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Prof. P. Kandaswamy wrote: > She became Queen on treetop when she on an African safari > Jim Corbett's book on treetop gives a wonderful description of the event
Thank you, Anna. Jim Corbett and Queen Elisabeth's story is interesting.
https://twitter.com/Paperclip_In/status/1568103173973475328 For the first time in history, a young girl climbed a tree one day as a Princess and descended from it the following day as a Queen. The eye witness who stood guard to her in the forest was from Nainital, India - Jim Corbett.
Jim Corbett, legendary British hunter and tracker-turned-conservationist and Elizabeth's bodyguard at Treetops, signed the hotel's register "For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a Princess, and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience, she climbed down from the tree the next day a Queen— God bless her." https://www.nonfictionminute.org/the-nonfiction-minute/the-princess-who-went-up-a-tree-and-came-down-a-queen
How the well-read C. N. Annadurai, former CM, came up with கடமை, கண்ணியம், கட்டுப்பாடு is interesting. Duty, Dignity and Discipline is used often in America and in Europe from 19th century onwards: https://groups.google.com/g/vallamai/c/Llbr2P_-fNo
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/11/opinions/queen-elizabeth-prophecy-opinion-column-galant/index.html The nation was saddened by the king's death in February 1952, reported Clifton Daniel in the New York Times, but saw the rise of Elizabeth as a good sign: "It is a tradition that Britain prospers and grows great whenever a queen reigns," as it had under the first Queen Elizabeth, from 1558 to 1603. Daniel, who later became managing editor of the Times and the son-in-law of former President Harry Truman, observed that the new queen "was carefully trained from the age of ten for her regal duties."
"She is a calm and happy young woman who has a capacity for fun and who in her official life displays a rigid sense of duty and discipline and an appreciation for the dignity of her high office," wrote Daniel. "As a result of long training and serious application to her job she almost invariably does the right thing -- as rightness is understood in this country."
It is very possible CNA read one of these and rendered it into Tamil to tell the party cadres. MGR popularized the tagline.