In 1949 as a young married woman the Queen made a speech to the Mothers’ Union denouncing divorce and separation as producing some of the darkest evils in society. ibid.
It’s May 2011 and the Queen is about to set foot in the Irish Republic. ibid.
In 1920 during the Irish War of Independence thirteen spectators and a player were killed here as forces under British control opened fire at a match. ibid.
Sixty years of never standing still. ibid.
The Queen was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Andrew Marr, Diamond Queen III, BBC 2012
A novel aspect of the coronation was that it was televised ... Twenty million people managed to watch. ibid.
Being called by God was not a metaphor; it was absolutely serious. ibid.
The Queen was having to deal with the new medium of television. ibid.
In the event the Silver Jubilee was a great success. ibid.
From 1980 onwards a more aggressive media had a fresh target to hunt: Diana. ibid.
The Queen was soon becoming uneasy about the pressure journalists were piling on her daughter-in-law. ibid.
Both Princess Diana and Prince Charles turned to journalists to tell their side of the story. ibid.
But it was the absence of words which created the biggest media storm of the Queen’s reign when in 1997 on the sudden death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash the Queen stayed at Balmoral for another four days. ibid.
Princess Elizabeth, just 25 years old, was now Queen Elizabeth II. Churchill was ne his way to address the Commons. Despite his grief, he saw in the young and glamorous queen the promise of a new Elizabethan age to rival even the golden age of Elizabeth I. New Elizabethans With Andrew Marr I: Building a New Society, BBC 2020
The Queen has presided over a period of unrivalled peace and prosperity. But also over a period of astonishing change. ibid.
The nation that learned of the conquest of Everest that auspicious day feels today like another country: class-obsessed, overwhelmingly white and Christian, deeply conservative about the role of women, much more easily embarrassed about sex. ibid.
James became Jan Morris [1926-2020]: Jan Morris stands as a powerful symbol of the shifting thinking about identity was to come over the Queen’s reign. ibid.
The Ruth Ellis case was a genuine watershed in British justice: hanging had been very popular in this country but what was done on that July morning to a young, traumatized, and abused woman horrified and disgusted millions of the Queen’s subjects. ibid.
The Case of the Mangrove 9: August 1970 a street demonstration against the repeated raids on the Mangrove [restaurant]. It wasn’t a very big one, about 150 people left this restaurant to march around local police stations which were heavily defended by hundreds of police. Violence flared and demonstrators were grabbed and thrown into the back of police vans. In the end, nine demonstrators including Frank Critchlow, including Darcus Howe, were charged with incitement to riot … It was the first judicial acknowledgement of racial prejudice by the police during the Elizabethan age, but it was not the last. ibid.
The Coronation Review of the Royal Navy showcased the most famous fleet in the world. Once defenders of an empire that had circled the globe they gathered here to honour one young woman. Eleven days earlier the 27-year-old Elizabeth II had been crowned Queen … For all the epic splendour, what the young Queen was really seeing that day was the end of an ear. New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr II: A Brave New World
He was one of the most extraordinary, maddening, colourful, fascinating new Elizabethans of them all: Lord Louis Mountbatten. ibid.
Elizabeth David: she was about to make a unique mark on British culture with a one-woman mission to introduce us to continental food … She pioneered the food revolution we see around us all today not to mention the army of globetrotting TV chefs. ibid.
Anthony Wedgwood Benn ditched his seat in the House of Lords and became a prophet of British socialism. For him Brussels was dominated by capitalism and bankers. ibid.
Jayaben Desia: One of the most notorious industrial disputes had begun: Grunwick … She hadn’t planned to start the strike but she was a natural … Reporter: Why are you on strike?
Desai: We have to ask permission to go to the toilet. ibid.
December 1982: 30,000 women linked arms around the entire site [Greenham Common]: Embrace the Base. ibid.
On 30th June 1953, less than a month after her coronation, Queen Elizabeth walked across the tarmac at London airport. The Queen was there to wave her mother and sister off but also to catch a glimpse of a very exciting new British aeroplane. The De Havilland Comet represented the future, the world’s very first commercial jet airliner … But within a year of the royal flight a series of terrible crashes would ground the Comet fleet and devastate Britain’s lead in the jet age. New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr III
We’ve managed a shift from heavy industries to exporting services, ideas and creativity … There was also an entire array of new Elizabethans who found new innovations, adaptations, fresh ways to build and new things to sell. ibid.
Norah Docker embodied [going down coal mine to ‘do her bit’] the changes that would buffer and transform British industry over the next half century. ibid.
Dusty Springfield started her musical career with her brother as the singer in a three-piece folk band: they called them The Springfields … The first British group to enter the US Billboard charts. ibid.
London February 2012: Sixty years since this city and the world woke up to the news the country had a new monarch. Trevor McDonald’s Queen & Country I: London: Royal City, ITV 2012
The new Queen was twenty-five. ibid.
She’s what’s known as a constitutional monarch. ibid.
There have always been royal visits. Elizabeth I used them as a way to avoid paying bills ... The Royal visit as we know it is a modern invention. Trevor McDonald’s Queen & Country II: Royal Visit
The Queen has a particular affection for Scotland. ibid.
There have been 102 state visits during her reign. ibid.
Americans are among the most dedicated followers of the British Royal Family. ibid.
Most of the swans on the Thames belong to the Queen. They are some of her more unusual possessions which range from the royal collection to a clutch of historic royal palaces. Trevor McDonald’s Queen & Country III: The Queen’s Possessions
The Tower of London is in a league of its own. ibid.
The Channel Islands ... are Peculiars of the Crown. ibid.
Queen Elizabeth II has made 325 oversees visits to 150 countries. Trevor McDonald’s Queen & Country IV: Royal Traveller
The traveller queen has assumed the status of a rock star. ibid.
In November 1953 the Royal couple set off on a five-month tour. ibid.
The British royal family is a source of fascination around the world. Two days have shaped our perception of the modern monarchy: the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the death of Princess Diana. Days that Shook the World s1e2: Coronation of Elizabeth II & Death of Diana, BBC 2003
June 2nd 1953: The press begin to pay less heed to royal protocol. ibid.
August 30th 1997: and in France the arrival of one woman is about to trigger a fatal trail of events. ibid.
Henri Paul is neither a bodyguard nor a chauffeur. ibid.
‘There was the smell of blood, fuel and burning.’ ibid. Dr first on scene
The Ritz security manager Henri Paul was three times over the legal alcohol limit. ibid.
This image of a happy family was captured by a select group of photographers who were invited inside the palace. The Changing Face of the Queen
The Navy posted the newly married Philip to Malta, so the young princess went with him. ibid.
The closeness of the Queen’s relationship with her parents that was to be the basis of her own long and loving marriage. Elizabeth: Queen, Wife, Mother, ITV 2012
On 27th July 1932 a female inmate slipped through an open window and made a getaway ... This woman was no ordinary inmate: this woman was Prince Philip’s mother. The Queen’s Mother in Law, Channel 4 2012
Prince Philip’s mother was born a princess but turned her back on royal life. ibid.
An unlikely hero of World War II ... Princess Alice – one of the Royal Family’s best kept secrets. ibid.
In marrying Prince Andrew, Alice had hitched herself to the most unstable royal family in Europe. ibid.
Princess Alice had been hard at work founding her very own religious order. ibid.