By coincidence, today's random selection of images in the Leodis photographic archive is of the then Princess Elizabeth at Leeds Children's Day in July 1949 receiving a bouquet from Joan Thompson - the Queen of Children's Day. (Note the Recorder of Leeds Charles Paley Scott
KC in the wig.) I believe I was one of the huge crowd of cheering onlookers although I was only four.
Over 70+ years, there will have been perhaps millions of people who were pleased to be presented to the queen, a smaller number like Joan Thompson who did the presenting and a lot of learned friends happy to be designated QC, even though they don't really believe in that sort of thing. And all the committees up and down nominating each other for gongs that they don't agree with either.
As I think I posted above, I used to think all this would die with the queen but the Cambridges look to be preparing to take over where she left off and that may delay a republic for at least another generation.