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The Queen was the longest-serving monarch in British history, her reign spanning 70 years.
BALMORAL CASTLE, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (LifeSiteNews) — Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom and many other countries including Canada, died today at her summer home in Scotland after a short illness.
She was 96.
The Queen was the longest-serving monarch in British history, her reign spanning 70 years.
Born to Albert, the Duke of York, and the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1926, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was not expected to become Queen. She was third in line to the throne behind her Uncle David, Prince of Wales and future Edward VIII, and her father, David’s younger brother. However, a new path was set before her in December 1936 when her uncle, who had succeeded his father George V but not yet been crowned, abdicated. Princess Elizabeth’s father took the name George VI and reigned until his death from coronary thrombosis in February 1952. Elizabeth thus became Queen at the age of 25.
Elizabeth had married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark in Westminster Abbey in November 1947, and the couple had four children: Charles (1947), Anne (1950), Andrew (1960), and Edward (1964). Prince Philip died in April 2021, after 73 years of marriage. At the time of her own death, the Queen had eight grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
From the age of 10, Elizabeth was one of the most famous people in the world, but her life was one of service, not celebrity.
This service began early. During the Second World War, when the Royal Family refused to leave Britain for the safety of Canada, the 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth gave an address over BBC Radio to raise public morale. In 1945, when she was 19, the Princess insisted upon joining the women’s auxiliary territorial services (ATS) of the British Army, where she served as a truck driver and mechanic.
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