Queen Elizabeth worked every day for nearly seven decades! For her, every day was game day, some twenty-five thousand in a row. She visited more than 126 nations. In 1953, on a single royal tour, she traveled forty thousand miles, many of which were by boat. She shook thirteen thousand hands and received tens of thousands of bows and curtsies. She gave and listened to over four hundred speeches. And this was just one of more than a hundred of these royal tours during her reign. In all, she traveled more than one million nautical miles by sea, and many times that by air. She met more than four
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