THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND

On her twenty-first birthday, she broadcast from Cape Town a speech in which she dedicated her adult life: I welcome the opportunity to speak to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live, whatever race they come from, and whatever language they speak... [...]their greatest achievement, 1 suggest, is the Commonwealth itself... [...]formed [from their voluntary partnership], the Commonwealth bears no resemblance to the Empires of the past. To that new conception of an equal partnership of nations and races 1 shall give myself heart and soul every day of my life. 1 wished to speak ofit... this Christmas Day because we are celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace, who preached the brotherhood of man. The king demanded (unsuccessfully) his trial for high treason, and Marten later became a signatory of the king's death warrant.