Our Queen Is Modest, Her Ministers Are Vain ; 80 Glorious Years, Review

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During this week, leading up to the Queen's 80th birthday, we can begin to see we have been living through a great reign, comparable in length, but also in achievement, with the reigns of her predecessors, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria.

Obviously, her style has been very different in a different age, but the Queen has won a historic battle of If one looks back to the period of the Queen's childhood in the Thirties, or her accession to the Throne in 1952, one can see the major trends of social opinion all moving in the direction of Republicanism.

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Our Queen Is Modest, Her Ministers Are Vain ; 80 Glorious Years, Review

The new ideas were coming from the Left, particularly when the Conservatives were in office. Those ideas centred on social equality. Any deference to authority was altogether unfashionable. In the early Thirties, the Oxford Union Society passed its notorious motion: 'This house would not fight for King and country.' That w...

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