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Seventy Years on the Throne: Robert Hardman Explains Queen Elizabeth II’s Statecraft

The Secrets of Statecraft

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The Queen's Trip to Ireland

The queen's trip to ireland in two thousand and 11 was a historic occasion. She'd never been to the only country that shows a land border with the united kingdom. And it had a sort of magic about it because, you know, here is this figure who really does more to promote a k irish in harmony then politicians have achieved in decades. The sight of the monarch who bows to no one, nodding, bowing her her respect at the sacred place,. every bit as sacred as the senataphis on whitehall. These things carry enormous weight.

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