The Queen - 70 years on the throne

[bridiem]

All I can say is: may God bless her, and all who sail in her.

[JohnS]

It’s the 70 years that hits me and all those Prime Ministers. Begins with Churchill and I just hope it doesn’t end with Johnson. That would be so unfitting.

[Ian Macmillan]

I'd have been 10 at the time and, strangely, I don't have any recollection of that day.  However, I do remember a growing excitement in the year or so that followed, the months before the Coronation in June 1953.  More on that perhaps on 2 June 2023.

[LinMM]

I can still remember Coronation Day and still have the mug!! I was 5 and a half then. It was all very exciting. Apart from my very first day at school I don’t remember that much before 1952 now. 
Hoping the Queen has a few more years yet to her reign! 

Edited February 6, 2022 by LinMM

[AnneMarriott]

Britannia Road Primary School, Ipswich, 6 February 1952, about lunchtime.  The Headmaster dashed into the classroom, white as a sheet, and said, "the King is dead".  Mrs. Murray, our teacher, burst into tears.  Most of us burst into tears too, so startled were we by the shock of seeing such emotion from two austere and respected adults.  It also happened to be my brother's 2nd birthday so my excitement about a little party later that day was somewhat quashed.

[Melody]

So in just over two years, she'll have broken Louis XIV's record too.

[LinMM]

I’m not really a great “Royalist” and hope that the Royal Family …after this Queens reign…will gradually take more of a stand back over time as we move into the 21st Century but am not for abolition just think it should be allowed to take a natural process of becoming less relevant in the general scheme of things. 
However the Queen is in a class of her own and hopefully will be long lived and active like her mother was.  
So definitely hope she breaks Louis XIV’s record!!