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Elizabeth II

January 13, 2023

"Elizabeth of the United Kingdom" redirects here. For other uses, see Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (disambiguation) and Elizabeth II (disambiguation).

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime, and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history.

Elizabeth II
Head of the Commonwealth
Formal portrait, 1959
Queen of the United Kingdom
and other Commonwealth realms
(List)
Reign6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022
Coronation2 June 1953
PredecessorGeorge VI
SuccessorCharles III
BornPrincess Elizabeth of York
(1926-04-21)21 April 1926
Mayfair, London, England
Died8 September 2022(2022-09-08) (aged 96)
Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Burial19 September 2022
King George VI Memorial Chapel, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Spouse
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(m. 1947; died 2021)​
Issue
Detail
Names
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary
HouseWindsor
FatherGeorge VI
MotherElizabeth Bowes-Lyon
ReligionProtestant[a]
Signature

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and their marriage lasted 73 years until his death in 2021. They had four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.

When her father died in February 1952, Elizabeth—then 25 years old—became queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (known today as Sri Lanka), as well as head of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, devolution in the United Kingdom, the decolonisation of Africa, and the United Kingdom's accession to the European Communities and withdrawal from the European Union. The number of her realms varied over time as territories gained independence and some realms became republics. As queen, Elizabeth was served by more than 170 prime ministers across her realms. Her many historic visits and meetings included state visits to China in 1986, to Russia in 1994, and to the Republic of Ireland in 2011, and meetings with five popes.

Significant events included Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of her Silver, Golden, Diamond, and Platinum jubilees in 1977, 2002, 2012, and 2022, respectively. Although she faced occasional republican sentiment and media criticism of her family—particularly after the breakdowns of her children's marriages, her annus horribilis in 1992, and the death in 1997 of her former daughter-in-law Diana—support for the monarchy in the United Kingdom remained consistently high throughout her lifetime, as did her personal popularity.[1] Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, in September 2022, at the age of 96, and was succeeded by her eldest son, Charles III. Her state funeral was the first to be held in the United Kingdom since that of Winston Churchill in 1965.

Early life

 
On the cover of Time, April 1929
 
Portrait by Philip de László, 1933

Elizabeth was born on 21 April 1926, the first child of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), and his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary, and her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was delivered at 02:40 (GMT)[2] by Caesarean section at her maternal grandfather's London home, 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair.[3] The Anglican Archbishop of York, Cosmo Gordon Lang, baptised her in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29 May,[4][b] and she was named Elizabeth after her mother; Alexandra after her paternal great-grandmother, who had died six months earlier; and Mary after her paternal grandmother.[6] She was called "Lilibet" by her close family,[7] based on what she called herself at first.[8] She was cherished by her grandfather George V, whom she affectionately called "Grandpa England",[9] and her regular visits during his serious illness in 1929 were credited in the popular press and by later biographers with raising his spirits and aiding his recovery.[10]

Elizabeth's only sibling, Princess Margaret, was born in 1930. The two princesses were educated at home under the supervision of their mother and their governess, Marion Crawford.[11] Lessons concentrated on history, language, literature, and music.[12] Crawford published a biography of Elizabeth and Margaret's childhood years entitled The Little Princesses in 1950, much to the dismay of the royal family.[13] The book describes Elizabeth's love of horses and dogs, her orderliness, and her attitude of responsibility.[14] Others echoed such observations: Winston Churchill described Elizabeth when she was two as "a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant."[15] Her cousin Margaret Rhodes described her as "a jolly little girl, but fundamentally sensible and well-behaved".[16] Elizabeth's early life was spent primarily at the Yorks' residences at 145 Piccadilly (their town house in London) and Royal Lodge in Windsor.[17]

Heir presumptive

During her grandfather's reign, Elizabeth was third in the line of succession to the British throne, behind her uncle Edward and her father. Although her birth generated public interest, she was not expected to become queen, as Edward was still young and likely to marry and have children of his own, who would precede Elizabeth in the line of succession.[18] When her grandfather died in 1936 and her uncle succeeded as Edward VIII, she became second in line to the throne, after her father. Later that year, Edward abdicated, after his proposed marriage to divorced socialite Wallis Simpson provoked a constitutional crisis.[19] Consequently, Elizabeth's father became king, taking the regnal name George VI. Since Elizabeth had no brothers, she became heir presumptive. If her parents had subsequently had a son, he would have been heir apparent and above her in the line of succession, which was determined by the male-preference primogeniture in effect at the time.[20]

Elizabeth received private tuition in constitutional history from Henry Marten, Vice-Provost of Eton College,[21] and learned French from a succession of native-speaking governesses.[22] A Girl Guides company, the 1st Buckingham Palace Company, was formed specifically so she could socialise with girls her own age.[23] Later, she was enrolled as a Sea Ranger.[22]

In 1939, Elizabeth's parents toured Canada and the United States. As in 1927, when they had toured Australia and New Zealand, Elizabeth remained in Britain, since her father thought she was too young to undertake public tours.[24] She "looked tearful" as her parents departed.[25] They corresponded regularly,[25] and she and her parents made the first royal transatlantic telephone call on 18 May.[24]

Second World War

 
In Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform, April 1945

In September 1939, Britain entered the Second World War. Lord Hailsham suggested that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret should be evacuated to Canada to avoid the frequent aerial bombings of London by the Luftwaffe.[26] This was rejected by their mother, who declared, "The children won't go without me. I won't leave without the King. And the King will never leave."[27] The princesses stayed at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, until Christmas 1939, when they moved to Sandringham House, Norfolk.[28] From February to May 1940, they lived at Royal Lodge, Windsor, until moving to Windsor Castle, where they lived for most of the next five years.[29] At Windsor, the princesses staged pantomimes at Christmas in aid of the Queen's Wool Fund, which bought yarn to knit into military garments.[30] In 1940, the 14-year-old Elizabeth made her first radio broadcast during the BBC's Children's Hour, addressing other children who had been evacuated from the cities.[31] She stated: "We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors, soldiers, and airmen, and we are trying, too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war. We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well."[31]

In 1943, Elizabeth undertook her first solo public appearance on a visit to the Grenadier Guards, of which she had been appointed colonel the previous year.[32] As she approached her 18th birthday, Parliament changed the law so that she could act as one of five counsellors of state in the event of her father's incapacity or absence abroad, such as his visit to Italy in July 1944.[33] In February 1945, she was appointed an honorary second subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service with the service number 230873.[34] She trained and worked as a driver and mechanic and was given the rank of honorary junior commander (female equivalent of captain at the time) five months later.[35]

 
Elizabeth (far left) on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with her family and Winston Churchill, 8 May 1945

At the end of the war in Europe, on Victory in Europe Day, Elizabeth and Margaret mingled incognito with the celebrating crowds in the streets of London. Elizabeth later said in a rare interview, "We asked my parents if we could go out and see for ourselves. I remember we were terrified of being recognised ... I remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down Whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief."[36]

During the war, plans were drawn up to quell Welsh nationalism by affiliating Elizabeth more closely with Wales. Proposals, such as appointing her Constable of Caernarfon Castle or a patron of Urdd Gobaith Cymru (the Welsh League of Youth), were abandoned for several reasons, including fear of associating Elizabeth with conscientious objectors in the Urdd at a time when Britain was at war.[37] Welsh politicians suggested she be made Princess of Wales on her 18th birthday. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison supported the idea, but the King rejected it because he felt such a title belonged solely to the wife of a Prince of Wales and the Prince of Wales had always been the heir apparent.[38] In 1946, she was inducted into the Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[39]

Elizabeth went on her first overseas tour in 1947, accompanying her parents through southern Africa. During the tour, in a broadcast to the British Commonwealth on her 21st birthday, she made the following pledge: "I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."[40] The oft-quoted speech was written by Dermot Morrah, a journalist for The Times.[41]

Marriage

Main article: Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten

Elizabeth met her future husband, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, in 1934 and again in 1937.[42] They were second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark and third cousins through Queen Victoria. After meeting for the third time at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in July 1939, Elizabeth—though only 13 years old—said she fell in love with Philip, who was 18, and they began to exchange letters.[43] She was 21 when their engagement was officially announced on 9 July 1947.[44]

The engagement attracted some controversy. Philip had no financial standing, was foreign-born (though a British subject who had served in the Royal Navy throughout the Second World War), and had sisters who had married German noblemen with Nazi links.[45] Marion Crawford wrote, "Some of the King's advisors did not think him good enough for her. He was a prince without a home or kingdom. Some of the papers played long and loud tunes on the string of Philip's foreign origin."[46] Later biographies reported that Elizabeth's mother had reservations about the union initially, and teased Philip as "the Hun".[47] In later life, however, she told the biographer Tim Heald that Philip was "an English gentleman".[48]

 
At Buckingham Palace with husband Philip after their wedding, 1947

Before the marriage, Philip renounced his Greek and Danish titles, officially converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism, and adopted the style Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, taking the surname of his mother's British family.[49] Shortly before the wedding, he was created Duke of Edinburgh and granted the style His Royal Highness.[50] Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey. They received 2,500 wedding gifts from around the world.[51] Elizabeth required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown (which was designed by Norman Hartnell) because Britain had not yet completely recovered from the devastation of the war.[52] In post-war Britain, it was not acceptable for Philip's German relations, including his three surviving sisters, to be invited to the wedding.[53] Neither was an invitation extended to the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII.[54]

Elizabeth gave birth to her first child, Charles, in November 1948. One month earlier, the King had issued letters patent allowing her children to use the style and title of a royal prince or princess, to which they otherwise would not have been entitled as their father was no longer a royal prince.[55] A second child, Princess Anne, was born in August 1950.[56]

Following their wedding, the couple leased Windlesham Moor, near Windsor Castle, until July 1949,[51] when they took up residence at Clarence House in London. At various times between 1949 and 1951, the Duke of Edinburgh was stationed in the British Crown Colony of Malta as a serving Royal Navy officer. He and Elizabeth lived intermittently in Malta for several months at a time in the hamlet of Gwardamanġa, at Villa Guardamangia, the rented home of Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten. Their two children remained in Britain.[57]

Reign

Accession and coronation

Main article: Coronation of Elizabeth II
 
Coronation portrait by Cecil Beaton, 1953

George VI's health declined during 1951, and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events. When she visited Canada and President Harry S. Truman in Washington, D.C., in October 1951, her private secretary, Martin Charteris, carried a draft accession declaration in case the King died while she was on tour.[58] In early 1952, Elizabeth and Philip set out for a tour of Australia and New Zealand by way of the British colony of Kenya. On 6 February, they had just returned to their Kenyan home, Sagana Lodge, after a night spent at Treetops Hotel, when word arrived of the death of Elizabeth's father. Philip broke the news to the new queen.[59] She chose to retain Elizabeth as her regnal name,[60] and was therefore called Elizabeth II, which offended many Scots, as she was the first Elizabeth to rule in Scotland.[61] She was proclaimed queen throughout her realms and the royal party hastily returned to the United Kingdom.[62] Elizabeth and Philip moved into Buckingham Palace.[63]

With Elizabeth's accession, it seemed possible that the royal house would take her husband's name, in line with the custom for married women of the time. Lord Mountbatten advocated for House of Mountbatten and Philip suggested House of Edinburgh, after his ducal title.[64] The British prime minister, Winston Churchill, and Elizabeth's grandmother Queen Mary favoured the retention of the House of Windsor. Elizabeth issued a declaration on 9 April 1952 that the royal house would continue to be Windsor. Philip complained, "I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children."[65] In 1960, the surname Mountbatten-Windsor was adopted for Philip and Elizabeth's male-line descendants who do not carry royal titles.[66][67]

Amid preparations for the coronation, Princess Margaret told her sister she wished to marry Peter Townsend, a divorcé 16 years Margaret's senior with two sons from his previous marriage. Elizabeth asked them to wait for a year; in the words of her private secretary, "the Queen was naturally sympathetic towards the Princess, but I think she thought—she hoped—given time, the affair would peter out."[68] Senior politicians were against the match and the Church of England did not permit remarriage after divorce. If Margaret had contracted a civil marriage, she would have been expected to renounce her right of succession.[69] Margaret decided to abandon her plans with Townsend.[70] In 1960, she married Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was created Earl of Snowdon the following year. They were divorced in 1978. She did not remarry.[71]

Despite the death of Queen Mary on 24 March 1953, the coronation went ahead as planned on 2 June, as Mary had requested.[72] The coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey was televised for the first time, with the exception of the anointing and communion.[73][c] On Elizabeth's instruction, her coronation gown was embroidered with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries.[77]

Continuing evolution of the Commonwealth

Further information: Commonwealth realm § From the accession of Elizabeth II
 
Elizabeth's realms (light red and pink) and their territories and protectorates (dark red) at the beginning of her reign in 1952

From Elizabeth's birth onwards, the British Empire continued its transformation into the Commonwealth of Nations.[78] By the time of her accession in 1952, her role as head of multiple independent states was already established.[79] In 1953, Elizabeth and her husband embarked on a seven-month round-the-world tour, visiting 13 countries and covering more than 40,000 miles (64,000 km) by land, sea and air.[80] She became the first reigning monarch of Australia and New Zealand to visit those nations.[81] During the tour, crowds were immense; three-quarters of the population of Australia were estimated to have seen her.[82] Throughout her reign, Elizabeth made hundreds of state visits to other countries and tours of the Commonwealth; she was the most widely travelled head of state.[83]

In 1956, the British and French prime ministers, Sir Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet, discussed the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth. The proposal was never accepted and the following year France signed the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community, the precursor to the European Union.[84] In November 1956, Britain and France invaded Egypt in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to capture the Suez Canal. Lord Mountbatten said Elizabeth was opposed to the invasion, though Eden denied it. Eden resigned two months later.[85]

 
With Commonwealth leaders at the 1960 Commonwealth Conference

The governing Conservative Party had no formal mechanism for choosing a leader, meaning that it fell to Elizabeth to decide whom to commission to form a government following Eden's resignation. Eden recommended she consult Lord Salisbury, the lord president of the council. Lord Salisbury and Lord Kilmuir, the lord chancellor, consulted the British Cabinet, Churchill, and the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, resulting in Elizabeth appointing their recommended candidate: Harold Macmillan.[86]

The Suez crisis and the choice of Eden's successor led, in 1957, to the first major personal criticism of Elizabeth. In a magazine, which he owned and edited,[87] Lord Altrincham accused her of being "out of touch".[88] Altrincham was denounced by public figures and slapped by a member of the public appalled by his comments.[89] Six years later, in 1963, Macmillan resigned and advised Elizabeth to appoint the Earl of Home as the prime minister, advice she followed.[90] Elizabeth again came under criticism for appointing the prime minister on the advice of a small number of ministers or a single minister.[90] In 1965, the Conservatives adopted a formal mechanism for electing a leader, thus relieving the Queen of her involvement.[91]

 
Seated with Philip on thrones at the Canadian parliament, 1957

In 1957, Elizabeth made a state visit to the United States, where she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Commonwealth. On the same tour, she opened the 23rd Canadian Parliament, becoming the first monarch of Canada to open a parliamentary session.[92] Two years later, solely in her capacity as Queen of Canada, she revisited the United States and toured Canada.[92][93] In 1961, she toured Cyprus, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Iran.[94] On a visit to Ghana the same year, she dismissed fears for her safety, even though her host, President Kwame Nkrumah, who had replaced her as head of state, was a target for assassins.[95] Harold Macmillan wrote, "The Queen has been absolutely determined all through ... She is impatient of the attitude towards her to treat her as ... a film star ... She has indeed 'the heart and stomach of a man' ... She loves her duty and means to be a Queen."[95] Before her tour through parts of Quebec in 1964, the press reported extremists within the Quebec separatist movement were plotting Elizabeth's assassination.[96] No attempt was made, but a riot did break out while she was in Montreal; Elizabeth's "calmness and courage in the face of the violence" was noted.[97]

Elizabeth gave birth to her third child, Prince Andrew, in February 1960, which was the first birth to a reigning British monarch since 1857.[98] Her fourth child, Prince Edward, was born in March 1964.[99]

On 21 October 1966 the Aberfan disaster in Wales saw 116 children and 28 adults killed when a colliery spoil tip collapsed, catastrophically engulfing Pantglas Junior School and the surrounding houses in the village. The Queen was criticised for waiting eight days before deciding to visit the village, and her failure to promptly appear at the scene was a mistake that she later regretted.[100][101]

Acceleration of decolonisation

 
In Queensland, Australia, 1970
 
With President Tito of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, 1972

The 1960s and 1970s saw an acceleration in the decolonisation of Africa and the Caribbean. More than 20 countries gained independence from Britain as part of a planned transition to self-government. In 1965, however, the Rhodesian prime minister, Ian Smith, in opposition to moves towards majority rule, unilaterally declared independence while expressing "loyalty and devotion" to Elizabeth, declaring her "Queen of Rhodesia".[102] Although Elizabeth formally dismissed him, and the international community applied sanctions against Rhodesia, his regime survived for over a decade.[103] As Britain's ties to its former empire weakened, the British government sought entry to the European Community, a goal it achieved in 1973.[104]

Elizabeth toured Yugoslavia in October 1972, becoming the first British monarch to visit a communist country.[105] She was received at the airport by President Josip Broz Tito, and a crowd of thousands greeted her in Belgrade.[106]

In February 1974, the British prime minister, Edward Heath, advised Elizabeth to call a general election in the middle of her tour of the Austronesian Pacific Rim, requiring her to fly back to Britain.[107] The election resulted in a hung parliament; Heath's Conservatives were not the largest party, but could stay in office if they formed a coalition with the Liberals. When discussions on forming a coalition foundered, Heath resigned as prime minister and Elizabeth asked the Leader of the Opposition, Labour's Harold Wilson, to form a government.[108]

A year later, at the height of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, the Australian prime minister, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed from his post by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, after the Opposition-controlled Senate rejected Whitlam's budget proposals.[109] As Whitlam had a majority in the House of Representatives, Speaker Gordon Scholes appealed to Elizabeth to reverse Kerr's decision. She declined, saying she would not interfere in decisions reserved by the Constitution of Australia for the Governor-General.[110] The crisis fuelled Australian republicanism.[109]

Silver Jubilee

 
Leaders of the G7 states, members of the royal family and Elizabeth (centre), London, 1977

In 1977, Elizabeth marked the Silver Jubilee of her accession. Parties and events took place throughout the Commonwealth, many coinciding with her associated national and Commonwealth tours. The celebrations re-affirmed Elizabeth's popularity, despite virtually coincident negative press coverage of Princess Margaret's separation from her husband, Lord Snowdon.[111] In 1978, Elizabeth endured a state visit to the United Kingdom by Romania's communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena,[112] though privately she thought they had "blood on their hands".[113] The following year brought two blows: one was the unmasking of Anthony Blunt, former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, as a communist spy; the other was the assassination of her relative and in-law Lord Mountbatten by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.[114]

According to Paul Martin Sr., by the end of the 1970s Elizabeth was worried the Crown "had little meaning for" Pierre Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister.[115] Tony Benn said Elizabeth found Trudeau "rather disappointing".[115] Trudeau's supposed republicanism seemed to be confirmed by his antics, such as sliding down banisters at Buckingham Palace and pirouetting behind Elizabeth's back in 1977, and the removal of various Canadian royal symbols during his term of office.[115] In 1980, Canadian politicians sent to London to discuss the patriation of the Canadian constitution found Elizabeth "better informed ... than any of the British politicians or bureaucrats".[115] She was particularly interested after the failure of Bill C-60, which would have affected her role as head of state.[115]

Press scrutiny and Thatcher premiership

 
Riding Burmese at the 1986 Trooping the Colour ceremony

During the 1981 Trooping the Colour ceremony, six weeks before the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, six shots were fired at Elizabeth from close range as she rode down The Mall, London, on her horse, Burmese. Police later discovered the shots were blanks. The 17-year-old assailant, Marcus Sarjeant, was sentenced to five years in prison and released after three.[116] Elizabeth's composure and skill in controlling her mount were widely praised.[117] That October Elizabeth was the subject of another attack while on a visit to Dunedin, New Zealand. Christopher John Lewis, who was 17 years old, fired a shot with a .22 rifle from the fifth floor of a building overlooking the parade, but missed.[118] Lewis was arrested, but instead of being charged with attempted murder or treason was sentenced to three years in jail for unlawful possession and discharge of a firearm. Two years into his sentence, he attempted to escape a psychiatric hospital with the intention of assassinating Charles, who was visiting the country with Diana and their son Prince William.[119]

 
Riding at Windsor with President Reagan, June 1982

From April to September 1982, Elizabeth's son, Prince Andrew, served with British forces in the Falklands War, for which she reportedly felt anxiety[120] and pride.[121] On 9 July, she awoke in her bedroom at Buckingham Palace to find an intruder, Michael Fagan, in the room with her. In a serious lapse of security, assistance only arrived after two calls to the Palace police switchboard.[122] After hosting US president Ronald Reagan at Windsor Castle in 1982 and visiting his California ranch in 1983, Elizabeth was angered when his administration ordered the invasion of Grenada, one of her Caribbean realms, without informing her.[123]

Intense media interest in the opinions and private lives of the royal family during the 1980s led to a series of sensational stories in the press, pioneered by The Sun tabloid.[124] As Kelvin MacKenzie, editor of The Sun, told his staff: "Give me a Sunday for Monday splash on the Royals. Don't worry if it's not true—so long as there's not too much of a fuss about it afterwards."[125] Newspaper editor Donald Trelford wrote in The Observer of 21 September 1986: "The royal soap opera has now reached such a pitch of public interest that the boundary between fact and fiction has been lost sight of ... it is not just that some papers don't check their facts or accept denials: they don't care if the stories are true or not." It was reported, most notably in The Sunday Times of 20 July 1986, that Elizabeth was worried that Margaret Thatcher's economic policies fostered social divisions and was alarmed by high unemployment, a series of riots, the violence of a miners' strike, and Thatcher's refusal to apply sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa. The sources of the rumours included royal aide Michael Shea and Commonwealth secretary-general Shridath Ramphal, but Shea claimed his remarks were taken out of context and embellished by speculation.[126] Thatcher reputedly said Elizabeth would vote for the Social Democratic Party—Thatcher's political opponents.[127] Thatcher's biographer, John Campbell, claimed "the report was a piece of journalistic mischief-making".[128] Reports of acrimony between them were exaggerated,[129] and Elizabeth gave two honours in her personal gift—membership in the Order of Merit and the Order of the Garter—to Thatcher after her replacement as prime minister by John Major.[130] Brian Mulroney, Canadian prime minister between 1984 and 1993, said Elizabeth was a "behind the scenes force" in ending apartheid.[131][132]

 
Elizabeth and Philip with their four eldest grandchildren, 1987

In 1986, Elizabeth paid a six-day state visit to the People's Republic of China, becoming the first British monarch to visit the country.[133] The tour included the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, and the Terracotta Warriors.[134] At a state banquet, Elizabeth joked about the first British emissary to China being lost at sea with Queen Elizabeth I's letter to the Wanli Emperor, and remarked, "fortunately postal services have improved since 1602".[135] Elizabeth's visit also signified the acceptance of both countries that sovereignty over Hong Kong would be transferred from the United Kingdom to China in 1997.[136]

By the end of the 1980s, Elizabeth had become the target of satire.[137] The involvement of younger members of the royal family in the charity game show It's a Royal Knockout in 1987 was ridiculed.[138] In Canada, Elizabeth publicly supported politically divisive constitutional amendments, prompting criticism from opponents of the proposed changes, including Pierre Trudeau.[131] The same year, the elected Fijian government was deposed in a military coup. As monarch of Fiji, Elizabeth supported the attempts of Governor-General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau to assert executive power and negotiate a settlement. Coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka deposed Ganilau and declared Fiji a republic.[139]

Turbulent 1990s and annus horribilis

In the wake of coalition victory in the Gulf War, Elizabeth became the first British monarch to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress in May 1991.[140]

 
Philip and Elizabeth in Germany, October 1992

On 24 November 1992, in a speech to mark the Ruby Jubilee of her accession to the throne, Elizabeth called 1992 her annus horribilis (a Latin phrase, meaning "horrible year").[141] Republican feeling in Britain had risen because of press estimates of Elizabeth's private wealth—contradicted by the Palace[d]—and reports of affairs and strained marriages among her extended family.[146] In March, her second son, Prince Andrew, separated from his wife, Sarah, and Mauritius removed Elizabeth as head of state; her daughter, Princess Anne, divorced Captain Mark Phillips in April;[147] angry demonstrators in Dresden threw eggs at Elizabeth during a state visit to Germany in October;[148] and a large fire broke out at Windsor Castle, one of her official residences, in November. The monarchy came under increased criticism and public scrutiny.[149] In an unusually personal speech, Elizabeth said that any institution must expect criticism, but suggested it might be done with "a touch of humour, gentleness and understanding".[150] Two days later, British prime minister John Major announced plans to reform the royal finances, drawn up the previous year, including Elizabeth paying income tax from 1993 onwards, and a reduction in the civil list.[151] In December, Prince Charles and his wife, Diana, formally separated.[152] At the end of the year, Elizabeth sued The Sun newspaper for breach of copyright when it published the text of her annual Christmas message two days before it was broadcast. The newspaper was forced to pay her legal fees and donated £200,000 to charity.[153] Elizabeth's solicitors had taken successful action against The Sun five years earlier for breach of copyright after it published a photograph of her daughter-in-law the Duchess of York and her granddaughter Princess Beatrice.[154]

In January 1994, Elizabeth broke the scaphoid bone in her left wrist as the horse she was riding at Sandringham tripped and fell.[155] In October 1994, she became the first reigning British monarch to set foot on Russian soil.[e] In October 1995, Elizabeth was tricked into a hoax call by Montreal radio host Pierre Brassard impersonating Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien. Elizabeth, who believed that she was speaking to Chrétien, said she supported Canadian unity and would try to influence Quebec's referendum on proposals to break away from Canada.[160]

In the year that followed, public revelations on the state of Charles and Diana's marriage continued.[161] In consultation with her husband and John Major, as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury (George Carey) and her private secretary (Robert Fellowes), Elizabeth wrote to Charles and Diana at the end of December 1995, suggesting that a divorce would be advisable.[162]

In August 1997, a year after the divorce, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris. Elizabeth was on holiday with her extended family at Balmoral. Diana's two sons, Princes William and Harry, wanted to attend church, so Elizabeth and Philip took them that morning.[163] Afterwards, for five days the royal couple shielded their grandsons from the intense press interest by keeping them at Balmoral where they could grieve in private,[164] but the royal family's silence and seclusion, and the failure to fly a flag at half-mast over Buckingham Palace, caused public dismay.[132][165] Pressured by the hostile reaction, Elizabeth agreed to return to London and address the nation in a live television broadcast on 5 September, the day before Diana's funeral.[166] In the broadcast, she expressed admiration for Diana and her feelings "as a grandmother" for the two princes.[167] As a result, much of the public hostility evaporated.[167]

In October 1997, Elizabeth and Philip made a state visit to India, which included a controversial visit to the site of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to pay her respects. Protesters chanted "Killer Queen, go back",[168] and there were demands for her to apologise for the action of British troops 78 years earlier.[169] At the memorial in the park, she and Philip laid a wreath and stood for a 30‑second moment of silence.[169] As a result, much of the fury among the public softened and the protests were called off.[168] That November, Elizabeth and her husband held a reception at Banqueting House to mark their golden wedding anniversary.[170] Elizabeth made a speech and praised Philip for his role as a consort, referring to him as "my strength and stay".[170]

In 1999, as part of the process of devolution within the UK, Elizabeth formally opened newly established legislatures for Wales and Scotland: the National Assembly for Wales at Cardiff in May,[171] and the Scottish Parliament at Edinburgh in July.[172]

Golden Jubilee

 
At a Golden Jubilee dinner with British prime minister Tony Blair and former prime ministers, 2002. From left to right: Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, Elizabeth, James Callaghan and John Major

On the eve of the new millennium, Elizabeth and Philip boarded a vessel from Southwark, bound for the Millennium Dome. Before passing under Tower Bridge, Elizabeth lit the National Millennium Beacon in the Pool of London using a laser torch.[173] Shortly before midnight, she officially opened the Dome.[174] During the singing of Auld Lang Syne, Elizabeth held hands with Philip and British prime minister Tony Blair.[175]

In 2002, Elizabeth marked her Golden Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of her accession. Her sister and mother died in February and March respectively, and the media speculated on whether the Jubilee would be a success or a failure.[176] She again undertook an extensive tour of her realms, beginning in Jamaica in February, where she called the farewell banquet "memorable" after a power cut plunged the King's House, the official residence of the governor-general, into darkness.[177] As in 1977, there were street parties and commemorative events, and monuments were named to honour the occasion. One million people attended each day of the three-day main Jubilee celebration in London,[178] and the enthusiasm shown for Elizabeth by the public was greater than many journalists had anticipated.[179]

 
Greeting NASA employees at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, May 2007

In 2003, Elizabeth sued the Daily Mirror for breach of confidence and obtained an injunction which prevented the outlet from publishing information gathered by a reporter who posed as a footman at Buckingham Palace.[180] The newspaper also paid £25,000 towards her legal costs.[181] Though generally healthy throughout her life, in 2003 she had keyhole surgery on both knees. In October 2006, she missed the opening of the new Emirates Stadium because of a strained back muscle that had been troubling her since the summer.[182]

In May 2007, citing unnamed sources, The Daily Telegraph reported that Elizabeth was "exasperated and frustrated" by the policies of Tony Blair, that she was concerned the British Armed Forces were overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that she had raised concerns over rural and countryside issues with Blair.[183] She was, however, said to admire Blair's efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.[184] She became the first British monarch to celebrate a diamond wedding anniversary in November 2007.[185] On 20 March 2008, at the Church of Ireland St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, Elizabeth attended the first Maundy service held outside England and Wales.[186]

Elizabeth addressed the UN General Assembly for a second time in 2010, again in her capacity as Queen of all Commonwealth realms and Head of the Commonwealth.[187] The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, introduced her as "an anchor for our age".[188] During her visit to New York, which followed a tour of Canada, she officially opened a memorial garden for British victims of the September 11 attacks.[188] Elizabeth's 11-day visit to Australia in October 2011 was her 16th visit to the country since 1954.[189] By invitation of the Irish president, Mary McAleese, she made the first state visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch in May 2011.[190]

Diamond Jubilee and longevity

 
Visiting Birmingham in July 2012 as part of the Diamond Jubilee tour

Elizabeth's 2012 Diamond Jubilee marked 60 years on the throne, and celebrations were held throughout her realms, the wider Commonwealth, and beyond. She and her husband undertook an extensive tour of the United Kingdom, while her children and grandchildren embarked on royal tours of other Commonwealth states on her behalf.[191] On 4 June, Jubilee beacons were lit around the world.[192] On 18 December, she became the first British sovereign to attend a peacetime Cabinet meeting since George III in 1781.[193]

Elizabeth, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, also opened the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in London, making her the first head of state to open two Olympic Games in two countries.[194] For the London Olympics, she played herself in a short film as part of the opening ceremony, alongside Daniel Craig as James Bond.[195] On 4 April 2013, she received an honorary BAFTA for her patronage of the film industry and was called "the most memorable Bond girl yet" at the award ceremony.[196]

 
Opening the Borders Railway on the day she became the longest-reigning British monarch, 2015. In her speech, she said she had never aspired to achieve that milestone.[197]

On 3 March 2013, Elizabeth stayed overnight at King Edward VII's Hospital as a precaution after developing symptoms of gastroenteritis.[198] A week later, she signed the new Charter of the Commonwealth.[199] Because of her age and the need for her to limit travelling, in 2013 she chose not to attend the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting for the first time in 40 years. She was represented at the summit in Sri Lanka by Prince Charles.[200] On 20 April 2018, the Commonwealth heads of government announced that she would be succeeded by Charles as Head of the Commonwealth, which she stated was her "sincere wish".[201] She underwent cataract surgery in May 2018.[202] In March 2019, she gave up driving on public roads, largely as a consequence of a car crash involving her husband two months earlier.[203]

Elizabeth surpassed her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, to become the longest-lived British monarch on 21 December 2007, and the longest-reigning British monarch and longest-reigning queen regnant and female head of state in the world on 9 September 2015.[204] She became the oldest current monarch after King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died on 23 January 2015.[205] She later became the longest-reigning current monarch and the longest-serving current head of state following the death of King Bhumibol of Thailand on 13 October 2016,[206] and the oldest current head of state on the resignation of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on 21 November 2017.[207] On 6 February 2017, she became the first British monarch to commemorate a sapphire jubilee,[208] and on 20 November, she was the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum wedding anniversary.[209] Philip had retired from his official duties as the Queen's consort in August 2017.[210]

COVID-19 pandemic

On 19 March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United Kingdom, Elizabeth moved to Windsor Castle and sequestered there as a precaution.[211] Public engagements were cancelled and Windsor Castle followed a strict sanitary protocol nicknamed "HMS Bubble".[212]

 
In a virtual meeting with Dame Cindy Kiro during the COVID-19 pandemic, October 2021

On 5 April, in a televised broadcast watched by an estimated 24 million viewers in the UK,[213] she asked people to "take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again."[214] On 8 May, the 75th anniversary of VE Day, in a television broadcast at 9 pm—the exact time at which her father George VI had broadcast to the nation on the same day in 1945—she asked people to "never give up, never despair".[215] In October, she visited the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Wiltshire, her first public engagement since the start of the pandemic.[216] On 4 November, she appeared masked for the first time in public, during a private pilgrimage to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, to mark the centenary of his burial.[217] In 2021, she received her first and second COVID-19 vaccinations in January and April respectively.[218]

Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021, after 73 years of marriage, making Elizabeth the first British monarch to reign as a widow or widower since Queen Victoria.[219] She was reportedly at her husband's bedside when he died,[220] and remarked in private that his death had "left a huge void".[221] Due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place in England at the time, Elizabeth sat alone at Philip's funeral service, which evoked sympathy from people around the world.[222] In her Christmas broadcast that year, she paid a personal tribute to her "beloved Philip", saying, "That mischievous, inquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him".[223]

Despite the pandemic, Elizabeth attended the 2021 State Opening of Parliament in May,[224] and the 47th G7 summit in June.[225] On 5 July, the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the UK's National Health Service, she announced that the NHS would be awarded the George Cross to "recognise all NHS staff, past and present, across all disciplines and all four nations".[226] In October 2021, she began using a walking stick during public engagements for the first time since her operation in 2004.[227] Following an overnight stay in hospital on 20 October, her previously scheduled visits to Northern Ireland,[228] the COP26 summit in Glasgow,[229] and the 2021 National Service of Remembrance were cancelled on health grounds.[230]

Platinum Jubilee

 
The Queen with members of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, following the Platinum Jubilee Pageant on 5 June 2022

Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee began on 6 February 2022, marking 70 years since she acceded to the throne on her father's death. On the eve of the date, she held a reception at Sandringham House for pensioners, local Women's Institute members and charity volunteers.[231] In her accession day message, Elizabeth renewed her commitment to a lifetime of public service, which she had originally made in 1947.[232]

Later that month, Elizabeth had "mild cold-like symptoms" and tested positive for COVID-19, along with some staff and family members.[233] She cancelled two virtual audiences on 22 February,[234] but held a phone conversation with British prime minister Boris Johnson the following day amid a crisis on the Russo-Ukrainian border,[f][235] following which she made a donation to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.[236] On 28 February, she was reported to have recovered and spent time with her family at Frogmore.[237] On 7 March, Elizabeth met Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau at Windsor Castle, in her first in-person engagement since her COVID diagnosis.[238] She later remarked that COVID infection "leave[s] one very tired and exhausted ... It's not a nice result".[239]

Elizabeth was present at the service of thanksgiving for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey on 29 March,[240] but was unable to attend the annual Commonwealth Day service that month[241] or the Royal Maundy service in April.[242] She missed the State Opening of Parliament in May for the first time in 59 years. (She did not attend in 1959 and 1963 as she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, respectively.)[243] In her absence, Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge as counsellors of state.[244]

During the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Elizabeth was largely confined to balcony appearances and missed the National Service of Thanksgiving.[245] For the Jubilee concert, she took part in a sketch with Paddington Bear, that opened the event outside Buckingham Palace.[246] On 13 June 2022, she became the second-longest reigning monarch in history among those whose exact dates of reign are known, with 70 years, 127 days reigned—surpassing King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.[247] On 6 September 2022, she appointed her 15th British prime minister, Liz Truss, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. This marked the only time she did not receive a new prime minister at Buckingham Palace during her reign.[248] No other British reign had seen so many prime ministers.[249]

Elizabeth never planned to abdicate,[250] though she took on fewer public engagements as she grew older and Prince Charles took on more of her duties.[251] The Queen told Canadian governor-general Adrienne Clarkson in a meeting in 2002 that she would never abdicate, saying "It is not our tradition. Although, I suppose if I became completely gaga, one would have to do something".[252] In June 2022, Elizabeth met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who "came away thinking there is someone who has no fear of death, has hope in the future, knows the rock on which she stands and that gives her strength."[253]

Death

Main article: Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II
 
Tributes left by people in The Mall, London

On 8 September 2022, Buckingham Palace released a statement which read: "Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen's doctors are concerned for Her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision. The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral."[254][255] Elizabeth's immediate family rushed to Balmoral to be by her side.[256][257] She died "peacefully" at 15:10 BST at the age of 96, with two of her children, Charles and Anne, by her side.[258][259] Her death was announced to the public at 18:30,[260][261] setting in motion Operation London Bridge and, because she died in Scotland, Operation Unicorn.[262][263]

Elizabeth was the first monarch to die in Scotland since James V in 1542.[264] Her death certificate recorded her cause of death as "old age".[258][265]

On 12 September, Elizabeth's coffin was carried up the Royal Mile in a procession to St Giles' Cathedral, where the Crown of Scotland was placed on it.[266] Her coffin lay at rest at the cathedral for 24 hours, guarded by the Royal Company of Archers, during which around 33,000 people filed past the coffin.[267] It was taken by air to London on 13 September. On 14 September, her coffin was taken in a military procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where Elizabeth lay in state for four days. The coffin was guarded by members of both the Sovereign's Bodyguard and the Household Division. An estimated 250,000 members of the public filed past the coffin, as did politicians and other public figures.[268][269] On 16 September, Elizabeth's children held a vigil around her coffin, and the next day her eight grandchildren did the same.[270][271]

 
Elizabeth's coffin on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, during the procession to Wellington Arch

Elizabeth's state funeral was held at Westminster Abbey on 19 September, which marked the first time that a monarch's funeral service had been held at the Abbey since George II in 1760.[272] More than a million people lined the streets of central London,[273] and the day was declared a holiday in several Commonwealth countries. In Windsor, a final procession involving 1,000 military personnel took place which was witnessed by 97,000 people.[274][273] Elizabeth's fell pony, and two royal corgis, stood at the side of the procession.[275] After a committal service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Elizabeth was interred with her husband Philip in the King George VI Memorial Chapel later the same day, in a private ceremony attended by her closest family members.[276][277][278][279]

Legacy

Main article: Personality and image of Elizabeth II

Beliefs, activities and interests

 
Petting a dog in New Zealand, 1974

Elizabeth rarely gave interviews and little was known of her political opinions, which she did not express explicitly in public. It is against convention to ask or reveal the monarch's views. When Times journalist Paul Routledge asked her about the miners' strike of 1984–85 during a royal tour of the newspaper's offices, she replied that it was "all about one man" (a reference to Arthur Scargill),[280] with which Routledge disagreed.[281] Routledge was widely criticised in the media for asking the question, and claimed that he was unaware of the protocols.[281] After the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Prime Minister David Cameron was overheard saying that Elizabeth was pleased with the outcome.[282] She had arguably issued a public coded statement about the referendum by telling one woman outside Balmoral Kirk that she hoped people would think "very carefully" about the outcome. It emerged later that Cameron had specifically requested that she register her concern.[283]

Elizabeth had a deep sense of religious and civic duty, and took her Coronation Oath seriously.[284] Aside from her official religious role as Supreme Governor of the established Church of England, she worshipped with that church and also the national Church of Scotland.[285] She demonstrated support for inter-faith relations and met with leaders of other churches and religions, including five popes: Pius XII, John XXIII, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis.[286] A personal note about her faith often featured in her annual Christmas Message broadcast to the Commonwealth. In 2000, she said:[287]

To many of us, our beliefs are of fundamental importance. For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ's words and example.

Elizabeth was patron of more than 600 organisations and charities.[288] The Charities Aid Foundation estimated that Elizabeth helped raise over £1.4 billion for her patronages during her reign.[289] Her main leisure interests included equestrianism and dogs, especially her Pembroke Welsh Corgis.[290] Her lifelong love of corgis began in 1933 with Dookie, the first corgi owned by her family.[291] Scenes of a relaxed, informal home life were occasionally witnessed; she and her family, from time to time, prepared a meal together and washed the dishes afterwards.[292]

Media depiction and public opinion

In the 1950s, as a young woman at the start of her reign, Elizabeth was depicted as a glamorous "fairytale Queen".[293] After the trauma of the Second World War, it was a time of hope, a period of progress and achievement heralding a "new Elizabethan age".[294] Lord Altrincham's accusation in 1957 that her speeches sounded like those of a "priggish schoolgirl" was an extremely rare criticism.[295] In the late 1960s, attempts to portray a more modern image of the monarchy were made in the television documentary Royal Family and by televising Prince Charles's investiture as Prince of Wales.[296] Elizabeth also instituted other new practices; her first royal walkabout, meeting ordinary members of the public, took place during a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1970.[297] Her wardrobe developed a recognisable, signature style driven more by function than fashion.[298] In public, she took to wearing mostly solid-colour overcoats and decorative hats, allowing her to be seen easily in a crowd.[299]

At Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee in 1977, the crowds and celebrations were genuinely enthusiastic;[300] but, in the 1980s, public criticism of the royal family increased, as the personal and working lives of Elizabeth's children came under media scrutiny.[301] Her popularity sank to a low point in the 1990s. Under pressure from public opinion, she began to pay income tax for the first time, and Buckingham Palace was opened to the public.[302] Although support for republicanism in Britain seemed higher than at any time in living memory, republican ideology was still a minority viewpoint and Elizabeth herself had high approval ratings.[303] Criticism was focused on the institution of the monarchy itself, and the conduct of Elizabeth's wider family, rather than her own behaviour and actions.[304] Discontent with the monarchy reached its peak on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, although Elizabeth's personal popularity—as well as general support for the monarchy—rebounded after her live television broadcast to the world five days after Diana's death.[305]

 
Meeting children in Brisbane, Australia, October 1982

In November 1999, a referendum in Australia on the future of the Australian monarchy favoured its retention in preference to an indirectly elected head of state.[306] Many republicans credited Elizabeth's personal popularity with the survival of the monarchy in Australia. In 2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard noted that there was a "deep affection" for Elizabeth in Australia and another referendum on the monarchy should wait until after her reign.[307] Gillard's successor, Malcolm Turnbull, who led the republican campaign in 1999, similarly believed that Australians would not vote to become a republic in her lifetime.[308] "She's been an extraordinary head of state", Turnbull said in 2021, "and I think frankly, in Australia, there are more Elizabethans than there are monarchists".[309] Similarly, referendums in both Tuvalu in 2008 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2009 saw voters reject proposals to become republics.[310]

Polls in Britain in 2006 and 2007 revealed strong support for the monarchy,[311] and in 2012, Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee year, her approval ratings hit 90 per cent.[312] Her family came under scrutiny again in the last few years of her life due to her son Andrew's association with convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre amidst accusations of sexual impropriety, and her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan's exit from the working royal family and subsequent move to the United States.[313] Polling in Great Britain during the Platinum Jubilee, however, showed Elizabeth's personal popularity remained strong.[314] As of 2021 she remained the third most admired woman in the world according to the annual Gallup poll, her 52 appearances on the list meaning she had been in the top ten more than any other woman in the poll's history.[315]

Elizabeth was portrayed in a variety of media by many notable artists, including painters Pietro Annigoni, Peter Blake, Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy, Terence Cuneo, Lucian Freud, Rolf Harris, Damien Hirst, Juliet Pannett and Tai-Shan Schierenberg.[316][317] Notable photographers of Elizabeth included Cecil Beaton, Yousuf Karsh, Anwar Hussein, Annie Leibovitz, Lord Lichfield, Terry O'Neill, John Swannell and Dorothy Wilding. The first official portrait photograph of Elizabeth was taken by Marcus Adams in 1926.[318]

Titles, styles, honours, and arms

Main article: List of titles and honours of Elizabeth II

Titles and styles

 
Royal cypher of Elizabeth II, surmounted by St Edward's Crown.
 
Personal flag of Elizabeth II
  • 21 April 1926 – 11 December 1936: Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth of York[319]
  • 11 December 1936 – 20 November 1947: Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth
  • 20 November 1947 – 6 February 1952: Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh[320]
  • 6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022: Her Majesty The Queen

Elizabeth held many titles and honorary military positions throughout the Commonwealth, was sovereign of many orders in her own countries, and received honours and awards from around the world. In each of her realms, she had a distinct title that follows a similar formula: Queen of Saint Lucia and of Her other Realms and Territories in Saint Lucia, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories in Australia, etc. In the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, which are Crown Dependencies rather than separate realms, she was known as Duke of Normandy and Lord of Mann, respectively. Additional styles include Defender of the Faith and Duke of Lancaster.

Arms

See also: Flags of Elizabeth II

From 21 April 1944 until her accession, Elizabeth's arms consisted of a lozenge bearing the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom differenced with a label of three points argent, the centre point bearing a Tudor rose and the first and third a cross of St George.[321] Upon her accession, she inherited the various arms her father held as sovereign. Elizabeth also possessed royal standards and personal flags for use in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, and elsewhere.[322]

Issue

Name Birth Marriage Children Grandchildren
Date Spouse
Charles III (1948-11-14) 14 November 1948 (age 74) 29 July 1981
Divorced 28 August 1996 		Lady Diana Spencer William, Prince of Wales
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
9 April 2005 Camilla Parker Bowles None
Anne, Princess Royal (1950-08-15) 15 August 1950 (age 72) 14 November 1973
Divorced 28 April 1992 		Mark Phillips Peter Phillips
  • Savannah Phillips
  • Isla Phillips
Zara Tindall
  • Mia Tindall
  • Lena Tindall
  • Lucas Tindall
12 December 1992 Timothy Laurence None
Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960-02-19) 19 February 1960 (age 62) 23 July 1986
Divorced 30 May 1996 		Sarah Ferguson Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi Sienna Mapelli Mozzi
Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank August Brooksbank
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964-03-10) 10 March 1964 (age 58) 19 June 1999 Sophie Rhys-Jones Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor None
James Mountbatten-Windsor, Viscount Severn None

Ancestry

See also

Notes

  1. ^ As monarch, Elizabeth was Supreme Governor of the Church of England. She was also a member of the Church of Scotland.
  2. ^ Her godparents were: King George V and Queen Mary; Lord Strathmore; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (her paternal great-granduncle); Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles (her paternal aunt); and Lady Elphinstone (her maternal aunt).[5]
  3. ^ Television coverage of the coronation was instrumental in boosting the medium's popularity; the number of television licences in the United Kingdom doubled to 3 million,[74] and many of the more than 20 million British viewers watched television for the first time in the homes of their friends or neighbours.[75] In North America, almost 100 million viewers watched recorded broadcasts.[76]
  4. ^ The Sunday Times Rich List 1989 put her number one on the list with a reported wealth of £5.2 billion (approximately £13.8 billion in today's value),[142] but it included state assets like the Royal Collection that were not hers personally.[143] In 1993, Buckingham Palace called estimates of £100 million "grossly overstated".[144] In 1971, Jock Colville, her former private secretary and a director of her bank, Coutts, estimated her wealth at £2 million (equivalent to about £14 million in 1993[142]).[145]
  5. ^ The only previous state visit by a British monarch to Russia was made by King Edward VII in 1908. The King never stepped ashore, and met Nicholas II on royal yachts off the Baltic port of what is now Tallinn, Estonia.[156][157] During the four-day visit, which was considered to be one of the most important foreign trips of Elizabeth's reign,[158] she and Philip attended events in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.[159]
  6. ^ Russia invaded Ukraine one day later.

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elizabeth, elizabeth, united, kingdom, redirects, here, other, uses, elizabeth, united, kingdom, disambiguation, disambiguation, elizabeth, alexandra, mary, april, 1926, september, 2022, queen, united, kingdom, other, commonwealth, realms, from, february, 1952. Elizabeth of the United Kingdom redirects here For other uses see Elizabeth of the United Kingdom disambiguation and Elizabeth II disambiguation Elizabeth II Elizabeth Alexandra Mary 21 April 1926 8 September 2022 was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022 She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her death Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history Elizabeth IIHead of the CommonwealthFormal portrait 1959Queen of the United Kingdomand other Commonwealth realms List Reign6 February 1952 8 September 2022Coronation2 June 1953PredecessorGeorge VISuccessorCharles IIIBornPrincess Elizabeth of York 1926 04 21 21 April 1926Mayfair London EnglandDied8 September 2022 2022 09 08 aged 96 Balmoral Castle Aberdeenshire ScotlandBurial19 September 2022King George VI Memorial Chapel St George s Chapel Windsor CastleSpousePrince Philip Duke of Edinburgh m 1947 died 2021 wbr IssueDetailCharles III Anne Princess Royal Prince Andrew Duke of York Prince Edward Earl of WessexNamesElizabeth Alexandra MaryHouseWindsorFatherGeorge VIMotherElizabeth Bowes LyonReligionProtestant a SignatureElizabeth was born in Mayfair London as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII making the ten year old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service In November 1947 she married Philip Mountbatten a former prince of Greece and Denmark and their marriage lasted 73 years until his death in 2021 They had four children Charles Anne Andrew and Edward When her father died in February 1952 Elizabeth then 25 years old became queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries the United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Pakistan and Ceylon known today as Sri Lanka as well as head of the Commonwealth Elizabeth reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland devolution in the United Kingdom the decolonisation of Africa and the United Kingdom s accession to the European Communities and withdrawal from the European Union The number of her realms varied over time as territories gained independence and some realms became republics As queen Elizabeth was served by more than 170 prime ministers across her realms Her many historic visits and meetings included state visits to China in 1986 to Russia in 1994 and to the Republic of Ireland in 2011 and meetings with five popes Significant events included Elizabeth s coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of her Silver Golden Diamond and Platinum jubilees in 1977 2002 2012 and 2022 respectively Although she faced occasional republican sentiment and media criticism of her family particularly after the breakdowns of her children s marriages her annus horribilis in 1992 and the death in 1997 of her former daughter in law Diana support for the monarchy in the United Kingdom remained consistently high throughout her lifetime as did her personal popularity 1 Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle Aberdeenshire in September 2022 at the age of 96 and was succeeded by her eldest son Charles III Her state funeral was the first to be held in the United Kingdom since that of Winston Churchill in 1965 Contents 1 Early life 2 Heir presumptive 2 1 Second World War 2 2 Marriage 3 Reign 3 1 Accession and coronation 3 2 Continuing evolution of the Commonwealth 3 3 Acceleration of decolonisation 3 4 Silver Jubilee 3 5 Press scrutiny and Thatcher premiership 3 6 Turbulent 1990s and annus horribilis 3 7 Golden Jubilee 3 8 Diamond Jubilee and longevity 3 9 COVID 19 pandemic 3 10 Platinum Jubilee 4 Death 5 Legacy 5 1 Beliefs activities and interests 5 2 Media depiction and public opinion 6 Titles styles honours and arms 6 1 Titles and styles 6 2 Arms 7 Issue 8 Ancestry 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 11 1 Citations 11 2 Bibliography 12 External linksEarly life On the cover of Time April 1929 Portrait by Philip de Laszlo 1933 Elizabeth was born on 21 April 1926 the first child of Prince Albert Duke of York later King George VI and his wife Elizabeth Duchess of York later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary and her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes Lyon 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne She was delivered at 02 40 GMT 2 by Caesarean section at her maternal grandfather s London home 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair 3 The Anglican Archbishop of York Cosmo Gordon Lang baptised her in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 29 May 4 b and she was named Elizabeth after her mother Alexandra after her paternal great grandmother who had died six months earlier and Mary after her paternal grandmother 6 She was called Lilibet by her close family 7 based on what she called herself at first 8 She was cherished by her grandfather George V whom she affectionately called Grandpa England 9 and her regular visits during his serious illness in 1929 were credited in the popular press and by later biographers with raising his spirits and aiding his recovery 10 Elizabeth s only sibling Princess Margaret was born in 1930 The two princesses were educated at home under the supervision of their mother and their governess Marion Crawford 11 Lessons concentrated on history language literature and music 12 Crawford published a biography of Elizabeth and Margaret s childhood years entitled The Little Princesses in 1950 much to the dismay of the royal family 13 The book describes Elizabeth s love of horses and dogs her orderliness and her attitude of responsibility 14 Others echoed such observations Winston Churchill described Elizabeth when she was two as a character She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant 15 Her cousin Margaret Rhodes described her as a jolly little girl but fundamentally sensible and well behaved 16 Elizabeth s early life was spent primarily at the Yorks residences at 145 Piccadilly their town house in London and Royal Lodge in Windsor 17 Heir presumptiveDuring her grandfather s reign Elizabeth was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind her uncle Edward and her father Although her birth generated public interest she was not expected to become queen as Edward was still young and likely to marry and have children of his own who would precede Elizabeth in the line of succession 18 When her grandfather died in 1936 and her uncle succeeded as Edward VIII she became second in line to the throne after her father Later that year Edward abdicated after his proposed marriage to divorced socialite Wallis Simpson provoked a constitutional crisis 19 Consequently Elizabeth s father became king taking the regnal name George VI Since Elizabeth had no brothers she became heir presumptive If her parents had subsequently had a son he would have been heir apparent and above her in the line of succession which was determined by the male preference primogeniture in effect at the time 20 Elizabeth received private tuition in constitutional history from Henry Marten Vice Provost of Eton College 21 and learned French from a succession of native speaking governesses 22 A Girl Guides company the 1st Buckingham Palace Company was formed specifically so she could socialise with girls her own age 23 Later she was enrolled as a Sea Ranger 22 In 1939 Elizabeth s parents toured Canada and the United States As in 1927 when they had toured Australia and New Zealand Elizabeth remained in Britain since her father thought she was too young to undertake public tours 24 She looked tearful as her parents departed 25 They corresponded regularly 25 and she and her parents made the first royal transatlantic telephone call on 18 May 24 Second World War In Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform April 1945 In September 1939 Britain entered the Second World War Lord Hailsham suggested that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret should be evacuated to Canada to avoid the frequent aerial bombings of London by the Luftwaffe 26 This was rejected by their mother who declared The children won t go without me I won t leave without the King And the King will never leave 27 The princesses stayed at Balmoral Castle Scotland until Christmas 1939 when they moved to Sandringham House Norfolk 28 From February to May 1940 they lived at Royal Lodge Windsor until moving to Windsor Castle where they lived for most of the next five years 29 At Windsor the princesses staged pantomimes at Christmas in aid of the Queen s Wool Fund which bought yarn to knit into military garments 30 In 1940 the 14 year old Elizabeth made her first radio broadcast during the BBC s Children s Hour addressing other children who had been evacuated from the cities 31 She stated We are trying to do all we can to help our gallant sailors soldiers and airmen and we are trying too to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war We know every one of us that in the end all will be well 31 In 1943 Elizabeth undertook her first solo public appearance on a visit to the Grenadier Guards of which she had been appointed colonel the previous year 32 As she approached her 18th birthday Parliament changed the law so that she could act as one of five counsellors of state in the event of her father s incapacity or absence abroad such as his visit to Italy in July 1944 33 In February 1945 she was appointed an honorary second subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service with the service number 230873 34 She trained and worked as a driver and mechanic and was given the rank of honorary junior commander female equivalent of captain at the time five months later 35 Elizabeth far left on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with her family and Winston Churchill 8 May 1945 At the end of the war in Europe on Victory in Europe Day Elizabeth and Margaret mingled incognito with the celebrating crowds in the streets of London Elizabeth later said in a rare interview We asked my parents if we could go out and see for ourselves I remember we were terrified of being recognised I remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down Whitehall all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief 36 During the war plans were drawn up to quell Welsh nationalism by affiliating Elizabeth more closely with Wales Proposals such as appointing her Constable of Caernarfon Castle or a patron of Urdd Gobaith Cymru the Welsh League of Youth were abandoned for several reasons including fear of associating Elizabeth with conscientious objectors in the Urdd at a time when Britain was at war 37 Welsh politicians suggested she be made Princess of Wales on her 18th birthday Home Secretary Herbert Morrison supported the idea but the King rejected it because he felt such a title belonged solely to the wife of a Prince of Wales and the Prince of Wales had always been the heir apparent 38 In 1946 she was inducted into the Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales 39 Elizabeth went on her first overseas tour in 1947 accompanying her parents through southern Africa During the tour in a broadcast to the British Commonwealth on her 21st birthday she made the following pledge I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong 40 The oft quoted speech was written by Dermot Morrah a journalist for The Times 41 Marriage Main article Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten Elizabeth met her future husband Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark in 1934 and again in 1937 42 They were second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark and third cousins through Queen Victoria After meeting for the third time at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in July 1939 Elizabeth though only 13 years old said she fell in love with Philip who was 18 and they began to exchange letters 43 She was 21 when their engagement was officially announced on 9 July 1947 44 The engagement attracted some controversy Philip had no financial standing was foreign born though a British subject who had served in the Royal Navy throughout the Second World War and had sisters who had married German noblemen with Nazi links 45 Marion Crawford wrote Some of the King s advisors did not think him good enough for her He was a prince without a home or kingdom Some of the papers played long and loud tunes on the string of Philip s foreign origin 46 Later biographies reported that Elizabeth s mother had reservations about the union initially and teased Philip as the Hun 47 In later life however she told the biographer Tim Heald that Philip was an English gentleman 48 At Buckingham Palace with husband Philip after their wedding 1947 Before the marriage Philip renounced his Greek and Danish titles officially converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism and adopted the style Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten taking the surname of his mother s British family 49 Shortly before the wedding he was created Duke of Edinburgh and granted the style His Royal Highness 50 Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey They received 2 500 wedding gifts from around the world 51 Elizabeth required ration coupons to buy the material for her gown which was designed by Norman Hartnell because Britain had not yet completely recovered from the devastation of the war 52 In post war Britain it was not acceptable for Philip s German relations including his three surviving sisters to be invited to the wedding 53 Neither was an invitation extended to the Duke of Windsor formerly King Edward VIII 54 Elizabeth gave birth to her first child Charles in November 1948 One month earlier the King had issued letters patent allowing her children to use the style and title of a royal prince or princess to which they otherwise would not have been entitled as their father was no longer a royal prince 55 A second child Princess Anne was born in August 1950 56 Following their wedding the couple leased Windlesham Moor near Windsor Castle until July 1949 51 when they took up residence at Clarence House in London At various times between 1949 and 1951 the Duke of Edinburgh was stationed in the British Crown Colony of Malta as a serving Royal Navy officer He and Elizabeth lived intermittently in Malta for several months at a time in the hamlet of Gwardamanġa at Villa Guardamangia the rented home of Philip s uncle Lord Mountbatten Their two children remained in Britain 57 ReignAccession and coronation Main article Coronation of Elizabeth II Coronation portrait by Cecil Beaton 1953 George VI s health declined during 1951 and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events When she visited Canada and President Harry S Truman in Washington D C in October 1951 her private secretary Martin Charteris carried a draft accession declaration in case the King died while she was on tour 58 In early 1952 Elizabeth and Philip set out for a tour of Australia and New Zealand by way of the British colony of Kenya On 6 February they had just returned to their Kenyan home Sagana Lodge after a night spent at Treetops Hotel when word arrived of the death of Elizabeth s father Philip broke the news to the new queen 59 She chose to retain Elizabeth as her regnal name 60 and was therefore called Elizabeth II which offended many Scots as she was the first Elizabeth to rule in Scotland 61 She was proclaimed queen throughout her realms and the royal party hastily returned to the United Kingdom 62 Elizabeth and Philip moved into Buckingham Palace 63 With Elizabeth s accession it seemed possible that the royal house would take her husband s name in line with the custom for married women of the time Lord Mountbatten advocated for House of Mountbatten and Philip suggested House of Edinburgh after his ducal title 64 The British prime minister Winston Churchill and Elizabeth s grandmother Queen Mary favoured the retention of the House of Windsor Elizabeth issued a declaration on 9 April 1952 that the royal house would continue to be Windsor Philip complained I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children 65 In 1960 the surname Mountbatten Windsor was adopted for Philip and Elizabeth s male line descendants who do not carry royal titles 66 67 Amid preparations for the coronation Princess Margaret told her sister she wished to marry Peter Townsend a divorce 16 years Margaret s senior with two sons from his previous marriage Elizabeth asked them to wait for a year in the words of her private secretary the Queen was naturally sympathetic towards the Princess but I think she thought she hoped given time the affair would peter out 68 Senior politicians were against the match and the Church of England did not permit remarriage after divorce If Margaret had contracted a civil marriage she would have been expected to renounce her right of succession 69 Margaret decided to abandon her plans with Townsend 70 In 1960 she married Antony Armstrong Jones who was created Earl of Snowdon the following year They were divorced in 1978 She did not remarry 71 Despite the death of Queen Mary on 24 March 1953 the coronation went ahead as planned on 2 June as Mary had requested 72 The coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey was televised for the first time with the exception of the anointing and communion 73 c On Elizabeth s instruction her coronation gown was embroidered with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries 77 Continuing evolution of the Commonwealth Further information Commonwealth realm From the accession of Elizabeth II Elizabeth s realms light red and pink and their territories and protectorates dark red at the beginning of her reign in 1952 From Elizabeth s birth onwards the British Empire continued its transformation into the Commonwealth of Nations 78 By the time of her accession in 1952 her role as head of multiple independent states was already established 79 In 1953 Elizabeth and her husband embarked on a seven month round the world tour visiting 13 countries and covering more than 40 000 miles 64 000 km by land sea and air 80 She became the first reigning monarch of Australia and New Zealand to visit those nations 81 During the tour crowds were immense three quarters of the population of Australia were estimated to have seen her 82 Throughout her reign Elizabeth made hundreds of state visits to other countries and tours of the Commonwealth she was the most widely travelled head of state 83 In 1956 the British and French prime ministers Sir Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet discussed the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth The proposal was never accepted and the following year France signed the Treaty of Rome which established the European Economic Community the precursor to the European Union 84 In November 1956 Britain and France invaded Egypt in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to capture the Suez Canal Lord Mountbatten said Elizabeth was opposed to the invasion though Eden denied it Eden resigned two months later 85 With Commonwealth leaders at the 1960 Commonwealth Conference The governing Conservative Party had no formal mechanism for choosing a leader meaning that it fell to Elizabeth to decide whom to commission to form a government following Eden s resignation Eden recommended she consult Lord Salisbury the lord president of the council Lord Salisbury and Lord Kilmuir the lord chancellor consulted the British Cabinet Churchill and the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee resulting in Elizabeth appointing their recommended candidate Harold Macmillan 86 The Suez crisis and the choice of Eden s successor led in 1957 to the first major personal criticism of Elizabeth In a magazine which he owned and edited 87 Lord Altrincham accused her of being out of touch 88 Altrincham was denounced by public figures and slapped by a member of the public appalled by his comments 89 Six years later in 1963 Macmillan resigned and advised Elizabeth to appoint the Earl of Home as the prime minister advice she followed 90 Elizabeth again came under criticism for appointing the prime minister on the advice of a small number of ministers or a single minister 90 In 1965 the Conservatives adopted a formal mechanism for electing a leader thus relieving the Queen of her involvement 91 Seated with Philip on thrones at the Canadian parliament 1957 In 1957 Elizabeth made a state visit to the United States where she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Commonwealth On the same tour she opened the 23rd Canadian Parliament becoming the first monarch of Canada to open a parliamentary session 92 Two years later solely in her capacity as Queen of Canada she revisited the United States and toured Canada 92 93 In 1961 she toured Cyprus India Pakistan Nepal and Iran 94 On a visit to Ghana the same year she dismissed fears for her safety even though her host President Kwame Nkrumah who had replaced her as head of state was a target for assassins 95 Harold Macmillan wrote The Queen has been absolutely determined all through She is impatient of the attitude towards her to treat her as a film star She has indeed the heart and stomach of a man She loves her duty and means to be a Queen 95 Before her tour through parts of Quebec in 1964 the press reported extremists within the Quebec separatist movement were plotting Elizabeth s assassination 96 No attempt was made but a riot did break out while she was in Montreal Elizabeth s calmness and courage in the face of the violence was noted 97 Elizabeth gave birth to her third child Prince Andrew in February 1960 which was the first birth to a reigning British monarch since 1857 98 Her fourth child Prince Edward was born in March 1964 99 On 21 October 1966 the Aberfan disaster in Wales saw 116 children and 28 adults killed when a colliery spoil tip collapsed catastrophically engulfing Pantglas Junior School and the surrounding houses in the village The Queen was criticised for waiting eight days before deciding to visit the village and her failure to promptly appear at the scene was a mistake that she later regretted 100 101 Acceleration of decolonisation In Queensland Australia 1970 With President Tito of Yugoslavia in Belgrade 1972 The 1960s and 1970s saw an acceleration in the decolonisation of Africa and the Caribbean More than 20 countries gained independence from Britain as part of a planned transition to self government In 1965 however the Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith in opposition to moves towards majority rule unilaterally declared independence while expressing loyalty and devotion to Elizabeth declaring her Queen of Rhodesia 102 Although Elizabeth formally dismissed him and the international community applied sanctions against Rhodesia his regime survived for over a decade 103 As Britain s ties to its former empire weakened the British government sought entry to the European Community a goal it achieved in 1973 104 Elizabeth toured Yugoslavia in October 1972 becoming the first British monarch to visit a communist country 105 She was received at the airport by President Josip Broz Tito and a crowd of thousands greeted her in Belgrade 106 In February 1974 the British prime minister Edward Heath advised Elizabeth to call a general election in the middle of her tour of the Austronesian Pacific Rim requiring her to fly back to Britain 107 The election resulted in a hung parliament Heath s Conservatives were not the largest party but could stay in office if they formed a coalition with the Liberals When discussions on forming a coalition foundered Heath resigned as prime minister and Elizabeth asked the Leader of the Opposition Labour s Harold Wilson to form a government 108 A year later at the height of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis the Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed from his post by Governor General Sir John Kerr after the Opposition controlled Senate rejected Whitlam s budget proposals 109 As Whitlam had a majority in the House of Representatives Speaker Gordon Scholes appealed to Elizabeth to reverse Kerr s decision She declined saying she would not interfere in decisions reserved by the Constitution of Australia for the Governor General 110 The crisis fuelled Australian republicanism 109 Silver Jubilee Leaders of the G7 states members of the royal family and Elizabeth centre London 1977 In 1977 Elizabeth marked the Silver Jubilee of her accession Parties and events took place throughout the Commonwealth many coinciding with her associated national and Commonwealth tours The celebrations re affirmed Elizabeth s popularity despite virtually coincident negative press coverage of Princess Margaret s separation from her husband Lord Snowdon 111 In 1978 Elizabeth endured a state visit to the United Kingdom by Romania s communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena 112 though privately she thought they had blood on their hands 113 The following year brought two blows one was the unmasking of Anthony Blunt former Surveyor of the Queen s Pictures as a communist spy the other was the assassination of her relative and in law Lord Mountbatten by the Provisional Irish Republican Army 114 According to Paul Martin Sr by the end of the 1970s Elizabeth was worried the Crown had little meaning for Pierre Trudeau the Canadian prime minister 115 Tony Benn said Elizabeth found Trudeau rather disappointing 115 Trudeau s supposed republicanism seemed to be confirmed by his antics such as sliding down banisters at Buckingham Palace and pirouetting behind Elizabeth s back in 1977 and the removal of various Canadian royal symbols during his term of office 115 In 1980 Canadian politicians sent to London to discuss the patriation of the Canadian constitution found Elizabeth better informed than any of the British politicians or bureaucrats 115 She was particularly interested after the failure of Bill C 60 which would have affected her role as head of state 115 Press scrutiny and Thatcher premiership Riding Burmese at the 1986 Trooping the Colour ceremony During the 1981 Trooping the Colour ceremony six weeks before the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer six shots were fired at Elizabeth from close range as she rode down The Mall London on her horse Burmese Police later discovered the shots were blanks The 17 year old assailant Marcus Sarjeant was sentenced to five years in prison and released after three 116 Elizabeth s composure and skill in controlling her mount were widely praised 117 That October Elizabeth was the subject of another attack while on a visit to Dunedin New Zealand Christopher John Lewis who was 17 years old fired a shot with a 22 rifle from the fifth floor of a building overlooking the parade but missed 118 Lewis was arrested but instead of being charged with attempted murder or treason was sentenced to three years in jail for unlawful possession and discharge of a firearm Two years into his sentence he attempted to escape a psychiatric hospital with the intention of assassinating Charles who was visiting the country with Diana and their son Prince William 119 Riding at Windsor with President Reagan June 1982 From April to September 1982 Elizabeth s son Prince Andrew served with British forces in the Falklands War for which she reportedly felt anxiety 120 and pride 121 On 9 July she awoke in her bedroom at Buckingham Palace to find an intruder Michael Fagan in the room with her In a serious lapse of security assistance only arrived after two calls to the Palace police switchboard 122 After hosting US president Ronald Reagan at Windsor Castle in 1982 and visiting his California ranch in 1983 Elizabeth was angered when his administration ordered the invasion of Grenada one of her Caribbean realms without informing her 123 Intense media interest in the opinions and private lives of the royal family during the 1980s led to a series of sensational stories in the press pioneered by The Sun tabloid 124 As Kelvin MacKenzie editor of The Sun told his staff Give me a Sunday for Monday splash on the Royals Don t worry if it s not true so long as there s not too much of a fuss about it afterwards 125 Newspaper editor Donald Trelford wrote in The Observer of 21 September 1986 The royal soap opera has now reached such a pitch of public interest that the boundary between fact and fiction has been lost sight of it is not just that some papers don t check their facts or accept denials they don t care if the stories are true or not It was reported most notably in The Sunday Times of 20 July 1986 that Elizabeth was worried that Margaret Thatcher s economic policies fostered social divisions and was alarmed by high unemployment a series of riots the violence of a miners strike and Thatcher s refusal to apply sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa The sources of the rumours included royal aide Michael Shea and Commonwealth secretary general Shridath Ramphal but Shea claimed his remarks were taken out of context and embellished by speculation 126 Thatcher reputedly said Elizabeth would vote for the Social Democratic Party Thatcher s political opponents 127 Thatcher s biographer John Campbell claimed the report was a piece of journalistic mischief making 128 Reports of acrimony between them were exaggerated 129 and Elizabeth gave two honours in her personal gift membership in the Order of Merit and the Order of the Garter to Thatcher after her replacement as prime minister by John Major 130 Brian Mulroney Canadian prime minister between 1984 and 1993 said Elizabeth was a behind the scenes force in ending apartheid 131 132 Elizabeth and Philip with their four eldest grandchildren 1987 In 1986 Elizabeth paid a six day state visit to the People s Republic of China becoming the first British monarch to visit the country 133 The tour included the Forbidden City the Great Wall of China and the Terracotta Warriors 134 At a state banquet Elizabeth joked about the first British emissary to China being lost at sea with Queen Elizabeth I s letter to the Wanli Emperor and remarked fortunately postal services have improved since 1602 135 Elizabeth s visit also signified the acceptance of both countries that sovereignty over Hong Kong would be transferred from the United Kingdom to China in 1997 136 By the end of the 1980s Elizabeth had become the target of satire 137 The involvement of younger members of the royal family in the charity game show It s a Royal Knockout in 1987 was ridiculed 138 In Canada Elizabeth publicly supported politically divisive constitutional amendments prompting criticism from opponents of the proposed changes including Pierre Trudeau 131 The same year the elected Fijian government was deposed in a military coup As monarch of Fiji Elizabeth supported the attempts of Governor General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau to assert executive power and negotiate a settlement Coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka deposed Ganilau and declared Fiji a republic 139 Turbulent 1990s and annus horribilis In the wake of coalition victory in the Gulf War Elizabeth became the first British monarch to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress in May 1991 140 Philip and Elizabeth in Germany October 1992 On 24 November 1992 in a speech to mark the Ruby Jubilee of her accession to the throne Elizabeth called 1992 her annus horribilis a Latin phrase meaning horrible year 141 Republican feeling in Britain had risen because of press estimates of Elizabeth s private wealth contradicted by the Palace d and reports of affairs and strained marriages among her extended family 146 In March her second son Prince Andrew separated from his wife Sarah and Mauritius removed Elizabeth as head of state her daughter Princess Anne divorced Captain Mark Phillips in April 147 angry demonstrators in Dresden threw eggs at Elizabeth during a state visit to Germany in October 148 and a large fire broke out at Windsor Castle one of her official residences in November The monarchy came under increased criticism and public scrutiny 149 In an unusually personal speech Elizabeth said that any institution must expect criticism but suggested it might be done with a touch of humour gentleness and understanding 150 Two days later British prime minister John Major announced plans to reform the royal finances drawn up the previous year including Elizabeth paying income tax from 1993 onwards and a reduction in the civil list 151 In December Prince Charles and his wife Diana formally separated 152 At the end of the year Elizabeth sued The Sun newspaper for breach of copyright when it published the text of her annual Christmas message two days before it was broadcast The newspaper was forced to pay her legal fees and donated 200 000 to charity 153 Elizabeth s solicitors had taken successful action against The Sun five years earlier for breach of copyright after it published a photograph of her daughter in law the Duchess of York and her granddaughter Princess Beatrice 154 In January 1994 Elizabeth broke the scaphoid bone in her left wrist as the horse she was riding at Sandringham tripped and fell 155 In October 1994 she became the first reigning British monarch to set foot on Russian soil e In October 1995 Elizabeth was tricked into a hoax call by Montreal radio host Pierre Brassard impersonating Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien Elizabeth who believed that she was speaking to Chretien said she supported Canadian unity and would try to influence Quebec s referendum on proposals to break away from Canada 160 In the year that followed public revelations on the state of Charles and Diana s marriage continued 161 In consultation with her husband and John Major as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey and her private secretary Robert Fellowes Elizabeth wrote to Charles and Diana at the end of December 1995 suggesting that a divorce would be advisable 162 In August 1997 a year after the divorce Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris Elizabeth was on holiday with her extended family at Balmoral Diana s two sons Princes William and Harry wanted to attend church so Elizabeth and Philip took them that morning 163 Afterwards for five days the royal couple shielded their grandsons from the intense press interest by keeping them at Balmoral where they could grieve in private 164 but the royal family s silence and seclusion and the failure to fly a flag at half mast over Buckingham Palace caused public dismay 132 165 Pressured by the hostile reaction Elizabeth agreed to return to London and address the nation in a live television broadcast on 5 September the day before Diana s funeral 166 In the broadcast she expressed admiration for Diana and her feelings as a grandmother for the two princes 167 As a result much of the public hostility evaporated 167 In October 1997 Elizabeth and Philip made a state visit to India which included a controversial visit to the site of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to pay her respects Protesters chanted Killer Queen go back 168 and there were demands for her to apologise for the action of British troops 78 years earlier 169 At the memorial in the park she and Philip laid a wreath and stood for a 30 second moment of silence 169 As a result much of the fury among the public softened and the protests were called off 168 That November Elizabeth and her husband held a reception at Banqueting House to mark their golden wedding anniversary 170 Elizabeth made a speech and praised Philip for his role as a consort referring to him as my strength and stay 170 In 1999 as part of the process of devolution within the UK Elizabeth formally opened newly established legislatures for Wales and Scotland the National Assembly for Wales at Cardiff in May 171 and the Scottish Parliament at Edinburgh in July 172 Golden Jubilee At a Golden Jubilee dinner with British prime minister Tony Blair and former prime ministers 2002 From left to right Blair Margaret Thatcher Edward Heath Elizabeth James Callaghan and John Major On the eve of the new millennium Elizabeth and Philip boarded a vessel from Southwark bound for the Millennium Dome Before passing under Tower Bridge Elizabeth lit the National Millennium Beacon in the Pool of London using a laser torch 173 Shortly before midnight she officially opened the Dome 174 During the singing of Auld Lang Syne Elizabeth held hands with Philip and British prime minister Tony Blair 175 In 2002 Elizabeth marked her Golden Jubilee the 50th anniversary of her accession Her sister and mother died in February and March respectively and the media speculated on whether the Jubilee would be a success or a failure 176 She again undertook an extensive tour of her realms beginning in Jamaica in February where she called the farewell banquet memorable after a power cut plunged the King s House the official residence of the governor general into darkness 177 As in 1977 there were street parties and commemorative events and monuments were named to honour the occasion One million people attended each day of the three day main Jubilee celebration in London 178 and the enthusiasm shown for Elizabeth by the public was greater than many journalists had anticipated 179 Greeting NASA employees at the Goddard Space Flight Center Maryland May 2007 In 2003 Elizabeth sued the Daily Mirror for breach of confidence and obtained an injunction which prevented the outlet from publishing information gathered by a reporter who posed as a footman at Buckingham Palace 180 The newspaper also paid 25 000 towards her legal costs 181 Though generally healthy throughout her life in 2003 she had keyhole surgery on both knees In October 2006 she missed the opening of the new Emirates Stadium because of a strained back muscle that had been troubling her since the summer 182 In May 2007 citing unnamed sources The Daily Telegraph reported that Elizabeth was exasperated and frustrated by the policies of Tony Blair that she was concerned the British Armed Forces were overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan and that she had raised concerns over rural and countryside issues with Blair 183 She was however said to admire Blair s efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland 184 She became the first British monarch to celebrate a diamond wedding anniversary in November 2007 185 On 20 March 2008 at the Church of Ireland St Patrick s Cathedral Armagh Elizabeth attended the first Maundy service held outside England and Wales 186 Elizabeth addressed the UN General Assembly for a second time in 2010 again in her capacity as Queen of all Commonwealth realms and Head of the Commonwealth 187 The UN secretary general Ban Ki moon introduced her as an anchor for our age 188 During her visit to New York which followed a tour of Canada she officially opened a memorial garden for British victims of the September 11 attacks 188 Elizabeth s 11 day visit to Australia in October 2011 was her 16th visit to the country since 1954 189 By invitation of the Irish president Mary McAleese she made the first state visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch in May 2011 190 Diamond Jubilee and longevity Visiting Birmingham in July 2012 as part of the Diamond Jubilee tour Elizabeth s 2012 Diamond Jubilee marked 60 years on the throne and celebrations were held throughout her realms the wider Commonwealth and beyond She and her husband undertook an extensive tour of the United Kingdom while her children and grandchildren embarked on royal tours of other Commonwealth states on her behalf 191 On 4 June Jubilee beacons were lit around the world 192 On 18 December she became the first British sovereign to attend a peacetime Cabinet meeting since George III in 1781 193 Elizabeth who opened the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal also opened the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in London making her the first head of state to open two Olympic Games in two countries 194 For the London Olympics she played herself in a short film as part of the opening ceremony alongside Daniel Craig as James Bond 195 On 4 April 2013 she received an honorary BAFTA for her patronage of the film industry and was called the most memorable Bond girl yet at the award ceremony 196 Opening the Borders Railway on the day she became the longest reigning British monarch 2015 In her speech she said she had never aspired to achieve that milestone 197 On 3 March 2013 Elizabeth stayed overnight at King Edward VII s Hospital as a precaution after developing symptoms of gastroenteritis 198 A week later she signed the new Charter of the Commonwealth 199 Because of her age and the need for her to limit travelling in 2013 she chose not to attend the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting for the first time in 40 years She was represented at the summit in Sri Lanka by Prince Charles 200 On 20 April 2018 the Commonwealth heads of government announced that she would be succeeded by Charles as Head of the Commonwealth which she stated was her sincere wish 201 She underwent cataract surgery in May 2018 202 In March 2019 she gave up driving on public roads largely as a consequence of a car crash involving her husband two months earlier 203 Elizabeth surpassed her great great grandmother Queen Victoria to become the longest lived British monarch on 21 December 2007 and the longest reigning British monarch and longest reigning queen regnant and female head of state in the world on 9 September 2015 204 She became the oldest current monarch after King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died on 23 January 2015 205 She later became the longest reigning current monarch and the longest serving current head of state following the death of King Bhumibol of Thailand on 13 October 2016 206 and the oldest current head of state on the resignation of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on 21 November 2017 207 On 6 February 2017 she became the first British monarch to commemorate a sapphire jubilee 208 and on 20 November she was the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum wedding anniversary 209 Philip had retired from his official duties as the Queen s consort in August 2017 210 COVID 19 pandemic On 19 March 2020 as the COVID 19 pandemic hit the United Kingdom Elizabeth moved to Windsor Castle and sequestered there as a precaution 211 Public engagements were cancelled and Windsor Castle followed a strict sanitary protocol nicknamed HMS Bubble 212 In a virtual meeting with Dame Cindy Kiro during the COVID 19 pandemic October 2021 On 5 April in a televised broadcast watched by an estimated 24 million viewers in the UK 213 she asked people to take comfort that while we may have more still to endure better days will return we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again we will meet again 214 On 8 May the 75th anniversary of VE Day in a television broadcast at 9 pm the exact time at which her father George VI had broadcast to the nation on the same day in 1945 she asked people to never give up never despair 215 In October she visited the UK s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Wiltshire her first public engagement since the start of the pandemic 216 On 4 November she appeared masked for the first time in public during a private pilgrimage to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey to mark the centenary of his burial 217 In 2021 she received her first and second COVID 19 vaccinations in January and April respectively 218 Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021 after 73 years of marriage making Elizabeth the first British monarch to reign as a widow or widower since Queen Victoria 219 She was reportedly at her husband s bedside when he died 220 and remarked in private that his death had left a huge void 221 Due to the COVID 19 restrictions in place in England at the time Elizabeth sat alone at Philip s funeral service which evoked sympathy from people around the world 222 In her Christmas broadcast that year she paid a personal tribute to her beloved Philip saying That mischievous inquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him 223 Despite the pandemic Elizabeth attended the 2021 State Opening of Parliament in May 224 and the 47th G7 summit in June 225 On 5 July the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the UK s National Health Service she announced that the NHS would be awarded the George Cross to recognise all NHS staff past and present across all disciplines and all four nations 226 In October 2021 she began using a walking stick during public engagements for the first time since her operation in 2004 227 Following an overnight stay in hospital on 20 October her previously scheduled visits to Northern Ireland 228 the COP26 summit in Glasgow 229 and the 2021 National Service of Remembrance were cancelled on health grounds 230 Platinum Jubilee The Queen with members of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Platinum Jubilee Pageant on 5 June 2022 Elizabeth s Platinum Jubilee began on 6 February 2022 marking 70 years since she acceded to the throne on her father s death On the eve of the date she held a reception at Sandringham House for pensioners local Women s Institute members and charity volunteers 231 In her accession day message Elizabeth renewed her commitment to a lifetime of public service which she had originally made in 1947 232 Later that month Elizabeth had mild cold like symptoms and tested positive for COVID 19 along with some staff and family members 233 She cancelled two virtual audiences on 22 February 234 but held a phone conversation with British prime minister Boris Johnson the following day amid a crisis on the Russo Ukrainian border f 235 following which she made a donation to the Disasters Emergency Committee DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal 236 On 28 February she was reported to have recovered and spent time with her family at Frogmore 237 On 7 March Elizabeth met Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau at Windsor Castle in her first in person engagement since her COVID diagnosis 238 She later remarked that COVID infection leave s one very tired and exhausted It s not a nice result 239 Elizabeth was present at the service of thanksgiving for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey on 29 March 240 but was unable to attend the annual Commonwealth Day service that month 241 or the Royal Maundy service in April 242 She missed the State Opening of Parliament in May for the first time in 59 years She did not attend in 1959 and 1963 as she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward respectively 243 In her absence Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge as counsellors of state 244 During the Platinum Jubilee celebrations Elizabeth was largely confined to balcony appearances and missed the National Service of Thanksgiving 245 For the Jubilee concert she took part in a sketch with Paddington Bear that opened the event outside Buckingham Palace 246 On 13 June 2022 she became the second longest reigning monarch in history among those whose exact dates of reign are known with 70 years 127 days reigned surpassing King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand 247 On 6 September 2022 she appointed her 15th British prime minister Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle in Scotland This marked the only time she did not receive a new prime minister at Buckingham Palace during her reign 248 No other British reign had seen so many prime ministers 249 Elizabeth never planned to abdicate 250 though she took on fewer public engagements as she grew older and Prince Charles took on more of her duties 251 The Queen told Canadian governor general Adrienne Clarkson in a meeting in 2002 that she would never abdicate saying It is not our tradition Although I suppose if I became completely gaga one would have to do something 252 In June 2022 Elizabeth met the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby who came away thinking there is someone who has no fear of death has hope in the future knows the rock on which she stands and that gives her strength 253 DeathMain article Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II Tributes left by people in The Mall London On 8 September 2022 Buckingham Palace released a statement which read Following further evaluation this morning the Queen s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral 254 255 Elizabeth s immediate family rushed to Balmoral to be by her side 256 257 She died peacefully at 15 10 BST at the age of 96 with two of her children Charles and Anne by her side 258 259 Her death was announced to the public at 18 30 260 261 setting in motion Operation London Bridge and because she died in Scotland Operation Unicorn 262 263 Elizabeth was the first monarch to die in Scotland since James V in 1542 264 Her death certificate recorded her cause of death as old age 258 265 On 12 September Elizabeth s coffin was carried up the Royal Mile in a procession to St Giles Cathedral where the Crown of Scotland was placed on it 266 Her coffin lay at rest at the cathedral for 24 hours guarded by the Royal Company of Archers during which around 33 000 people filed past the coffin 267 It was taken by air to London on 13 September On 14 September her coffin was taken in a military procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall where Elizabeth lay in state for four days The coffin was guarded by members of both the Sovereign s Bodyguard and the Household Division An estimated 250 000 members of the public filed past the coffin as did politicians and other public figures 268 269 On 16 September Elizabeth s children held a vigil around her coffin and the next day her eight grandchildren did the same 270 271 Elizabeth s coffin on the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy during the procession to Wellington Arch Elizabeth s state funeral was held at Westminster Abbey on 19 September which marked the first time that a monarch s funeral service had been held at the Abbey since George II in 1760 272 More than a million people lined the streets of central London 273 and the day was declared a holiday in several Commonwealth countries In Windsor a final procession involving 1 000 military personnel took place which was witnessed by 97 000 people 274 273 Elizabeth s fell pony and two royal corgis stood at the side of the procession 275 After a committal service at St George s Chapel Windsor Castle Elizabeth was interred with her husband Philip in the King George VI Memorial Chapel later the same day in a private ceremony attended by her closest family members 276 277 278 279 LegacyMain article Personality and image of Elizabeth II Beliefs activities and interests Petting a dog in New Zealand 1974 Elizabeth rarely gave interviews and little was known of her political opinions which she did not express explicitly in public It is against convention to ask or reveal the monarch s views When Times journalist Paul Routledge asked her about the miners strike of 1984 85 during a royal tour of the newspaper s offices she replied that it was all about one man a reference to Arthur Scargill 280 with which Routledge disagreed 281 Routledge was widely criticised in the media for asking the question and claimed that he was unaware of the protocols 281 After the 2014 Scottish independence referendum Prime Minister David Cameron was overheard saying that Elizabeth was pleased with the outcome 282 She had arguably issued a public coded statement about the referendum by telling one woman outside Balmoral Kirk that she hoped people would think very carefully about the outcome It emerged later that Cameron had specifically requested that she register her concern 283 Elizabeth had a deep sense of religious and civic duty and took her Coronation Oath seriously 284 Aside from her official religious role as Supreme Governor of the established Church of England she worshipped with that church and also the national Church of Scotland 285 She demonstrated support for inter faith relations and met with leaders of other churches and religions including five popes Pius XII John XXIII John Paul II Benedict XVI and Francis 286 A personal note about her faith often featured in her annual Christmas Message broadcast to the Commonwealth In 2000 she said 287 To many of us our beliefs are of fundamental importance For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life I like so many of you have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ s words and example Elizabeth was patron of more than 600 organisations and charities 288 The Charities Aid Foundation estimated that Elizabeth helped raise over 1 4 billion for her patronages during her reign 289 Her main leisure interests included equestrianism and dogs especially her Pembroke Welsh Corgis 290 Her lifelong love of corgis began in 1933 with Dookie the first corgi owned by her family 291 Scenes of a relaxed informal home life were occasionally witnessed she and her family from time to time prepared a meal together and washed the dishes afterwards 292 Media depiction and public opinion In the 1950s as a young woman at the start of her reign Elizabeth was depicted as a glamorous fairytale Queen 293 After the trauma of the Second World War it was a time of hope a period of progress and achievement heralding a new Elizabethan age 294 Lord Altrincham s accusation in 1957 that her speeches sounded like those of a priggish schoolgirl was an extremely rare criticism 295 In the late 1960s attempts to portray a more modern image of the monarchy were made in the television documentary Royal Family and by televising Prince Charles s investiture as Prince of Wales 296 Elizabeth also instituted other new practices her first royal walkabout meeting ordinary members of the public took place during a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1970 297 Her wardrobe developed a recognisable signature style driven more by function than fashion 298 In public she took to wearing mostly solid colour overcoats and decorative hats allowing her to be seen easily in a crowd 299 At Elizabeth s Silver Jubilee in 1977 the crowds and celebrations were genuinely enthusiastic 300 but in the 1980s public criticism of the royal family increased as the personal and working lives of Elizabeth s children came under media scrutiny 301 Her popularity sank to a low point in the 1990s Under pressure from public opinion she began to pay income tax for the first time and Buckingham Palace was opened to the public 302 Although support for republicanism in Britain seemed higher than at any time in living memory republican ideology was still a minority viewpoint and Elizabeth herself had high approval ratings 303 Criticism was focused on the institution of the monarchy itself and the conduct of Elizabeth s wider family rather than her own behaviour and actions 304 Discontent with the monarchy reached its peak on the death of Diana Princess of Wales although Elizabeth s personal popularity as well as general support for the monarchy rebounded after her live television broadcast to the world five days after Diana s death 305 Meeting children in Brisbane Australia October 1982 In November 1999 a referendum in Australia on the future of the Australian monarchy favoured its retention in preference to an indirectly elected head of state 306 Many republicans credited Elizabeth s personal popularity with the survival of the monarchy in Australia In 2010 Prime Minister Julia Gillard noted that there was a deep affection for Elizabeth in Australia and another referendum on the monarchy should wait until after her reign 307 Gillard s successor Malcolm Turnbull who led the republican campaign in 1999 similarly believed that Australians would not vote to become a republic in her lifetime 308 She s been an extraordinary head of state Turnbull said in 2021 and I think frankly in Australia there are more Elizabethans than there are monarchists 309 Similarly referendums in both Tuvalu in 2008 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2009 saw voters reject proposals to become republics 310 Polls in Britain in 2006 and 2007 revealed strong support for the monarchy 311 and in 2012 Elizabeth s Diamond Jubilee year her approval ratings hit 90 per cent 312 Her family came under scrutiny again in the last few years of her life due to her son Andrew s association with convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell his lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre amidst accusations of sexual impropriety and her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan s exit from the working royal family and subsequent move to the United States 313 Polling in Great Britain during the Platinum Jubilee however showed Elizabeth s personal popularity remained strong 314 As of 2021 she remained the third most admired woman in the world according to the annual Gallup poll her 52 appearances on the list meaning she had been in the top ten more than any other woman in the poll s history 315 Elizabeth was portrayed in a variety of media by many notable artists including painters Pietro Annigoni Peter Blake Chinwe Chukwuogo Roy Terence Cuneo Lucian Freud Rolf Harris Damien Hirst Juliet Pannett and Tai Shan Schierenberg 316 317 Notable photographers of Elizabeth included Cecil Beaton Yousuf Karsh Anwar Hussein Annie Leibovitz Lord Lichfield Terry O Neill John Swannell and Dorothy Wilding The first official portrait photograph of Elizabeth was taken by Marcus Adams in 1926 318 Titles styles honours and armsMain article List of titles and honours of Elizabeth II Titles and styles Royal cypher of Elizabeth II surmounted by St Edward s Crown Personal flag of Elizabeth II 21 April 1926 11 December 1936 Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth of York 319 11 December 1936 20 November 1947 Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth 20 November 1947 6 February 1952 Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth Duchess of Edinburgh 320 6 February 1952 8 September 2022 Her Majesty The QueenElizabeth held many titles and honorary military positions throughout the Commonwealth was sovereign of many orders in her own countries and received honours and awards from around the world In each of her realms she had a distinct title that follows a similar formula Queen of Saint Lucia and of Her other Realms and Territories in Saint Lucia Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories in Australia etc In the Channel Islands and Isle of Man which are Crown Dependencies rather than separate realms she was known as Duke of Normandy and Lord of Mann respectively Additional styles include Defender of the Faith and Duke of Lancaster Arms See also Flags of Elizabeth II From 21 April 1944 until her accession Elizabeth s arms consisted of a lozenge bearing the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom differenced with a label of three points argent the centre point bearing a Tudor rose and the first and third a cross of St George 321 Upon her accession she inherited the various arms her father held as sovereign Elizabeth also possessed royal standards and personal flags for use in the United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand Jamaica and elsewhere 322 IssueName Birth Marriage Children GrandchildrenDate SpouseCharles III 1948 11 14 14 November 1948 age 74 29 July 1981Divorced 28 August 1996 Lady Diana Spencer William Prince of Wales Prince George of WalesPrincess Charlotte of WalesPrince Louis of WalesPrince Harry Duke of Sussex Archie Mountbatten WindsorLilibet Mountbatten Windsor9 April 2005 Camilla Parker Bowles NoneAnne Princess Royal 1950 08 15 15 August 1950 age 72 14 November 1973Divorced 28 April 1992 Mark Phillips Peter Phillips Savannah PhillipsIsla PhillipsZara Tindall Mia TindallLena TindallLucas Tindall12 December 1992 Timothy Laurence NonePrince Andrew Duke of York 1960 02 19 19 February 1960 age 62 23 July 1986Divorced 30 May 1996 Sarah Ferguson Princess Beatrice Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi Sienna Mapelli MozziPrincess Eugenie Mrs Jack Brooksbank August BrooksbankPrince Edward Earl of Wessex 1964 03 10 10 March 1964 age 58 19 June 1999 Sophie Rhys Jones Lady Louise Mountbatten Windsor NoneJames Mountbatten Windsor Viscount Severn NoneAncestryAncestors of Elizabeth II 323 8 Edward VII of the United Kingdom4 George V of the United Kingdom9 Princess Alexandra of Denmark2 George VI of the United Kingdom10 Francis Duke of Teck5 Princess Victoria Mary of Teck11 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge1 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom12 Claude Bowes Lyon 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne6 Claude Bowes Lyon 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne13 Frances Smith3 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon14 Charles Cavendish Bentinck7 Cecilia Cavendish Bentinck15 Louisa BurnabySee alsoFinances of the British royal family Household of Elizabeth II List of things named after Elizabeth II List of jubilees of Elizabeth II List of special addresses made by Elizabeth II Royal eponyms in Canada Royal descendants of Queen Victoria and of King Christian IX List of covers of Time magazine 1920s 1940s 1950s 2010s Notes As monarch Elizabeth was Supreme Governor of the Church of England She was also a member of the Church of Scotland Her godparents were King George V and Queen Mary Lord Strathmore Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught and Strathearn her paternal great granduncle Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles her paternal aunt and Lady Elphinstone her maternal aunt 5 Television coverage of the coronation was instrumental in boosting the medium s popularity the number of television licences in the United Kingdom doubled to 3 million 74 and many of the more than 20 million British viewers watched television for the first time in the homes of their friends or neighbours 75 In North America almost 100 million viewers watched recorded broadcasts 76 The Sunday Times Rich List 1989 put her number one on the list with a reported wealth of 5 2 billion approximately 13 8 billion in today s value 142 but it included state assets like the Royal Collection that were not hers personally 143 In 1993 Buckingham Palace called estimates of 100 million grossly overstated 144 In 1971 Jock Colville her former private secretary and a director of her bank Coutts estimated her wealth at 2 million equivalent to about 14 million in 1993 142 145 The only previous state visit by a British monarch to Russia was made by King Edward VII in 1908 The King never stepped ashore and met Nicholas II on royal yachts off the Baltic port of 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