Battle Royale freebeacon.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from freebeacon.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain s longest-reigning monarch known for her stoicism and strength during an era in which she weathered scandal and tragedy.
Abdication crisis. she would not be queen today had that not happened likely. and she has an incredible way of weathering this. she learned from what happened, whether the welsh mine disaster or princess diana that people want more from her than she may have anticipated and sometimes the british, her personal instinct to be more withdrawn, cannot always be well received. and she is definitely adapted to that as time has gone on. and had to respond to not only the scandal surrounding the sussexes, leaving for america, but i think a lot more crucially here in terms of british public opinion, prince andrew and his civil sexual assault case, excluding him as we don t know if we ll see him at all during any of the ceremonies but we ll wait to see. speaking to the sussex team last night, they are here, they re here with the kids, they were due to be at horse guards today in the building with the rest of the royal family. we didn t see them, but i ve been told they were there.
DOMINIC SANDBROOK: In 1953, Sir Winston Churchill s doctor found the veteran Prime Minister inspecting a photograph of Britain s new sovereign. The Queen had barely been on the throne a year.