BREAKING NEWS: Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has died at the age of 96. DETAILS:
How Queen Elizabeth became the United Kingdom's longest reigning monarch
of the Royal Navy, formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, at Westminster Abbey. They moved into Clarence House in London and had their first child, Prince Charles, almost exactly a year after their marriage on Nov. 14, 1948. She would go on to have a daughter, Anne, and two more sons, Andrew and Edward.
Her coronation was on June 2, 1953, at Westminster Abbey, though she had already held her first state opening of Parliament on Nov. 4 the year before. Starting in November of 1953, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip spent six months touring the Commonwealth territories across the globe, and in doing so, she became the first reigning British monarch to visit Australia and New Zealand.
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