God Save The Queen
60 years ago today, a new Elizabethan age dawned in Britain.
The monarch, then a recent bride with young children, had her life changed forever.
But for the abdication of her uncle and early death of her father, the young princess would have led a life very different from the one intrinsically tied to postwar Britain.
Her first Prime Minister was Chuchill, she hosted JFK. Last year, she received the Obamas at Buckingham Palace.
She has been around the world time and time again on countless royal tours, and has held hundreds of fields' worth of flowers.
She has seen her family's dirtiest laundry aired in public, and watched her children's and grandchildren's lives be torn apart by divorce, bereavement and bullying by the media.
And yet she has stayed, a constant in our national life.
I will never be entirely convinced by the idea an accident of birth can determine forever your position in life, but in the Queen's case the fact of how she got there is dwarfed by what she has done.
Her decades of devotion to duty are worthy of our respect.
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No mention of some of the dirtiest financial dealings that go to boost the wealth of the Windsors. No mention of any, we are all in this together, suggested cut in their millions they and their hangers on take from the tax payer or the minimum wage they pay to most of the staff.
Gawd Bless ya Blue Labourite, while we have subserviance and syccophancy like this, knowing your place, all things bright and beautiful, there will always be the rich man in his castle and the poor man at his gate. Not entirely blue perhaps a little brown round the nose