Wednesday, December 28, 1065: Westminster Abbey opened.
Thursday, November 20, 1947: Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen of England, married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten - the future Duke of Edinburgh (representing Scotland), Earl of Merioneth (representing Wales) and Baron Greenwich (representing England).
Thursday, November 20, 1952: The Duke Of Windsor, formerly King Edward the 8th, visited his niece, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace to wish the couple well on their 5th anniversary.
Back in 1936, on Friday December 11, Edward the 8th gave up his role as the King Of England after 327 days to marry "the woman I love" - an American-born, twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.
Around the same time, 56 years later, then Prime Minister John Major also made a similar statement that "with regret the Prince and Princess Of Wales have decided to separare."
Monday, November 20, 1995: Diana, the Princess Of Wales went on TV to tell 23 million Britons of her marriage breakdown. She acknowledged, "The pressure was for us to sort ourselves out in some ways." And readily conceded, "My husband and I....we could see what the public were requiring. They wanted clarity of the situation which obviously becoming intolerable."
As the future King, Time noted in 1992, Prince Charles would also be made the supreme governor of the Church of England (or defender of the faith). However, the magazine made the point, the Church opposed divorces. At the time, one Tory M.P made the comment, "If it is not possible to have a happy monarch and family, I think we should skip a generation and wait for William."
Queen Elizabeth II turned 27 on Tuesday, April 21, 1953. Four weeks earlier, her grandmother, Queen Mary passed away. A shaken Winston Churchill told the House of Commons at the time, "Mr Speaker......I have with great regret to make the announcement that Queen Mary has died." Across the Atlantic, Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed, "Free peoples the world over will mourn her loss."
Two months later, on Tuesday June 2, the offical coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II commenced.
On reflection 16 years later, Her Majesty shared, "In a way, I didn’t have an apprenticeship, my father died much too young and so it was all a very sudden kind of taking on and making the best job you can. It’s a question of maturing into something that one got used to doing and accepting the fact that here you are and it’s your fate."
The Queen also stressed, "It is a job for life. Most people have a job and then they get home. And in this existence, the job and the life go on together because you can’t really divide it up."
She pointed out, "If you live in this sort of life which people don’t very much, you lived very much by tradition and by continuity....I think that, this is what the younger members find difficult - is the regimen side of it."
Of Diana's son, William Arthur Philip Louis' fate, she disclosed in 1995, "I've taken the children to all sort of areas where I'm not sure anyone of that age in this family has been before....They have a knowledge...the seed is there and I hope it will grow because knowledge is power."
Thursday, November 20, 1947: Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen of England, married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten - the future Duke of Edinburgh (representing Scotland), Earl of Merioneth (representing Wales) and Baron Greenwich (representing England).
Thursday, November 20, 1952: The Duke Of Windsor, formerly King Edward the 8th, visited his niece, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace to wish the couple well on their 5th anniversary.
Back in 1936, on Friday December 11, Edward the 8th gave up his role as the King Of England after 327 days to marry "the woman I love" - an American-born, twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.
Around the same time, 56 years later, then Prime Minister John Major also made a similar statement that "with regret the Prince and Princess Of Wales have decided to separare."
Monday, November 20, 1995: Diana, the Princess Of Wales went on TV to tell 23 million Britons of her marriage breakdown. She acknowledged, "The pressure was for us to sort ourselves out in some ways." And readily conceded, "My husband and I....we could see what the public were requiring. They wanted clarity of the situation which obviously becoming intolerable."
As the future King, Time noted in 1992, Prince Charles would also be made the supreme governor of the Church of England (or defender of the faith). However, the magazine made the point, the Church opposed divorces. At the time, one Tory M.P made the comment, "If it is not possible to have a happy monarch and family, I think we should skip a generation and wait for William."
Queen Elizabeth II turned 27 on Tuesday, April 21, 1953. Four weeks earlier, her grandmother, Queen Mary passed away. A shaken Winston Churchill told the House of Commons at the time, "Mr Speaker......I have with great regret to make the announcement that Queen Mary has died." Across the Atlantic, Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed, "Free peoples the world over will mourn her loss."
Two months later, on Tuesday June 2, the offical coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II commenced.
On reflection 16 years later, Her Majesty shared, "In a way, I didn’t have an apprenticeship, my father died much too young and so it was all a very sudden kind of taking on and making the best job you can. It’s a question of maturing into something that one got used to doing and accepting the fact that here you are and it’s your fate."
The Queen also stressed, "It is a job for life. Most people have a job and then they get home. And in this existence, the job and the life go on together because you can’t really divide it up."
She pointed out, "If you live in this sort of life which people don’t very much, you lived very much by tradition and by continuity....I think that, this is what the younger members find difficult - is the regimen side of it."
Of Diana's son, William Arthur Philip Louis' fate, she disclosed in 1995, "I've taken the children to all sort of areas where I'm not sure anyone of that age in this family has been before....They have a knowledge...the seed is there and I hope it will grow because knowledge is power."
