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She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a farflung empire sweets were rationed mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites Seventy years on everything has changed utterly except the Queen herself ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation over which she so lightly presides
How did we get from there to here in a single reign To cancel culture antivaxxers and Twitter feeds Matthew Engel tells the story starting with the years from Churchill to Thatcher with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating forgotten often funny detail