Queen in a changing world
From the time Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926 until her passing in 2022, the world developed rapidly. What changes took place in the Queen's lifetime?
A Century of Transformation
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom lived for 96 years. She reigned as queen for 70 of these years. During her long life, the world underwent enormous changes.
When Elizabeth was born in 1926, not many could have imagined what the world would come to look like, and reality surpassed most of their dreams and fantasies. We’ve landed on the moon, created nuclear bombs that can wipe out the entire globe, and we have the whole world in our pockets through our smartphones.
We can now look back on a century in which the world has gone through enormous changes. Here are some of the changes the Queen both participated in and witnessed.
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The Sun Began to Set on the British Empire
Elizabeth II was born when the British Empire was the largest in the world. In the 1920s, the empire comprised a quarter of the world’s population, and it covered a third of the world’s total land area. It was therefore said that the sun never set on the British Empire. After two world wars, the British Empire was slowly but surely coming to an end.
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