Queen Elizabeth II Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Williams on Her Majesty and Churchill: Get It Right

10 September 2023 Comments 0 Comments

A beautiful tribute to The Queen and Winston Churchill—only a click away—is by David Dilks. This book reminded me of it. Not because it is related to what Dr. Dilks wrote, but because it should have been. A good, short appreciation of their relationship, now that the last page has been turned for both, is needed. This paperback leaves us waiting.

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Princess Elizabeth’s Nazi Salute: Must We Know Everything?

15 November 2022 Comments 2 Comments

"Most people will see these pictures in their proper context and time. This is a family playing and momentarily referencing a gesture many would have seen from contemporary news reels. No one at that time had any sense how the salute would evolve."

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Valedictory: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

10 September 2022 Comments 3 Comments

It fell to Winston Churchill to define “this fair and youthful figure…heir to all our traditions and glories... Gazing at her photo “in a white dress and with long white gloves, displaying that enchanting smile which lights up her face as if a blind had suddenly been raised,” he mused: “Lovely, inspiring. All the film people in the world, if they had scoured the globe, could not have found anyone so suited to the part.” Admiration grew to attachment, attachment to adoration. Every week during their meetings her private secretary reported “gales of laughter” coming from the audience room: “Winston generally came out wiping his eyes.”

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The Queen 70 Years On: “A Sparkling Presence at its Summit”

15 May 2022 Comments 0 Comments

"Our Island no longer holds the same authority or power that it did in the days of Queen Victoria. A vast world towers up around it and after all our victories we could not claim the rank we hold were it not for the respect for our character and good sense...and I regard it as the most direct mark of God's favour we have ever received in my long life that the whole structure of our new-formed Commonwealth has been linked and illuminated by a sparkling presence at its summit." —WSC, 1955

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What Good’s a Monarchy? “To Separate Pomp from Power” -Churchill

10 May 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Excerpted from “What Good’s a Monarchy? Churchill’s Case for an Anachronism,” for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the original text including endnotes please click here.

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On Monarchy

“It is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.” —Winston S. Churchill1

In an age of lampooning anything which smacks of tradition, the question arises: what good is monarchy?…

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