On the latest episode of the Daily Mail’s Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things podcast, historians Robert Hardman and Kate Williams explore the strangely parallel lives of Queen Elizabeth II and Sir David Attenborough.
Both born in 1926, Britain’s most beloved broadcaster and longest reigning monarch would cross paths many times throughout their lives.
The late Queen clearly held Sir David in high regard, entrusting him to produce her beloved Christmas broadcast for six consecutive years between 1986 and 1991.
Sir David was pivotal to the Royal Family‘s embrace of television. As Controller of BBC Two between 1965 and 1969, he oversaw the family’s
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