shortly before a correlation in 1953, whatever your religion may be to pray for me on that day to pray that god may give me wisdom and strength to carry out the solemn promises i should be making and that i may faithfully serve him and you all the days of my life. for the most part she did just that. and that was not a small achievement given the period she lived in. the week that elizabeth was coordinated, edmund hillary, the british subjects from new zealand, the beekeeper became the first man in history to summit mount everest. the achievement seems symbolic at the time, britain on top of the world. but in fact britain was already over whether the british knew it or not. to this day britain claims to have won both of the century s world wars but they destroy that nation forever after victory came, humiliation. the empire evaporated in along with apron self-confidence, and ultimately had self-respect. it s hard to believe now, but britain was not always a regional banking c