The Queen began her reign, more than 70 years ago, in a very different age to today's world, but she always changed with it and at the same time remained a constant for millions of people.
For it was a reign that spanned seven decades and bridged the ages from the steam train to streaming, from the end of Empire to the evolution of the Commonwealth, from food-rationing to mass consumerism.
"The transformation of society through technological change - beginning with the atomic age of the 1950s, to the era of mass consumer culture, ending in the digital age and transformation of society through digital technologies."Last Post played at Queen's funeralAnother huge force for change was the end of the Empire and the emergence of the Commonwealth, which changed Britain's might on the world stage.
"The monarchy was much bigger than just the United Kingdom because it was an empire," explained Mr Hunt. The other big epochal shift in how we live has been technological change, made all the more startling by the length of the age juxtaposed by the speed of change. Hers was an era that began in the atomic age in the 1950s, through to mass consumer culture and the digital age.
"It was not just that women were supposed to defer to men. People who were more well off thought that they were better off, better than people who were working class. White people thought they were better than people who weren't white. There was absolutely an age of hierarchy and now things are very different.
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