Ron FraserColumnist
Queen Elizabeth—Diamond Jubilee’s True Significance
February 6, 2012 | From theTrumpet.com
Today Queen Elizabeth celebrates the beginning of her Diamond Jubilee year. What is its true significance?
When one considers Britain’s rise to power, it is pertinent to note that it largely began under one great queen, Elizabeth i, and consummated under the nation’s longest ever reigning monarch, Victoria.
Though she is in no direct way accountable for it, Britain’s loss of empire and its reduction to an island power attached to the European Union has been accomplished under the oversight of its reigning monarch of the past 60 years, Elizabeth ii.
It is as though the two Elizabeths bookend the history of the rise and fall of the power of Great Britain.
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