Queen Elizabeth II, the longest serving monarch in British history, has died at age 96, according to Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch, has died at home in Balmoral in Scotland, aged 96, surrounded by her children, including her eldest son, now King Charles III.
The First World War transformed Glamis into a war hospital . When a fire broke out at the castle, it was Lady Elizabeth who rang the fire brigades and, with some presence of mind, organized relays to bring the treasures out of the castle to safety.
The young princess was evidently being groomed for the rigors of a life of service. “A zealous Girl Guide she has learned First Aid and Home Nursing certificates, and is now specializing in Sea Ranger training,” noted, “She lends an elbow to a palace stirrup-pump team, meets diplomats with her parents, inspects aerodromes, makes radio broadcasts to the children of the Empire.
The lavishly embellished, Winterhalter-inspired evening looks and fluttering pastel day-time confections that Hartnell designed for Princess Elizabeth’s mother would come to define her soft, romantically afashionable image for the rest of her life, as queen and subsequent Queen Mother. Hartnell and his preeminent client scored a particularly memorable fashion coup on George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s state visit to France in July 1938.
For Prince Philip, however, his role was clear: to support his wife and stabilize the crown. “He told me the first day he offered me my job,” Michael Parker, the prince’s first private secretary, related to his feisty biographer Fiammetta Rocco, “that his job—first, second, and last—was never to let her down.
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