The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is now at London’s Westminster Hall, where the monarch will lie in state before her state funeral on Monday. The Queen’s son, King Charles III, was joined by his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, and other members of the royal family as he wal...
Who Was Queen Mother Elizabeth? Queen Elizabeth was the Queen consort of King George VI until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She was popular with the public, earning the nickname "Smi...
Queen Elizabeth II. Additional Crew: Civilisation. Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. Elizabeth was born in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, a
Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Read about her young life, husband, children, grandchildren, death, funeral, and more.
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II officially became Britain’s ruling monarch after the death of her father, King George VI, on February 26, 1952. The coronation was held in Westminster Abbey and was the first to be broadcast on television. At the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II’s rei...
Keeping busy. Ahead of her death,Queen Elizabeth IIcontinued to carry out more public engagements than many of the other British royals combined —even after 70 years on the throne. The late monarchassumed the role at age 25 in 1952 following the death of her father, King George VI. E...
60. Which is the right order of Queen Elizabeth’s life? ① Her father died. ② She became Queen. ③ She married Phillip Mountbatten. ④ She broadcast a radio message to all the children of Britain. ⑤ She traveled to Scotland to visit her mother’s parents every summer. A. ⑤④③②...
Queens Elizabeth’s family came from the descendants of the Royal House of Scotland. Her father was Claude George Bowes-Lyon, the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and her mother was Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, a descendant of the British Prime Minister. ...
Her father, Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), was the second son of the King. Her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kingh...
and was where the then-Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947. But there hasn’t been a funeral of a monarch there since that of George II in 1760.