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Following Queen Elizabeth II's death and funeral, many are wondering, 'What religion is the royal family?' Here's what to know about the Church of England.
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She had been queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms at her death.
Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Church of England, Britain's state religion first established after King Henry VIII famously split away from the Catholic Church in Rome in the Sixteenth Century.
A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp excerpt and text search; Hastings, Adrian. A History of English Christianity: 1920–1985 (1986) 720pp a major scholarly survey; Hylson-Smith, Kenneth. The churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II (1996). Marienberg, Evyatar.
Official suspicion and legal restrictions continued well into the 19th century. Roman Catholics, perhaps 5% of the English population (down from 20% in 1600) were grudgingly tolerated, having had little or no official representation after the Pope's excommunication of Queen Elizabeth in 1570, though the Stuarts were sympathetic to them.
Queen Elizabeth II, England's longest-reigning monarch, died in 2022 at age 96 in Scotland's Balmoral Castle. In her lifetime, she befriended American cowboy Monty Roberts.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Family of the British monarch This article is about the family of Charles III. For the British monarchy itself, see Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the annual Trooping the Colour ...
Elizabeth herself signed the regicidal death warrant of her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, after 19 years as Elizabeth's prisoner. [68] As MacCulloch has noted, "England judicially murdered more Roman Catholics than any other country in Europe, which puts English pride in national tolerance in an interesting perspective."