Queen Elizabeth II Dead: UK’s Longest Serving Queen Passes Away At 96, Royal Family Confirms

Queen Elizabeth II has died after doctors put her on medical supervision at Balmoral, her castle in Scotland, Buckingham Palace has announced in a statement.

“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.”The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow,” the statement announced.

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The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/VfxpXro22W

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) September 8, 2022

BBC’s Royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, said the statement was in contrast to the ones released about the Queen’s health in the previous months when Buckingham Palace said as little as possible.

He said the fact that Buckingham Palace felt it necessary to issue a statement, and the fact that the entire royal family members were travelling to Balmoral underscored the seriousness of her condition. Queen Elizabeth II’s Ascension To The British Throne.

She was crowned on June 2, 1953 in Westminster Abbey to become the 39th Sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey. In 2015 she surpassed Victoria to become the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

Queen Elizabeth II was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. She was born at 2.40 am on April 21, 1926 at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London.

She was born at 2.40 am on April 21, 1926 at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London. Her official title was: Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

The late Queen visited several countries around the world in 1961, however, the most notable of all her visits was the one to Ghana.

Before she left on the trip, members of the UK Parliament and the public did not want her to go due to rising tensions in Ghana at the time, where Kwame Nkrumah had already toppled the colonial government a few years earlier.

The UK Parliament was concerned that her visit could prove too dangerous. But her trip was successful. According to Biography, from the moment Elizabeth arrived in Ghana, along with Prince Philip, she was surrounded by crowds and excitement. m