
From Today in Focus: the life and death of Queen Elizabeth II
Politics Weekly UK
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The Queen's Coronation
At the moment of her coronation, the monarchy was the focal point for a country that still really saw itself as an empire. The first thing she did was to let the colonies go. Attending independent celebrations one after another peeled away. In that period of British decline, the Queen was a kind of cover. Everybody could forget that we were declining. As long as I'm alive, I'll never get on my house. We've complained to judges about judges and nothing's been done. Now it's time to do something ourselves. For the whole Labour and Trade Union movement. Come and join us and fight us! It's like we made them by going to work. Some can just
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