Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'

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06 February 2018

Accession Day!

Sixty six years ago today, I wasn't quite five years old. It took a big happening in the great world outside my family to impress me enough that I still remember it. My Mum and my Gran were both Englishwomen from Hampshire so Britain loomed large in my life. On this day in 1952 we heard the news that His Majesty King George VI, who had led the Empire through the late war, had died and that The Princess Elizabeth was now Queen.

Coronation Portrait

God save Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen!

“God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen,
God save The Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save The Queen!

O Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter thine enemies,
And make them fall:
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On thee our hopes we fix:
God save us all.

Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save The Queen.”

The Royal Anthem sung at Her Majesty's
Coronation



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