Elizabeth II was born 21 April 1926 in London, and educated privately at home. During her reign of over 59 years, currently the second-longest for a British monarch after Queen Victoria, she became

Biography Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II was born 21 April 1926 in London, and educated privately at home. During her reign of over 59 years, currently the second-longest for a British monarch after Queen Victoria, she became queen of 25 other Commonwealth countries as they gained independence. In 1947, she married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with whom she has four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.

From September 1939, with the outbreak of the Second World War, Elizabeth and her younger sister, Margaret, stayed at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, until Christmas 1939, when they In 1943, at the age of 16, Elizabeth undertook her first solo public appearance on a visit to the Grenadier Guards, of which she had been appointed Colonel-in-Chief the previous year. During the war, plans were drawn up to quell Welsh nationalism by affiliating Elizabeth more closely with Wales.

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