She's Done a Super Job, but It's Time for the Queen to Go

The Herald (June 15, 2006)

Author: Harry Reid

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ALTHOUGH our Queen was 80 earlier this year, such is the arcane nature of constitutional monarchy that it is not until this week that she celebrates her socalled official, as opposed to her real, birthday. Thus, this is perhaps a good time to take stock.

The Queen was born in a house in Bruton Street, London, at a time of extreme national unrest and division. A rancorous miners' strike was escalating into what was to be the brief but bitter General Strike of 1926.

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She's Done a Super Job, but It's Time for the Queen to Go

Paradoxically, 17 Bruton Street was the home of her grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, and the earl was one of the country's richest coal kings, a man who owned many mines. So, though she could har...

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