{"id":205868,"date":"2026-04-22T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:15:12","slug":"queen-elizabeth-made-history-by-normalizing-royal-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205868\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth Made History By \u201cNormalizing\u201d Royal Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Elizabeth would have turned 100<\/a> on Tuesday, April 21, and as the Royal Family carries out events to mark her life and reign, a new biography of the late Queen<\/a> is revealing one of the \u201cmost important\u201d<\/a> lessons she left for her heirs.<\/p>\n

In Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. Her Story<\/a>, author and royal journalist Robert Hardman explores the intricacies of the late Queen\u2019s public and private personas, and he wrote that she differed from the Kings and Queens before her in one major way.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the most important of all of the lessons to be learned from Elizabeth II<\/a> is that she \u2018normalized\u2019 being monarch without sacrificing her majesty,\u201d Hardman wrote. \u201cHistory shows an almost unbroken line of sovereigns quarrelling with their predecessors or their successors (sometimes both). Unlike those who came before her, Elizabeth II loved\u2014and was loved by\u2014her father and her son.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In turn, King Charles<\/a> has carried that philosophy down to his own heirs, Prince William<\/a> and Prince George<\/a>. In a recent interview with Hello!,<\/a> royal author and journalist Robert Jobson said that Prince George, 12, will change his relationship<\/a> with his grandfather, The King, in one key way.<\/p>\n

“George will be spending more time with his grandfather over the next few years, as William did with the late Queen,\u201d Jobson noted. “He used to meet his grandmother for tea regularly at Windsor Castle<\/a> when he was a pupil at Eton down the road. Now, it’s Charles who has experience of being King.\u201d<\/p>\n

King Charles might differ from his late mother<\/a> in a number of ways, but he was able to take lessons from her leadership over the course of her historic 70-year-reign<\/a>. Reflecting on her own preparation, Queen Elizabeth told Eddie Mirzoeff in 1991, \u201cYou can do a lot if you\u2019re properly trained. And I hope I have been.\u201d<\/p>\n

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