Queen Elizabeth II was the world’s longest-serving monarch. She became queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in 1952. As a young teen, she witnessed the horrors of World War II, as an aged monarch she saw the agonies of the coronavirus pandemic. She was the 32nd great-granddaughter of King Alfred the Great, England’s first monarch, who…
On Feb. 6, 2022, Elizabeth became the first British monarch to reign 70 years. In honor of the occasion, the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth held a Platinum Jubilee in June 2022.
She also presided over a family that saw tragedy, scandal and turmoil, including the death of former Princess Diana, the association of son Prince Andrew with the late millionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, and theThen-Princess Elizabeth learns how to change a car tire as an auxiliary officer of the English Army, 1945.
Soon after the coronation of Elizabeth's father, the U.K. was plunged into World War II. At 14, she made her first radio broadcast in 1940, addressing children who had been evacuated to the countryside and abroad to avoid the bombings of British cities.."For God will care for us and give us victory and peace. When peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place.
Thirteen years later, Elizabeth and Philip married at Westminster Abbey in an uplifting ceremony — two years after the end of World War II. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets along the route from Buckingham Palace.the pace of the strident terrible twentieth century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses
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