As I grew up with the effects of polio in the 1950s, my parents tried to "normalise" my path through life as much as possible. This included joining the boy scouts, where I became a Queen's Scout at 17. The citation was personally signed by Queen Elizabeth, which is typical of her devotion to duty.
Like most of my generation, in the middle of the 20th century, I supported our system of constitutional monarchy without question. When I entered the senate in the 1990s, I believed there was no need to change a system of government that worked quite well.
