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The Best of Amanpour 2022: Queen Elizabeth II

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We're the Toolbox of Soft Power, Right?

Downing Street wanted to use the magic of the monarchy to advance British interests. The Queen's speeches at various banquet state dinners with American presidents are very much in the old Chirchillion mode as essential. Harold McMillan once said of the British, we are the Greeks in the new Roman Empire.

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