Now the Jubilee celebrations have started it’s quite an eye-opener looking at just how profoundly the UK has changed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1952, the Office for National Statistics estimated Britain’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at £15.983bn. You could barely buy a battleship with...

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