The Queen and the Prime Minister

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An insight into the relationship between past and present Prime Ministers and The Queen, with footage kindly donated from the BBC's 'The Queen at 80'. Here we see the Queen perform a key constitutional role.

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Milk cost 2p a pint, meat and sugar were still rationed and the average house price was £1891. The year was 1952 and on the 6th February that year, Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, ascended the throne as Queen Elizabeth II.

62 years later and our Queen is still going strong and, unbelievably, is on her twelfth prime minister. So here, in this series of blogs, I wish to take you on a royal and political journey, introducing you to Her Majesty's Prime Ministers, starting all the way back in 1952 and ending in the present day.

The first of Queen Elizabeth II's prime ministers was wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.

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