From the very beginning of her reign in 1952, her Majesty has proved an early adopter of everything from vaccines to cult TV shows to Zoom calls.
When Robert Menzies welcomed a 37-year-old Queen to Australia in 1963, she was almost half his age and more than a couple of generations removed.
“Mothers will hold their children up to have a look at you as you go by, and they themselves and their husbands will have a look at you as you go by,” he said. The Queen, pictured here during World War II with her sister Princess Margaret, has been a broadcaster for most of her life.Disposable nappies went on sale just in time for Princess Anne’s birth in 1950. In 1955, a vaccine for polio was finally made available. It was good news for then seven-year-old Prince Charles and five-year-old Princess Anne.The Queen made it known to the press that her children had been immunised. It remains a critical moment in the wider public acceptance of vaccines.
In a recent YouGov poll in Britain, the Queen, who had a 75 per cent approval rating with just 10 per cent of those surveyed having a negative view of the 96-year-old monarch, was described as “amazing”, “wonderful”, “lovely” and “regal”. Eight in 10 Britons held a positive opinion of the Queen, versus the 12 per cent who saw her negatively – giving the monarch a net score of +69.
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