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valign="top"><td class="boxBI_3159408"><div class="textMed"><b>Keith Miller</b></div><div class="credit">Senior foreign correspondent</div><hr size="1" width="85%" color="#cccccc" align="center"><div><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="/web/20060615103113/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3688864/">Profile</a></span></div></td></tr></table><table width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxF_3159408"><tr><td class="boxFI_3159408"><div class="textSmall"></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table>LONDON — So what do you give a queen celebrating her 80th birthday? </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Another crown seems pointless — she owns the world's most magnificent ones. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Wait, she's an animal lover! </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Nah — the London Zoo is full of such four-legged gifts, including a jaguar, sloths and two black beavers from Canada. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>What about a nice $100 bill in a fancy envelope? </p><div class="aC"><div class="textSmallGrey w320"><a href="#storyContinued">Story continues below ↓</a><hr noshade size="1"> advertisement <div style="padding:0 10 10 10;"><script>ad_dap(250,300,'&PG=NBCSML&AP=1089');</script></div><hr noshade size="1"></div></div><a name="storyContinued"></a><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Won't make much of an impression — Queen Elizabeth II is one of the world's wealthiest women, with personal assets of around $470 million. (And that doesn't take into account her interest in the Crown Estate, the sovereign's hereditary portfolio, which is valued at something like $20 billion.)</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>OK, we're desperate here. How 'bout a nice plate of succulent seafood? (She's been seen fishing, after all.) Well, she officially owns all the whales, dolphins and sturgeon in British territorial waters, so that's probably a non-starter. (I have it on good authority, though, that she doesn't keep count.)</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>No, what the queen needs on this momentous occasion is nothing save recognition for a lifetime of devotion to duty and her tireless effort to keep the Great in Britain.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><b><strong>54 years on the throne<br></strong></b>And that's exactly what she's getting.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Hours of prime time television specials are being aired. Newspapers are busily printing special editions with blown up photos of the rather attractive young woman who came to the throne at the tender age of 26. And, radio talk shows are buzzing with loyal subjects by the dozen remembering those special times when the queen opened this flower show or attended that charity event. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Those radio reminiscences got me thinking. I wondered if, in fact, that many people could have come in contact with a monarch who sometimes has been accused of being aloof. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Well, the numbers tell the story. Elizabeth is the patron of more than 620 charities and organizations. She's had more than a million people round to Buckingham Palace for her semi-annual garden party. That's a lot of weak tea and strawberries.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>And there's the fact that she has spent 54 years on the throne (and has only a few years to beat the record of her predecessor Queen Victoria). When Elizabeth was born in 1926, the Charleston was the dance craze of the day. Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States, and Charlie Chaplin (a Brit, by the way) was one of Hollywood's biggest stars.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><div class="box_brl" style="width:100%;;"><script></script><table width="100%;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxH_brl"><tr><td width="*" nowrap="true" class="boxHC_brl"><div class="textSmallBold"> Related content</div></td></tr></table><table width="100%;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxB_brl"><tr valign="top"><td class="boxBI_brl"><div class="bigRedLink"><ul><li><a href="/web/20060615103113/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12419921/">Live Vote: What do you think?</a></li><li><a href="/web/20060615103113/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12419811/">Crowds hail Elizabeth on her special day</a></li><li><a href="/web/20060615103113/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12407440/site/newsweek/">Newsweek: A private queen</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></table></div></p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><b><strong>Enduring figure in changing times<br></strong></b>So, just what is the source of her popularity?</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Many of her subjects say they adore her endurance. What endears her to the British is she has never wavered. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Britain was bombed by the Germans. The empire collapsed. In the course of serving 10 prime ministers — starting with Sir Winston Churchill — there was social and political upheaval. Three of her four children were divorced. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>But there, always, was Elizabeth, waving to the crowds and hiding whatever disappointment she felt. Her beloved father, King George VI, warned her to never shed a tear in public. This lady learned early to stay strong for her subjects.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Said historian Andrew Robbers: "I think she is good at making us feel, however much the world changes in sometimes dispiriting or nerve wracking ways, that there is something solid at the heart of the British constitution, and that's her."</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Author Penny Junor, who is close to the queen's oldest son, Charles, and wrote a book about the royal family called "The Firm," says part of the queen's allure comes from not being involved in politics. "The strength of hereditary monarchy is that no one choose them, therefore no one is disappointed."</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Not that she has not come close to losing her sure touch. When Princess Diana was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997, she was slow to help heal the nation's anguish. Britain's notoriously judgmental newspapers pounced, denouncing the queen for not joining in the public display of grief over the tragic loss of the world's most photographed woman. Some wondered if the royal family had got caught in a time warp and lost the pulse of modern Britain. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Eventually, though, the queen got the message and returned to Buckingham Palace from Scotland to lead the nation in mourning. It was a close call, the first time that the royal stiff upper lip could be seen to quiver.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><b><strong>Public and private personas<br></strong></b>In private, the queen is, by all accounts, very different from her public persona.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>I can tell you on good authority that she has a wicked sense of humor at home. And after a long day creating knights of the realm and making small talk the queen likes nothing better than to sit down to dinner in front of the telly. The word is that she likes soap operas. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>She also likes to relax by tending to her animals — a world-class collection of racehorses and a doted-upon gaggle of corgis, which she feeds personally with a spoon (silver, of course).</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Which reminds me.... Still looking for that perfect gift?</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Well, I'm out of ideas. 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