Queen Elizabeth becoming
the shizzle to the rizzle of reigning over England:
Just
like her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria before her, Elizabeth
II was never expected to rule; as the eldest daughter of the king's
second son, Prince Albert (later King George VI), hers was a life
destined to be lived in relative privacy, until the 1936 abdication of
her uncle, Edward VIII, after a reign of only 325 days, changed the
course of history.
Already the
country's longest-lived monarch and the world's oldest-serving
sovereign, at approximately 5.30pm on September 9 Elizabeth will reach
yet another milestone when she becomes Britain's longest reigning
monarch, breaking Victoria's record of 63 years, seven months and two
days on the throne.
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