Elizabeth II: The Making of The Queen
Gone Medieval
History Hit
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Queen Elizabeth II has died after 70 years on the British throne.
Born in April 1926, Elizabeth Windsor became heir apparent, aged 10, when her uncle Edward VIII abdicated and her father George VI became king.
In 1947 – She married navy lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, a Greek Prince, at London’s Westminster Abbey before being crowned there in 1953 in the world’s first televised coronation.
In this special episode of Dan Snow’s History Hit, Dan is joined by historian Kate Williams to look at The Queen’s childhood, adolescence in WWII and the upbringing that made her a monarch admired around the world.
Producer: Charlotte Long
Audio editor: Dougal Patmore
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Lewis and welcome to Gone Medieval. Today we're bringing you a special memorial |
| 0:05.9 | episode for Queen Elizabeth II who was died at the age of 96. The Queen has made history and has |
| 0:13.1 | been a constant through good times and bad for 70 years. She's been our greatest public servant |
| 0:19.4 | and would be missed by many all around the world. This episode is an interview with Dan Snow |
| 0:25.0 | and Royal Historian Kate Williams on the life and legacy of the Queen from our sister podcast |
| 0:31.5 | Dan Snow's history hit. Gone Medieval will be back soon. On the afternoon of the 8th of September |
| 0:38.8 | 2022, Queen Elizabeth II died. It feels here in the UK like the end of an era. This was a one |
| 0:49.4 | born closer to the start of intercity railway travel in 1830 than to today. She knew Churchill. |
| 0:59.3 | She was born into a world in which her grandfather, King Emperor George V ruled over 25% the Earth's |
| 1:09.8 | population. It was a world with no computers, no televisions, no proper understanding of penicillin, |
| 1:17.4 | DNA. She was older than the UN. She was older than the peoples of public of China. |
| 1:24.0 | Although there's some debate, she is regarded the second longest serving monarch in history. |
| 1:30.3 | Having rained for 70 years, around two years less than Louis XIV of France, and he cheated because |
| 1:36.6 | he came for the throne as a small child. She's born on 21st April 1926. She discovered that she |
| 1:45.6 | would be queen on the day that her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated, and her father was placed on the throne. |
| 1:54.3 | She served during the Second World War, so she had veteran of that conflict. She served in the |
| 1:58.0 | auxiliary territorial service. She served in uniform, and she performed the role of constitutional |
| 2:04.6 | monarch hardly putting a foot wrong, even her detractors would admit that she hardly put a foot |
| 2:10.3 | wrong for 70 years. I've seen her a couple of times. Once up close, I was in the press of |
| 2:17.6 | veterans at the cemetery in Bayer on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and she walked through the |
| 2:22.4 | middle of them in a bright, lime green outfit, hat, and dress matching. She was almost luminescent, |
| 2:30.5 | and the effect she had on the crowd, the onlookers, the veterans, the serving, |
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