Happy 96th Birthday Elizabeth II, The Queen Who Gets England Going: Pics

Elizabeth II was the first daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York and was christened in Mayfair, London (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Following the resignation of her brother, King Edward VIII, in 1936, her father ascended to the throne, making Elizabeth the heir prospective. She received her education at home and began working in the public sector during WWII, when she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Prince Philip officially resigned from office life in August 2017, though he continued to appear at formal functions on a regular basis after that. Other than that, Elizabeth began to scale back her authoritative engagements, delegating some responsibilities to Prince Charles and other senior royals, though the pool of stand-ins got smaller when Charles’s younger son, Prince Harry, duke of Sussex, and his wife, Meghan, duchess of Sussex, contentiously chose to step down from their royal positions in March 2020.

Facts About Elizabeth II

She wedded Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, in November 1947, and the couple had a 73-year marriage until Philip’s death in 2021. Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex were their four children.

The queen seemed to be becoming more cognizant of the monarchy’s modern role, authorising the television coverage of the royal family’s home life in 1970 and approving the legal breakup of her sister’s marriage in 1978, for example. The royal family, on the other hand, had a variety of difficulties in the 1990s.

Prince Charles and his wife, Diana, princess of Wales, as well as Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, duchess of York, divorced in 1992, which Elizabeth alluded to as the royal family’s annus horribilis. Anne also divorced, and the royal residence of Windsor Castle was destroyed by fire. In furthermore, as the UK struggled with a downturn, dissatisfaction of the royals’ lifestyle grew, and in 1992, Elizabeth obligated to settle taxes on her investment income, although being individually exempt.