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Woman's Hour special following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Woman's Hour

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The Queen's Long Reign

She was educated at home. Her family didn't expect her to be queen. She was a little girl who was simply expected to make a good marriage. And when she was terned, the abdication of her uncle thrust her into this new world that was really quite terrifying. Yet she approached it with this incredible sense of duty and credible determinatin she was going to be a strong and dutiful monarch. We've never seen that n history, a monarch working up until, you know, two days before her death.

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