Full Coverage: Queen Elizabeth II turns 90
As Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 90th birthday, we look at the reign of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
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Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, celebrated her 90th birthday on Thursday with a day full of pomp, ceremony and pageantry.
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Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history on Wednesday, spending 63 years and 216 days on the throne and surpassing the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
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British money will look a bit different in the coming months: Coins will bear an updated, age-appropriate portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s first tweet garnered a sizable response, receiving over 40,000 retweets and more than 40,000 favorites.
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The queen has taken her reign to Twitter, sending her first tweet from the official British Monarchy account Friday to open the Science Museum’s Information Age exhibition in London.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s reign over England has been a walk in the park compared to past rulers or the fictional would-be rulers of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
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It was the reign that launched a thousand ships, a vast flotilla that sailed down the Thames on Sunday to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne.
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For Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, royalty and celebrity don’t overlap, a distinction observers credited with helping to preserve the monarchy’s appeal.
