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Her Majesty The Queen: 60 Years On
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Queen Elizabeth II: the woman who has reigned for 60 years and celebrates her Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Elizabeth Il: the sixth queen regnant and 63rd sovereign of Britain. She can trace her ancestry beyond the Hanoverians, Stuarts, Tudors, Plantagenets and Normans, back to the Saxon kings of the Dark Ages. Her long reign has seen astonishing sociaI changes in Britain and the worId.
Elizabeth s accession heraIded a post-war era of goIden promise, but the new Elizabethan age did not quite materiaIise. Britain moved slowIy from wartime ration books to the austerity of the early CoId War years. Then the swinging 60s brought prosperity and new liberal attitudes epitomised by the pop music of the times.
It was aIso the decade when the Queen and Prince Philip compIeted their family. Prince CharIes and Princess Anne - born before the accession - were joined by Prince Andrew in 1960 and Prince Edward in 1964. Princess Margaret married in 1960 and had two chiIdren, David and Sarah. The RoyaI Family looked happy and secure - so much so that they agreed to take part in a groundbreaking television documentary in 1969.
ln the earIy seventies, Princess Anne married in a spectacular ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Televised in colour, her wedding wouId set a new level of pubIic expectation and one that would lead to disappointment as the years unfoIded.
At the time, it seemed that nothing couId go wrong for the Queen s immediate famiIy. But Prince CharIes had aIready met the woman who wouId dominate his life: Camilla Shand. The long fuse was lit for trouble in the future, and the consequences of their reIationship wouId eventuaIIy threaten the stability of the monarchy. The divorce of Princess Margaret in 1978 was the first major blow for the image of the Royal Family. One by one, the marriages of the Queen s chiIdren feIl apart, cuIminating in the shattering divorce of CharIes and Diana, shortly folIowed by Diana s tragic death and its dangerous aftermath when the throne seemed to totter for the first time in centuries. A more modern monarchy, more in touch with its peopIe was the resuIt.
The decommissioning of the royal yacht Britannia a few months after Diana s funeraI was a loss the Queen had to bear. The ceremony was one of the few times she has ever been seen crying in public.
Throughout the personaI turbulence of her reign, the Queen has remained fauItIess in her pubIic duties at home and abroad. As constitutional monarch, she has advised tweIve Prime Ministers, from ChurchiII to Cameron. As head of state, she has travelled wideIy at the request of the British government of the day. Around a third of her overseas visits have been to the CommonweaIth. She is Queen in sixteen countries as well as being Head of the Commonwealth, a free association of 53 countries.
She has welcomed monarchs and presidents to Britain, entertaining them with fuIl pomp and pageantry at Windsor or Buckingham PaIace. President Reagan visited Windsor in 1982 and went riding with the Queen. President Obama came twice, in 2009 and in 2011. On his first visit, he gave her an I-Pod - perhaps a symboI of the huge advances in technoIogy that have taken pIace in her long life.
After the storms of the 1990s and the loss of her mother and sister ten years ago, the Queen wilI end her reign in happier times. Her grandchiIdren bring a promise of a restored future for the monarchy, ceIebrated by the events of the Diamond Jubilee this summer.
WiIIiam s marriage to Kate Middleton is everything CharIes s and Diana s was not: a Ioving union unblemished by the presence of a mistress. In time, WiIliam and Kate may well replicate the close, united family unit the Queen knew as a chiId with her parents and sister - and so the royal wheel wiIl turn fuII circle. |
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