PLATINUM QUEEN PART II

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Queen Elizabeth II (6 February 1952 – present) has become the longest-lived British monarch, become the longest-reigning British monarch. She can also lay claim to being the world’s oldest reigning monarch and the longest-reigning queen regnant in history.


Today we are spectators in the history and reign of the United Kingdom’s longest and oldest serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II. Some are just in infancy of days of being under her regain guaranteed to witness in the appropriate time, see a new Monarch crowned. Some of us have been under her regain for our own years and some have been living through her whole regain for 70 years. Some people are able to say they have also lived under the latter years of her father King George VI regain.

I'm not sure about anyone else but I feel such an overwhelming sense of pride to be living in an age of such an iconic living legend; that of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. That she belongs to us the Great British Isles, we are all somewhere along the timeline of history weather we're a royalist or not.

Queen Elizabeth II has no doubtable seen, lived and experienced, far more than anyone of us have in our lifetime. Although we may be a different class of people, it has been her steadfast love and admiration for 'all' her people and that unites all in love and respect as a nation, for the common good.

In these present times a world awaits the next course history will take upon the Royal household. With her Majesty aging years and recent health concerns, many speculate when will be the time of possible abdication. Or hopefully her Majesty like Queen Victoria before her, will continue to regain till upon her final passing from this earth to the next.

But for now, let us join together as a 'United Kingdom' the commonwealth and the wider world, in celebration of 70 years of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II reign and the joy of this historic moment in our history. May we along with her Majesty be the history storytellers for tomorrow's generations and their generations to follow.

Her Majesty has more fulfilled her promise she made over 70 years ago;
"I declare before you all, that my whole live, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service to our great imperial family to which we belong." - Princess Elizabeth 1947, aged 21.

Thanks again for your support and your time in reading this blog, don't forget to leave a comment. Until next time wherever you are stay safe and enjoy the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

- Midlife Writer 

*Drawings by Sarah Joy Holden🅒





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