Queen elizabeth
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Shorn of that empire in the previous and over the following decades, the U.K. “I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim,” she said. Back then, her country was near the peak of the British Empire, spanning India, swaths of the Caribbean and Africa, Canada and Australia - a territory about equal to the Moon’s surface.Ī speech on the day of her coronation June 2, 1953, spelled out the 27-year-old’s understanding of her outsize role as a constitutional monarch. The queen’s official title spoke to the world she was born into in 1926: Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. “It’s going to make us, as a nation, look at ourselves and think: Everything’s changed,” she added. But I don’t think that we really know the shockwaves that it’s going to send.” “Everybody realizes that when she dies, it’s going to be a very big deal. It’s “a really shocking and discombobulating moment for a lot of Brits,” NBC royal commentator Daisy McAndrew said before the queen’s death. The death of a monarch whose life spanned era-defining events, from the discovery of penicillin to the ubiquity of the internet, casts the United Kingdom into the unknown. “The main lesson that we have learned is that tolerance is the one essential ingredient of any happy marriage,” he said.In a statement, Biden and the first lady wrote that “Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was more than a monarch.
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Philip himself offered his secret to their happy marriage in a speech given on their 50th wedding anniversary.
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Chris Jackson / Buckingham Palace via AFP - Getty Images Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh look at a homemade wedding anniversary card given to them by their great grandchildren in the Oak Room at Windsor Castle on November 17, 2020. On their most recent anniversary, the palace released a photo of the couple reading a card from Prince William’s children, their great-grandchildren.
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Though often separated since Philip’s retirement, the couple spent much of the pandemic together at Windsor Castle. But throughout, he has been a constant strength and guide,” the monarch said in March 2012 while addressing Parliament as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations. “Prince Philip is, I believe, well known for declining compliments of any kind. The wedding itself was a grand affair, with 2,000 guests at Westminster Abbey, a reception at Buckingham Palace and a 9-foot-tall wedding cake. Elizabeth and Prince Philip wave after their wedding in November 1947. Like other brides in the years after World War II, Elizabeth had to use ration coupons to buy the materials for her wedding dress. “There was concern about the institution of the monarchy, as much as about the marriage,” Irving said.Įlizabeth and Philip announced their engagement in July 1947, and got married just over four months later, with the future queen smiling broadly in photos with her new husband. Edward decided to step away from the monarchy rather than give her up. Their courtship also took place under the shadow of King Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936 after he fell in love with an American woman, Wallis Simpson, who was twice divorced. “Before they got married, there was a lot of hesitancy in the court and palace about whether he was the right match,” he said.
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