Last month Britain celebrated an unprecedented event: the 70th anniversary of a monarch’s ascension to the throne. While in Britain’s constitutional monarchy the Queen has limited say in the actual running of the country, people have long wondered how much she actually knows about any real state secrets – the most relevant here being to do with UFOs as investigated covertly by the Ministry of Defence or other bodies.
In the USA, the President is elected, just as is the Prime Minister in the UK, and each will be briefed on events they may have no prior knowledge of and told why they, like most others, were kept in the dark. But in the UK the Queen has seen off Prime Ministers from Churchill onwards. secrets to be told about an alien presence on Earth, Elizabeth Windsor would probably be in the unique position of being the only person in the world to have known about them for such a long period – most of her adult life. Of course, the Queen being the Queen, is famously discreet; she was hardly going to sell an exclusive to the tabloids.
