Queen Elizabeth II, 95, has been the United Kingdom’s monarch for nearly 70 years, first ascending to the throne in 1952, when she was only 25! Elizabeth has been the queen throughout so many pivotal moments in England’s history throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. She has served as the longest-reigning and longest-lived monarch in British history. Before she took the throne, she married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. Prince Philip sadly died in 2021 at age 99.