Jimu news reporter Wang Liangliang Huang Jiaqi
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and symbol of stability in turbulent times, died on September 8 at the age of 96.
As a monarch of the British Commonwealth, Elizabeth II is a model of elegant and decent etiquette, but looking back on her life, there is no shortage of moments that show her personality and "deviant".
Queen Elizabeth II (Image source Sky News)
Seeking true love and sticking to the Windsor dynasty
At the Royal Naval College in 1939, Princess Elizabeth, then 13, and Philip, an 18-year-old cadet of the Military Academy, met.
According to the princess's governess, Marion Crawford, Elizabeth was attracted to philip at his first meeting with him with his blonde hair and blue eyes.
The two maintained correspondence during the war. After Philip returned from the battlefield in 1946, relations with Elizabeth quickly warmed up.
Despite Philip's dignified title, the marriage encountered some resistance in the royal family.
Many people thought that Philip was "too abrupt, too vulgar, not like the English" and was not the first choice of the royal family, but Elizabeth still firmly chose Philip and insisted on marrying true love.
When Elizabeth and Philip were engaged (Image credit Getty Pictures)
In July 1947, Philip announced his new English surname, Mountbatten, in an official statement. A few months later, he renounced his right to inherit the Greek and Danish thrones.
In November of the same year, Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, a Royal Navy officer, at Westminster Abbey, in the presence of 2,000 people.
In February 1952, Elizabeth's father, George VI, died, and Elizabeth, who was visiting Kenya, hastily returned to her country to take the throne. Elizabeth's then-private secretary, Martin Chateris, asked her what name she would rule the country under (also known as her "monarch's name"), to which she replied , "Of course it's my own." ”
When Elizabeth ascended the throne, on the one hand, Elizabeth was under pressure from her husband, and Philip proposed that all descendants should take their father's surname Mountbatten, and the British dynasty should be renamed Mountbatten; But on the other hand, both Then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Queen Mary suggested that the dynasty name remain In Windsor.
Under pressure from two traditions, in 1960 the Queen issued a Privy Council decree declaring that her descendants' surnames would be a combination of her husband's and her own, Mountbatten-Windsor, with the dynasty name remaining Windsor. Elizabeth II's insistence on keeping the dynasty name in Windsor was seen by many Britons as a "very cool" act.
Repair truck engines during World War II
Elizabeth was only 13 years old when the British went to war against Germany in 1939 and spent most of the war with her sister Margaret at Windsor Castle.
In 1940, at the age of 14, Elizabeth gave her first morale-boosting radio speech, delivering wartime messages to children evacuated to the countryside or overseas.
Elizabeth and her sister speak to the countrymen (Image credit Getty Pictures)
As the war progressed, she took on more and more responsibility.
In 1945, Elizabeth persuaded her father to allow her to participate directly in assisting the war. She served in the Women's Auxiliary Service Regiment of the Rear Defense Support Force, learning to drive and repair heavy vehicles, becoming the first officially trained car mechanic in the royal family.
Princess Elizabeth repairs a car during World War II (Image source AFP)
After training, Elizabeth learned how to repair engines and replace tires, and also learned how to drive the various machines she had repaired, including jeeps, trucks and ambulances.
On 8 May 1945, the night the war in Europe was finally over, members of the royal family and Prime Minister Churchill celebrated with the populace on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, and Elizabeth and Margaret slipped away and blended into the crowd celebrating in London.
"I remember rows of unknown people holding hands and walking down the streets of Buckingham Palace, and all of us were swept away by waves of happiness and relief." Decades later, in an interview with the BBC, she said, "It was one of the most memorable nights of my life." ”
Concealing the family's appearance at the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games
Elizabeth has many moments in documentaries, news footage and major international occasions, but the most unexpected was the attendance at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
At the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games, the queen changed her former majesty and made a cameo appearance as a "Bond Girl", appearing in a short film with "James Bond".
The Queen casts for the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games (Image from the BBC)
In the short film, Bond travels to Buckingham Palace to greet the Queen for the celebrations. The Queen sat at the writing desk and uttered the classic line "Good evening, Mr. Bond," and the two of them walked together through the corridors of the palace and took a helicopter ride over london stadiums.
Subsequently, people at the stadium site saw the "Queen" (stuntman) on the helicopter wearing a pale pink slip dress and jumping off with a parachute printed with the British flag.
The Queen's stuntman skydive over the stadium (Image from the BBC)
A few minutes later, Elizabeth II walked into the stadium and sat down with Prince Philip amid the cheers of thousands of spectators.
James Bond's character Daniel Craig said of the Queen's performance in the short film: "She's great, calmer than me."
Queen attends opening ceremony of The London Olympic Games (*Image source BBC)
The film in which "The Queen of England" jumps from a helicopter has received considerable discussion, and this deepLy British humorous plan has been fully cooperated by the Queen.
At the 10th anniversary retrospective, production stage manager Sam Hunter said: "The Queen never told her family she was doing it. It was one of the conditions on which she agreed to participate. ”
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