We have been preparing for such moments for more than a century, since that July morning in 1897, at the height of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, when readers of the Times found on its leader page Rudyard Kipling's admonitory poem Recessional, which called for British humility and God's mercy in the light of the fact that no empire lasts for ever.
So badly battered was the East End that when Buckingham Palace was hit during the height of the bombing, Queen Elizabeth observed that "It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face".
Four years ago, during the height of the global crisis, the Queen had asked academics at the London School of Economics: "Why did nobody notice it?".
With Lady Marlborough's advancements as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, and Keeper of the Privy Purse, the Marlboroughs, now at the height of their powers with the Queen, enjoyed a joint annual income of over £60,000, and unrivalled influence at court.
Having shown her ability to scale the heights of Mozart's Queen of the Night, the accomplished Florence Andrews as Ms Mullins professes herself a fan of Stevie Nicks and poignantly laments her lost chances in Where Did the Rock Go?
In 1982, Lord Carnarvon sold the Queen's mare Height of Fashion to Sheikh Hamdan Maktoum of Dubai for nearly $2 million.
WHY did no one see it coming, asked the Queen at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
Venturing outside the hive and flying to a height of 6 meters or more, the queen mates in midair with a dozen or so male bees, called drones, who all die after ejaculating.
Songs like "We Will Rock You" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" brought Queen to the height of British rock -- you won't be mocked if you argue that this was the best English band of all time.
PROFILE of Queen Elizabeth II.
