marked the seventieth anniversary of her reign, February 6, 2022, quietly and privately at Sandringham. However, a written Accession Day message to the nation was soon dominating the airwaves. In it, she had expressed her ‘sincere wish’ that the should, in due course, become Queen Consort and not Princess Consort. Like changes to the laws of , no one had been keen to raise this eggshell issue for as long as there had been no pressing need. However, the Queen’s advancing years, as well as mounting conjecture about the Prince of Wales’s plans for the monarchy, had led to renewed internal thinking. ‘By this stage of the reign, you are finding that you can’t ignore all those things that were once just consigned to the “Too Difficult” folder,’ said one aide.
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