Queen Elizabeth has died at the age of 96. He is Britain’s longest-serving monarch, ruling the kingdom from colonial times to the present day.
Queen Elizabeth II ruled the United Kingdom for seven decades.
Elizabeth was never meant to be queen. The young princess’s life changed irrevocably when her uncle, the king Edward VIII suddenly abdicated.
Power passed to Elizabeth’s father To George VIafter which it was the turn of Elizabeth’s unprecedentedly long reign.
Britain and the world changed immeasurably during Elizabeth’s lifetime. He witnessed the Second World War, the decline of the British Empire and the end of the colonial era, the Cold War from the beginning to the end, and Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Even at the end of Elizabeth’s reign, the world and Britain were shaken by the corona crisis and the war in Ukraine.
During the turn of the decades and the tumult, Queen Elizabeth maintained her position as a unifying force for the nation and a symbol representing stability.
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