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Queen Elizabeth II: A 70 Year Reign

Politics Unpacked

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The Queen's Proclamation of the Accession of the King

It's the day that we all knew was inevitable, but which you kept hoping wouldn't come. In 19 52, she inherited a prime minister in winston churchill, more than twice her age. By the time she invited her fifteenth prime minister to form a government, just last week, she was more than twice liz truss's age. The queen witnessed 18 general elections, 13 government referendums, three minority governments and one coalition. And viewers of the crown on neckfix might believe they know something of what went on in her private relationships with her premiers. But so much of what happens in politics and royal circles is the subject of leeks and gossip. We

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