His Majesty died in September after a reign of seven decades.
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The Queen achieved incredible feats in her 70 years as monarch.
His Majesty, who died on Thursday, September 8 at the age of 96, saw 15 prime ministers in his reign and has become the longest-serving sovereign the UK has ever had.
Its passage of seven decades was celebrated with the Platinum Jubilee celebrated in June this year, in which several occasions were celebrated during a four-day holiday weekend.
To celebrate Her Majesty’s milestone, Buckingham Palace has 70 facts about the Queen to celebrate her seven-decade reign.
From her first time on the London Underground and the main points of her wedding to Prince Philip, here are a few things you may not know about Queen Elizabeth II.
On the ninth of September 2015, the queen monarch with the longest reign in British history, surpassing the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
In a speech on the historic day of a commitment at the Scottish borders, the Queen said: “Inevitably, a long life can go through many stages, mine is no exception, but I thank all of you and many others at home and abroad for your poignant messages of wonderful kindness.
The Queen a Commonwealth stopover in New Zealand in February 1963
Within the Commonwealth alone, the Queen made more than 150 visits during her reign.
The Queen has visited more than a hundred countries as monarch, adding Canada 22 times, more than any other country in the world, and France thirteen times, more than any other country in Europe.
The Queen’s first public solo engagement (as Princess Elizabeth) on 21 April 1942, when she turned 16, when she inspected the Grenadier Guard at Windsor Castle.
The Queen made more than 21,000 engagements during her reign.
The Queen has given royal assent to 4,000 Acts of Parliament.
The Queen has received 112 incoming state visits to the United Kingdom, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1954), Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1971), President Lech Walesa of Poland (1991) and President Barack Obama of the United States (2011).
The Queen patron of more than 500 organizations at the time of her death, adding more than 70 organizations of schooling and schooling; more than 60 sports and recreational organizations; more than 30 faith-based organizations; and more than 40 arts and cultural organizations.
The Queen sent more than 300,000 greeting cards to others celebrating their 100th birthday and more than 900,000 messages to couples celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary (60).
A two-book piece depicting a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is on display at the National Portrait Gallery on March 2, 2015.
At least 35 have issued coins with the image of the Queen.
During her lifetime, the Queen held more than 50 ranks and positions in the British and Commonwealth Armed Forces.
The Queen bore the name “Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England”.
These names date back to the reign of King Henry VIII, who originally gave it the name Defender of the Faith in 1521 through Pope Leo X.
The Queen was a committed and practicing Christian and spoke of her religion in her speeches and broadcasts. “For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose birth we celebrate today, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life,” he said on his 2014 Christmas show.
“A style of reconciliation and forgiveness, he extended his hands in love, acceptance and healing.
“The example of Christ has taught me to seek respect and all people, regardless of religion or none. “
The Queen posed more than two hundred official portraits during her reign, the first being in 1933 when she was seven years old and was a portrait painted by the Anglo-Hungarian artist Philip Alexius de Laszlo.
The royal collection, which was held in honor of the Queen for her successors and the nation, is estimated at more than one million individual pieces, totaling more than 8,000 paintings, 160,000 watercolors, prints and drawings, 200,000 photographs, 300,000 ornamental art items and 200,000 books and manuscripts.
More than 180 garden parties have been held at Buckingham Palace since 1952 and more than 1. 5 million people attended a garden party during the Queen’s reign.
There were 14 presidents of the United States during the Queen’s reign and, with the exception of President Lyndon B Johnson (1963-1969), he met with each of them.
Theresa May sits with Queen Elizabeth on April 19, 2018
The Queen was served through 15 prime ministers of the United Kingdom during her reign: her first prime minister was Winston Churchill and the last was Liz Truss.
The Queen owned more than 30 corgis and dorgis during her reign, most of whom descended from her first corgi, Susan, which had been given to her on her 18th birthday in 1944.
The Queen first travelled on the London Underground in May 1939 with her housekeeper Marion Crawford and her sister, Princess Margaret.
Since then it has inaugurated the new section of the Victoria Line (1969); opened the extension of the Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport (1977); Baker Street vine station on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground (2013); see the Crossrail structure at Bond Street Station (2016); and opened the Elizabeth Line (2022).
The Queen made her first radio broadcast in 1940 when, at the age of 14, she recorded a message for war-affected young people in Europe, especially those evacuated from their homes, on the BBC’s Children’s Hour programme.
“I can tell you with all certainty that we, the young people at home, are full of joy and courage,” he said.
“We try to do everything we can for our brave sailors, infantrymen and airmen, and we also try to take on our own share of the danger and sadness of war. “
The Queen enrolled in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (the female branch of the British Army of World War II) in 1945, becoming the first female member of the Royal Family to enlist in the Armed Forces as an active full-time member.
As a subordinate, she learned to drive and vehicles.
The Queen’s first official stop was in 1947 as Princess Elizabeth, when she made a stopover in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the British protectorate of Bechuanaland (Botswana) with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
The Queen celebrated her 21st birthday in South Africa, which was commemorated through a speech broadcast by the Commonwealth.
In the speech, the princess promised nothing less than the paintings of her life to her subjects and said, “I affirm before all of you that my whole life, long or short, will be faithful to your service. “
The Queen’s first military appointment as Colonel of the Grenadier Guard.
The appointment was made in February 1942 following the death of his great-uncle and godfather, the Duke of Connaught.
In 1953 he directed the first Christmas broadcast from abroad, broadcasting from New Zealand.
On the show, the Queen explained how welcome she felt: “I traveled thousands of miles through many scenes and climates that turned my vacation here.
“Despite all this, however, I am now absolutely and very fortunately at home. “
The royal yacht that Britannia first used through the Queen when she embarked with the Duke of Edinburgh on 1 May 1954 in Tobruk, Lithrougha, for the final leg of her Commonwealth tour, returning to the London Pool.
The last time the Queen was aboard the Britannia for an official stopover was on the ninth of August 1997 for a stopover on the Isle of Arran.
On 26 March 1976, the Queen sent her first email a stopover at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, now known as the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
The email sent to the U. S. Secretary of Defense. The US to officially open up collaboration between the UK and the US. U. S. in an army programming language.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the Great Wall of China in October 1986
In 1986, the Queen became the first British monarch in China.
The Queen, the first British monarch to face the United States Congress on May 16, 1991.
In 1997, the Queen introduced buckingham Palace’s first official website, in 2014 she sent out her first tweet and in 2019 her first Instagram post.
In 2009, the Queen Swan was lifted for the first time.
On this annual occasion on the Thames, weighings and measurements of swans and checks on their physical condition and well-being are carried out.
Since the twelfth century, the monarch has retained the right to claim ownership of all mute swans discovered in a specific segment of the Thames.
The Queen brought the Elizabeth Cross in 2009. Es the first medal to which she put her name.
The award was established to give special popularity to the relatives of those killed in military operations or as a result of acts of terrorism since 1948.
Pronouncing the cross, he said, “This seems to me a just and proper way to show our permanent debt to those who die while actively protecting what is most valuable to all of us. “
The Queen paid a state to Ireland in 2011, the first time a reigning British monarch has gone to the country since its separation from the United Kingdom.
He began his speech at the state banquet in Irish by saying: “A Uachtarain agus a chairde” (president and friends).
In 2013, the Queen became the first monarch to win an Honorary Bafta Award in popularity for her career in British film and television.
The Queen and Prince Philip on the instance of their diamond wedding
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh celebrated their platinum anniversary in 2017, the first time a reigning monarch has done so.
To commemorate the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant was held on 3 June 2012.
670 boats took part in the parade at the Thames Tideway, making it the largest boat parade ever held, surpassing the previous world record of 327 boats set in Bremerhaven, Germany, in 2011.
The Queen’s longest excursion began in Bermuda in November 1953 and ended in Gibraltar in May 1954.
He was absent for 168 days and visited thirteen other countries.
The largest number of countries visited by the Queen in a single is 14.
This was his 1966 vacation to the Caribbean.
In 1966, the Queen presented England men’s captain Bobby Moore with the World Cup trophy.
The World Cup final attracted the largest British television audience ever seen with 32. 3 million viewers.
In September 1966, the Queen visited the British Aircraft Corporation’s premises at Filton, Bristol, and inspected the progress of project Concorde.
He first flew in a Concorde in 1977 and then used it for several tours before retiring in 2003.
In 1973, the Queen opened the Sydney Opera House.
Following its 90th anniversary celebrations in 2016, it agreed that an award would be created in its call to recognise emerging skill in British fashion.
The first Queen Elizabeth II Award for Design awarded to Richard Quinn at London Fashion Week 2018.
The Queen sat in the front row of Quinn’s exhibition alongside Lady Anna Wintour before presenting the award.
The Queen met with 4 popes on official visits during her reign: Pope John XXIII (1961), Pope John Paul II (1980, 1982 and 2000), Pope Benedict XVI (2010) and Pope Francis I (2014).
The Queen and Prince Philip in his day
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
Princess Elizabeth at the time wore a bouquet of flowers that included a bouquet of myrtle taken from a shrub that grew from the myrtle of Queen Victoria’s wedding bouquet.
Her wedding ring was made from a Welsh gold nugget, which came from the Clogau St David mine near Dolgellau and the official wedding cake was made by McVitie and Price Ltd, ingredients given as a wedding gift by Australian guides.
The Queen wore two crowns on the day of her coronation: the Crown of St Edward (which she wore for the coronation ceremony) and the Imperial State Crown, which she wore for the return procession and upcoming apparitions on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
On the adventure to Westminster Abbey, the Queen wore the state tiara: a diamond circle, which she continued to use for the adventure to and from the official opening of Parliament.
There were more than 2000 hounds and 500 photographers from 92 countries on their way to coronation in 1953.
The Coronation Service broadcast live on the BBC, allowing millions of people to see their monarch crowned for the first time.
Prior to its dismantling in 1997, many of the Queen’s official visits were made on the royal yacht Britannia.
It was introduced on 16 April 1953 and commissioned in January 1954. During her service, Britannia traveled more than a million miles on royal and official duties, transporting the Queen to more than 700 royal visits.
The Queen made a Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth each and every year of her reign in 1969, when a practice session of the film Royal Family was shown and a written message from the Queen was published.
The Queen sent a congratulatory message to the Apollo 11 astronauts for the first moon landing on July 21, 1969. The message was microfilmed and placed on the moon in a steel container. “You are here. “
In 2016, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh sent a message to British astronaut Tim Peake when he joined the International Space Station.
He responded with a video message from the area that read, “Thank you for your good wishes, ma’am. I look forward to bringing the country together to celebrate Britain in the area and our wonderful culture of clinical exploration. And before sign, I’m not sure it’s ever been said in the area before, so I’ll be the first: God save the Queen.
The Queen at her coronation
On the night of the coronation, the Queen made a radio broadcast in which she said: “All my life and with all my heart, I will try to be worthy of your trust. “
During her reign, the Queen won many gifts, adding a variety of animals.
The maximum number of animals has been entrusted to zoos, adding jaguars and sloths from Brazil, an elephant from Cameroon and two black beavers from Canada.
There is a Trooping the Colour parade each and every year of the Queen’s reign, with the exception of 1955, which was cancelled due to a railway strike.
In 2020 and 2021, a smaller rite was held at Windsor Castle due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Windsor Castle became the Queen’s largest in early 2022. It is the oldest and largest occupied palace in the world.
The Queen was born at 2:40 am on 21 April 1926 at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London, and was the first daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
The Queen’s first pony she received from her grandfather, King George V.
The Shetland pony named Peggy.
As British passports and driving licences were issued in the Queen’s name, he also did not need to have a privilege that belonged only to her.
The queen spoke fluent French and used the language during hearings and state visits.
Nearly 70 forest conservation projects across the Commonwealth have joined the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy initiative since its launch in 2015, representing more than a hundred million trees preserved over generations as part of the fight against deforestation.
The Queen and Winston Churchill in 1950
Sir Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth II’s first prime minister, became an MP during the reign of the Queen’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
The Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) consultant in 1937, at the age of 11, learning to set up tents, cook in campfires and administer first aid.
At the age of 16, she joined the Sea Rangers: a separate unit of the Girl Guides created for those with a keen interest in the navy. He named Sea Ranger Commodore in 1945.
In 1969, the Queen won a black mare, named Burmese, through the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The former service horse rode through the Queen for Trooping the Colour for 18 consecutive years, from 1969 to 1986.
Princess Elizabeth, then 11, attended her parents’ coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1937 and wrote about it for the king and queen in an essay titled “To Mom and Dad, in Memory of Their Coronation. “From Lilibet, through herself. I discovered everything very, very glorious and I, the abbey, did too,” he wrote.
“The arches and beams in the most sensitive were covered with a kind of haze of amazement when Dad crowned them, or so I thought. “
The Queen’s Coronation was dressed in design by British fashion designer Sir Norman Hartnell.
She presented nine other models and the Queen accepted the eighth.
The Queen’s coronation rite was the first to be broadcast on television, so other people bought televisions by the millions.
27 million other people watched in the UK alone, and television has become a major means of communication.
The Queen and Princess Margaret in 1948
On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day, the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and her sister, Princess Margaret, aged 19 and 14 respectively, joined the crowd in London incognito, Princess Elizabeth with the ATS uniform cap folded over her face.
He later said of the day: “I rows of strangers tying their arms and walking through Whitehall, we all took a tide of happiness and relief. “
The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust has allowed more than 100,000 people to undergo vision-saving surgery; treated more than 22 million people with antibiotics to slow the spread of trachoma; built or improved more than 81,000 latrines and sanitation services to prevent the spread of infections; examined more than 13,000 young children for retinopathy of prematurity; and screened more than 200,000 more people for diabetic retinopathy.
The Queen made more than 650 investitures during her reign.
The Queen awarded the George Cross, awarded for “acts of the utmost heroism or courage in cases of excessive danger”, in conjunction with only two teams during her reign: the officials and families of the Royal Ulster Police for their bravery the problems in Northern Ireland and, most recently, to NHS staff for their work on the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, fictional secret agent “James Bond” escorted the Queen from Buckingham Palace to the Olympic Stadium by helicopter before both gave the impression of parachuting into the event.
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The Queen a Commonwealth stopover in New Zealand in February 1963
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A two-book piece depicting a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is on display at the National Portrait Gallery on March 2, 2015.
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Theresa May sits with Queen Elizabeth on April 19, 2018
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the Great Wall of China in October 1986
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