The Longest Reign
On 6 February 1952, a twenty-five-year-old princess in Kenya learned her father was dead. She reigned for seventy years — longer than any British monarch in history — and watched the empire she inherited dissolve beneath her.
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The Scheduled Kingdom
On 1st January 1801, the Acts of Union took effect and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland came into existence. January 1st is no coincidence — it is the bureaucrat's favourite date, chosen for its symbolism and its clarity. What no one could schedule was what came after.