New book celebrates the Queen’s ’70 years of faith and service’
by Peter Crumpler, Christian Today:
People and communities across the UK and the Commonwealth will celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next month. In February this year, HM the Queen became the first British monarch to reign for 70 years.
To mark the Jubilee, a new book has been produced, focussing on the monarch’s 70 years of faith and service’. Written by journalist Catherine Butcher, it examines the Queen’s Christian faith and the role it has played in her years on the throne.
‘Our Faithful Queen’ draws on prayers, Bible verses and the Queen’s speeches to show how the Queen’s Christian faith enabled her to prepare to reign, and how that faith has sustained her in the life that followed.
Shortly before Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation in June 1953, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, wrote and gave to the Queen ‘A Little Book of Private Devotions’. This slim volume of daily Bible readings and prayers was provided for the Queen to use in the weeks leading up to the powerful Westminster Abbey Service.
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