On Tuesdays I like to post something historical, so I’ll borrow this bit from my husband’s personal history, which includes a brief history of our present Queen.
It was Wednesday morning, February 6, 1952. I was nine years old and in Grade Five. When I got up that morning, the radio was playing solemn, stately, orchestral music. That was all we could get on any radio station. The eight o’clock news told us why – King George VI had died and his oldest daughter was now Queen Elizabeth II. At school that morning we all lined up at nine o’clock, but instead of singing God Save the King, we sang God Save the Queen.
I turned ten later that month. Queen Elizabeth was 26 on April 21. Sixty-four years have passed, she is ninety today and still queen. Times have changed. School children in Canada don’t sing God Save the Queen anymore; I wonder if they even sing O Canada very often.
The fact that Canada, and many other countries, acknowledge Queen Elizabeth to be the head…
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Fascinating, Christine.
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Thanks. I trust some of my readers will enjoy this bit of personal & national history.
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I remember when the queen sailed down the St. Lawrence on a visit to Ontario. My grandpa lived by the canal, and we saw the ship. I was a young girl.
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I’d have been part of the crowd on one of her royal tours, too. I was one who used to think, “Why do we need the monarchy anyway? They’re not ours.” But as you get older you come to appreciate constancy and heritage. Thanks for your comment.
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