When Elizabeth was crowned in the early 1950s, the British Empire was still about 1/4th of the globe; today it has Falkland Islands, and ? Today the Prime Minister of England is Hindu; of Scotland is a Muslim; of Northern Ireland two women, one representing the orange (Protestants), the other the greens (Roman Catholics. By the way, in India and parts of Asia, dark green is a color for Muslims, orange or saffron the color for Hindus.) And the leader of the Republic of Ireland is a man raised Catholic, half Irish, half Indian, who is an openly gay man. A lot of change in the reign of Elizabeth.
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