In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

In 2008 the factory closed because of the brewery could not live up to expectations from Royal Unibrew

In 2008, Julian Bleach appeared live as Davros at the Doctor Who Prom, announcing that the Royal Albert Hall would become his new palace, and the audience his " obedient slaves ".

The new Royal Badge of Wales adopted in 2008 features this motto.

For his service, Prince Harry was decorated with the Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan by his aunt, the Princess Royal, at the Combermere Barracks in May 2008.

The crossing won a special award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2008.

ITV launched the new soap opera The Royal Today in 2008.

( 2008 ) " Royal Income and Regional Trends ," in Dalton, Paul and Graeme J.

Attempts by the UK-based Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society to obtain a public inquiry into the possible dangers of the Royal Navy's equivalent ( the " 2087 " sonar launched in December 2004 ) failed as of 2008.

A 2008 ruling by the Royal Society of Chemistry has it that " A Yorkshire pudding isn't a Yorkshire pudding if it is less than four inches tall ".

The Royal Shield reverse designs, introduced in 2008 (£ 2 coin is not shown ).

The circulating coins, excepting the two-pound coin, were redesigned in 2008, keeping the sizes and compositions unchanged, but introducing reverse designs that each depict a part of the Royal Shield of Arms and form the whole shield when they are placed together in the appropriate arrangement.

* Rushton, Alan R., Royal Maladies: Inherited Diseases in the Royal Houses of Europe ( 2008 ).

In 2008 the MSO saw a revival returning to a central London venue, the Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster and again on 21 – 31 August 2009.

* 2008 Royal Horticultural Halls, London

* 2008: Articulations, Royal Irish Academy

Having been staged to great acclaim at the Theatre Royal, Brighton in November 2008, the show was then revived at half a dozen further venues in September / October 2009.

There are four Canadian citizens within the Canadian Royal Family: Two married into it: In 1988, Sylvana Jones ( née Tomaselli in Placentia, Newfoundland ) wed the Earl of St. Andrews, a great-grandson of King George V, and, on 18 May 2008, Autumn Kelly, originally from Montreal, married Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandson, Peter Phillips.

The Waterside Theatre ( which is not part of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre complex ) re-opened in December 2004, then closed again in September 2008.

On 11 October 2008, John Cale, James Dean Bradfield ( of the Manic Street Preachers ), Fyfe Dangerfield of the Guillemots and others appeared on stage at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Based in the lavishly decorated former Officers ' Mess of Eastney Barracks ( built in the 1860s for the Royal Marine Artillery ), the Museum includes The Making of the Royal Marines Commando exhibition, opened in 2008, and a refurbished Medal Room with over 8, 000 medals earned by Royal Marines-including all 10 Victoria Crosses won by them.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

In 2004, he suffered two strokes, narrowly avoided a subsequent heart attack, and was then diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm, from which he died in March 2008.

In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).

In 2008 John McCain narrowly edged a victory over Barack Obama by less than 1 %.

George W. Bush won the county narrowly in 2004 with 53 % of the vote, while Barack Obama slightly edged out John McCain in 2008, receiving 51 % of the vote countywide becoming the first Democrat to win Saratoga County since 1996.

Amid accusations of vote-rigging Argüello narrowly won the mayoral election in Managua on November 9, 2008 elections against the candidate of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party, Eduardo Montealegre, who had come second to Daniel Ortega in the 2006 presidential election.

In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly won the county with 50. 5 % of the vote, compared to 47. 2 % for Republican candidate John McCain.

In 2004, the county narrowly voted for John Kerry over George W. Bush for President, and in 2008 the county gave all statewide Democratic candidates significant leads and Barack Obama a victory of more than 15 points over John McCain, 57. 1 % to 41. 5 %.

However, it is a very mixed area overall, narrowly voting for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain in 2008.

In the 2008 Presidential election, the county was narrowly divided, much like the rest of the state of North Carolina, with Barack Obama winning 1, 241 votes, John McCain winning 1, 212 votes, and other candidates winning 16 votes.

In 2008, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama narrowly carried the county, receiving 149, 909 votes ( 49. 34 % of the total ) to Republican John McCain's 148, 336 ( 48. 83 %).

In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated John McCain, 49. 51 % to 48. 50 %.

In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 49. 9 % of the vote here ( 1, 496 ballots cast ), narrowly ahead of Democrat Barack Obama, who received 49. 1 % of the vote ( 1, 474 ballots ), with 75. 0 % of registered voters participating.

The Surf City Beach Patrol ( SCBP ) won the Surf City Epic, Lavallette, Ortley Beach, Island Beach State Park, the Midway Beach, and " Islands " Tournaments in 2008, narrowly missing out on victories at Sandy Hook ( 2nd ) and the Ship Bottom ( 2nd ) " State Tournament " losing by only a combined 4. 5 points.

The city electorate narrowly backed Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

On the third attempt, with heavy monetary backing by retailers, voters narrowly voted in favor of the measure in 2008.

He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic – Farmer – Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party, and in 2008, he narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman by 312 votes.

The Nationalist Party won narrowly the general elections in 2008.

He narrowly won election on the third ballot at the 2003 election and on the sixth ( second attempt, third ballot ) in 2008.

In 2009 he narrowly missed the British title, losing by a point in a tie-break, to 2008 World Champion Mark Bytheway.

In November 2008, West Virginia voters narrowly approved a resolution that would permit casino style gambling at the hotel.

Queen's lost many talented players in the summer of 2008 to paying clubs but only narrowly lost 2 – 1 to SPL Champions Celtic in the Scottish Cup fifth round in February 2009.

Following the sudden death of Levy Mwanawasa on the 19th of August 2008 due to a stroke, early presidential elections were held in which the candidate for Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, Rupiah Banda, won with 40. 09 % of the national vote, narrowly defeating Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front who received 38. 13 % of the national vote, by a margin of just 1. 96 %.

In November 2008, Church was narrowly defeated by Republican Hugh Blackwell, denying him an eighth term.

In 2008, he was narrowly defeated for re-election by Republican Sarah Stevens.

The 2008 season managed again by Edgar Alfonzo was marred by a poor start but recovered with a torrid finish at 45 – 30, narrowly missing the playoffs after losing the final game of the season to the Aberdeen Ironbirds 5 to 3 in extra innings.