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★ Elizabeth II & Elizabeth the Second

The Queen’s golden jubilee celebrations kicked off with a national tour.  ibid.

 

 

As the Queen moved into her 90s the decade would test her strength, wisdom and moral leadership.  But in 2012 the UK prepared to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee.  Elizabeth: Queen Queen VIII: Happy & Glorious

 

She is still the only person who has the power to appoint a prime minister.   ibid.  

 

 

This inexperienced young woman would be propelled on to the world stage to take Britain from its imperial past to a commonwealth future.  George Alagiah: The Queen: Her Commonwealth, BBC 2018

 

After Tonga … Australia … every major city was included … Over eight weeks in Australia she took 33 flights … An estimated 75% of the Australian population turned out to see the Queen in 1954.  ibid.

 

Ghana: There’s archive of Nkrumah and the Queen dancing together.  The Queen had shown her resolve in Ghana.  ibid.  newspaper headline

 

She also came to India … an even more daunting challenge … Two million people are thought to have turned out to greet the royal motorcade.  ibid.

 

 

No monarch is history has reigned longer, travelled further, or met so many of the world’s people as the Queen.  For seven decades the Queen has criss-crossed the globe by land, sea and air bringing together what she calls her family of nations  the Commonwealth.  Queen of the World s1e1, ITV 2018

 

The story of how our Queen has come to be seen by millions as Queen of the world.  ibid.

 

The Queen travelled 40,000 miles in six months.  Circling the globe, this extraordinary trip is still the single longest journey ever undertaken by a reigning monarch.  ibid.

 

 

The Queen is passing on the baton to the younger generation.  Queen of the World s1e2

 

The Queen visited Tonga in 1953 during her great Commonwealth tour shortly after the Coronation.  ibid.      

 

India’s 1.2 billion citizens make up half of the entire Commonwealth population.  ibid.

 

 

The Queen and her family have always had a love of horses.  From the Queen’s sixty-year obsession with breeding racehorses, to the family’s devotion to polo that crosses four generations.  So where did the Queen’s love of horses begin?  What are the secrets of the Queen’s racehorses?  What are the Royal Family’s most famous equine dramas?  All the Queen’s Horses, Channel 5 2020

 

She owns them, studies them, breeds them and races them.  ibid.

 

Dunfermline was bred to compete in the British classics … 4 June 1977 Oaks: three days before the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations.  ibid.

 

More than 1,600 horses owned by the Queen have won races over the last 70 years.  ibid.

 

 

Elizabeth II: Britain’s longest-serving monarch: she’s reigned over this country for nearly 70 years.  She’s seen a man land on the moon and 14 prime ministers come and go.  But 400 years earlier there was another Queen Elizabeth.  (Elizabeth I & Elizabeth II & Queen)  Elizabeth I & II: Britain’s Golden Queens I, Channel 5 2020  

 

They both fought to protect their reigns.  ibid.

 

‘Elizabeth (II) was a minor princess living in a town-house.’  ibid.  Kate Williams    

 

Young Elizabeth Tudor is on a tumultuous path of her own.  ibid.    

 

Both women are determined to marry to love.  ibid.

 

Philip is named Queen Consort and nothing more … two steps behind his wife.  ibid.

 

Both Queens need to find a way to reach all of their subjects … mass media they use to re-brand themselves.  ibid.

 

‘An internationalist and a diplomat as skilful as Elizabeth I.’  ibid.  Robert Lacey

 

 

Both Elizabeths reigns are changed with the arrival of two extraordinary women: Mary cf. Elizabeth: we uncover remarkable similarities.  Elizabeth I & II: Britain’s Golden Queens II                

 

Both women rose from royal obscurity to become popular and successful monarchs.  ibid.  Professor

 

 

When the Queen speaks, her words are recorded for history.  Every crafted one of them.  Constructed to show a monarch in control.  The Queen in Her Own Words, Channel 5 2020

 

‘We will be with our families again.  We will meet again.’  ibid.  2020

 

For 67 years at 3 p.m. Christmas Day the Queen’s words have been transmitted across Britain and the Commonwealth.  ibid.  

 

Altrincham’s critique had cajoled the Queen into becoming a more modern monarch.  ibid.

 

In the mid-’90s attitudes to the Royals were clearly changing as the public and press reacted to the litany of bad Royal behaviour.  ibid.

 

But on one terrible occasion the Queen failed to speak and it proved to be the biggest regret of her reign: In 1966 an horrific mining accident in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan killed over 100 children.  ibid. 

 

2020: The Queen takes to social media and puts Harry and Meghan in their place.  ibid.

 

1992: That year, three of her children’s marriages had fallen apart and the Queen also witnessed her beloved Windsor Castle ablaze … her ‘horribilis’ years.  ibid.

 

 

Over the course of her incredible reign the Queen has witnessed 14 prime ministers.  It is the most important constitutional relationship in the United Kingdom.  The Queen vs No 10, Channel 5 2020

 

At the start of their relationship Churchill had some reservations about the 51-year age difference between himself and the young Queen.  ibid.  

 

Standing up to Churchill was rare but the Queen often relied on him for sage advice.  ibid.      

 

Some did become her close fiends.  ibid.

 

 

On 15th February 2020 Queen Elizabeth II said goodbye to her younger sister: Princess Margaret.  The Queen never cries in public but on this day she appeared to wipe a tear from her eye.  Elizabeth & Margaret: Love & Loyalty, Channel 5 2020

 

It’s a relationship threatened by love, the press, and duty.  ibid.  

 

The sisters spent all their time together at the family’s homes: 145 Piccadilly and Royal Lodge in Windsor.  ibid.   

 

The sisters came as a pair and the world loved to see them together.  ibid.     

 

Elizabeth’ & Margaret’s world changed almost overnight.  ibid. 

 

As Elizabeth spent more and more time with Philip, she started to pull away from her sister.  ibid.   

 

Princess Margaret  and the gallant pilot.  ibid.  Daily Mirror front page 31 July 1953 

 

 

Elizabeth II: The world’s longest reigning monarch.  For nearly seven decades the Queen has served her country.  But as well as head of state she is also head of a family.  So has a lifetime of duty come at a cost?  Queen Elizabeth: Love, Honour & Crown, Channel 4 2021

 

‘The wedding would be a moral booster.  It had to bear a really heavy propaganda mission.’  ibid.  Professor Kate Williams

 

 

On November 20th 1979 a distinguished-looking 72-year-old, a knight of the realm, a royal courtier for almost 30 years and one of the finest art historians in the world, was about to reveal another, more sinister side to his character: this was Sir Anthony Blunt, Russian secret agent, the spy inside Buckingham Palace.  In a career of treachery spanning three decades, he gave away the Allies’ most precious wartime secret: the D-Day invasion plans.  He seems to have had a mania for betrayal.  But he claimed to be loyal at least to the British crown.  He undertook secret missions for them: to smuggle art treasures and perhaps to smuggle documents which the House of Windsor had to keep secret.  Queen Elizabeth and the Spy in the Palace, Channel 4 2021

 

‘He would never have become a spy had it not been for Burgess.’  ibid.    

 

 

This year our Queen turns 95.  A cause for family and national celebrations.  So I’m meeting the cousins who’ll share with me what it means to be part of this extraordinary family.  Revealing more about their most famous relation from private letters, personal photographs and rare memorabilia.  The Queen and Her Cousins with Alexander Armstrong, ITV 2021

 

 

18th May 1972: One of the most extraordinary and controversial meetings in British history is about to take place: Queen Elizabeth II will reunite with her dying uncle, the Duke of Windsor … What really took place in this clandestine meeting?  Elizabeth II & The Traitor King, Channel 5 2021

 

The Duke defended his association with the German dictatorship by arguing he wanted to avoid the horrors that he’d witnessed in the First World War.  ibid.  

 

Elizabeth weathered the storm created by her estranged uncle.  ibid.  

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