The Queen in 2016. “You can do a lot if you are properly trained,” she once said, “and I hope I have been.”Shortly before her 88th birthday at an otherwise routine reception at Buckingham Palace, the Queen broke into song. As she was chatting with the soprano Laura Wright, she blurted out a snippet of Sing, the song composed by Gary Barlow for her Diamond Jubilee. The news sped across Twitter, not least because it contradicted the Queen’s image of sombre propriety. SponsoredThe longest-serving monarch in British history was imbued with an unwavering sense of duty — Winston Churchill, her first

Source: The Times September 09, 2022 10:23 UTC