One morning at the beginning of 1953, Sir Winston Churchill’s doctor, Lord Moran, found the veteran Prime Minister inspecting a photograph of Britain’s new sovereign. , then 26, had been on the throne for barely a year. She was all in white, and looked utterly radiant.‘Lovely, inspiring,’ Churchill said thoughtfully. ‘All the film people in the world, if they had scoured the globe, could not have found anyone so suited to the part.’He was, of course, completely right. Seventy years after her accession, the Queen’s star remains undimmed. No casting agency on Earth could have found somebody with such stamina, resilience and dedication to her role: a living symbol of patriotic duty.
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