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Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 50th year on the British throne. She has been an exemplary monarch. She is the apotheosis of dignity, grace and reserve. Her children are not. It must be quite a burden on her that all four of her children have ended up in the midst of tabloid sex scandals. Equally dismaying is the shrinking of her empire.
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Queen Elizabeth II's traditional Christmas speech will be available as a podcast this year for the first time. A download can be ordered in advance for free on the British monarchy's Web site , royal officials said Friday.
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As a constitutional monarch, Elizabeth II does not express her personal political opinions publicly. She has maintained this discipline throughout her reign, doing little in public to reveal what they might be, and ... her political views are not clearly known. However, there is some evidence to suggest that, in economic terms, she leans towards a One Nation point of view. During Margaret Thatcher's years as British Prime Minister, it was rumoured that the Queen worried that Mrs. Thatcher's economic policies were fostering social divisions, and she was reportedly alarmed by high unemployment, a series of riots in 1981, and the violence of the miners' strike.[38] Mrs. Thatcher once said to Brian Walden, referring to the Social Democratic Party: "The problem is, the Queen is the kind of woman who could vote SDP."[38]
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Elizabeth Longford, one of the queen's biographers, has suggested that it was only after the jubilee, when she was able to see the loyalty and esteem of her subjects demonstrated, that she realized her potential as a monarch. Her inhibitions were broken down and she became more confident, more open, and more ready to reveal her keen sense of humor, strong common sense, great energy, and nearly imperturbable serenity of character.
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Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC One has resigned, after a documentary made about Queen Elizabeth II misrepresented her actions during a photoshoot with celebrity photographer Annie Liebovitz. The documentary claimed the monarch stormed out of the photoshoot "in a huff" because she was asked to remove her tiara.
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Pigeon racers are petitioning Queen Elizabeth II to have their activity officially classified as a sport. The Belford Racing Pigeon Club hopes the British monarch, the patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association, will intervene in a dispute that could see them pay millions of dollars in taxes, chairman Eric Sim said.
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