at the 1979 commonwealth summit in zamba the dispute over the future of rhodesia continued to split the organization the queen met face to face with each of the commonwealth leaders using her best diplomatic skills she persistently worked to reach consensus of course throughout her reign the queen's role was to rise above party politics at home and abroad but this gave her strength especially in the unifying force which she usually used throughout the commonwealth it was said that the queen often looked more relaxed when she traveled on business from the commonwealth she certainly gave and received a lot of support from the population and leaders of the countries she visited on the eve of her diamond jubilee the queen emphasized the importance of the commonwealth in an address to both houses of the british parliament in march in 2012, she said that she was proud that members of her family would represent her during visits to several countries of the commonwealth as part of jubilee celebrations, although there have always been many discussions about the relevance of the commonwealth.

during negotiations for independence from britain, black majority leaders from southern rhodesia werehatcher it was cited with white minority land owners for the queen knew her prime minister could be making a mistake ahead of an important summit in zambia. >> she had received word that the then president of zambia was planning on delivering a harshly critical speech about the prime minister, margaret thatcher. the queen knew this would cause dissension and difficulty and took the initiative of speaking to him directly and asking him not to deliver the speech. he did not deliver it. her influence helped avert a potentially difficult diplomatic situation. >> the underlying goodwill and understanding between our two peoples has endured and will, i hope, grow and flourish in what we all sincerely pray will be more peaceful years ahead to pay. >> as a result southern rhodesia peacefully withdrew from the commonwealth and became the independent nation of zimbabwe thanks to the queen. there would be many more situations where the queen used her soft power diplomacy to reinforce thatcher's t

then british prime minister margaret thatcher, also southern rhodesia now's in bob way. she did not like the white racist government there. so although she oversee, couldn't get too involved. she was very, very involved in her, in the commonwealth. and i think many of those countries, even if they don't want a british monica had of state, very grateful for the role she played in bringing people together. it's been just such a momentous time in the u. k. since since she died on the 8th of september, and what moments will you remember in particular from the last 11 days? i think on the day on that 1st day when we were in the studio and we knew that she was on, well, we knew that the family were going up to bow moral in scotland to be by her bedside . and it all just began to become more and more serious, and it was quite, i think, almost concerning as you're waiting. is she going to die? and then of course she did, i think secondly, the outpouring of respect, love, adoration, for the queen. just i'm, for example, what we were seeing and hearing before about that massive q

this is her visiting zimbabwe than rhodesia in 1965. prior to that in 1956, the queen had been in nigeria. in 1961, she made her 1st trip to gonna elizabeth toward uganda. in 1954 and in 2007. she also visited ethiopia, but not the more recent to commonwealth. memphis, rwanda, gabon, toga, or cameroon. over the decades, the queen met most of africa's notable leaders, including nelson mandela, julius narita, mobile to stacy sake of an ellen johnson, sir leaf in some african country. places institutions and streets carried queen elizabeth's name for many decades. well, the queen also touched many lives. he spoke to one woman in ghana who met her in person when receiving the young lead as a ward. and i was for young people across the commonwealth who dedicate their lives to serve the communities in unique ways. i mean a bower shares her memories of the queen with us. the news of her person is, ah, so do by stating. but again, an opportunity for us to reminisce and celebrate and long last to legacy her unmatched humility on dignity and values of of service ah, will continue to live in me espe

there is also a fighting now there is talk about ukrainians trying to sort of move towards that rhodesia onto, to drive to, to penetrate in that area. sort of south of they don't boss, i'm there and we see what they can achieve. i think that they've shown amazing capability to carry out, mobilized, so effective. ah mio peroration combined arms operations involving infantry time or no. so air support. so i think it is really a fascinating moment for the ukrainians, and there is a very strong momentum on their side. but you know, it, we, we, i think i remain quotient because i think we, you know, the russians have not been completely defeated in on france. they situation of causing her to sony's complicated for the russians because their forces i was kind of squeezed on, they cannot withdraw from, from there. you know, they have to cross the river on the bridges of being destroyed. so there was in a very precarious position, and if they are ukrainians, advance in the areas of heard. so they come closer to ukraine and they could he out, sorry to crimea, and they could hit crimea from the ar

i was there when they got their independence, changing their name from rhodesia to zimbabwe.ueen, to hand the country over to the africans. i joined a dating agency for the american gentleman looking for a british wife. and i met this american doctor from arkansas. i got married and he was addicted to codeine. he was very abusive by the way. i used to go to bed at night and put all the knives and scissors and everything under my mattress. eventually, he was arrested. and mostly lived here in hot springs, quite frankly. i got introduced to abraham here in hot springs. i like that philosophy. - she does listen to "law of attraction." i started listening to that just because s played it 24/7. it is what it is, but there's something to the energy. and eventually, i'd like to, hopefully win the lottery. - you can't want something that you don't don't have and be a vibrational match to it. you have to be what you want and then you can have it. and it is not inconceivable, in fact, it is completely conceivable that when you hang around in the vortex and you're feeling tuned in, tapp

rhodesia became zimbabwe and the poorest country on the planet under the racist lunatic robber a blogo, and as of tonight africa is being into the ground. so it's hard to see any of that is an improvement, because it's not an improvement, sorry. and now the entire continent of africa has a new master, the chinese government. china is the latest colonial power to dominate africa. it subjects will be pining for the british soon assuming they are not already. in an ideal world, there would not be empires, no empires, only sovereign nations paired but we don't have that world i never have had that world. going back to the assyrians 1400 years before core christ appeared in the real world, strong countries dominate week countries, and that trend shows no sign of changing. what you can say about the english as they took their colonial responsibility seriously. they did not just take things, they added. when the u.s. government withdrew from afghanistan for 20 years we left air strips, shipping containers, and guns, when the british pulled out of india, they left behind an entire civilizatio

aiden, now part of yemen, a shawnee land, which is botswana, southern rhodesia, now zimbabwe.n, sri lanka, but see to land, lesotho, sarah, walked out parts of malaysia. british honduras, belize, and swaziland, as 20. i mean, my mother was raised in, burma now myanmar. i mean, she grew up in british schools and british colony. elizabeth navigated the shrinking of this british world order, if you will. in a way that literally no one else in history has! >> no! and, i mean, it was remarkable. i think, also, she had to adapt, to a degree, to the empire coming home. you know, the population of the uk is infinitely more mixed now in terms of culture in terms of religion in terms of ethnicity, then it was when she came to the throne in 1953. we got to look at the latest government created by liz truss who met the queen only a few days ago. most of the leading ministers in liz truss's government, they are either women, or they are people of african or asian ancestry. and even a dozen years ago, that would have been beyond imagination. so queen elizabeth has had to not only adapt to a