The Novelist Howard Jacobson is the latest of eight major British writers to reflection on their experience of, and relation , the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

He writes of his youthful awareness of the Queen as seen from a Mancunian and Jewish perspective, and he recalls the Jewish heritage of much of the language of her coronation, and how that mattered to a young northern boy. And he talks about the Queen's negotiation with the limelight that she was obliged to occupy for so many years.

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