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The cost of living, as now, was the focus for households when the Queen came to the throne in 1952

By being such a constant source of comfort and object of pride, she masked Britain’s relative decline

The monarch got on well with most of her premiers so why did she clash with her longest-serving prime minister, asked the Observer’s political editor in 1988

Professor finds pattern of wellbeing problems in political families, often linked to parents’ work

Are trade unions squandering newfound strength by calling off strikes after the Queen's death?

Her majesty has lived through 15 different powers of parliament. The Queen befriended some in high regards, such as James Callaghan and Harold Wilson, and some not so much, such as David Cameron and Tony Blair

The monarch was sympathetically depicted by dramatists and at a 1999 production of Oklahoma! her eyes lit up when she recalled her own theatrical outings

She was a mentor to a record 15 prime ministers — and never breathed a word about the secrets that they divulged to her.

On her 21st birthday, 21 April 1947, when Britain’s Princess Elizabeth was accompanying her parents and her sister on a tour of South Africa, she spoke “to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live, whatever race they came from, and whatever language they speak”.