Queen Elizabeth II

Standard Name: Elizabeth II, Queen
Used Form: Princess Elizabeth

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Reception Fleur Adcock
After Ted Hughes died on 28 October 1998, FA 's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion . Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lady Cynthia Asquith
Her first book about the Duchess of York, written while the Duchess was on tour in Australia, ended with the anxious moment of the reunion of the stranger mother with her toddler daughter the...
Publishing Dorothy Brett
DB 's article The King is Crowned, solicited by the New Yorker's Kyle Crichton , reached print in time for Queen Elizabeth II 's coronation.
Brett, Dorothy. “The King is Crowned”. The New Yorker, pp. 56-64.
Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts.
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Textual Production Dorothy Brett
In spring 1953, amid public excitement over the forthcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II , a journalist acquaintance of DB , Kyle Crichton, suggested she should write an article of reminiscences about the coronation of...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB published an account of the progress of women's struggle and status during the first half of the twentieth century: Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 23
Reception Frances Burney
FB never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan 's...
Literary Setting A. S. Byatt
ASB says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind.
Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, pp. 36-53.
43
After opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the story is set in Yorkshire (though...
Family and Intimate relationships Daphne Du Maurier
DDM 's husband was known as Boy in his regiment. He was also esteemed as a war hero and an Olympic athlete. Initially, DDM was very much in love with him. However, they grew apart...
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
CD edited a poetry anthology, Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets for 60 Years, to mark Elizabeth II 's Diamond Jubilee.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production U. A. Fanthorpe
Although not Poet Laureate, UAF was commissioned by the organisers of Bolton Festival to write a celebratory work for the eightieth birthday of Queen Elizabeth II . Its first performance, with music by composer Martin Lessons
Textual Production Rumer Godden
She broadcast, too. For the US radio network of Mary Margaret McBride she described, live, the responses of the crowds in the streets at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on 2 June 1953.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
The Girl Guides (founded in 1910), having heard that AJ wrote plays about teenagers, commissioned her in 1960 to write a play for their fiftieth anniversary. It was meant to be performed by four hundred...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Later relations of MEBCS include Queen Elizabeth II (through her mother , who was born a Bowes-Lyon) and John Bowes , the Victorian illegitimate son who built and endowed the splendid Bowes Museum in County Durham.
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM published a book about reporting from the Mount Everest expedition, titled Coronation Everest because its account of the conquest of the summit had reached London providentially on the eve [1 June 1953] of Queen Elizabeth
Occupation Jan Morris
While studying and writing for the student newspaper, Cherwell, Morris also established contact with The Times, then took a job as a sub-editor and junior leader-writer, then as foreign correspondent with the newspaper...

Timeline

21 April 1926: Princess Elizabeth was born: the future Queen...

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21 April 1926

Princess Elizabeth was born: the future Queen Elizabeth II, though at this time there was no apparent prospect of her succeeding to the throne.

13 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio...

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13 October 1940

Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio broadcast, directed to children of the Empire.

January 1945: Princess Elizabeth received training in the...

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January 1945

Princess Elizabeth received training in the operation and maintenance of vehicles while part of the Auxiliary Territorial Service .

20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh;...

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20 November 1947

Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh ; BBC radio broadcast the wedding service, and BBC television covered the procession as well.

14 November 1948: Princess Elizabeth had her first child, Charles,...

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14 November 1948

Princess Elizabeth had her first child, Charles , who was later invested as Prince of Wales.

13 July 1951: Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone...

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13 July 1951

Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone of the National Theatre , on the South Bank, London.

6 February 1952: King George VI died and Elizabeth II assumed...

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6 February 1952

King George VI died and Elizabeth II assumed the throne.

May 1953: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was...

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May 1953

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was marked by a special bonus on the butter ration: four extra ounces to add to each person's weekly eight ounces.

29 May 1953: The summit of Mount Everest, highest mountain...

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29 May 1953

The summit of Mount Everest, highest mountain in the world, was first reached: by the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and the New Zealander Edmund Hillary (who was later knighted).

2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC's...

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2 June 1953

Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC 's coverage of this, the first televised coronation, was carried live in the UK, France, the Netherlands and West Germany.

24 November 1953: Just months after her coronation, Queen Elizabeth...

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24 November 1953

Just months after her coronation, Queen Elizabeth II began her first tour of the Commonwealth, which continued for six months.

1955: Italian artist Pietro Annigoni drew record...

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1955

Italian artist Pietro Annigoni drew record attendance to the Royal Academy 's summer Exhibition with his somewhat romantic portrait HM the QueenQueen Elizabeth II .

14 October 1957: Queen Elizabeth II made her first television...

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14 October 1957

Queen Elizabeth II made her first television broadcast, a telerecording to Canadians.

18 March 1958: The attendance of debutantes at Court for...

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18 March 1958

The attendance of debutantes at Court for formal presentation to the Queen took place for the final time.

10 June 1958: The Centenary Gala of the Royal Opera House...

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10 June 1958

The Centenary Gala of the Royal Opera House took place in celebration of the opening (on 6 April 1847) of the third theatre on the Covent Garden site, the first designed for opera.

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