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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The Queen's impact as Head of the Commonwealth has been a remarkable one. Catapulted into the job at the age of 25, she has filled it for more than 95% of its existence and has impressed it with her own personality: gracious, dignified, charming, interested in other people, morally impeccable, politically absolutely neutral, and without a trace of arrogance or self-satisfaction. Just as most British republicans (a small group), when scratched, agree that it would have been impossible to have had a better head of state than Queen Elizabeth II, so it is almost impossible to find any grounds on which to criticise her conduct as Head of the Commonwealth.
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