The oldest monarch has passed away. Elizabeth II died on Thursday at the age of 96. Her reign, which began in 1952, lasted 70 years. A record in the UK and around the world. On September 9, 2015, Elizabeth II won the longevity of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, who ruled the kingdom for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days.
Elizabeth II also surpassed, on June 12, the King of Thailand, Rama IX, who reigned from 1946 to 2016, for 70 years, 4 months and 4 days. He reached 70 years, 7 months and 2 days of reign. Instead, she could not match the reign of Louis XIV, on the throne for 72 years, 3 months and 18 days. It must be said that he became king of France at the age of 5 years.
“An Incredible Accomplishment”
Born on April 21, 1926, Elizabeth II ascended the throne on February 6, 1952, at a time when Winston Churchill was in power in the UK and Stalin in Russia. The reign of Elizabeth II “will be seen as an incredible achievement, to have managed to remain so solidly on the throne during a period marked by so many important social and economic changes,” journalist and writer Andrew Gimson stressed in 2015.
Elizabeth II was not destined to reign. She was certainly third in line to the throne, but she probably never would have ascended the throne had her uncle, the Prince of Wales, who became Edward VIII, not abdicated for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, and been removed from office. the crown for his Nazi sympathies.
The new British sovereign, until now known as Prince Charles, takes the name of Charles III, his services, Clarence House, announced on Thursday. Charles, 73, automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died Thursday at her Balmoral castle in Scotland, and her wife Camilla became queen consort. His accession to his throne, after 70 years of patience, is also a record in the history of the British monarchy.
Source: BFM TV
