a war hero. spent that time in the prison and came back and you have been in the senate twice presidential candidate. >> both times lost. >> what do you want to be remembered for? >> hopefully with the word honorably on it. that's all. prince harry and meghan markle tied the knot in a stunning royal wedding. over seeing it all is the family matriarch. who reigned as queen for more than six decades. >> she's the boss. she runs the firm. >> i obviously think if we lived a thousand years, we should never see anything like it again. my whole life, whether it's been long or short, shall be devoted to your service. >> she's often said to insiders, we need to be seen to be

believed. >> queen elizabeth is living history. >> everything from 1952 right through to today, what a canvas that is. >> an unexpected journey. >> you know, it's, yes, your father's dead. you are now queen. whoa! >> it was a man's world. she hadn't a clue in what she was doing. she confronts challenges. >> anything that could go wrong did go wrong for the queen. >> it just turned out to be an annas aurebilias. >> and when a nation mourns -- princess die glan >> she chose family over duty. >> no one who knew diana will never forget her. >> that was something she had to do to preserve the monarchy. >> a story passed in tradition that will continue for

generations. >> it's quite exciting times for the monarchy. >> duty, dedication and dignity. >> at the age of 21 to her 90s has given her life in service of her country. >> the queen is the united kingdom. maybe we should call it the united queendom. in the united kingdom in june 2016, the british people vote to leave the european union. queen elizabeth does not speak. the controversial brexit decision until a year later. >> my governor's priority is to secure the best possible deal as the country leaves the european union. >> her comments and her annual address to parliament reflect

her trademark restraint and neutrality, but viewers take note of her wardrobe. one accessory in particular. >> she wore this beautiful cornflower blue hat with a series of flowers around it. and i remember seeing that hat thinking, goodness, that really looks familiar. >> the hat looked very much like the eu flag. there was no way that the queen would have taken that decision unknowingly. >> could her majesty who has reigned for more than 65 years as a careful and deliberate monarch be sending a subtle message? >> the queen sits above politics. she should not get involved in politics, and yet here you had a very, very momentous decision that the country was about to take, if. >> the brexit co nondrum illustrates the unique position of the queen. >> she's not meant to express political views, endorse political views, support a political party.

>> as queen of england, her powers are largely ceremonial. >> the essential role of the queen is to be head of state to approve legislation to open parliament, to represent the nation abroad. >> 52 countries around the world, some huge countries like canada and australia, some small places like tuvelo, she loves the commonwealth and understands it. >> the queen is the best thing the british foreign policy ever had, frankly. if we still have influence in the world, then we can thank the queen for it. >> since 1952, the queen has arguably been the most famous woman in the world. she's also among the richest. with a personal fortune that hovers around $500 million. >> she's not cash rich but she's property rich. but then how can you put a value on it? you can't. >> the queen is officially known as elizabeth ii, by the grace of god of the united kingdom of

great britain and northern ireland and of her other realms and territories, queen, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. she's also wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. >> when you hear the two princes, william and harry talking about the queen, they differentiate the personal and the kind of professional. they talk about her as their grandmother but also as the boss. she runs the firm. it's a family business. >> whether by circumstance or design, queen elizabeth has cultivated a carefully constructed image. one that both empowers and protects her. >> a group is formed that people don't know about called the way ahead group. their sole job is to come up with ways to modernize the monarchy. she's doing whatever it takes to keep the monarchy relevant and alive. >> for the queen, duty and appearance always come first. at her majesty's trouping the

color celebration in 2016, the world watches as she scolds william, telling him to stand up when he crouches down to talk to his son george. she's now britain's longest reigning monarch in history as well as its oldest. this incredible wealth of experience has made the queen a powerful resource on politics and diplomacy, one that is invaluable to her prime ministers. but that power is wielded subtly and behind palace doors. >> i think what's so important to any prime minister, certainly at this day, is the breadth of experience the queen has. >> everything from 1952 to today, what a canvas that is, weaponry, al qaeda, the lot. >> her majesty has been conducting weekday meetings since every prime minister since 1952.

>> they are usually on wednesday around tea time. and the prime minister will deliver to her the news of the week, the forecast for the next week. >> somebody once asked james callahan, the prime minister, you were friends of hers, and he stopped the interview and said, the queen doesn't offer friendship. what she offers is friendliness. very different. >> as only the sixth woman to be crowned queen of england in her own rite, she's witnessed nearly a century of history. her unlikely journey began on april 21st, 1926. >> princess elizabeth was born with no expectation of becoming queen. her father was the second son of the then king george v. and every expectation was that his older brother would become king. >> she had a relatively normal education for an aristocratic girl.

she was educated at home, she was not sent to school. >> on the throne sits king george v. to her, she's grandpa england. when he dies in 1936, all eyes are on elizabeth's uncle edward, the next in line for the throne. >> he was glamorous and a womanizer. and he dressed in the height of fashion. he was a brilliant horseman. >> but elizabeth's entire world as well as her destiny changes later that year when the new king shocks the nation with a radio announcement. >> a few hours ago, i discharged my last duty as king and emperor. >> elizabeth's uncle abdicated when he fell in love with the american divorcee simpson. and a king marrying a divorced woman was not acceptable, so a

decision was taken by her uncle that rather than not marry the woman he loved, he would give up the throne. >> that decision makes her father, king george vi. >> the queen's father took over as king, which was a really moment of potential crisis for the monarchy. >> he didn't expect to be king, he didn't want to be king, he had a stutter. he wasn't the man who had been groomed to be king. he was the spare to the heir. >> 10-year-old princess elizabeth, a care-free girl who loves horses, is now heir-apparent to an empire that rules over nearly a quarter of the world. >> the queen has always been very, very aware of the fact that her uncle abdicated responsibility and the impact that had on her father. and she absolutely refers back to that constantly. >> she became the focus of world attention.

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we are at war. >> the second world war had a huge impact on elizabeth's life. she could see how much the country was suffering. >> during george vi reign after two months in 1940, an infamous time known as the blitz. >> buckingham palace was attacked by a german bomber and the wing was badly damaged. the king said, it's my duty to stay here and to lead my people. and the queen mother said, if he's not moving, i'm not moving.

>> but the king and his wife send their daughters out of london to the relative safety of a more rural location. >> the public were just told they were staying at a location in the country. it was secret. but, in fact, they were at windsor castle. >> from that secure spot, 14-year-old princess elizabeth addresses the nation's youth on the bbc's children's hour radio broadcast. her sister margaret is by her side. >> i know from experience what it means to be away from those we love most of all. >> the idea was for her to offer calm reassurance and to boost the morale of children evacuated all over the commonwet. >> quite literally finding her voice and identifying with other people was the kind of coming of age moment for this young woman who was cast into the spotlight. >> during the war, the young princess joins the woman's auxillary territorial service where she learns to become a mechanic.

>> she loved that period. >> she learned how to drive cars, she learned how to fix engines, she wore the uniform, even at that age she wanted to do her duty. >> she must be the only person ever to sit on the british throne who did actually know how to service a jeep. >> the war ends in 1945. >> the celebrations of the end of war were led from buckingham palace's balcony reinforcing the plan that people were fighting for the country as a whole. >> later elizabeth embarked on a commonwealth tour with her family including two months in south africa. there on her 21st birthday, she delivers what will prove to be one of the most important speeches of her life. >> i declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted

to your service and to the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. >> the message was so significant. it was handing herself over to her public. >> elizabeth then was showing just her dedication to the job that she knew one day would come her way. >> three months later, the palace announces the engagement of princess elizabeth and lieutenant phillip baton. >> they approve of the love match. >> phillip, a great-great-grandchild of week victoria and a distant cousin to princess elizabeth was born into the greek and danish royal families. phillip, as an 18-year-old cadet, had been recruited in 1939 to show 13-year-old luz beth and her family around the royal naval college at dartmouth. >> she sort of developed a crush on him and really never looked at another man. >> not everyone welcomes the match. phillip is of german descent and

considered a foreigner, an especially troubling point so close to the end of the war. >> the one extraordinary thing that the queen did, which was completely out of character, in a sense, was to marry prince philip. he didn't have any money, he didn't really have any family. >> to enhance his suitability, phillip was baptized in the greek orthodox church is officially received into the church of england. then the groom-to-be is rebranded, adopting his mother's surname, mount baton. however, he accepts the royal family will be known under the queen's name, windsor. >> much has been made of the notion of prince philip having to lose his own surname, adopt the queen's, his children couldn't be called mount baton's. he didn't like that. >> the royal couple marries on november 20th, 1947. >> when you think about that, that's two years after the end of the second world war.

this country had just been ravaged by nazi bombs. people were still living on rations. >> elizabeth, like any bride, had to save up coupons, because rationing was still on to buy the silk for her wedding dress. >> there was this fairy tale princess marrying this incredibly handsome prince. and as winston churchill described it, a splash of color on the hard road we have to travel. >> a year later, the princess gives birth to an heir, a son the couple names charles. two years later, elizabeth and phillip welcomed daughter anne. the young family resides in clarence house and phillip ends his naval career in 1951. that same year, the family and the country face a crisis when the princess' father, a heavy smoker, has surgery after doctors report, quote, structural changes in the lung.

>> he had a lung removed. and there was hope that he would make a full recovery. >> the king was suffering from cancer but nobody talked about it in those days. >> he was in denial, really, about how ill he was. he wanted to keep it from his family as much as possible. >> he never wanted to be king. so i think for george, really, the stress of having to take on that mantle, the burden of sovereignty, plus the cancer, made him a very sickly man. >> four months after the surgery, king george sees elizabeth and phillip off as the couple embarks on a six-month commonwealth tour. the first stop is kenya. >> she was in a bush hotel if you like, or treetops, and she was telling the person that owned the place, i had a letter from papa. he was feeling better and went shooting today. almost as he said those words, he was dying. >> 4,000 miles away, less than a week after his airport good-bye,

the 56-year-old king dies in his sleep from a blood clot that formed in his heart. >> the king will return to rest last night in his usual health passed peacefully away in his sleep. >> in a moment, elizabeth goes from young mother and princess to queen of an empire. >> she is 25 years old. >> elizabeth was pretty much one of the last people to know that her father had passed away. because they were in such a remote area, trying to get word to them was virtually impossible. >> finally, she was told of her father's death. and, of course, it's, yes, your father's dead. you are now queen. whoa! those two things happened absolutely simultaneously. >> she actually became queen when she was at treetop. she went up a tree as princess elizabeth and came down as the new queen. >> the new queen cuts her trip short and boards a 20-hour flight back to london.

>> on that brutally long plane trip, she displayed know motion. however, periodically, she would get up, go into the bathroom and could be heard crying. >> it was a man's world. and this is 1952. and here was this young girl suddenly taking on this enormous responsibility. she hadn't a clue, really, what she was doing. >> now queen, plans are set in motion for her coronation. prince philip serves as chairman of the committee. together they make a controversial decision. >> the queen commanded it be televised. she didn't think that monarchy should be something done in secret. she's often said to insiders, we need to be seen to be believed. >> winston church hill was vehemently against televising the event, but the queen, young as she was, went against the advice of probably her most trusted prime minister of her entire royal career.

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madam, is your majesty willing to take the oath? >> i am willing. >> upon taking the coronation oath in 1953, the saint edwards crown crafted in 1661, is placed on elizabeth's head. >> long live the queen! long live the queen!

>> with the pomp and circumstance of the coronation behind her, the new monarch moves forward with the business of being queen. a near daily rid ritual involves what is known as the red box. >> one of the heaviest duties and burden that is the queen has is to read the contents of what she calls the dreaded red boxes of state. >> inside is endless government papers, which she reads through. she's got to sign off every act of parliament personally. >> i know from some of the people that i speak to at the palace that her's is often the last light to go out because she's still hard at work sifting through those papers in that red box. >> it can be a daunting task, but the 25-year-old queen has a legendary statesman advise her. >> she relied on winston churchill because he gave her advice. i think he took it upon himself as well to look after her. >> although she felt very

affectionately toward winston church hill, she didn't let him off lightly. she learned very quickly she needed to assert herself against her prime minister and the cabinet at times. >> five years into her reign, in 1957, queen elizabeth and prince philip travel to the united states to meet with president eisenhower, marking her first state visit to the former british colonies as queen. >> 350 years ago the great americ nation was rn at this historic place. >> always a bit of an edgy relationship between our two countries when it comes to monarchy. because after all, poor old george iii had lost the american colonies. >> the trip is considered such a success that prime minister harold mcmillan writes in his diary the queen has buried george iii for good and all. >> when the queen goes abroad, it was diplomacy. it's about saying, i represent britain, i am your friend, you are my friend, this is going to

be a historic visit. >> the travel as well as her full schedule of appointments at home leaves little time to spend with her young children, charles and anne. >> back in the day when charles was a little boy, the queen would go on tours for months at a time. so there's this sense that charles, particularly, felt like he didn't see very much of his parents and that he didn't particularly enjoy his childhood. >> it was always duty first. i'm not saying family necessarily came second, but there were times when perhaps her children did have to take second place to the job. >> the queen had her other two children, andrew and edward, much later on. i think when she was perhaps a little more comfortable with the job. so i think the queen's relationship with her younger two children was a little closer perhaps than it was with her older two children because the job of queen came to her at such a young age.

>> turmoil erupts during the late 1960s between the united kingdom and northern ireland. >> the ira is still in the terrorist business. >> known as the troubles, it becomes one of the queen's greatest tests. >> it made it very difficult for the queen. she's, after all, the queen of the united great britain and northern ireland. >> one of the things that the irish republicans hate is the monarchy. there's hundreds of years of animosity between england and ireland. and the monarch to them is a symbol of the oppression. >> it's a terribly tangled political mess. and there's one thing the queen does not want to get too involved in, is a political mess. >> in the united kingdom, we have our own particular sorrows in northern ireland. >> after more than a decade of violent conflict that claimed the lives of nearly 3,700 citizens, the bloodshed becomes very personal for the queen.

>> earl mountbatten was killed today. the irish republican army said it was responsible and called it and execution. >> three others are also killed, including lord mountbatten's 14-year-old grandson when a bomb placed on his fishing boat explodes. the earl who arranged the fateful meeting between his nephew and the young princess elizabeth nearly 40 years earlier was 79. >> he was the uncle of prince philip. he was the great uncle of prince charles. and both of them were very, very close. it was a massive, massive tremor for the royal family. >> when louis mountbatten was blown apart by the ira, the very people trying to tear her country apart, it must have literally broken her heart. more than 20 years later, the good friday agreement brings an end to the troubles. in a moment of conciliation, the

queen comes face-to-face with martin mcginnis, former ira commander whose organization assassinated earl mountbatten. mcginnis is one of the architects of the peace accord. >> she shook hands with him because that is what the people had willed. she could have avoided it, but she went. to me, it summed up her grasp of her role. >> i remember martin mcginnis coming into the room to greet the queen and saying, how are you? she said, well, at least i'm still live, which was a nice sort of ironic remark. coming up -- >> the queen let it be known that she expected to be advised and consulted. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn't stop. but thanks to our forester,

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>> and the queen was the herd tear of the monarchy and everything that margaret thatcher wasn't. >> the queen had a contentious relationship with margaret thatcher. >> she was very forthright and very difficult to get along with at first. >> the queen let it be known that she expected to be advised and consulted and that her views were worthy of being listened to as well. there's one very famous occasion where she wanted to know what was happening at a particular stage of the conflict and was told that mrs. thatcher was very busy and just getting to another meeting. and the queen's secretary said, no, she wants to know and she wants to know now. mrs. thatcher turned around and took the call. >> the conflict in the falklands occurred just off the coast. three days after the invasion, the u.k. responds.

>> thatcher sent a task force, pretty well every fighting ship that we could muster. and the best of the british marines. >> the queen's son, prince andrew, is a royal navy pilot during the conflict. >> she was obviously like any military mother, very, very worried for his safety. very, very testing times. but also because of her close bond with the military, understanding the desire for her son to go out there and do his duty and taking immense pride in the fact he was doing that. >> more than 900 people are killed by the time britain wins the falklands war, which lasts 74 days. >> this amazing picture of prince andrew who had this rose between his lips in full naval uniform. and she clearly, in that split moment, was not her majesty queen elizabeth ii of great britain and northern ireland. she was mom to a very young brave man who had come home safely. >> to the queen.

>> throughout the 1980s, her majesty enjoys an especially friendly relationship with ronald reagan. he is the seventh president to hold office during elizabeth's reign as queen. >> her favorite is undoubtedly ronald reagan. they had an affinity when it came to horses. >> reagan and thatcher got along famously. and the queen, too, who kind of offered this kind of glittering spectacle when reagan came for state banquet. so it was an interesting me menagetwe, i guess. >> in an attempt to thwart a potential communist threat, the british government is completely unaware of the operation. >> we communicated to the united states our doubts that her

majesty's government had about initiating action. >> i'm absolutely convinced that was one point where the queen and mrs. thatcher who didn't see eye to eye on everything certainly saw eye-to-eye. >> america has always been a great ally. so when the u.s. went into grenada and didn't let the queen know, that was a tricky motion. >> this lasts just four days. >> i think you better look at the shots of the queen and ronald reagan riding at windsor to realize grenada was a hiccup. >> margaret thatcher and the queen may agree on the grenada invasion, but in 1986, an article surfaces regarding disagreement on apartheid. the institutional racial segregation plaguing south africa for decades. >> "the times" newspaper in the u.k. published an article under the headline "queen dismayed by uncaring thatcher." and the article went on to talk about how she was not doing enough to end apartheid in south africa.

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they were young and attractive. it was a news story. >> after the highs of the two royal weddings in the 1980s, the fairy tale romances unraveled by the early 1990s. >> i was press secretary for seven years, 1990 to 1997. so, really, the most tumultuous time for the monarchy since the abdication of edward viii. >> we had fergie the duchess of york having her toes sucked by her financial adviser, not even her husband. >> and the relationship of prince charles and princess diana reached a new low. >> three of the queen's children see their marriages dissolve in 1992. >> it made her think, where have i gone whereon? what have i done? >> then the queen's beloved windsor castle catches fire after a halogen lamp falls over

and ignites some curtains. >> the queen's fondness of windsor is very well-known. she spent a lot of time there as a child and, of course, obviously during world war ii. it was a safehaven. >> she actually removed some of the precious things from her own apartments herself, about half a dozen of us went to her private entrance to meet her as she came back. the queen said, well, it was a shame, but at least we saved the pictures. >> just four days after the fire on november 24th, the queen makes a surprisingly emotional speech marking the 40th anniversary of her ascession to the throne. >> 1993 is not a year to which i shall look upon undiluted pleasure. the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an -- >> you felt her sadness, her

pain, her regret. >> it is so unusual for her to blurt it all out in the way that she did. but you suddenly realize that this incredible figure of continuity also hurts. >> if you take 1992, anything that could go wrong did go wrong for the queen. and then everything calmed down. but then we fast forward to 1997. >> sources have made independent announcements that indeed princess diana had died tonight. she was 36. >> she was the people's princess. and that's how she will stay, how she will remain. >> the queen was up in scotland with her grandsons, william and harry. and the queen did what any grandparent would do, they tried to look after them to comfort them, to keep them away from the

public eye. >> witness a death within the royal family, they close ranks over duty. >> i think the monarchy came closest to collapsing with the death of diana. the people were beginning to

reassess the need for a monarchy. >> it became very clear to her as the week wore on seeing the newspaper and television coverage that something had to be done. >> six days after diana's death on september 5th, her majesty returns to london. >> they appeared at buckingham palace. they went to see the flowers that had been left in memory of diana. >> take care of the boys. take care of the boys. >> sorry? >> there was a turning point where a woman handed the queen a bunch of flowers and the queen said, would you like me to go and put it with the others? and the woman said, no, they are for you, ma'am. >> later that day, her majesty addresses the public in a live televised speech. >> no one who knew diana will ever forget her. >> that was something she knew she had to do if she was going to preserve the monarchy.

she gave the speech of her life. >> this week we have all been trying to help william and harry come to terms with the devastating loss that they and the rest of us have suffered. >> the broadcast was unprecedented. that was the first time i recall of the queen speaking outside a set piece public occasion. set piece public occasion.

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suicide bombers attack london on july 7th, 2005. >> the world terrorists come back to the streets of london, not the nra anymore, but al qaeda and isis. and the queen now goes to the hospitals at the earliest possible moment. >> the woman who came of age during world war ii's keep calm and carry on campaign addresses

her nation the next day. >> those who perpetrate those brutal acts against innocent people should know they will not change our way of life. >> as a continuity of the queen, it reminds the nation that things will get back to normal. >> she's been this rock to the british people. >> true to form, her majesty carries on. she meets her 12th u.s. president, barack obama, in 2009. >> the president and mrs. obama forced a deep and long-lasting friendship with her majesty beginning with their very first visit. >> you see michelle obama putting her arm around the queen's shoulders, and the queen puts her arm around her, which was very unusual. >> it was at first seen with surprise, and then, i ink, undersod, there's a real

friesh. on another visit president obama presents the queen with a gift when he visits becomiuckingham palace. >> he had given her of a book with president franklin roosevelt, and she went from page to page, and you could see the legitimate joy in her face. >> it remains to be seen what the relationship will be between the king and the united kingdom as a whole, and the next american president, donald trump. >> we are going to make america great again. theresa may, who becomes the next prime minister after the 2016 brexit vote, extends an

invitation, which would include a meeting with the queen. the invitation sparks backlash. >> in the circumstances, his policies go against everything we stand for. >> after the protest the state visit changes to what is called a working visit, meaningless pageantry and less conflict. >> the queen will never make her feelings known about president trump. it's one of the things on which the queen is going to have to keep a straight face, which is something that she's very, very good at doing, of course. >> the president of syria -- >> she has handled tough characters. i mean, she's had dictators to dinner and dealt with them and handled them at buckingham pa palace, so i think she will put him in his place. >> her trusted companion and

love of her live, prince phillip, retires at the age of 86. >> that's going to be difficult for the queen. there's the sense of having to go it alone. but she's not going to change now. >> prince phillip, right from the beginning knew what his role was, and the truth is over 70 years he hardly put a foot wrong, and he always turns up on the right day wearing the right uniform and always walk one step behind the queen, and i think it's because they believe in the role and they know it's not about themselves. there's a connection between them. he's the only person that can say what he likes to her, and she's the only person that can say, oh, philip, do shut up. >> queen elizabeth is the longest reigning monarch in history. she is starting to prepare for

her successor. during the annual remembrance day ceremony on november 11th, 2017, her majesty stands in attendance but hands over wreath laying duties to her son, charles, something she's never done before. >> it's interesting. when we look at prince george, he stands to be the first sovereign of the 22nd century, and for the queen she is able to see the future stretching out before her. >> a future that includes celebrating new additions to her family, her third great grandson, and the marriage to

harry, meghan markle. >> hands of friendship have been extended, where archaic laws have been changed. >> from the age of 21 to her 90s, she's given her life to the service of her country. >> the queen is the united kingdom. maybe we should call it the united queendom. >> i don't think we will ever see anything like it again. my dad on the phone told us jenny was gone. >> a house in flames. the body of a woman inside. >> we have a body. i need a medic. >> but it wasn't the fire that killed her. she was dead before it started. >> accidents will happen. this was no accident. >> who wanted her dead? her boyfriend said he knew. >> there's people after us.