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Elizabeth was born on 21 April 1926, the first child of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), and his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary , and her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th ...
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
After her husband died, she was officially known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, [2] to avoid confusion with her daughter Queen Elizabeth II. Born into a family of British nobility, Elizabeth came to prominence in 1923 when she married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary.
Born in 1964, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, is Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest child. He was born before male primogeniture was abolished, and his place in the royal order of succession is after ...
King Charles II 1630–1685 r. 1649–1651 r. 1660–1685 (Scotland) r. 1660–1685 (England) Catherine of Braganza 1638–1705 Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland: William II 1626–1650 Prince of Orange: Mary Princess Royal 1631–1660 Princess of Orange: Anne Hyde 1637–1671 Duchess of York: King James II [a] 1633–1701 r. 1685–1688 ...
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were the longest-married couple in the history of the British ... with Anne’s son, Peter Phillips (born in 1977) and daughter Zara Tindall (1981) becoming ...
On 21 April 1926, Queen Elizabeth II was born at No. 17, the London home of her maternal grandfather, the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. [2] The house was commonly thought to have been damaged in the Blitz and demolished in the aftermath, [ 2 ] but archival documents at the British Library prove that the house had been demolished by property ...
Queen Elizabeth II turns 96 on April 21, but that's just the first celebration. Find out why the monarch has two birthdays each year.