Arrival on the throne at the time of steam trains and marriage for life, the queen, died on the 8th at the age of 96, will have traveled in supersonic and known the divorce of three of her children.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned, on June 2, 1953, the United Kingdom barely left the rationing of an interminable post-war period, the coal mines turn to full, bent television and London is still the capital of A planetary empire. Dwight Eisenhower has just settled in the White House, Winston Churchill is the Downing Street host, and Vincent Auriol that of the Elysée. It is an understatement to say that the queen will have crossed the eras. Arriving on the throne at the time of steam trains, bakelite phones and life marriage, she will have traveled in supersonic, twitted, and three of her four children have divorced.
On leaving Westminster Abbey, the new queen is propelled to the head of 46 countries, all of which are independent today. The United Kingdom, which has defeated Nazism, nationalized energy and created a completely free health service, still thinks of dominating the world, and the crowning of the 26-year-old sovereign is perceived as the beginning of a new age gold elizabethain.
The queen disappears after having accompanied the countless changes in a country often at the forefront of musical or scientific innovation, at the center of a Commonwealth of 52 countries, whose language dominates the world, but which is now looking for its way after leaving the European Union. Dead at the age of 96, Elizabeth will have reigned years.
It was the head of state not only of the United Kingdom, but of fifteen other Commonwealth countries, including Australia, Canada, Bahamas and Papua New Guinea. In 2015, his reign had exceeded in duration that of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. The death in 2016 of the king of Thailand in 2016 after seventy years of reign had made her the oldest monarch and the oldest state chief in the world.
After having “buried” Churchill, de Gaulle and Kennedy, she had survived that of Thatcher, Jean-Paul II and Mandela. During her reign, she will have made nearly 300 visits abroad. According to her biographer Robert Hardman, Elizabeth II met 4 million people during the countless “commitments” which she honored as so many imperious duties. A charge that she solemnly committed to fulfilling at the age of 21 in a speech delivered in 1947 in CAP (South Africa): “I will devote all my life, whether long or short, to your Service and at the service of the large imperial family to which we belong. “An oath of” serving “which she had renewed in 2012, during the celebration of her diamond jubilee.
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