Queen Elizabeth II is dead , she died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon, the Palace authority informed.
For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II reigned over the United Kingdom—through the assassination of JFK, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Brexit vote, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The demise of Her Royal Highness was announced today afternoon by Buckingham Palace.
The past seven decades have seen an unprecedented shift in both sentiment and power within the British monarchy, an institution the queen worked—at varying points—both to adapt and to uphold.
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