Hear, hear!
God Save the Queen!
Today is Queen Elizabeth’s 89th birthday. In the years since her coronation in 1952, there have been twelve presidents of the United States, and the queen has met all of them except for Lyndon Johnson. Here are some pictures of her with the others:
With Harry Truman in 1951 (Elizabeth was still a princess at the time)
With Dwight Eisenhower in 1957
With John Kennedy in 1961
With Richard Nixon in 1969
With Gerald Ford in 1976
With Jimmy Carter in 1977
With Ronald Reagan in 1982
With George H. W. Bush in 1991
With Bill Clinton in 1994
With George W. Bush in 2007
With Barack Obama in 2011
God save the Queen, and preserve us from those who would make us a mere republic
Exactly!
As British Commonwealthers, from former British settler colonies, republicanism is not our heritage; monarchy is.