Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace in the State Coach, to attend the State opening of Parliament in London, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada and the Commonwealth, ascended the throne as much by a twist of fate as by the grace of God.
As the daughter and granddaughter of men who were not first in line to the throne, Elizabeth was once destined for a life of relative regal obscurity. Instead, she became one of the world's most famous women at the age of 25, when her father's death in 1952 made her England's sixth ruling queen and longest-reigning monarch. |
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She lived her early years in an intimate family atmosphere free from any hint of future royal responsibilities.
“Seldom can a royal child have enjoyed so simple and normal an early upbringing,” commented the Guardian newspaper in 1952. Elizabeth died Thursday at the age of 96. Buckingham Palace announced hours earlier that the Queen had been placed under medical supervision because doctors were concerned for her health. |
Members of the royal family had traveled to Scotland to be with the monarch.
The Queen had increasingly handed over duties to her son - who became King Charles III on Thursday - and other members of the Royal Family in recent months as she recovered from a bout of COVID-19, began using a cane and struggled to get around.
Born April 21, 1926, at 17 Bruton Street in London's Mayfair district at the home of her maternal grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, the golden-haired, blue-eyed first granddaughter of King George V and Queen Mary grew up in a household where doors were never slammed in anger.
The Queen had increasingly handed over duties to her son - who became King Charles III on Thursday - and other members of the Royal Family in recent months as she recovered from a bout of COVID-19, began using a cane and struggled to get around.
Born April 21, 1926, at 17 Bruton Street in London's Mayfair district at the home of her maternal grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, the golden-haired, blue-eyed first granddaughter of King George V and Queen Mary grew up in a household where doors were never slammed in anger.
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