The new queen was a subversive model for American women of the 1950s, and many traveled to London for her coronation. Their daughters and granddaughters will be among those mourning the monarch’s death.
Queen Elizabeth II with Prime Minister John Howard (left) and the Australian governor-general, Sir William Deane, at Government House in 2000.
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More than 2,000 pages of letters spanning 36 years and nine prime ministers have now been made public, albeit with disappointing redactions throughout.