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Queen Elizabeth II Through the Years: Remember the Monarch on the First Anniversary of Her Death
Queen Elizabeth II was one of the world’s most famous figures since her birth on April 21, 1926. The British monarch ascended to the throne in 1953 after her father King George VI’s death. She has been an emblem of British society for decades, enduring wars, triumphs, scandal, and tumult across the world, as queen…