How the Queen made history for the women who will come after her. 🔗
Queen Elizabeth II didn’t allow anyone to question her ability to rule as a woman, implemented feminist policies during her reign and, most of all, didn’t take nonsense from anyone.
When the battle for women’s rights kicked off some three centuries later, Queen Victoria wrote that feminists “ought to get a good whipping” and that really, a woman’s role was that of a “helpmate for a man”.weren’t exactly ardent feminists – by modern terms, anyway.In contrast, Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t vocal about political matters at all. She couldn’t be; nowadays royals are expected to remain strictly neutral about such things.
In 1952, a 25-year-old who should have been mourning the death of her father stepped up as Britain’s monarch in a very male world. At the time, women in Saudi Arabia weren’t allowed to drive – but there he was in her Land Rover, being chauffeured around.In 2013, she gave royal assent to the Succession To The Crown Act, which meant both sons and daughters of any future UK monarch would have an equal right to the throne.She changed the nation’s stance on divorce
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