Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest reigning monarch, has died at the age of 96.
In Photos: The Life of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
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The Duchess of York, right, holds in 1926 in London her firstborn, Princess Elizabeth, under the loving gaze of her husband, the Duke of York and future King George VI. Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926.
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Queen Elizabeth, second from left, future Queen Mother; her daughter Princess Elizabeth, front center, future Queen Elizabeth II; Princess Margaret, front right; and King George VI, right, pose on the Buckingham Palace balcony, May 12, 1937, following his coronation.
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In her first radio broadcast, 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth, right, said that England's children at home were full of cheerfulness and courage. She is shown with her younger sister, Princess Margaret Rose, before the broadcast, in London on Oct. 13, 1940.
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Princess Elizabeth receives the hood of a Bachelor of Music from the Earl of Athlone, chancellor of London University, at the University's Senate House in London, July 10, 1946.
