Robert Hardman

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910 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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just starting and she ran through the space age and then along came the digital age.

You know, she's been through all that.

And yet at no point did she

appear to be um running out of steam.

There was no cry in her late years saying, Oh, we'd better pension her off, you know, it's it's it's time for her to step aside.

In fact, the older she got, the more her authority kind of went up.

She was sort of more and more revered.

She was a sort of timeless um uh figurehead.

Um and and I think that that does go with monarchy.

We do have that sort of sense of, you know, the the king is dead long with the king.

You know, that's that's

It just goes on and it you you you don't retire.

Um I mean at towards the end of her life there was a bit of a run on monarchies in in the sort of 20 teens, if I can call it that.

Cool with that.

About 2013, 2014, you had uh the King of Spain suddenly said, I'm handing over to the next generation.

The King of the Belgians said, I'm done.

The Queen of Holland said over and out.

Um who else?

Um there was the um Emir of Gassar.

Did the same all in the space of a year.

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