She has "circled the world" 42 times and has taken the throne for 70 years. Learn about the records broken by the Queen of Britain
Queen Elizabeth II, who the British are preparing to celebrate the platinum jubilee of her accession to the throne, used to set records, as she toured the world 42 times and assumed the British throne seventy years ago.
Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has been on the British throne for seventy years and four months.
The previous record in the United Kingdom was held by her great-grandmother Queen Victoria, whose reign lasted 63 years, 7 months and 2 days (from June 20, 1837 until her death on January 22, 1901).
Also, at ninety-six years old, Elizabeth is the oldest queen still on the throne in the world.
Only two monarchs recorded a reign longer than Elizabeth II, King Louis XIV (reigned for more than 72 years between 1643 and 1715) and King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (who ruled for 70 years and 4 months, from 9 June 1946 to 13 October / October 2016).
As Queen Elizabeth II visited more than a hundred countries, another record for a British monarch.
She made more than 150 visits to the Commonwealth countries, as she visited Canada 22 times, which is the most visited member country of the Commonwealth, while she went 13 times to France, which speaks her language and represents the most visited European country.
According to calculations by the Daily Telegraph, the Queen traveled the world an average of 42 times before she stopped traveling abroad in November 2015 when she was 89 years old.
Her longest trip outside the United Kingdom took 168 days (between November 1953 and May 1954), during which she visited 13 countries.
On her twenty-first birthday, when she was still a princess, Elizabeth said, "I declare before you that all my life, long or short, I will dedicate to your service."
During her reign, Queen Elizabeth II made about 21,000 official commitments, gave "royal approval" to about 4,000 bills, and received a large number of dignitaries in the framework of 112 official visits, including Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia in 1954), and Emperor Japan's Hirohito (in 1971), Polish President Lech Walesa (in 1991), and US President Barack Obama (in 2011).
Under her supervision, more than 180 receptions were held at Buckingham Palace, attended by more than 1.5 million people.
The Queen experienced 14 prime ministers, from Winston Churchill (1952-1955) to Boris Johnson, and the prime ministers briefed her during weekly sessions on the most prominent current developments in the current period.
Queen Elizabeth met 13 of the 14 US presidents, from Harry Truman (1945-1953) to today's Joe Biden.
The president missing from the list is Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969).
The Queen, who is the head of the Anglican Church and is known for her piety and regular practice of religious duties, met four popes during state visits: John XXIII (1961), John Paul II (1980, 1982, 2000), Benedict XVI (2010) and Pope Francis (2014). ).
The Queen sent about 300,000 greeting cards to centenarians and more than 900,000 to couples celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.
Her marriage to Prince Philip lasted 73 years before his death in April 2021, which also represents a record for a British monarch.
More than two hundred portraits of the Queen were taken, and her first portrait was at the age of seven.
Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch to visit China, in 1996, and the first British monarch to address the US House of Representatives, on May 16, 1991.
She sent her first email on March 26, 1976, during a visit to a Defense Ministry research center.
In 1997, she launched the first official website for Buckingham Palace.
She wrote her first tweet on Twitter in 2014, while she published her first post on Instagram in 2019.
And Elizabeth is the only Queen to (almost) parachute with James Bond, as she appeared in a video clip completed for the opening of the 2012 Olympics in London, receiving the spy, played by actor Daniel Craig, at Buckingham Palace before they both ride a raft and soar in the London sky and then jump ( In a representative scene) above the Olympic stadium, which witnessed the actual presence of the Queen, it was very welcomed.
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