Born to the Duke of York Albert and his wife Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1926, Elizabeth has always, in someway, been involved in politics. Throughout her entire childhood, not once had she thought or even dreamed of becoming a ruler. She pl

By 1990, the Queen was back in the spotlight. Unfortunately, it was for the wrong reason. Momentarily bored with the emotional lives of her children, and feeling the full force of a particularly brutal recession, several sections of British society rounded enviously on a familiar target… the wealth of the Queen. She was now known as the wealthiest woman in the world. Resentful at the very thought of the 50% plus increase in the Queen’s Civil List income, as well as her numerous properties, many British newspapers began calling for the Monarch to be taxed in a similar fashion to her subjects. Two years later, in what Elizabeth has referred to as “not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure”, she decided to accept the necessary but unbearable high taxation of her wealth in order to demonstrate, yet again, that she would no longer automatically embrace all the archaic traditions of her noble predecessors. Fate intruded tragically upon the family once more at the end of August in 1997. When the news reached Elizabeth of the death of Diana, her first thoughts were for her grandsons, William and Harry. Elizabeth knew, first hand, just how difficult it was to be a Royal child, and was devastated at the grief and suffering that the loss of their mother would add to the burden of being a Windsor. Although fiercely attacked in some newspapers for allegedly isolating the Princess of Wales, the Queen showed the world that her primary concern had always been her family, by counseling her eldest son and the young princes throughout their mourning. Nowadays, the Queen is as likely to be found taking tea in the home of one of her subjects as she is in a horse-drawn carriage. (Davies 17-26)

Elizabeth II, unlike any other monarchial rulers, was a people person. She was always close to the people, either helping in times of war or comforting in times of confusion. She holds parties to honor those people that do good things in the world and contributes to major organizations to help out from the expense of her own pockets. The Queen helps those less fortunate and does all in her power (which is a lot of power let me tell you) to do good for all mankind. Elizabeth II is the quintessential figure of a renaissance woman.

Elizabeth II was the first queen who had a life shown through photographs and films. Her most important events such as the Coronation and wedding services were captured on film, and this was a first for any type of Monarchial ruler. She had modernized the Royal family and brought television cameras into her life as well as herself to all television owners’ doorsteps. People could now see their Queen in all her glory, a queen who rules for the people by the people. And for the first time, the people who follow her finally became familiar with the all too familiar term of Her Majesty. As time continued, her feelings of anxiety overcame her when the Falklands War, provoked by the Argentine annexation of the Britain’s South Atlantic islands, meant that Prince Andrew, a gifted Royal Navy helicopter pilot, was called up to serve his country in

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