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British monarch and head of the Commonwealth. But as anyone who has ever met her will tell you, in person she is very warm and human with a well-developed sense of humour. Look at it another way, could she have survived all these
Williams has said that the Queen can be ‘extremely funny in private’. Having never had any contact with royalty before taking up his post, he had no idea what
stand on her dignity in a conversation’. At her coronation on 2 June 1953 in Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II took the coronation oath vowing to serve her people and maintain the laws of God. What none of the 8,000 guests packed into the Abbey or the millions watching on television sets around the world heard was the Queen’s frantic whisper to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to ‘Get me started!’ Friction between her heavy state robes and the carpet had her firmly
