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the crown meme: [1/1] queen – elizabeth II

Famous have been the reigns of our queens.
Some of the greatest periods in our history have unfolded under their scepters.
Queen Elizabeth II, like her namesake, Queen Elizabeth I, did not pass her childhood in any certain expectation of the Crown.
This new Elizabethan age comes at a time when mankind stands uncertainly poised on the edge of catastrophe.
I, whose youth was passed in the august, unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel the thrill in invoking once more the prayer and the anthem: ‘God Save the Queen!’