The Queen reaches another milestone: 2/3 of a century on the throne

Another royal milestone: the Queen has now been on the throne for two thirds of a century.

— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) October 8, 2018

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Well done, another milestone passed.

She will be 93 next April and the Duke will be 98 next June.

If she is still reigning on –

• 18 July 2020 (at age 94 years, 88 days), she will have been queen for 25,000 days.
• 6 February 2022 (at age 95 years, 291 days), she will celebrate her platinum jubilee, marking 70 years on the throne.
• 27 May 2024 (at age 98 years, 36 days), she will surpass King Louis XIV of France as the longest-reigning monarch of a major European country.

Her mother, the Queen Mother, lived to 101 (d. 2002) and her aunt, Princess Alice, lived to 102 (d. 2004)

An amazing achievement.

Some major events during her reign:

1952 George VI dies and Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen.

1953 Sweet rationing ends in Britain. Queen Mary dies.

1954 Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute barrier for the mile.

1955 Princess Margaret calls off plans to marry Grp Capt Peter Townsend.

1956 Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries Grace Kelly, the actress.

1957 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan tells a Tory rally: "Most of our people have never had it so good."

1958 Munich air crash kills eight Manchester United players.

1959 The Mini car makes its first appearance and Britain's first motorway, the M1, opens.

1960 Princess Margaret marries Tony Armstrong-Jones.

1961 John F Kennedy succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as US president.

1962 John Glenn, the US astronaut, orbits the Earth.

1963 Lord Beeching wields the axe on British Rail.

1964 Beatlemania grips UK and US.

1965 Rhodesia declares independence.

1966 England win the World Cup.

1967 Breathalyser introduced.

1968 Enoch Powell makes Rivers of Blood speech.

1969 Death penalty for murder abolished in Britain.

1970 North Sea oilfields discovered.

1971 Decimal currency is launched in the UK.

1972 Miners' strike and power crisis – state of emergency declared.

1973 Britain joins EEC.

1974 Richard Nixon, the US president, resigns over Watergate.

1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes Conservative Party leader.

1976 Concorde begins commercial flights.

1977 Red Rum wins Grand National for a record third time.

1978 World's first test tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in Oldham.

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman prime minister.

1980 Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe win Olympic golds on the track.

1981 Prince of Wales marries Lady Diana Spencer.

1982 Falklands war. Prince William born.

1983 US president Ronald Reagan's Star Wars speech.

1984 IRA bombs Grand Hotel, Brighton.

1985 Live Aid concert held to raise money for Ethiopian famine.

1986 Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson.

1987 The Great Storm sweeps through southern England.

1988 Lockerbie bombing.

1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web.

1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison.

1991 Allies launch Operation Desert Storm in Gulf War against Iraq.

1992 The Queen's "annus horribilis" – The Princess Royal and Captain Phillips divorce, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York separate, Windsor Castle goes up in flames.

1993 Publication of Prince of Wales's intimate talk with Camilla Parker Bowles.

1994 Labour leader John Smith dies.

1995 Number of Aids cases passes one million mark.

1996 The Duke and Duchess of York divorce.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales dies in Paris car crash.

1998 War breaks out in Europe as a Nato coalition attacks Yugoslavia.

1999 Birth of single European currency, the euro.

2000 The Queen Mother's 100th year.

2001 September 11 terrorist attacks.

2002 The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret die.

2003 Britain and the US go to war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

2004 Double Olympic gold for Kelly Holmes in 800m and 1500m in Athens.

2005 The Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles.

2006 Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad.

2007 Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as prime minister.

2008 Barack Obama elected to become the first black US president.

2009 Singer Michael Jackson dies.

2010 Volcanic ash cloud blowing in from Iceland grounds flights.

2011 Prince William marries Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey. The Queen visits Ireland.

2/3 of a century on the throne.. damn

i spend 20 mins on my throne and my legs fall asleep!
we should compare notes.

2012 - Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 60 years (Diamond Jubilee) on the throne. Britain hosts the 2012 Olympics.

2013 - Birth of Prince George and the death of South Africa's Nelson Mandela.

2014 - Russia annexes the Crimea from Ukraine and populists surge in the European Elections.

2015 - The Queen overtakes Queen-Empress Victoria's record reign. Princess Charlotte is born and US legalises gay marriage.

2016 - Britain votes to leave the European Union and Theresa May becomes Prime Minister.

2017 - Donald Trump is inaugurated as US President and Prince Philip retires from royal duties.

2018 - Prince Louis is born and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry.

Completed list... ;) @Zak;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDujdUQNVg

From 6:00 in - amazing! I hope they repeat something similar for her Platinium Jubilee.

that is an insane amount of big things to have been in charge for. can you even IMAGINE doing it for TWO THIRDS of a century?? That is so long. Probably never going to happen again, ever! Amazing really.

1990: FlyingJesus is born

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I seriously think that the royal family have some sort of a magical potion that just keeps you alive as long as you don't get poisoned or killed!

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Originally Posted by lawrawrrr

that is an insane amount of big things to have been in charge for. can you even IMAGINE doing it for TWO THIRDS of a century?? That is so long. Probably never going to happen again, ever! Amazing really.

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To put it into context - she's been reigning while America has had 13 Presidents!

What a strange irony it'll be that how shocked we'll all be when she (an old lady) is no longer with us.

But for now, long may she reign.

@Neversoft;

I have a similar pose (portrait) framed, pride of place, in my bedroom back home.

https://artfair.co.uk/chris-levine-l...s-of-being.jpg

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

To put it into context - she's been reigning while America has had 13 Presidents!

What a strange irony it'll be that how shocked we'll all be when she (an old lady) is no longer with us.

But for now, long may she reign.

@Neversoft;

I have a similar pose (portrait) framed, pride of place, in my bedroom back home.

https://artfair.co.uk/chris-levine-l...s-of-being.jpg

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this picture looks a little.... morbid???

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Originally Posted by lawrawrrr

this picture looks a little.... morbid???

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That's why I like it. You get the sense, like the later official photographs of Queen-Empress Victoria towards the end of her reign, that the Second Elizabethan age is coming to a close. At the same time though, it has that regal, powerful feel with the crown, fur, stark lipstick and strong posture. A nice contradiction - phyiscally the decline of age and her as a person, but arguably at the height of her imperial power and popularity. Decaying yet powerful - like a grand old building teetering. Love the contrast.

Will we ever have King Charles?