A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the monarch after he released a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school fete and it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.

Britain's Prince Richard, who was believed to have been murdered in the 15th century, may have lived to become a bricklayer, a university lecturer claims. When Edward IV died in 1483 his two sons Edward V and Richard were locked in the Tower of London and never seen again, amid reports that their uncle Richard III wanted them removed so he could claim the throne. Two skeletons were discovered hidden in the tower almost 200 years later, but tests have never been able to ascertain whether they are the remains of the lost princes.

The favorite dish of Britain's late Queen Mother has returned to the menu of one of her best-loved restaurants. The Queen Mother would often order Eggs Drumbiko - a dish made from chopped eggs, seafood, tomatoes and mayonnaise in a sherry-flavored jelly - when she dined at London's Goring Hotel restaurant. The royal was said to be such a fan of the treat she would even serve it at picnics at her Scottish home, Castle of Mey, in Caithness.

Performance artist Mark McGowan is planning to cook and eat a corgi in protest against the British Royal Family. The 37-year-old will eat one of the dogs - famous for being Queen Elizabeth's favorite pets - on a live radio show next week in protest at the royals' treatment of animals. McGowan told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "I'm raising awareness at the inability of the RSPCA to prosecute Prince Philip and his friends for shooting a fox this year. It was left to fight for life for five minutes then beaten to death. "

The Chelsea Flower Show played host to several members of the British Royal Family Monday. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Prince Edward all took a stroll around impressive floral exhibits. One garden designer, Isabelle van Groeningen, said Charles was "particularly interested in the grasses. " While Camilla - wearing a patterned shawl over a two-piece lilac jacket and skirt - was taken with sculptures of flowering grass.