LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, is commemorating her Platinum Jubilee with 4 days of celebration from June 2-5.

Listed here are some information concerning the queen:

– Elizabeth was born at 17 Bruton St, London, her maternal grandparents’ dwelling, on April 21, 1926, and christened on Could 29 that yr within the personal chapel at Buckingham Palace.

– She grew to become inheritor obvious when her uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated on Dec. 11, 1936, and her father George VI grew to become king. She was 10 years previous.

– She married navy lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, a Greek prince, at London’s Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947. They’d 4 youngsters: Prince Charles (born in 1948), Princess Anne (1950), Prince Andrew (1960) and Prince Edward (1964). Philip died in April 2021, aged 99.

– She ascended the throne on the dying of her father on Feb. 6, 1952, whereas she was in Kenya on a royal tour. She was topped on June 2, 1953 at Westminster Abbey, the primary coronation to be televised.

– When she ascended the throne, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Harry Truman have been main the Soviet Union, China and the USA, whereas Winston Churchill was British prime minister.

– She has been served by 14 prime ministers. Throughout her reign, there have been 14 U.S. presidents, all of whom she has met bar Lyndon Johnson.

– On Sept. 9, 2015, she surpassed the 63 years, 7 months, 2 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes that her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria spent on the throne to grow to be the nation’s longest-reigning monarch in a line courting again to Norman King William the Conqueror in 1066.

– Elizabeth stays queen of 15 realms together with the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tuvalu.

– She celebrated her Platinum Jubilee – the seventieth anniversary of her accession – on Feb. 6, 2022.