Queen's funeral brings down curtain on new Elizabethan age

By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2022-09-20 12:31
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Queen Elizabeth II made the first televised royal Christmas broadcast from a study in the Long Library at Sandringham House, Norfolk.

In the run-up to the 2016 referendum, the unspoken convention of never ascribing political opinions to the queen was broken by The Sun newspaper, when it claimed that, during a lunch with senior politicians, she had voiced support for Britain leaving the trading bloc.

The story caused a furious row, and Buckingham Palace made a successful complaint to the press regulator Ipso, which called the article "misleading", and the queen's reputation for impartiality remained intact.

However, Remain supporters were quick to react when, in 2017, the snap general election led to a stripped-down ceremony for the State Opening of Parliament where the traditional royal robes were replaced by the queen wearing a blue and yellow floral hat which they said bore a coincidental resemblance to the EU flag.

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