The Queen’s greatest act
Craig Brown’s A Voyage Around the Queen shows how Elizabeth II reflected her subjects back at themselves.
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Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 through to her death in 2022, the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Find here all of the New Statesman’s latest content about Queen Elizabeth II, or visit our related section pages on the Royal Family and King Charles III.
Craig Brown’s A Voyage Around the Queen shows how Elizabeth II reflected her subjects back at themselves.
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