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The Day a Princess Became a Queen (1952)
On February 6, 1952, Elizabeth II ascended the British throne following the death of her father, King George VI. She was just 25 years old, and away from home, when she learned that her life had irrevocably changed.
Elizabeth became queen at a moment when Britain was still recovering from war and the empire itself was beginning to recede. Over the decades that followed, she would reign through extraordinary change: the end of colonial rule, the Cold War, the digital age, and the reshaping of the monarchy’s role in public life.
What defined her reign was not power, but constancy. Governments rose and fell, societies transformed, and technology rewired daily life, yet the same monarch remained. February 6 marks the beginning of that long continuity, one that made Elizabeth II the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
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The TTC Team
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