preface
In the eyes of many people, history is just a few pieces of text written in textbooks, some lifeless descriptions, in which real people are difficult to perceive, people can not really understand the events that have happened, even if they have witnessed it, it is often only a very thin and narrow perspective.
What is the real history like, is it like the movie made? Is it what the novel describes? Is it what historians have compiled? Perhaps what we need is a person who can stand in a grand perspective and use his personal experience to string together historical moments for us.
For the history of the British, there is such a person who has accompanied the country through a hundred years of history, witnessed countless moments that have shaped the history of Britain, and it can be said that she is a living history textbook, and this person is the famous Queen Elizabeth.
Witness the times
Queen Elizabeth, full name Elizabeth Angela Margaret Bose-Lyon, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II, in her 102 years of life, the political and economic pattern of the world and Europe has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the prosperity, lows, riots, and wars experienced by Britain in the meantime have all passed through the eyes of this old man.
As an important figure in the British royal family, she has always accompanied the country, no matter what kind of crisis moments, Queen Elizabeth has shown extraordinary calm and reason, and the violent Hitler said that she was "the most dangerous woman in all of Europe"; if there are many crumbling moments in the world in the 20th century, then Queen Elizabeth must be one of the mainstays.
In the first years of the 20th century, during the reign of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth was born in the Westminster region of England, and this noble-born aristocratic girl, like many other aristocratic girls, received the best education and lived carefree for the first dozen years of her life, but the dark clouds of the times would not selectively bypass anyone.
When the news of the outbreak of the First World War reached Britain, the queen and queen who were still young girls were greatly affected, and the British mainland was once seriously invaded, and the harm caused by the war to the people was imprinted in Elizabeth's mind in a very cruel way.
The memories of the four brothers who died heroically on the battlefield of the First World War, the soldiers who were transported back from the battlefield were treated in various tragic wounds, and she herself was once imprisoned by the enemy as a prisoner, these memories made Empress Wang deeply appreciate the inhumanity of the war, and also planted in her heart the seeds of faith in defending the land and protecting the people.
Moving forward with the times
As adults, the queen and Prince Albert entered the palace of marriage, had their own family and daughter, the days slowly passed, neither of them expected that Albert, as the second son, inexplicably succeeded to the throne and became the king of England, because Edward VIII took the initiative to abdicate.
The sudden resignation made the husband and wife confused, almost did not know how to face this situation, fortunately, the brilliant queen quickly reacted, quickly adapted to the role of the queen, and helped Albert deal with various complex affairs that followed, handling all aspects in an orderly manner, so that the untrustworthy royal family was quickly recognized by the people.
Elizabeth was a strong, admirable woman and a mainstay of the British royal family. In many of the historical events that followed, as a member of the British royal family, she set an example for the whole country, standing like an indestructible statue on British territory, so that vulture-like predators did not dare to come closer.
During World War II, the German Nazis carried out massive bombing of the British mainland, several times, even Buckingham Palace was destroyed, and ministers asked the royals to temporarily leave Buckingham Palace to ensure their personal safety, but Elizabeth refused.
She knew in her heart the weight of her identity in the hearts of the British people, if she left, Buckingham Palace would lose its political significance, the people's hearts would become nothing, and once the people's hearts were scattered, it would be fatal to the foundation of the whole Of England, and even if it escaped the war, the prestige of the regime would be difficult to establish.
It's like a man who promises to protect you forever gives up on you in the most dangerous time, and then any promise he makes after that won't get your trust again, she said in a public speech to the nation: "The children can't leave without me, I can't leave without the king, and the king can't leave under any circumstances." ”
After Elizabeth II succeeded to the throne, the queen, like most grandmothers, took over the task of raising her grandson Charles, until the prince married Princess Diana, she accompanied her, but the weather was unpredictable, Diana was killed in a car accident, the queen experienced the first time in her life the white-haired person sent the brunette, the second time was her youngest daughter Margaret.
The nostalgia for Diana made it impossible for the queen to accept the new love between Charles and Camilla, and she said that camilla would never be allowed to enter the door, and Charles respected the grandmother who raised him so much that he did not marry Princess Camilla until the third year after the queen's death.
epilogue
Spanning more than a century, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed too much history in the Spring and Autumn, but also experienced too much historical ups and downs, in the face of all this, she chose to face bravely, she is like a warrior standing at the head of the tide of the times, no fear of any big wave that may throw her down at any time, this small body seems to contain infinite power, through the tunnel of time, connecting the glory and darkness of British history, and achieving the spirit of the times of the British people.