Remembering Queen Elizabeth:
Like Elizabeth, he was a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
The new queen was a busy woman. She met regularly with the prime minister and other cabinet members and saw all cabinet papers as well as all important Foreign Office telegrams. She was also supreme governor of the Church of England. Margaret subsequently married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was named Earl of Snowdon. They had two children, but by 1978 the marriage ended in divorce, a move that had been taboo in the royal family since the days of Henry VIII.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth's second son, Prince Andrew, had married Sarah Ferguson and been named the Duke of York. Andrew's naval career though often kept them apart and their marriage was soon on the rocks too.As 1992 drew to a close, Elizabeth said in her annual Christmas broadcast that it had been an "annus horribilis."Princess Anne divorced her husband and subsequently married Navy Cmdr. Timothy Laurence.
Queen Elizabeth II with Princess Anne, Prince Phillip, Princess Michael of Kent, Peter Phillips, Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales at Buckingham Palace during the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, June 11, 1983.Many Britons started to question the value of the monarchy, and it was suggested that the succession should skip Charles altogether and go right to his son William.
But when people in front of Buckingham Palace began holding up signs reading "Where is our queen when we need her?," Elizabeth got the message.
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