Queen Of The United Kingdom

(Elizabeth)

queen of United Kingdom

• Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Elizabeth II, with the aid of using the Grace of God, of the UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her different nation-states and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

• Elizabeth II, in full Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, officially Elizabeth II, via way of means of the Grace of God, of the UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her different nation-states and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, (born April 21, 1926, London, England—died September 8, 2022, Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from February 6, 1952, to September 8, 2022. In 2015 she surpassed Victoria to emerge as the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

• Elizabeth turned into the elder daughter of Prince Albert, duke of York, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. As the kid of a more youthful son of King George V, the younger Elizabeth had little prospect of acceding to the throne till her uncle, Edward VIII (in a while duke of Windsor), abdicated in her father's favour on December 11, 1936, at which period her father have become King George VI and she or he have become inheritor presumptive. The princess's schooling turned into supervised through her mother, who entrusted her daughters to a governess, Marion Crawford; the princess turned into additionally grounded in records through C.H.K. Marten, in a while provost of Eton College, and had coaching from traveling instructors in track and languages. During World War II she and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, perforce spent a lot in their time competently farfar from the London blitz and separated from their parents, dwelling commonly at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and on the Royal Lodge, Windsor, and Windsor Castle.

• Early in 1947 Princess Elizabeth went with the king and queen to South Africa. After her go back there has been an statement of her betrothal to her remote cousin Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten of the Royal Navy, previously Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. The marriage happened in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947. On the eve of the marriage her father, the king, conferred upon the bridegroom the titles of duke of Edinburgh, earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich. They took house at Clarence House in London. Their first child, Prince Charles (Charles Philip Arthur George), become born November 14, 1948, at Buckingham Palace.

• In the summer time season of 1951 the fitness of King George VI entered right into a extreme decline, and Princess Elizabeth represented him at the Trooping the Colour and on diverse different kingdom occasions. On October 7 she and her husband set out on a rather a hit excursion of Canada and Washington, D.C. After Christmas in England she and the duke set out in January 1952 for a excursion of Australia and New Zealand, however en route, at Sagana, Kenya, information reached them of the king's dying on February 6, 1952. Elizabeth, now queen, right now flew lower back to England. The first 3 months of her reign, the duration of complete mourning for her father, had been surpassed in comparative seclusion. But withinside the summer time season, after she had moved from Clarence House to Buckingham Palace, she undertook the habitual obligations of the sovereign and executed her first kingdom starting of Parliament on November 4, 1952. Her coronation turned into held at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.

• Beginning in November 1953 the queen and the duke of Edinburgh made a six-month round-the-international excursion of the Commonwealth, which covered the primary go to to Australia and New Zealand with the aid of using a reigning British monarch. In 1957, after kingdom visits to diverse European nations, she and the duke visited Canada and the United States. In 1961 she made the primary royal British excursion of the Indian subcontinent in 50 years, and he or she turned into additionally the primary reigning British monarch to go to South America (in 1968) and the Persian Gulf countries (in 1979). During her "Silver Jubilee" in 1977, she presided at a London banquet attended with the aid of using the leaders of the 36 contributors of the Commonwealth, traveled all over Britain and Northern Ireland, and toured distant places withinside the South Pacific and Australia, in Canada, and withinside the Caribbean.

• On the accession of Queen Elizabeth, her son Prince Charles have become inheritor apparent; he become named prince of Wales on July 26, 1958, and become so invested on July 1, 1969. The queen's different youngsters have been Princess Anne (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise), born August 15, 1950, and created princess royal in 1987; Prince Andrew (Andrew Albert Christian Edward), born February 19, 1960, and created duke of York in 1986; and Prince Edward (Edward Anthony Richard Louis), born March 10, 1964, and created earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn in 1999. All those youngsters have the surname "of Windsor," however in 1960 Elizabeth determined to create the hyphenated call Mountbatten-Windsor for different descendants now no longer styled prince or princess and royal highness. Elizabeth's first grandchild (Princess Anne's son) become born on November 15, 1977.

• The queen appeared an increasing number of privy to the current function of the monarchy, allowing, for example, the televising of the royal own circle of relatives's home existence in 1970 and condoning the formal dissolution of her sister's marriage in 1978. In the 1990s, however, the royal own circle of relatives confronted some of challenges. In 1992, a 12 months that Elizabeth known as the royal own circle of relatives's annus horribilis, Prince Charles and his wife, Diana, princess of Wales, separated, as did Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, duchess of York. Moreover, Anne divorced, and a hearthplace gutted the royal house of Windsor Castle. In addition, as the country struggled with a recession, resentment over the royals' life-style mounted, and in 1992 Elizabeth, despite the fact that in my opinion exempt, agreed to pay taxes on her personal income. The separation and later divorce (1996) of Charles and the immensely famous Diana similarly eroded assist for the royal own circle of relatives, which changed into regarded with the aid of using a few as antiquated and unfeeling. The criticism intensified following Diana's dying in 1997, specifically after Elizabeth first of all refused to permit the countrywide flag to fly at half-personnel over Buckingham Palace. In line together along with her in advance tries at modernizing the monarchy, the queen sooner or later sought to give a less-stuffy and less-conventional photo of the monarchy. These tries have been met with mixed success.

• In 2002 Elizabeth celebrated her 50th year on the throne. As part of her "Golden Jubilee," events were held throughout the Commonwealth, including several days of festivities in London. The celebrations were somewhat diminished by the deaths of Elizabeth's mother and sister early in the year. Beginning in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st century, the public standing of the royal family rebounded, and even Charles's 2005 marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles found much support among the British people. In April 2011 Elizabeth led the family in celebrating the wedding of Prince William of Wales—the elder son of Charles and Diana—and Catherine Middleton. The following month she surpassed George III to become the second longest-reigning monarch in British history, behind Victoria. Also in May, Elizabeth made a historic trip to Ireland, becoming both the first British monarch to visit the Irish republic and the first to set foot in Ireland since 1911. In 2012 Elizabeth celebrated her "Diamond Jubilee," marking 60 years on the throne. On September 9, 2015, she surpassed Victoria's record reign of 63 years and 216 days.

• In August 2017 Prince Philip officially retired from public life, though he periodically appeared at official engagements after that. In the meantime, Elizabeth began to reduce her own official engagements, passing some duties on to Prince Charles and other senior members of the royal family, though the pool of stand-ins shrank when Charles's younger son, Prince Harry, duke of Sussex, and his wife, Meghan, duchess of Sussex, controversially chose to give up their royal roles in March 2020. During this period, public interest in the queen and the royal family grew as a result of the widespread popularity of The Crown, a Netflix television series about the Windsors that debuted in 2016. Having dealt with several physical setbacks in recent years, Philip, who had been Elizabeth's husband for more than seven decades, died in April 2021. On their 50th wedding anniversary, in 1997, Elizabeth had said of Philip, "He has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years." Because of social-distancing protocols brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the queen sat alone in a pew in St. George's Chapel (in Windsor Castle) at Philip's funeral. The widely disseminated images of her tragic isolation were heartbreaking but emblematic of the dignity and courage that she brought to her reign.

• In June 2022 Britain celebrated Elizabeth's 70 years at the throne with the "Platinum Jubilee," a four-day country wide excursion that covered the Trooping the Colour ceremony, a thanksgiving provider at St. Paul's Cathedral, a  pop music live performance at Buckingham Palace, and a festival that employed road arts, theatre, music, circus, carnival, and dress to honour the queen's reign. Health troubles restricted Elizabeth's involvement. Concerns approximately the queen's fitness additionally caused a wreck in way of life when, in September, she appointed Boris Johnson's substitute as high minister, Liz Truss, at Balmoral as opposed to at Buckingham Palace, wherein she had officially appointed greater than a dozen high ministers.

• Elizabeth became acknowledged to favour simplicity in courtroom docket lifestyles and became additionally acknowledged to take a extreme and knowledgeable hobby in government business, apart from the conventional and ceremonial duties. Privately, she have become a eager horsewoman; she stored racehorses, often attended races, and periodically visited the Kentucky stud farms withinside the United States. Her monetary and belongings holdings made her one of the world's richest women.