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World turns its back on Russia: Astonishing moment diplomats WALK OUT as Kremlin minister tells disarmament conference Russia was forced to invade Ukraine to 'stop them getting nuclear weapons'

This is the astonishing moment dozens of diplomats from around the world today walked out during a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a Geneva disarmament conference in protest against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. 

Diplomats from countries including Britain, United States and France stood up and filed out of the room when Lavrov's pre-recorded video message to the U. N.  Human Rights Council began to play. 

During his speech, the foreign minister blamed Ukraine for the war and claimed Kyiv has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons - a 'real danger' that required a Russian response. 

But Lavrov delivered his speech to a thin crowd after dozens of diplomats staged a walk-out to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine as they did at a parallel U. N.  meeting in Geneva on Tuesday. 

They stood in a circle outside the meeting for the duration of Lavrov's speech, holding a Ukrainian flag.  Lavrov was supposed to attend the session in person but the visit was cancelled at the last minute, with Moscow blaming 'anti-Russian sanctions' imposed by EU countries. 

'Today the dangers that (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskiy's regime pose for neighbouring countries and international security in general have increased substantially after the authorities set up in Kyiv have embarked upon dangerous games related to plans to acquire their own nuclear weapons,' Lavrov told the Conference on Disarmament in a video address. 

'Ukraine still has Soviet nuclear technologies and the means of delivery of such weapons.  We cannot fail to respond to this real danger,' he said, also calling for Washington to rebase its nuclear weapons from Europe. 

Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday in what it called a special operation to demilitarise and 'denazify' the country - a justification dismissed by Kyiv and the West as propaganda. 

Before diplomats walked out on Lavrov's pre-recorded video message, a minute of silence was held for the victims of fighting in Ukraine. 

The walkout was led by Ukrainian Ambassador Yevheniia Filipenko, who told the crowd gathered around the large Ukrainian flag outside the chamber: 'Thank you very much for this wonderful show of support to Ukrainians who are fighting for their independence. '

'Any invasion constitutes a violation of human rights. . .  massive violations and civilian losses,' French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont said.  'It is important that the Human Rights Council shows with this walkout that it is united with Ukraine and with the people of Ukraine. '

The fresh walkout came less than an hour after diplomats all but emptied a nearby room at the UN's European headquarters in Geneva when Lavrov's video speech aired to the Conference on Disarmament, a body created in 1979 to try to stem the Cold War arms race. 

Outside that chamber, diplomats also gathered in front of a Ukrainian flag and applauded loudly. 

The applause could be heard in the chamber where Lavrov's speech continued, with only a handful of ambassadors from countries including Yemen, Syria, Venezuela and Tunisia there to hear it. 

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has enlivened the deadlocked arms negotiating forum that has failed to reach a deal in decades despite holding over 1,600 plenary meetings. 

At the same meeting on Tuesday, Ukraine's foreign minister accused Russia of war crimes through its shelling of his country and the ambassador called for a special meeting to address Russian aggression and weapons of mass destruction. 

A copy of the request seen by Reuters said the meeting would address the 'the use of conventional weapons against the civilian population as well as nuclear and other WMD threats' and called for concrete and specific actions. 

It said the request was supported by 'numerous other' members of the 65-member body, without naming them.  Russia's delegate objected to the meeting.   

Russia has become an international pariah since it launched a full-scale invasion six days ago, with its forces killing dozens on the streets of Ukraine's cities and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee. 

The morning meeting of the disarmament conference kicked off with a minute of silence for the victims in Ukraine. 

'Russian indiscriminate attacks on civilian and critical infrastructure are war crimes and violations of the Rome Statute,' Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told the meeting. 

The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. 

'Russian aggression is a global threat,' Kuleba warned.  'The response too must be global. '

He said Ukraine had called for a special plenary meeting on the crisis at the Conference for Disarmament but it remained unclear whether this would go ahead. 

Kyiv meanwhile succeeded on Monday to secure support for an urgent debate at the UN human rights council later this week.  It will seek the creation of a high-level investigation into violations committed in the conflict, dating back to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. 

In his speech at the Conference on Disarmament, Lavrov meanwhile blamed Kyiv for the crisis and said Ukraine was trying to assemble nuclear weapons. 

'I can assure you, Russia as a responsible member of the international community. . .  is taking all necessary measures to prevent the emergence of nuclear weapons and related technologies in Ukraine,' he said. 

It comes as Kyiv claimed today that Belarusian troops have joined in the invasion of Ukraine, as a 40-mile Russian convoy bared down on the capital amid warnings that Putin will now use 'medieval tactics' to try and force a bloody victory after being handed a series of embarrassing defeats in the opening days of the war. 

Vitaliy Kyrylov, a spokesman for Ukraine's North Territorial Defense Forces, said that Minsk's men had entered the city of Chernihiv, north-east Ukraine, on Tuesday morning.  Dictator Alexander Lukashenko acknowledged sending 'rapid deployment groups' to the border 'to stop any military action against Belarus', without acknowledging that his men had joined the attack. 

It came as a convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks, artillery pieces and trucks was pictured snaking its way towards Kyiv, leading to fears that its mission will be to surround the city, besiege it, and bomb it into submission as Russian forces did in Syria while fighting alongside Bashar al-Assad's forces. 

Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, said Russian forces may also try to spark a food crisis by cutting off supplies to major cities as pictures showed some store shelves already running empty in the capital.  He said the military may have to step in to ensure everyone has access to food. 

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg today said Putin had 'shattered peace in Europe' with an invasion 'enabled by Belarus' while vowing to support Kyiv and defend 'every inch' of allied territory should the Russian strongman's sights wander outside Ukraine's borders. 

But, speaking during a visit to the Lask airbase in NATO member Poland, Mr Stoltenberg repeated that the alliance is 'defensive' and that no troops will be sent to assist Ukraine.  'NATO is not going to be part of the conflict,' he said. 

Russia already appeared to be employing siege tactics elsewhere in Ukraine today as the city of  Mariupol, in the south, came under 'constant shelling' by Russian forces using artillery, Grad rockets, and fighter jets targeting civilians areas such as schools and homes which had left many dead, including women and children. 

Power to the city, which is in danger of being surrounded by Russian forces, has been cut - region head Pavlo Kyrylenko said Tuesday - but it remains under Ukrainian control. 

Kherson, another key city located in southern Ukraine with a bridge over the Dnieper River, also came under bombardment by Russian forces today as missiles landed near civilian buildings on the outskirts and troops were pictured moving through the streets. 

Kharkiv, in the east, continued to be bombed today with a large rocket landing in front of the civilian public administration building, leaving the interior heavily damaged.  It came just a day after the city was hit by cluster bombs that landed near a shopping centre, killing at least 11 people and leaving dozens more wounded. 

Ukraine's ambassador to the UN later said that a thermobaric 'vacuum bomb' was also used on the country, though did not saying exactly when or where. 

President Volodymyr Zelensky this morning branded the Kharkiv bombing a 'terrorist' attack and branded Russia a 'terrorist state' while repeating calls for a war crimes investigation.  The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at The Hauge has said that a probe will be established 'as soon as possible'. 

Sergey Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, said Tuesday morning that the invasion will continue until 'objectives are met' - which he said was to prevent Russia being threatened by the West. 

In a grim sign of the carnage to come, he also warned that Ukraine's army is using civilians as human shields in what looks to be an attempt to justify the deaths of innocents as they ramp up over the coming days. 

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both said that Russian forces appeared to have used widely banned cluster munitions, with Amnesty accusing them of attacking a preschool in northeastern Ukraine while civilians took shelter inside. 

Oksana Markarova, Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, told reporters after meeting with members of the U. S.  Congress that Russia had used a thermobaric weapon, known as a vacuum bomb, in its invasion of her country. 

'They used the vacuum bomb today,' Markarova said after a meeting with lawmakers.  '. . . The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large. '

A vacuum bomb, or thermobaric weapon, sucks in oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion, typically producing a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than that of a conventional explosive and is capable of vaporizing human bodies. 

There has been no official confirmation that thermobaric weapons have been used in the conflict in Ukraine.  CNN reported that one of its teams had spotted a Russian thermobaric multiple rocket launcher near the Ukrainian border early on Saturday afternoon.  (*Source)

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Russian soldier breaks down in tears as the Ukrainians Vladimir Putin is bombarding in 'a full-scale genocide' give him a drink of tea and call his mother after he surrenders amid growing disillusionment among invading army

This is the moment a Russian soldier broke down in tears as he spoke to his mother on the phone after surrendering to Ukrainians. 

Footage shows a young fighter from Putin's forces being comforted by a group of women after throwing down his weapon.  One of the women tells him 'everything his OK' while patting him on the back. 

He is then seen drinking tea and eating a pasty as another woman offers him a phone. 

The young prisoner of war blows kisses as his mother answers, and bursts into tears as soon as he sees her. 

One of the other women is heard speaking to her down the phone, saying: 'Natasha, God be with you.  We will call you later.  He is alive and healthy. '

A male voice off camera is heard saying in Ukrainian: 'These young men, it's not their fault.  They don't know why they are here.  They are using old maps, they are lost. '

The emotional clip shared on Twitter shows local Ukrainians welcoming the soldier with food after his reported surrender. 

It was captioned: 'Russian soldiers, surrender, Ukrainian people will feed you, just surrender. '

The video has since gone viral in both Ukraine and Russia, with people praising the compassion shown by the Ukrainian women towards the man who has been ordered to invade their country. 

Others have noted how young the man is - like many Russian soldiers that have been captured by Ukraine's forces. 

The footage emerged as the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said Russian mothers could could come to Kyiv and collect their sons who had been taken prisoner. 

In a verified post on social media, officials claimed mothers could make the arduous journey to the Ukrainian capital from Russia if they had found that their child was in captivity. 

'It was decided to give the captured Russian soldiers to their mothers if they come to Ukraine, to Kyiv for them,' it read. 

The ministry provide an email address and phone numbers that could be used to find out if a soldier was 'in captivity or had died'. 

If they wanted to collect the child they would have to get to Kaliningrad or Minsk in Belarus before taking a taxi to the Polish border where they could then be escorted to a handover point. 

A male voice off camera is heard saying in Ukrainian: 'These young men, it's not their fault.  They don't know why they are here.  They are using old maps, they are lost. '

The emotional clip shared on Twitter shows local Ukrainians welcoming the soldier with food after his reported surrender. 

It was captioned: 'Russian soldiers, surrender, Ukrainian people will feed you, just surrender. '

The video has since gone viral in both Ukraine and Russia, with people praising the compassion shown by the Ukrainian women towards the man who has been ordered to invade their country. 

Others have noted how young the man is - like many Russian soldiers that have been captured by Ukraine's forces. 

The footage emerged as the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said Russian mothers could could come to Kyiv and collect their sons who had been taken prisoner. 

In a verified post on social media, officials claimed mothers could make the arduous journey to the Ukrainian capital from Russia if they had found that their child was in captivity. 

'It was decided to give the captured Russian soldiers to their mothers if they come to Ukraine, to Kyiv for them,' it read. 

The ministry provide an email address and phone numbers that could be used to find out if a soldier was 'in captivity or had died'. 

If they wanted to collect the child they would have to get to Kaliningrad or Minsk in Belarus before taking a taxi to the Polish border where they could then be escorted to a handover point. 

An official wrote: 'We Ukrainians, unlike Putin's fascists, do not fight mothers and their captive children.  We are waiting for you in Kyiv!'

Reports suggest that many tired and demoralised Russian forces are either fleeing battle or surrendering to Ukraine. 

It is believed Putin's forces are starting to run out of food and fuel, with some resorting to looting, while others are even reportedly sabotaging their own military equipment in a bid to get out of the war. 

Intercepted radio messages indicate troops are disobeying orders from Moscow to shell Ukrainian towns, and complaining about running out of food and fuel. 

The video came after other footage showed Russian prisoners of war weeping and claiming they had no idea they were being sent into a warzone rather than to act as peacekeepers. 

Captured men said they had no idea they were being sent to invade Ukraine and were used like 'cannon fodder' by commanders who threw them into battle against 'peaceful people defending their territory' after Vladimir Putin's forces took heavy losses in the opening days of the conflict. 

'This is not our war.  Mothers and wives, collect your husbands.  There is no need to be here,' an injured soldier sat in front of a Ukrainian flag was filmed saying.  Other footage showed handcuffed Russian prisoner crying, while saying: 'They don't even pick up the corpses, there are no funerals'. 

Ukraine on Wednesday invited the worried mothers of Russian troops captured on the battlefield to come and collect their sons, in Kyiv's latest apparent attempt to embarrass Moscow after opening a telephone hotline for Russian parents to find out if their sons are among the dead or captured.   

Ukraine says Russia has lost 5,840 soldiers in the opening days of the conflict - some of its fastest losses since the Second World War, if the figure proves accurate - with Putin's men suffering a series of embarrassing defeats as they tried to pull off a quick victory but instead met with stiff resistance from Ukrainian forces. 

Russia's advance has since slowed to a crawl as commanders regroup, change strategy, and renew their assault in what is now expected to become an increasingly bloody war of resources with Kyiv's men facing overwhelming odds.  The Ministry of Defence said Russia had renewed the fight on 'all fronts' Wednesday and 'suffered losses'. 

Kherson, an important port city in Ukraine's south, appeared to be an early casualty as Russian tanks occupied the city centre overnight and then began arriving in numbers.  Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, also came under heavy bombardment in the early hours as paratroopers dropped in, sparking gunfights near a military hospital. 

Mariupol, another key port city in Ukraine's south, is also reported to be under heavy bombardment as Russian forces attempt to encircle it.  If the city falls then Putin's men are expected to push northwards, trying to encircle Ukrainian forces fighting near Donetsk and force them to surrender. 

While both US and Ukrainian intelligence believes morale within the Russian ranks is low, Putin and his commanders have showed no sign they are about to give up the fight - and have instead vowed to press even harder to try and capture key objectives. 

Sergey Shoigu, the country's defence minister, said on Tuesday that they offensive would keep going until all objectives had been completed - which he said was the removal of threats to Russia by the West. 

Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia is trying to erase Ukraine and its people as Vladimir Putin's invasion entered its seventh day today with renewed attacks on all fronts including an expected assault on the city which houses Europe's largest nuclear power plant. 

Zelensky, who has become a symbol of Ukrainian defiance and courage since the war began, told his people today that Russians 'know nothing about our capital.  About our history.  But they have an order to erase our history.  Erase our country.  Erase us all. '

The president, unshaven and wearing a military-style khaki T-shirt, said the West's response was not enough, calling for more international support, including backing Ukraine's bid to join the European Union.  'This is no time to be neutral,' he added. 

But Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov sought to warn western powers away from the conflict today, saying that a Third World War in Europe - should it start - would be 'nuclear' and 'destructive'. 

As Russian forces readied themselves to push on with the assault, those wounded and captured by Ukraine in the opening stages were left to reflect on their decisions behind enemy lines.  'No one has attacked us and what Russia wants from the war, I cannot understand.  Mum, Dad, I love you,' one said. 

At least one of the soldiers urged Kyiv and Moscow to evacuate children from the warzone while another warned 'no-one wants war'.  Meanwhile a handcuffed prisoner of war burst into tears and was filmed wiping his eyes after what sounded like a female relative told him 'I love you' down the phone. 

He went on to urge the person to call for the end to the war because 'to these b****es it's just a case of killing everyone'. 

The young soldier also appeared to shed tears for those who die on the battlefield because 'they have no funeral'.    

'You don't touch the corpses because otherwise the FSB (Russian federal security service) will arrest you,' he said.   

Another soldier, injured during the fighting, was positioned in front of a Ukrainian flag as he spoke to the camera. 

He maintained the claim his troops did not know they were about the invade Ukraine and urged Moscow to end the conflict.    

'We are killing peaceful people,' he said.  'This is not our war.  Mothers and wives, collect your husbands.  There is no need to be here. '

In separate video posted on Telegram showed soldiers saying they were 'demoralised' when they realised they were being sent to fight in Ukraine. 

'We were told we would be enemies of the state and because it's wartime, we might even be shot if we refused.  We were thrown in as cannon fodder. '

He also claimed that Russian soldiers 'in our unit at least, don't want this war.  We want to go home, we want peace. '

A week into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv claims to have captured dozens of Russian servicemen, and cellphone videos are circling online of bewildered and disarmed young men in uniform. 

Kyiv has sought to undermine Russian public support for the invasion by opening a telephone hotline for Russian parents to find out if their sons are among the dead or captured.  The defence ministry has published telephone numbers and and an email address to provide information about captured Russians, and mothers will be invited to Kyiv to collect their missing sons. 

'You will be received and taken to Kyiv where your son will be returned to you,' the ministry statement said.  'Unlike Putin's fascists, we Ukrainians are not waging war against mothers and their captured children. '

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It was the Queen - not Tony Blair - who saved the Monarchy in the febrile days after Diana's death: In the second extract from his landmark book, the Mail's ROBERT HARDMAN reveals the truth behind the Royal Family's darkest hour

It was a bold assignment.  On the morning of October 22, 1992, the Royal car pulled up outside the Kreuzkirche church in Dresden, to be greeted by an uncomfortable silence.  Next came a few boos.  Then came the first egg. 

It was in this same square that the bodies of tens of thousands of German civilians had been piled up and cremated in February 1945, following one of the Royal Air Force's most devastating raids of the Second World War. 

So, strong emotions were in play as the Queen embarked on her 1992 state visit to Germany.  It was her first since the fall of the Berlin Wall, reunification and the collapse of Communism across Eastern Europe.  Hence her visit to Dresden. 

At the end of the service of reconciliation, the Queen emerged from the church to find that the atmosphere had thawed a little. 

'The Queen was binding up the wounds as only she could do,' recalled Douglas Hurd, accompanying her as Foreign Secretary. 

Her speech at the German president's banquet touched millions, as she proclaimed: 'The Iron Curtain melted in the heat of the people's will for freedom. '

Reflecting on her symbolic walk through Berlin's Brandenburg Gate ? from West to East ? several German newspapers carried editorials hailing it as nothing less than the closing moment of the Cold War. 

For many world leaders, this sort of visit might have been the crowning moment of a lifetime of public service.  Not so for the Queen. 

That a trip of this sensitivity and magnitude should have barely registered in British minds at the time ? or since ? is testimony to the relentless and enduring awfulness of 1992. 

In terms of their scale, suddenness and variety, the calamities which befell the Monarch in the course of that dismal year still seem incredible. 

She was marking her 40th anniversary on the throne.  Not that she was in much of a celebratory mood at the start of 1992, as Cabinet papers have since revealed.  The Queen even rejected the idea of a fountain in Parliament Square. 

In a memo to the Prime Minister, John Major's private secretary, Andrew Turnbull, added a handwritten note: 'Prime Minister to be aware of the Queen's attitude to her 40th anniversary. '

Just two ideas met her approval. 

One was former premier Jim Callaghan's proposal for a dinner given by her Prime Ministers.  The other was for a luncheon given by the City of London.  That lunch would go down in history for a single phrase: 'Annus horribilis '

The trouble had started in January, when newspapers discovered photographs of the Duchess of York on holiday with an American oil executive, Steve Wyatt.  Their existence reinforced widespread gossip that the Yorks' marriage was close to collapse. 

The Duke of York 'hit the roof' and the couple began consulting divorce lawyers.  Meanwhile, the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales was also starting to unravel in public. 

In February, the Princess posed for the cameras in front of that eternal symbol of love, the Taj Mahal, while all alone.  The messaging was clear. 

Then in April, the divorce of the Princess Royal was finalised.  She had been separated ? amicably ?from Mark Phillips for some years.  The Princess stuck doggedly to her duties through it all. 

The Queen was very sad about her children's marital problems ? but not shocked.  As she put it to one courtier: 'You know, I've decided I'm not old-fashioned enough to be Queen. '

That same month there was a General Election, when, to the surprise of almost everyone, John Major was returned to office for another five years. 

He set about deploying the Queen to improve Britain's relations with the EU  She addressed the European Parliament for the first time and embarked on two European state visits, including a major one to France. 

The UK barely noticed ? the visit had been completely upstaged by the most toxic Royal memoir in living memory: Andrew Morton's book, Diana: Her True Story. 

This alleged that the Princess of Wales had been driven to self-harm and had even attempted suicide. 

A few months later, during the summer holiday season, the Daily Mirror recorded one of the highest sales in its entire history with intimate photographs of a topless Duchess of York on yet another holiday, this time with her 'financial adviser', John Bryan. 

The Duchess was staying with the Queen at Balmoral, together with her daughters, when she came down in the morning to find members of the family agog at ten pages of unvarnished ignominy. 

No sooner had she left the castle than the Mirror's arch rival, The Sun, produced an equally devastating counter-scoop, a recording of an innuendo-charged conversation between the Princess of Wales and James Gilbey, an old friend who had been one of the sources for Morton's book.  Could things get worse? Yes ? but the Queen continued to hold her nerve. 

Months before, the Prince and Princess of Wales had committed to undertaking a major tour of Korea in November at the invitation of the Foreign Office, but now the Princess told Palace officials that she was not going.  At this point, the Queen intervened. 

If the Prime Minister was going to devote precious time to the financial arrangements of the Royal Family ? and several papers were now renewing their attacks on the Royal finances ? then the family could at least honour their commitments to the Government.  At her insistence, the tour went ahead. 

Just days after their arrival home, Charles and Diana had a row which would push their marriage to the point of no return.  Their sons were about to have an exeat weekend from prep school. 

The Prince had arranged for the couple to present a united front over a family-oriented shooting weekend with friends at Sandringham. 

With only a week to go, however, the Princess announced that she wanted to take William and Harry elsewhere, thus tearing up the Prince's plans. 

It was starting to feel like the end of the road for both parties. 

At the end of that week, the Prince resolved the time had come to commence separation plans and to call in his lawyers the following week. 

At the very moment he was preparing to welcome his house-party guests to Sandringham, however, a catastrophe was unfolding. 

It was late on the dull, grey morning of Friday, November 20, 1992 that the first clouds of smoke were suddenly seen billowing out from the state apartments of Windsor Castle. 

A major maintenance project was in progress, shielded from view by some heavy drapes.  The fire began in the Queen's private chapel. 

'Behind the curtains, which were obviously closed, were spotlights that lit up the altar and the ceiling,' the Duke of Edinburgh explained to me, after the restoration.  'After a bit, the lights got hot and set fire to the curtains, and the flames went up. '

Within an hour, fire engines from all over London and the Home Counties were arriving.  Miraculously, there were no serious injuries or deaths and only one painting was lost ? Sir William Beechey's colossal 1798 portrait George III And The Prince Of Wales Reviewing Troops. 

The Duke of Edinburgh was overseas at the time, but the Queen quickly drove down from London.  She had a very specific mission in mind. 

'She went into her own apartments to take a few precious things to safety, because only she knew what they were and where they were,' says Charles Anson, her press secretary at the time.  As a result, she suffered a small amount of smoke inhalation on top of a nasty cold. 

A mere four days after the fire, the Queen arrived at Guildhall in the City of London for the civic luncheon to mark her 40 years on the throne. 

With her throat still hoarse from both her cold and the smoke, she began: 'Nineteen Ninety-Two is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure.  In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an 'annus horribilis'. '

Though this would be the phrase remembered for ever more, the main point of the speech was not to dwell on her own misfortune (or 'One's Bum Year', as The Sun put it).  Rather, it was to ask for a little more understanding from the Monarchy's critics. 

But media attacks on the Monarchy continued after the Secretary of State for National Heritage, Peter Brooke, assured the Commons that the Government stood ready to fund the repair work. 

Even the Conservative press called for the Royal Family to 'listen' and to offer up some sort of financial sacrifice.  The Monarchy would end up providing the money. 

What the critics were unaware of was that the Queen and her officials had, for more than a year, been planning a voluntary end to a historic but complex Royal tax exemption, agreed by her father after the Abdication crisis of 1936. 

'Anything in the way of a dictum her father had left her was very important,' says her former private secretary, Sir William Heseltine. 

John Major also says he was against any such reform.  However, stung by the latest row about fire repairs, the Queen wanted to bring the plan forward. 

So, just two days after her Guildhall speech, Mr Major told Parliament that the Queen and the Prince of Wales would, in future, voluntarily pay tax at the regular rate. 

That the Queen was now prepared to go against her father's wishes ? and indeed her Prime Minister ? on such a sensitive point defines this decision as one of the most important judgment calls of her reign. 

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