Richard Lambert recalls the excitement at the start of the second Elizabethan age. In 1953 Britain was a deferential society and adulation of the Queen on her coronation was the order of the day.

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Richard Lambert considers the Queen’s commitment to public service and assesses her strengths and weaknesses as a monarch.

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When the Queen came to the throne the media was deferential to the 25-year-old monarch and her family. But in the 1960s that began to change. Richard Lambert maps the sometimes fractious relationship between the Queen and the press.

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Richard Lambert charts the evolving relationship between the Queen, politicians and her Prime Ministers during her reign.

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Richard Lambert examines how the Queen navigated the world of international politics as head of state and head of the Commonwealth.

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Richard Lambert talks to Professor Vernon Bogdanor, one of the UK’s foremost constitutional experts, about the Queen’s long reign and the state of the monarchy.

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