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ALMORAL, Scotland, Sept 8( Reuters)- Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest- reigning monarch, the nation's statuette and a towering presence on the world stage for seven decades, failed peacefully at her home in Scotland on Thursday aged 96.
" The death of my cherished mama, Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the topmost sadness for me and all members of my family," the new king, her eldest son Charles, said.
" We mourn profoundly the end of a cherished Sovereign and a important- favored mama . I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by innumerous people around the world," the 73- time-old said in a statement.( read further
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Buckingham Palace said Charles and his woman
Camilla, the Queen Consort, would remain at Balmoral Castle, where the queen failed, before returning to London on Friday.
On Elizabeth's death, Charles automatically becomes king of the United Kingdom and the head of state of 14 other realms including Australia, Canada and New Zealand. His office verified we'd be known as Charles III. read further
News that the queen's health was deteriorating surfaced shortly after noon on Thursday when her croakers
said she was under medical supervision, egging her family to rush to be by her side.
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The queen had been suffering from what Buckingham Palace had called" episodic mobility problems" since the end of last time, forcing her to withdraw from nearly all her public engagements.
Her last public duty came only on Tuesday, when she appointed Liz Truss high minister the 15th of her reign.
" The death of Her Majesty the Queen is a huge shock to the nation and to the world," Truss said outside her Downing Street office where the flag, like those at royal palaces and government structures across London, were lowered to half- mast.
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Queen Elizabeth II, who was also the world's oldest and longest- serving head of state, came to the throne following the death of her father King George VI onFeb. 6, 1952, when she was just 25.
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She was culminated in June the ensuing time. The first televised coronation was a foretaste of a new world in which the lives of the royals were to come decreasingly scrutinised by the media.
" I've in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so numerous of you're pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be good of your trust," she said in a speech to her subjects on her coronation day.
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Elizabeth came monarch at a time when Britain still retained much of its old conglomerate. It was arising from the despoilments of World War Two, with food rationing still in force and class and honor still dominant in society.
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Winston Churchill was Britain's high minister at the time, Josef Stalin led the Soviet Union and the Korean War was raging.
In the decades that followed, Elizabeth witnessed massive political change and social bouleversement at home and abroad. Her own family's agonies, most specially the divorce of Charles and his late first woman
Diana, were played out in full public light.
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While remaining an enduring symbol of stability and durability for Britons at a time of relative public profitable decline, Elizabeth also tried to acclimatize the ancient institution of monarchy to the demands of the ultramodern period.
" She has managed to modernise and evolve the monarchy like no other," her grandson Prince William, who's now heir at law to the throne, said in a 2012 talkie.
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Elizabeth was the 40th monarch in a royal line that followed Norman King William the Conqueror, who claimed the English throne in 1066 after defeating Anglo- Saxon sovereign Harold II at the Battle of Hastings.
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Her long reign meant she constantly broke records for British autocrats. When she surpassed the further than 63 times her great-great- grandmother Queen Victoria spent on the throne, she said it wasn't a corner to which she had ever aspired.
" inescapably a long life can pass by numerous mileposts- my own is no exception," she said.
Her marriage to Prince Philip lasted 73 times, until his death in April 2021, and they had four children, Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward.
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She noway gave a media interview and critics said she came across as distant and frosty.
But for the vast maturity of her subjects, for whom she was the only monarch they've known, she was a figure who commanded respect and admiration. Her death marks the end of an period.
" In her public duties she was selfless and wise, with a awful liberality of spirit. That's how she lived – and how she led," former Prime Minister John Major said.
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" For millions of people – across the Commonwealth and the wider world – she embodied the heart and soul of our nation, and was respected and admired around the globe."
Opinion pates have suggested that Charles doesn't enjoy anywhere near the same position of support and there's enterprise that the loss of Elizabeth may see a rise in democratic sentiment, particularly in the other realms.
" I suppose it'll be an enormous shock to everybody, much further than they realise. I do not know if it's an magnification to suppose there will be some kind of nearly public nervous breakdown," royal annalist Hugo Vickers said.
He said her reign was doubtful to be battled.
" I suppose to be relatively honest, if we lived,000 times, we'd noway see anything relatively like it again."
At her death the queen was head of state of not only the United Kingdom but also of Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Tuvalu, the Solomon islets, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda.
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