Queen Elizabeth II became Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI, in 1952. Since then, she had visited every country in the Commonwealth of Nations, except two of the most recent members, Cameroon and Rwanda.
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“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.”
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“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
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—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)
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