In seven decades on the throne, the Queen was duty personified. But, while never putting a foot wrong, there were moments when she clearly had a whale of a time.
You knew it when she suddenly broke out in that broad, somehow innocent smile. Her first meeting with Winston Churchill as Queen was understandably sombre.
It was on 7 February 1952, as she stepped down, in mourning black, from the plane at London Airport, the day after her dear father George VI’s death.
Churchill, Clement Attlee and Anthony Eden were there to greet her on the tarmac. But, after that sad day, the meetings between Churchill (born 1874) and the Queen, over 50 years his junior, were suffused with joy.
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