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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Weeks after Prince Andrew's birth in 1960, the palace released this portrait of the newborn with his mother.

Both sides trying, however indirectly, to claim royal patronage sums up the queen's importance to the British identity during the last 70 years.

Born just eight years after the end of World War I, she grew up in World War II, training as a vehicle mechanic toward its end.

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