Elizabeth also instituted other new practices; her first royal walkabout, meeting ordinary members of the public, took place during a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1970. Lord Hailsham suggested that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret should be evacuated to Canada to avoid the frequent aerial bombings of London by the Luftwaffe.

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You can go for miles and never see anybody; you can walk or ride, it has endless possibilities,” she once said.Philip complained, "I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children.

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But at the age of 10, the abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, over his love for the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and her father’s rushed coronation as substitute king, changed the path her aristocratic life could have been expected to take. In 2002, her golden jubilee, her sister, Margaret, and mother, Queen Elizabeth, died within eight weeks of each other. The huge swell of tributes and flowers from ordinary people in Britain and evenaround the globe, prove just how iconic Her Majesty has been:a womanthe face of her nation for more than 70 years.Many republicans credited Elizabeth's personal popularity with the survival of the monarchy in Australia. In most streets, only one or two families had one, so everyone else crowded in to try and get a glimpse. That was how the novelist John O’Hara reacted when he heard that his friend, George Gershwin, had died. The world has the chance to join in the shared objective of creating a safer, stabler future for our people and for the planet on which we depend. Senior politicians were against the match and the Church of England did not permit remarriage after divorce.

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Members of the British royal family and guests pose around newlyweds Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Elizabeth also possessed royal standards and personal flags for use in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, and elsewhere.She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She leaves behind an extraordinary legacy: the most fantastic example of duty and service and steadfastness, and a constant steadying presence as our head of state for more than 70 years. During her grandfather's reign, Elizabeth was third in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her uncle Edward, Prince of Wales, and her father. In the 1950s and 60s Britain welcomed people from places all around the world, like Asia and the Caribbean. Similarly, referendums in both Tuvalu in 2008 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2009 saw voters reject proposals to become republics.