A monarch’s patient work toward post-empire equality
by the Monitor's Editorial Board
Sep 09, 2022
2 minutes
In her first formal address to the British Empire, on the advent of her 21st birthday in 1947, then-Princess Elizabeth offered what might have been heard as the boilerplate idealism of a young future sovereign not expecting the weight of the world to land on her
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