The Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6

February 1952 until her death in 2022.  Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of
any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history.

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York.  She
was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World
War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip
Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and their marriage lasted 73 years
until his death in 2021. They had four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.

Significant events included Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of

her Silver, Golden, Diamond, and Platinum jubilees in 1977, 2002, 2012, and 2022,
respectively. Although she faced occasional republican sentiment and media criticism of her
family—particularly after the breakdowns of her children's marriages, her annus horribilis in
1992, and the death in 1997 of her former daughter-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales—support
for the monarchy in the United Kingdom remained consistently high throughout her lifetime, as
did her personal popularity.

Elizabeth was patron of more than 600 organisations and charities.[272] The Charities Aid

Foundation estimated that Elizabeth helped raise over £1.4 billion for her patronages during her
reign.[273] Her main leisure interests included equestrianism and dogs, especially her Pembroke
Welsh Corgis.[274] Her lifelong love of corgis began in 1933 with Dookie, the first corgi owned by
her family.
 The relationship between princess
Diana and The Queen Elizabeth

The late Queen Elizabeth II and her daughter-in-law, Princess Diana, were more alike than you
may realize: They both gave their lives to public service, they were strong in their own ways,
and both were devoted to their families and subjects alike. But Queen Elizabeth and Princess
Diana were also very different. The Queen is silent and traditional; Diana was modern and
outspoken.

Lady Diana Spencer, an aristocrat with many links to the royal family tree, married the eldest
son of Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles, in July 1981. They had two sons, Princes William and
Harry, who are Queen Elizabeth’s grandchildren. After several publicly tumultuous years in their
marriage, Charles and Diana divorced in 1996, and Princess Diana died the following year.

The Queen had known Diana Spencer—or at least known of her—for most of the younger
woman’s life. The Spencers were a prominent family with close royal ties. Diana’s father was an
equerry, or personal attendant, to the Queen’s father, King George VI, and then to the Queen
herself; her grandmother was a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth’s mother. Queen Elizabeth
and Prince Philip attended Diana’s parents’ wedding, and the Queen is the godmother of
Diana’s younger brother, Charles.â

The Queen had a sense that Diana could handle royal life.
 The relationship between Charles and his mother

Elizabeth was mother to two young children when she suddenly became Queen -
and devoted much of those early years to establishing herself as monarch. With
her youngest two, she was able to focus on being a mother more.

Queen Elizabeth doubted Prince Charles' ability to lead. She felt that her
oldest son would "never live up to her sense of duty."

His relationship with his mother was a bit more comfortable, though
decidedly detached due to her frequent absences during his childhood.

The relationship between Prince Charles and his mother got a bit more
complicated when Queen Elizabeth found out about his affair with Camilla
Parker Bowles while he was married to Princess Diana.