The Queen has died, Buckingham Palace has announced. Elizabeth II, 96, was the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, serving as head of state for more than 70 years.
The Queen has died, Buckingham Palace has announced.
She was the first British monarch in history to reach her Platinum Jubilee, and has died just three months after the national celebrations in June celebrating her 70 years on the throne.She mourned the loss of her beloved husband of 73 years, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died aged 99 in April 2021. The Queen is expected to lie in state in a few days’ time, with her funeral held in Westminster Abbey in central London in around 10 days.
The Duchess of Cornwall is now Queen, and as a Queen Consort, will be crowned at Charles’s side at his eventual coronation. She was never expected to be Queen, but the abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, in 1936 changed everything, leaving her father as King George VI and making his eldest daughter Elizabeth the heiress presumptive.
In 1977, record crowds greeted the monarch during her Silver Jubilee celebrations and thousands held street parties in her honour. In 2002, the Queen suffered the tragic double blow of losing both the Queen Mother and her sister, Princess Margaret, within just weeks of one another. In September 2015, the Queen passed the record set by her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria to become the country’s longest-ever reigning monarch, but saw the achievement simply as a consequence of a long life.
The Sussexes went on to accuse the royal family of being racist and the institution of failing to help a suicidal Meghan in a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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