31.   After inspecting the palace guard of honour Suharto had a private lunch and spent the afternoon free from official engagements.

32.   Buckingham Palace said the queen would carry out most planned official engagements up until the funeral despite the week being designated a period of royal mourning.

33.   Chi was to have dinner with Indian Commerce Minister Pranab Mukherjee in his only official engagement Wednesday.

34.   Clinton, who is to leave Finland on Thursday, had no other official engagements before returning to the US.

35.   The palace said the queen would carry out most planned official engagements up until the funeral despite the week being designated a period of royal mourning.

36.   The Russian Orthodox Church on Wednesday denied press reports that Patriarch Alexis II had cancelled an official engagement at short notice after he was hospitalised.

37.   The Princess resurfaced for her last official engagement Sunday, meeting and talking with frail patients at an inner-city hospice which was off-limits to the media.

38.   The queen, who is mourning her sister princess Margaret, who died last week, has decided to proceed with official engagements ahead of the funeral on Friday.

39.   The Prince of Wales was fulfilling official engagements in Scotland, the Duke of York was visiting Canada and Prince Edward was in Florida.

40.   The Russian foreign minister has no official engagements on Tuesday evening, and the visit formally begins Wednesday, an official at the Danish foreign ministry said.