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Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022), full name Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, was the longest-reigning monarch in British and Commonwealth history. She ascended the throne on 6 February 1952 and reigned for 70 years, witnessing Britain's transformation from post-war recovery to a modern, diverse society. As head of state and symbol of the Commonwealth, she was known for her stability, diligence, and sense of duty, earning widespread affection globally. Her reign, known as the Elizabethan era, encompassed the Cold War, decolonization, and technological revolution. She was not only the British monarch but also queen of 15 Commonwealth realms, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and the symbolic head of the Commonwealth. more

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“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”

“When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”