In October of 1940, when she was still in curls and called Lilibet within the family, Princess Elizabeth made her first national radio broadcast. It was designed to calm the fears of Britain's children, as London was being pounded by German bombers for fifty-seven consecutive nights. She was fourteen. "We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well," she said, on the BBC's "Children’s Hour." Seventy-five years later, amid the increasingly chaotic aftermath of the Brexit vote, Queen Elizabeth II is trying to do it again.
The New Yorker: Elizabeth II, the Brexit Queen
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II delivers the Queen's Speech during the State Opening of Parliament in central London, on May 18, 2016.
