The Queen, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, has passed away at the age of 96 after 70 years on the throne.
Buckingham Palace has said the Queen ‘died peacefully’ this afternoon at Balmoral. The King and Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral and return to London tomorrow.
Buckingham Palace confirmed on Thursday lunchtime that Her Majesty had been under medical supervision at Balmoral after her doctors had become “concerned” about her health.
All of the Queen’s children, as well as the Duke of Cambridge, travelled immediately to Balmoral. The Queen was last pictured formally appointing the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, at Balmoral on Tuesday, her final public duty. She postponed a virtual Privy Council meeting the following day after being advised by doctors to rest.
Queen Elizabeth II is survived by her four children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Her eldest son, Prince Charles, will now become King, while his eldest son, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, assumes the position of heir to the throne.
On her 21st birthday, in a speech broadcast from Cape Town, the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) made a heartfelt pledge: ‘I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service.’
Over the following decades, true to those words, her sense of duty and her devotion to a life of service remained steadfast. She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history, and the most celebrated.
Here, we bring you 154 photographs that pay tribute to her remarkable life: from her marriage to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, for 73 years until his death in April 2021, to her relationships with her four children, as well as her work with more than 600 charities – and the people around the Commonwealth, and the world, whose lives she touched. –Telegraph.co.uk
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