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Happy Birthday to Queen Elizabeth II! Born Princess Elizabeth to the then Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bows-Lyon, she was the first granddaughter of King George VI and Queen Mary, and the older sister of Princess Margaret. In 1936, the Princess Elizabeth became Heiress Presumptive after the Abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, which led to her parents becoming King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom. The Princesses spent WWII at Windsor Castle, and in 1947, Princess Elizabeth married Lt. Phillip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Phillip of Greece, at Westminster Abbey. The couple have four children, Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward, and celebrated their 70th Anniversary in 2017, having the longest British Royal Marriage at the time of his death in 2021. In 1952, she succeeded to the Throne upon the sudden death of her father, while she was on tour of Kenya. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in June 1953, and is the Queen of the United Kingdom and the 16 Commonwealth Realms as well at the Head of the Commonwealth and Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Probably the most traveled woman in the world, the Queen is known universally as a symbol of Britain, and, in her tenth decade, widely admired and respected. She is the oldest and longest-serving British Monarch, as well as the oldest currently reigning Monarch. Her reign has marked Britain’s transition from a colonial superpower, and her ‘soft-power’ is credited with uniting the Commonwealth. I wish Her Majesty a very Happy Birthday, and many Happy Returns!

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UPDATE: The Queen passed away at Balmoral Castle in September 2022, in the year of her Platinum Jubilee!

In marking the first anniversary of Her late Majesty’s death and my Accession, we recall with great affection her long life, devoted service and all she meant to so many of us.

I am deeply grateful, too, for the love and support that has been shown to my wife and myself during… pic.twitter.com/NfM6LDWTA0

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) September 7, 2023

   

The Jewels of Queen Elizabeth II

The Jewels of Queen Elizabeth II

Imperial State Crown

George IV State Diadem

Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara

Vladimir Tiara

Queen Alexandra’s Kokoshnik Tiara

Belgian Sapphire Tiara

Burmese Ruby Tiara

Brazilian Aquamarine Tiara

Queen Mary’s Fringe Tiara

Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Tiara

Queen Victoria’s Oriental Circlet Tiara

Nizam of Hyderabad Tiara

Plunket Tiara

Five Aquamarine Tiara

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Ahead of The Queen’s 96th Birthday tomorrow, @windsorhorse have released a new photograph of Her Majesty.

Taken last month in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Queen is pictured with two of her fell ponies, Bybeck Katie and Bybeck Nightingale.

Happy Birthday Your Majesty! pic.twitter.com/8m46e3SvpX

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 20, 2022

The Queen’s message to people across the world who have sent tributes and messages of condolence following the death of The Duke of Edinburgh. pic.twitter.com/1apW7s1zXS

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 21, 2021

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