Queen Elizabeth II's power was 'both glamorous and graceful, the most romanticized ideal of royalty,' writes EHolmes. 'The institution’s violent, horrifying history replaced by a nurturer, a mother of a nation'
Ever aware that the future of the monarchy rested on the public’s affection for the institution, the Firm carefully positioned Elizabeth for her future role as monarch. Her power, when the time came, would be less about authority and more about duty. The throne would be occupied by someone humbly and willingly giving herself to the crown.
For as prominent a public figure as she was, Elizabeth said very little. She was a woman of few words, made in scripted speeches and the occasional off-the-cuff quip. A calculated choice, informed in part by her stiff-upper-lip wartime upbringing and in part by the history of the institution, which prized itself on ruling from a distance. Think of a gloved hand waving rather than bare hands shaking.
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