A few weeks ago, Today asked listeners born in 1952, the year in which the Queen acceded to the throne, to contact the programme if they were interested in talking about their own attitudes towards the monarchy.

One of them, retired nurse Jennifer Martin told the Today programme's Sanchia Berg that she admires the royal family and thinks the Queen works "incredibly hard".

"She sometimes gets a bit of bad press but she brings a lot to this country", she said.

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