The Queen was only 25 when her father died while she was on tour in Kenya with the Duke of Edinburgh, but for all the shock of his death she appeared to be as prepared for her new role as she ever would be. Less than a week later she was at St James’s Palace for the Accession Council, where one of those present recalled how “a slight figure dressed in deep mourning entered the great room alone, and, with strong but perfectly controlled emotion, went through the exacting task the constitution prescribed”. After reading the declaration of sovereignty to the privy council, she said: “My heart is too full for me to say more to you today than that I shall always work asSponsored

Source: The Times September 08, 2022 22:29 UTC