The Elizabethan Age
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Over the course of her reign, Queen Elizabeth II sustained Britain's monarchy for seven decades, between the eras of steam and Zoom. She departed possessing the gratitude and respect of the overwhelming majority of her subjects who today find it hard to come to terms with a world from which she is absent. So what characterised the second Elizabethan Age?
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Guests:
- Sir Max Hastings, historian, journalist and columnist for The Times.
- Alwyn Turner, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Chichester.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:20.0 | As the news broke on Thursday evening, the country was in shock. |
| 0:30.0 | Shock at the death of the Queen and for many, shock at the realisation of just how much it meant to them. |
| 0:40.0 | What I've found really moving is what people arriving at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle have been saying. |
| 0:46.0 | People clearly shocked and very emotional about what she meant to the country. |
| 0:51.0 | She's been the Queen the whole of my life and I'm 62, so. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, and looking around, a lot of people doing the same thing, just sort of looking up and wondering what to do with themselves. |
| 1:01.0 | It's just totally strange, it's like it's such a weird feeling. |
| 1:06.0 | I actually really got emotional when I saw the balcony and I thought that she'll never be on the balcony again. |
| 1:12.0 | And that's really, really sad. |
| 1:14.0 | A lot of people said it feels personal, which is strange because I didn't know her really, but seeing the balcony was the moment to me. |
| 1:21.0 | I've been so used to her presence since she came to the throne in 1952. |
| 1:26.0 | I thought she was just going to go on forever. I think many of us did. |
| 1:31.0 | The Queen was the great constant. |
| 1:34.0 | She didn't just represent the country and the Commonwealth and our shared values. |
| 1:39.0 | She represented an entire era. |
| 1:43.0 | She came to this throne at just 25 in a country that was emerging from the shadow of war. |
| 1:49.0 | She bequeathed some modern, dynamic nation that has grown and flourished under her reign. |
| 1:56.0 | Our Elizabethan age may now be over, but her legacy will live on forever. |
| 2:04.0 | Spanning seven decades, the Queen's reign was an era of extraordinary change for Britain. |
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