Queen Elizabeth II is Dead – Buckingham Palace announces
Following her health challenges earlier today, Queen Elizabeth II of England has died.
On Thursday, Buckingham Palace announced that the queen died peacefully at Balmoral Castle.
Her death, it was learnt, brings to a close a reign that spanned seven decades and made her the most recognized woman in the world.
History has it that Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952, on the death of her father, King George VI. She oversaw the last throes of the British empire, weathered global upheaval and domestic scandal, and dramatically modernized the monarchy.
Elizabeth ruled over the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms, and became one of the most recognizable women ever to have lived. Her son, Charles, immediately became King upon her death.
