In fact, she may not have the chance to become a queen. When she was born in 1926, her father Albert was the second son of King George V of the then British King, and he had no chance to inherit the throne.

Reporter Wang Xiaoying

As the longest-in-charge head of state in the world, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom 's life is a history. In fact, she may not have the chance to become a queen. When she was born in 1926, her father Albert was the second son of the then King of England, George V, and she had no chance to inherit the throne. But in 1936, Elizabeth's uncle Edward VIII staged a "no love for the country and the beauty". He insisted on marrying Mrs. Simpson, who had divorced twice, and eventually abdicated. In this way, Elizabeth's father Albert inherited the throne and became George VI , and Elizabeth, as the eldest daughter, became the heir to the throne.

Elizabeth II (second from the left in the front row) with parents and sister.

During World War II , Elizabeth convinced her father to participate in the war. After George VI's health deteriorated in the early 1950s, Elizabeth began to attend various public events on behalf of her father. In February 1952, George VI died in a sleep. Elizabeth, who was in , Kenya, received news of her father's death. She was in a hotel on a tree. Some people described this experience as "I was a princess when I climbed a tree, The tree is the queen. ”

On June 2, 1952, Elizabeth’s coronation ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey, London, where she became Queen Elizabeth II.

The Queen's experience is like a history book, witnessing major historical events in the UK, the Commonwealth and even the world, including the Great Depression in the late 1920s and early 1930s, World War II and the founding of the United Nations, and India from Britain in the 1940s The gain of independence under colonial rule, the Korean War in the 1950s, and the Vietnam War, the Beatles craze in the 1960s swept the world, the independence of African and Caribbean colonies in the 1960s and 1970s, and the first human landing on the moon in 1969 , Britain joined the EC in 1973, its first visit to China in 1986, its first visit to China in 1989, its collapse of the Berlin Wall and its birth in the World Wide Web, its collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, its first visit to Russia in 1994, its first visit to the throne in 2002 (50th anniversary), its first visit to the throne in 2011 The "Century Visit" of the Republic of Ireland, the 2012 London Olympics, the "Brexit" in 2016 and the new crown epidemic that ravaged the world in 2020, etc.

When Elizabeth II ascended the throne, British Prime Minister or Churchill . Over the past 70 years, she has dealt with 15 British Prime Ministers, 14 US Presidents, 30 Japanese Prime Ministers, and 9 French Presidents. Many British people feel that this is very touching. pride.

Queen created multiple "firsts" with her "extra-long standby": her reign exceeded the sum of the reign of her four predecessors; on September 9, 2015, she reigned for 23,226 days. Achievement "Breaked the record of great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria , and became the longest-reigning king in the UK; as of that time, she had visited 132 countries and regions, visited more than 25,000 places in the country, and hosted state banquets more than 100 times. She has received 3.5 million letters, awarded nearly 400,000 honorary titles and awards, received 116 heads of state, and had 139 portraits; she presided over 62 opening ceremony of the British Parliament, which took a total of 10 hours to deliver speeches.

Since then, Elizabeth II has set new records every year. According to the UK National Statistics Office, when the Queen's father George VI died in 1952, there were 12 million residents in the UK, accounting for about 20% of the current population. Not to be precise, the Queen "super long standby" made 80% of the The British have only seen this monarch so far in their lives.

In 1952, only 10% of homes in the UK spoke on the phone, and there were only 500,000 TVs nationwide. Nowadays, people have long entered the Internet era, and the British royal family has also opened social media accounts and has more than 4 million fans of " Twitter ". Former British Prime Minister Cameron once said: "The world is changing, and the queen is as solid as a rock."

However, the rock-solid queen has suffered some blows after entering the old age stage. In 1992, the queen encountered a "terrible year": her eldest son, Crown Prince Charles, and her wife, , Princess Diana, and her second son, Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, broke down, and her eldest daughter, Princess Anne, also had her husband, Mark Phillips divorced.That year, Buckingham Palace also encountered a fire, burning more than 100 rooms.

1981, the "century wedding" between Charles and Diana once amazed the world, and their divorce also shocked the world. In 1997, Princess Diana died in a car accident, and the public's dissatisfaction with the British royal family once rose, and the queen had to come forward to "put out the fire."

In 2002, the queen's mother passed away at the age of 102; a few weeks later, the queen's sister Princess Margaret also passed away, and the queen had to face sadness twice in her "Golden Jubilee". In recent years, Prince Andrew's "sexual assault" scandal, Prince Harry and Meghan leave the royal family, have all caused a lot of trouble to the Queen.

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