Great love, the coronation and : On the occasion of Elizabeth II’s throne jubilee you can test your knowledge of Her Majesty’s life.
She appeared unshakable queen in colorful clothing with a matching hat and handbag at inaugurations, awards and speeches and did what was expected of her – shake hands, smile graciously, keep her composure.
Only as the queen At the turn of the year 2016/2017, contrary to her habit, she did not attend the Christmas or New Year’s service for the first time because of a bad cold, the British got an idea that the energy of the monarch is not infinite. In recent months, reports on the health of 95-year-old Elizabeth II have repeatedly made headlines. For example, when she was first seen in public with a walking stick, or when her participation in a memorial service for the fallen of the world wars was canceled at short notice in November due to back problems.
The doctors have advised the queen to step down. Heir to the throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have recently taken on more and more official duties.
The Queen was hard hit by the death of Prince Philip, whom she had to bury last April after 73 years of marriage. The picture is unforgettable, like that queen lost in herself during the funeral service for her husband and – because of the corona rules – sat all alone in the pew.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, born in 1926, known as “Lilibet”, was not born the role of queen. She was third in line to the throne after her uncle and father. However, her uncle Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 in order to be able to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson. He was succeeded by Elizabeth’s father, Albert, as George VI.
Elizabeth was brought up by tutors. During World War II, she volunteered to serve as a driver and mechanic on the home front. In 1947 she married her distant cousin Philip Mountbatten.
On February 6, 1952, the sudden death of her father closed the 25-year-old princess overnight queen Elizabeth II. As Queen, she experienced the collapse of the British Empire and the Cold War – and has so far received 14 prime ministers for inaugural visits.
At all of her appointments, Elizabeth II was always polite and distant. A queen shows no feelings is her motto. This seems to apply even in private, including to her four children Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Heir to the throne Charles once complained bitterly that he had never received any real affection from his mother.
Also because of Charles experienced the queen 1992 was her “annus horribilis”, her “terrible year”, as she called it herself: the marriages of Charles, Anne and Andrew broke up, Windsor Castle was badly damaged in a fire. 1997 became the queen severely criticized for not showing enough heart after the tragic accidental death of her ex-daughter-in-law Diana.
Recently, the “escape” from crashed queenGrandson Harry and his wife Meghan from the British royal family and the involvement of Prince Andrew in the abuse scandal surrounding US millionaire Jeffrey Epstein once again put the Royals in a crisis.
After Andrew was threatened with a lawsuit against him in the United States for abuse, the queen The ripcord in mid-January. Her second eldest son had to resign all his military ranks and patronage after giving up his royal duties and largely withdrawing from the public eye in 2019. Averting damage to the British royal family, that’s for them queen as in the past decades, still in first place.
Source: Nachrichten
