I passed my English Language O level - that's a harder exam than a GCSE for you younger readers - writing an essay about the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen.
Thirty five years ago that was all the Silver Jubilee and Her Majesty meant to me. But with Her Majesty outliving the Sex Pistols, certainly in creative terms, and Johnny Rotten reduced to advertising butter to make a living, then it is worth celebrating her 60 years on the throne. Thinking over that six decades, we are reminded, at least those of us involved in financial markets, that we all talk about investing for the long term but how much do we actually do this? Whether you believe in the monarchy or inherited privilege, or if you see the royal family as a symbol of the greatn...
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