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- Herausgeber: Pitkin
- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Serie: Pitkin Royal Collection
- Sprache: Englisch
From her first public broadcast in 1940 as a 14-year-old princess, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has given loyal service throughout her long and glorious reign over the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for over 60 years, which means she is now the world's longest reigning living monarch. Such an achievement of unstinting service in both the Victorian age and the new Elizabethan age adds certain poignancy to the words of the national anthem: 'long to reign over us'. In 2016 she reached another milestone as she celebrated her 90th birthday and in 2017 her and Prince Philip celebrate their 70th platinum wedding anniversary. Her Majesty's dignity and sense of loyal duty have long assured her of a place in the hearts of her subjects. Having set such a fine example, when Prince Charles eventually takes the crown (followed, one day by Prince William and, in turn, Prince George) we are assured of a monarchy we can be proud of for generations to come. This beautifully illustrated book is part of the Pitkin Royal Collection series, celebrating the lives of the British royal family. Other notable titles in this insightful series include Charles - Prince of Wales and Queen Elizabeth II.
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Seitenzahl: 93
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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CONTENTS
Royal Timeline
The Head of Four Generations
Date with Destiny
Loving Parents
Sisters Together
A Small Taste of Freedom
An Unconventional Princess
Love at First Sight
The Royal Engagement
A Period of Transition
‘A Flash of Colour’
The Nation Celebrates
Early Married Life
Starting a Family
A Daughter is Born
Queen and Mother
Charles, the Heir Apparent
Love and Marriage
Anne, the Down-to-Earth Princess
Andrew, the Man of Action
Edward, the Quiet Prince
The Arrival of Grandchildren
Princes for the Modern Age
The Eldest to the Youngest
The Next Generation
A Platinum Milestone
Looking to the Future
The Order of Succession
ROYAL TIMELINE
1926 On 21 April, at 2.40am, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is born to the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George and his wife Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, at 17 Bruton Street, the home of her maternal grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. At the time of her birth, she was third in line to the British throne.
The christening of Princess Elizabeth takes place in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29 May.
1930 A sister for the Princess, Margaret Rose, is born on 21 August. She was to be Elizabeth’s only sibling.
1936 On 20 January, Elizabeth’s beloved Grandpa, George V, dies and is succeeded by his son, Edward VIII.
On 10–11 December Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication and his brother Bertie, Elizabeth’s father, becomes King George VI. Elizabeth becomes next in line to the throne.
1937 The coronation of George VI at Westminster Abbey takes place on 12 May.
1939 On 22 July the young Princess Elizabeth meets Cadet Captain Philip of Greece at the Royal Dartmouth Naval College.
On 3 September Neville Chamberlain announces that Britain is now at war with Germany.
1945 Princess Elizabeth joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on 4 March and takes part in the war effort.
The war in Europe ends on 8 May – VE Day – and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret take part in the public celebrations, a freedom that is to be experienced on one more occasion on VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) on 15 August.
1947 In February Elizabeth travels to South Africa and Rhodesia with her parents and sister, during which in a speech on her 21st birthday she vows to serve the Commonwealth for the rest of her life.
On 9 July, the engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten is officially announced by Buckingham Palace.
The wedding of Elizabeth and Philip (the Duke of Edinburgh) takes place on 20 November at Westminster Abbey.
1948 Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, is born on 14 November, the first child of Elizabeth and Philip and second in line to the throne at the time of his birth.
1950 Elizabeth and Philip have a second child on 15 August when their daughter Princess Anne is born.
1952 George VI dies on 6 February and Elizabeth succeeds to the throne. She gives her accession speech on 8 February, returning early from a trip to Kenya.
1953 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II takes place on 2 June at Westminster Abbey.
1960 The Queen and Philip have a third child, another son, when Prince Andrew is born on 19 February.
Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey on 6 May.
1964 The family of the Queen and Philip is completed when a fourth child, Prince Edward, is born on 10 March.
1973 Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey.
1977 On 7 June the Queen celebrates her silver jubilee celebrates marking 25 years on the throne.
Peter Phillips, the Queen’s first grandchild, is born on 15 November to Princess Anne and her husband Mark Phillips.
1981 A second grandchild for the Queen is born, Zara Phillips, the daughter of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips.
Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer in St Paul’s Cathedral on 29 July.
1982 On 21 June, Princess Diana gives birth to Prince William, the Queen’s third grandchild.
1984 A second son, Prince Harry, is born to Prince Charles and Princess Diana on 15 September.
1986 Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson on 23 July at Westminster Abbey.
1988 Princess Beatrice of York, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, is born on 8 August.
1990 Prince Andrew and Sarah have a second daughter, Eugenie, who is born on 23 March.
1992 The Queen’s annus horribilis is marked by the separation of Charles and Diana, the divorce of Anne and Mark and the separation of Andrew and Sarah. Then, on 20 November, Windsor Castle is partly destroyed by fire.
Princess Anne marries Timothy Laurence on 12 December at Craithie parish church, Balater, near Balmoral.
1996 On 30 May, Prince Andrew and Sarah’s marriage is ended in divorce.
Charles and Diana’s marriage is dissolved in the High Court on 28 August.
1997 Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August.
2002 Elizabeth’s sister, Princess Margaret, dies on 9 February at the age of 71, followed on 30 March by the death of the Queen Mother who dies aged 101.
On 30 April Elizabeth officially launches her golden jubilee celebrations with a speech to both Houses of Parliament.
2003 Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and the Countess of Wessex have their first child, Lady Louise Windsor, 8 November.
2005 Prince Charles marries his second wife, Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall Windsor followed by a blessing in St George’s Chapel.
2006 The Queen celebrates her 80th birthday on 21 April.
2007 Peter, Viscount Severn is born on 17 December, the second child of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and the Countess of Wessex.
2010 The Queen becomes a great-grandmother following the birth of Savannah Phillips on 29 December, the daughter of Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn.
2011 Prince William, who is second in line to the throne, marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on 29 April.
2012 The 60th anniversary of Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne falls on 6 February and from 2–5 June, a number of events are held across the United Kingdom to celebrate the Queen’s diamond jubilee.
On 29 March, a second daughter, Isla, is born to Peter Philips and Autumn.
2013 Prince William and Catherine have their first baby, a son, Prince George, who is third in line to the throne.
2014 Mia Tindall, daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall, is born on 17 January.
2015 Prince William and Catherine have a daughter, Charlotte, who is born on 2 May.
The Queen becomes the longest-reigning British monarch on 9 September.
2016 The Queen becomes the world’s longest-reigning living monarch on 13 October following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
2017 On 6 February, the Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a sapphire jubilee, which marks 65 years on the throne.
THE HEAD OF FOUR GENERATIONS
As the head of the family dubbed ‘The Firm’ by George VI, the Queen is the lynchpin of four generations of royals. It is to her that younger members – as well as the not-so-young ones – go for approval or advice when decisions need to be made or opinions sought. Her nine decades of life and the knowledge that comes with age and experience make her a wise counsellor, while the love and loyalty that she has for her family garner respect and the desire to please in return.
She and her family have lived through happy times, as well as some that have been sad or difficult, but throughout it all, good and bad, The Firm has stuck together, always ready to offer mutual support and assistance when required, or at other times, simply to celebrate special occasions and relish being together.
When observing the family gathered on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, it is clear that these are individuals who have a regard for one another, who enjoy each other’s company and who share a common goal, which is to serve their country as best they are able. It is upon this last trait that perhaps the Queen should congratulate herself the most, as it is thanks to her commitment to hard work, her dignity at all times and her devotion to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth that those who come after her will follow the faultless example that she has set, although she will, without a doubt, be a ‘difficult act to follow’.
Four generations: The Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George.
DATE WITH DESTINY
At the royal residence of Sandringham, King George VI died peacefully in his sleep on 6 February 1952. Just two days later, in her accession speech, his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, promised that she intended to work ‘as hard and as diligently’ as her father had before her. Now, more than six decades later, we have seen that not only has she fulfilled that promise she made as a young woman of 25, she has exceeded it.
From the age of 11, the then Princess Elizabeth had known that one day she would accede to the throne to become Queen and that, when that day came, her life would change for ever. This, without a doubt, came about sooner than she had anticipated and, as she later acknowledged, was ‘all very sudden’, when her father, King George VI, met an early death at the age of 56, a result of heavy smoking that was to lead to lung cancer and a fatal coronary thrombosis.
George had been a reluctant king initially, having taken over the throne somewhat prematurely and unexpectedly following the scandal that had surrounded his brother Edward VIII, who had succeeded their father George V on his death. Edward’s short reign, however, had lasted less than a year, before he had famously abdicated in order to marry his divorced American socialite fiancée, Wallis Simpson, a match that the then prime minister Stanley Baldwin deemed to be both against the Church of England’s teaching and socially unacceptable to the British people. As a result, instead of it being Edward’s coronation taking place on 12 May 1937, it was that of his brother Albert (known in the family as Bertie). On that day, Bertie, in recognition of his father’s reign before him, took the title King George VI. It was not a role Bertie welcomed; he had been satisfied with his life as the Duke of York, in his comfortable home at 145 Piccadilly where he resided with his two young daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, and his wife, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. However, once his fate was sealed, whatever his misgivings, he resolved to fulfil his duties as best he could.
