Conjuring WWII-era decidedness, Queen Elizabeth’s rare address amid the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday captured the mood of Britain, a leading historian and royal biographer says.…
The Queen, 93, referred to herGet push notifications with news, features and more.Summing up a spirit of “good-humored resolve” that people are showing during a time of lockdowns and separation from families, the monarch spoke of a generation that today is “as strong as any” — much has been said of her own wartime generation 80 years ago.tells PEOPLE.
“It was optimistic without false optimism. It was sober and realistic, but there was a grounded optimism to it.”and being rarely seen since, she was “looking very well. Her physical state and resilience was an inspiration in itself,” he adds.The broadcast — shot last Thursday in the White Drawing Room — was watched by around 24 million people in the U.K. The country has a population of around 67 million.
Drawing a line from today back to her childhood, the Queen fondly recalled her broadcast as a teenage princess, during the war and holed up, during a time of crisis, at the castle. But that original broadcast might not have happened were it not for American inspiration.
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