Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Events during Elizabeth II's reign that she was directly involved in?

I need suggestions for events that I could write about which Queen Elizabeth II was directly involved in or impacted her directly. As the UK is a constitutional monarchy, her involvement with any sort of political/governmental affairs is little to none, but I need something that she was in fact personally involved in.

Events during Elizabeth II's reign that she was directly involved in?
She contributed directly to the war (she was not queen yet though)





By the time of Elizabeth's accession in 1952, there was much talk of a "new Elizabethan age". Since then, one of the Queen's roles has been to preside over the United Kingdom as it has shared world economic and military power with a growing host of independent nations and principalities. As nations have developed economically and culturally, the Queen has witnessed, over the past 50 years, a gradual transformation of the British Empire into its modern successor, the Commonwealth of Nations. She has worked hard to maintain links with former British possessions, and in some cases, such as South Africa, she has played an important role in retaining or restoring good relations.





In 2007, papers from 1956 were declassified in which the then French Prime Minister Guy Mollet and British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden discussed the possibility of France joining in a union with the United Kingdom; among the ideas put forward was having Elizabeth II as the French head of state. A paper from 28 September 1956 stated that Mollet "had not thought there need be difficulty over France accepting the headship of Her Majesty." This proposal was never accepted, and the following year France signed the Treaty of Rome








I thought that was interesting
Reply:The death of Princess Diana is a huge one. That was a media circus and impacted her and her family directly.


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