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Essay Archive - A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
Countess of Longford, Elizabeth Pakenham, was born in London England in
1906. She attended Lady Margaret Hall and Oxford University where she studied
classical history and philosophy. She later married Oxford professor and
politician, the seventh Earl of Longford in 1931, with whom she had eight
children. She worked as a tutor from 1930-36 in the Worker's Educational
Association, and was a member of the Paddington and St. Pomcras Rent Tribunal
from 1946-51. She was also a Labour party candidate for Cheltenham, and later
for the City of Oxford. After both campaigns p....
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