For Jews, the Queen Represented the Best of the UK
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For Jews, however, Queen Elizabeth II’s reign also has a special significance. Under the first Queen Elizabeth Jews were still banned from the country by the 1290 Edict of Expulsion, as we were until Cromwell. In the then Princess Elizabeth’s teenage years, Jews were being murdered across the Channel by the Nazis. Her reign, however, has been that rarest of periods for Jews, a period of intense calm, in which our loyalty to Britain and to the Royal Family has been reciprocated at every level from the mundanity of day-to-day life among the Jewish community to the highest echelons of power and society.
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