Elizabeth II (1926– )
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Queen Elizabeth II giving a speech, with her husband, Prince Philip, seated on her left.
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Queen Elizabeth meeting Canadians on one of her ‘walkabouts’, in which she greets the public in person. Queen Elizabeth proclaimed the new Canadian constitution in April 1982, severing Canada's last colonial links with Britain.
Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952, the elder daughter of George VI. She married her third cousin, Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1947. They have four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on 21 April 1926; she was educated privately, and assumed official duties at 16.
During World War II she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and by an amendment to the Regency Act she became a state counsellor on her 18th birthday. On the death of George VI in 1952 she succeeded to the throne while in Kenya with her husband and was crowned on 2 June 1953.
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