Queen Elizabeth II is dead aged 96, Buckingham Palace has announced
Dear Reader,
Queen Elizabeth II died yesterday at the age of 96.
In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: "This afternoon, the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral. The King and Queen Consort will spend the evening at Balmoral before returning to London tomorrow."
The Queen made history earlier this year when she became the first monarch to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, marking the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
The Queen is survived by four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward, as well as eight grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
Following Boris Johnson's resignation, Her Majesty met with new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday, September 6, and asked her to form a government. Due to The Queen's "mobility issue," Truss traveled to The Queen's Aberdeenshire estate Balmoral Castle in Scotland for her audience with Her Royal Highness, a historical first.
Following the death of the sovereign, Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, will now become King.
During World war 2, Queen Elizabeth II began her public career by appearing on the radio and being appointed as one of her father's effective deputies as counsellor of state.
She married Philip Mountbatten in 1947 and had four children with him before his death in 2021: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.
She ascended to the throne in 1952, following the untimely death of her father, George VI, and went on to become both the country's longest-lived and longest-serving monarch.
In ten days, the queen will be buried at Windsor Castle after a state funeral at Westminster Abbey, during which the nation will observe a two-minute silence.