LONDON (AP) — Ten things to know about the life of Queen Elizabeth II: BRITAIN’S LONGEST-REIGNING MONARCH Elizabeth, who marked 70 years on the throne this...
BRITAIN’S LONGEST-REIGNING MONARCH
Among those who taught her was her father, along with a senior teacher at Eton College, several French and Belgian governesses who taught her French, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who taught her religion. Bishop Michael Mann, the monarch’s domestic chaplain, once said that “the queen imitating the Concorde landing is one of the funniest things you could see.” Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish clergyman and politician, also noted that Elizabeth was a “great mimicker” of him.
Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip enjoyed a stable relationship for more than 70 years, a union that far outlasted the marriages of three of her four children: Charles, Anne and Andrew. There was no universally fixed day for her official birthday. It’s either the first, second or third Saturday in June, and was decided by the government.
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