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Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen is 90: crises, scandals and great triumphs – ABC Online

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In 90 years can be much happen:. Queen Elizabeth II, who will celebrate her birthday on April 21, can look back on an eventful life

Every year it hosts their garden parties in Buckingham Palace 30,000 guests. , it assumes an annual true 300 public events. . Queen Elizabeth II of England ( “A life on the throne” ) has no day off – except maybe at Christmas – and slaves in their Queen -Job 63 years and six months. Twelve British Prime Minister has she survived it. And she rides still out. Today it is 90 years.

“It’s unbelievable what she has done. She has a duty always put them before everything else. She’s been everywhere. One wonders as a member of the royal family? How could I meet these huge expectations ever, “said her grandson Prince Harry, who has evolved from black sheep of the family to the popular model asks

In.” Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family. A life for the crown “, find out all about the Queen

It’s so that no one can come close to Queen Elizabeth II.. It is the longest reigning monarch in the world for almost 70 years, she has with Prince Philip, the longest marriage of a royal couple in history. And all recognize their mild authority without envy. “We need all the leadership. And I feel incredibly lucky that we here have the best leader that exists at all, “says ex-footballer David Beckham.

however, there were in the life of this exceptional woman a variety of crises which had but rarely to do with the individual person, but rather with their environment.

death of the beloved father

King George VI. fell ill in his final years of lung cancer and atherosclerosis. He died on February 6, 1952 arterial thrombosis at his country estate Sandringham House in Norfolk. His daughter Elizabeth was at this time on a state trip to Kenya, Australia and New Zealand, which she had taken for the ailing monarch. The 25-year-old Crown Princess returned immediately to London and was proclaimed queen, a task for which she had never forced.



abhorrence Ceausescu

In June 1978 had to Queen Elizabeth Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, who had been invited by the British government on a state visit, received at Buckingham Palace. Their revulsion against the pair to have been so great that it is said to have hidden during a walk in the garden behind a bush in order to escape an encounter with them. After Ceausescu’s overthrow in December 1989 she recanted him conferred knighthood and sent her received in exchange rating of the Socialist Republic of Romania back.



murdering uncle

was on 27 August 1979 the retired Admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, killed. The uncle of Queen Consort Prince Philip was considered the founder of the royal marriage and maintained a close relationship with the royal family, especially to Prince Charles. The Irish terrorist organization IRA had smuggled a bomb on Mountbatten’s boat and detonated it when the 79-year-old came on board.



shots at the Queen

In June 1981, during the annual military parade six shots fired in honor of the royal birthday to the Queen as she rode by on her horse “Burmese”. These were to blank cartridges. The 17-year-old marksman Marcus Sarjeant originally wanted to use a rifle with live ammunition. He was sentenced to five years in prison and released early after three years. A year later, turned a certain Michael Fagan into the bedroom of the queen. They engaged him for several minutes in a conversation until the police arrived

sons and grandsons in the war

Also, a queen is very worried about their children. Elizabeth’s second youngest son Andrew ( born 1960), a helicopter pilot in the Royal Navy, in 1982 took on board the aircraft carrier “HMS Invincible” part in hostilities of the Falklands War. 25 years later, her grandson Prince Harry of Wales fought as a pilot of a helicopter gunship in Afghanistan against Taliban. He was regarded as particularly vulnerable and was three months later transported back to England.



Sauer on the US president

In 1983, came to a royal mood against US President Ronald Reagan : on a visit to his Californian ranch they clearly showed their displeasure with the US invasion of Grenada. They had not been informed of their allies on the military intervention in their kingdoms.



The horror year

In 1992, the Queen a real crisis year. She called it “annus horribilis”, the horror year. Her daughter Princess Anne Mark Phillips divorced her son Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson also parted. And Prince Charles and his wife Diana parted officially Previously Charles permanent affair with his girlfriend and later wife Camilla Parker-Bowles and Diana’s relationship with the Captain Hewitt was known. Moreover Windsor. Castle burned

For the loss should first pay the taxpayer, which caused a storm of indignation. Since then pays the Queen, whose assets had estimated the business magazine “Forbes” in 450 million dollars in 2010, voluntary income and capital gains tax. Finally, the queen

Diana’s death

was pelted with a visit to Germany in Dresden with eggs, a protest against the bombing of Elbflorenz in World War II.

On August 31, died in 1997 Princess Diana ( 36), the ex-wife of Charles and mother of his sons William and Harry after a car accident in Paris. England sank into mourning, but the Queen had no words of regret first. Only one day before Diana’s funeral, she held a television speech in which she spoke of her admiration for the former daughter-and her “grandmother’s feelings” for their grandchildren. Most Britons found that this public appearance came too late. The popularity of the royal family, which some blamed on fate of “Princess of Hearts”, fell to a low point.



Sophie gate

2001 crashed Countess Sophie of Wessex (49) , the wife of the youngest son of Queen Prince Edward, the monarchy into a crisis. Sophie fell for a disguised as Sheikh reporter of “News of the World”, who posed as a potential customer of their PR firm. Speaking to the reporters Countess blasphemed Princess Diana, Prince Charles, the Queen Mum, and even the then Prime Minister Tony Blair.



death of his mother and sister

2002 died within one month Elizabeth’s mother Queen Mum (101) and her sister Princess Margaret (71, after a stroke). The year in which the 50-year jubilee of the Queen was to be celebrated, was marked by the grief.



Highlights

This crises and scandals is a variety of highlights and triumphs over , big highlights as her marriage to the beloved Prince Philip (94) in 1947, her coronation (1952), the opening of the summer Olympics in Montreal in 1976 and in London in 2012 and the wedding of her grandson Prince William (2011).

Less known are the political successes of the Queen, who is said to have an insatiable taste for chocolate and chocolate mousse: So took the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1983-1993) considered that Elizabeth II a “driving force behind. was the scenes “in ending apartheid in South Africa. The efforts of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair to achieve peace in Northern Ireland have been strongly supported by the queen. In 2011 she attended the first British monarch officially the Republic of Ireland. . The state visit was the symbol of the normalization of the British-Irish relations

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and wife of the Queen’s grandson William, said of the most significant English woman of our time: “The Queen is the constant for this country and for the rest of us. “

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