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Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Mountbatten-Windsor (Elizabeth II to you, Brenda to readers of ''[[Private Eye]]'', Mrs Windsor in [[Stroke Country]], Lilibet as a child, Gertie to her friends, and Cabbage to her husband) of the United Kingdom.
Also Queen of fifteen other countries, including [[Canada]], [[Australia (continent)|Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and [[Jamaica]]. She was born in 1926 and acceded to the throne on February 6, 1952 on the death of her father, George VI. That's right, she has spent 60 years on the throne and is still going strong. Two of her three [[Tony Blair|most]] [[David Cameron|recent]] Prime Ministers weren't even born when she became Queen. Should she still occupy the throne on September 10, 2015, she will become the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states.
Since the Queen is the best-known monarch in the world, she's turned up quite a lot in fiction, usually as an [[Anonymous Ringer]] or [[Invisible President]], in part due to her function as a constitutional monarch.
Apparently a big ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[One of Us|fan]] (hence why [[Michael Grade]], who screwed it over in the 80s, is the only BBC controller not to have been knighted). Quite techno-savvy; she was the one who insisted on televising her coronation. President Obama's gift of an iPod to her was not a gaffe, as commonly believed: she did, in fact, already have one, but had mentioned it was a generation or two out of date and she would really like a new one. Plus, the royal family now has [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel a YouTube account]. This was ''also'' Her Majesty's idea.
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