6/9/2023 0 Comments David starkey queen elizabethStarkey said that he had read all of her Christmas broadcasts. He was also struck that the Queen does not seem to have any interest in those who preceded her grandfather, George V. He cannot help comparing her with Elizabeth I, who also acceded the throne at 25, "but was 20 times as well educated. "She'd looked after them, she'd put in place much better arrangements for their care, but again - I suppose it's this absence of any kind of, to be blunt, serious education." This, said Starkey, reminded him of "a housewife" who'd been left some wonderful possessions. Her only comment on the exhibition was that one of the objects was hers. When Starkey was showing the Queen round an exhibition he had curated about Elizabeth I in 2003, he found her more preoccupied with the late arrival of her drink (gin and Dubonnet) than the works on display. "You remember: 'Every time I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver.' " "I think she's got elements a bit like Goebbels in her attitude to culture," the historian told the Guardian. As the country's most high-profile historian of the British monarchy, one might expect David Starkey to take a warm view of the house of Windsor.īut in a week in which the Queen overtook Victoria as Britain's longest-lived monarch, Starkey has delivered a less than rose-tinted verdict on the head of state, accusing her of philistinism and being uninterested in her predecessors, largely due to being poorly educated.
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