‘Queen indeed over a Kingdom worthy, the World's wonder.’

Today our Queen Elizabeth becomes the British throne’s longest-reigning monarch,  surpassing her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria’s reign of sixty-three years and two hundred and sixteen days.  With John Masefield’s Laureate Coronation lines in my mind, I wonder whether we have deserved her, for all that this country might, as I still believe quietly, be in with a shout of being the ‘World’s wonder’.

May God save the Queen, and bring forth Masefield’s hoped-for 

‘…season of the springing seed

Of all a People one in an endeavour

To make our Sovereign lady Queen indeed

Over a Kingdom worthy, the World’s wonder.’