Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrates a 70-year peaceful reign.
It makes her the third longest serving monarch of a sovereign state behind Louis XIV ‘The Sun King’ and Rama IX. It is a victory of political and personal endurance, rarely seen, in which Elizabeth II has dedicated nearly a century of faultless service in an era populated by elected politicians who struggle to make it through three years of ‘good behaviour’.
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