Elizabeth Alexandra Mary” “OUR QUEEN” by Desmond Kelly “the star of eLanka” (image source: Biography.com ) IT IS INDEED A RARE PRIVILEGE FOR ME TO START OFF A NEW YEAR (2017), WITH A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE WOMEN IN MODERN HISTORY, THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF A KING, WHO BECAME ONE BY DEFAULT, WHEN HIS OLDER BROTHER GAVE UP THETHRONE FOR THE WOMAN  HE LOVED, FORCING YOUNGER BROTHER ALBERT TO TAKE OVER THE REINS & REIGN OVER BRITAIN AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS, UNDER BRITISH RULE. EVERYONE WHO IS ANYONE, KNOWS THE STORY OF PRINCE EDWARD (THE FORMER  PRINCE OF WALES), WHO WAS PROCLAIMED EDWARD VIII KING OF ENGLAND IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS FATHER, KING GEORGE V PASSED AWAY, IN 1952, BUT DECIDED TO ABDICATE WHEN FORBIDDEN TO MARRY MRS. WALLIS SIMPSON, AN AMERICAN DIVORCEE, STATING THAT HE, EDWARD, COULD NOT BE KING WITHOUT THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE SITTING BY ...