour of the priceless art collection

24 May 2011: How to entertain a US president who comes to stay? The Queen can go one better than getting out the old photo albums
The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr – review

21 May 2011:
Stephen Bates on how a rural ripper challenged France's gendarmeries
Queen shaken and stirred as Irish tour concludes

20 May 2011: Impromptu walkabout in Cork wins new friends, as Sinn Féin is ridiculed for censuring member who shook hand
Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite

20 May 2011:
Gerry Adams joins in praise for British monarch's gestures of reconciliation, but party colleagues disagree
Queen visits Kildare stud farm on Ireland visit

19 May 2011: Queen 'at home' with horseracing folk and thoroughbreds at the Irish national stud outside Dublin
Queen gives Ireland closest royals have come to apology for Britain's actions

19 May 2011:
Queen's speech refers to history of 'heartache and loss' as demonstrators held back from Dublin Castle
A royal visit like 1,000 others. But this is Ireland, there's history here

17 May 2011:
Ninety years after Irish independence, Queen Elizabeth II lays wreath to commemorate generations who died for the cause
Irish police arrest dissident republicans before Queen's visit

16 May 2011: Old Bailey bomber Marian Price among those being held as security stepped up in advance of royal trip
Queen set for first Republic of Ireland visit

13 May 2011:
The Queen's four-day visit to Ireland will be first by a British monarch since George V almost 100 years ago
Government to sell off its fine wines

13 May 2011:
Expensive bottles to be replaced by cheaper versions
William and the Middletons: the battle for privacy

11 May 2011:
As the royal honeymoon begins, so does the paparazzi game of cat and mouse. Will the British press heed pleas from the Middletons for privacy? The tabloids may not have it all their own way
Researchers find 20 unpublished Anthony Burgess stories

11 May 2011:
Burgess's Manchester archive houses many short stories, film and theatre scripts and musical compositions as well as the original screenplay for A Clockwork Orange
Middletons complain to PCC over holiday bikini pictures

9 May 2011: Snaps of Kate and Pippa Middleton, their mother Carole, and Prince William on yacht off Ibiza in 2006 appeared in tabloids
Prince William takes new wife for a spin in father's Aston Martin

30 Apr 2011:
Newly-wed couple drive from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House in car given to Prince Charles by Queen in 1969
Royal wedding passes without a hitch as Kate and William seal it with a kiss

29 Apr 2011: Considering the huge guest list, the crowds, and the massed ranks of cameras, the royal wedding proved an intimate affair