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The Queen
70 Glorious Years
ISBN: 9781909741829
(HB - EN)
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This official souvenir publication celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty QueenElizabeth II through 70 photographs chosen to illustrate memorable events in thereign of BritainÆs longest-serving monarch.
Delightfully informal family photographs of The Queen as a young girl, as a young wife and mother, on holiday and enjoying the company of her children and dogs are joined by more formal images illustrating the official life of the monarch, on grand state occasions, such as the Coronation, the State Opening of Parliament and Trooping the Colour û not to mention her memorable encounter with James Bond and her dramatic arrival at the ceremony marking the opening of the 2010 London Olympics.
Each photograph is accompanied by resonant quotations from speeches given by TheQueen over the years, from her wartime ChildrenÆs Hour radio broadcast at the age of13 and her first televised Christmas Day broadcast in 1957 to her speeches welcomingCommonwealth leaders and US Presidents to Buckingh
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