UK Declined, But Queen One of the Greats

UK Declined, But Queen One of the Greats

On February 7, 1952, the night Elizabeth II stepped on to British soil for the first time as Queen, her Prime Minister Winston Churchill broadcast to the nation. In private, as Churchill waited for his 25-year-old monarch to return from a trip to Kenya, he had told an aide that she was ‘only a child’. But now, addressing the British people, the bulldog of democracy struck a more reassuring note. ‘Famous have been the reigns of our Queens,’ he declared. ‘Some of the greatest periods in our history have unfolded under their sceptre.’

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