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LONDON: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor wasn’t born to wear the crown. But destiny intervened. A DEC 3, 1952, file picture shows Queen Elizabeth II with Commonwealth leaders at a dinner in London’s Buckingham Palace. (From left) Former prime ministers Dudley Senanayake of Ceylon, Sir Godfrey Hugging of Southern Rhodesia, Sidney Holland of New Zealand, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II, Robert Menzies of Australia and Louis St Laurant of Canada, South Africa’s finance minister Nicholas Havenga, Pakistan’s prime minister Khwaja Nazimuddin and Indian finance minister Chintaman Deshmukh.—AP