Elizabeth II thanks well-wishers as she's about to become longest-reigning monarch

[Blackleaf]

The Queen has thanked well-wishers at home and overseas for their "touching messages of kindness" as she becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

Speaking in the Scottish Borders, the 89-year-old monarch said the title was "not one to which I have ever aspired".

The Queen will have reigned for 63 years and seven months - calculated at 23,226 days, 16 hours and approximately 30 minutes at about 17:30 BST - just two hours from now.

David Cameron said the service she had given was "truly humbling".

Dressed in turquoise with her trusty black handbag at her side, the Queen spoke briefly to the gathered crowds on the day she passes the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.

The Queen and Prince Philip travelled by steam train from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, where she formally opened the new £294m Scottish Borders Railway.

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Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest-reigning UK monarch - BBC News

 

[Walter]

God save the Queen. Long may she reign.

 

[talloola]

very exciting indeed, I remember the first day, congratulations to the queen.

 

[Blackleaf]

At work: Newly released official photographs show the Queen with her official red box, containing the day's policy papers, cabinet documents, Foreign Office papers and other letters which she has looked at every day of her reign

 

[billshaver]

remember her at EXPO 67 in Montreal, again in 76 at Opening of Olympics, at Cornwall Ontario, in 1990 i belive it was a ceremony honering ancestors of UEL'S...This is abright spot in the day when all around is gloom.

 

[Blackleaf]

Queen Elizabeth II is about to become Britain's longest reigning monarch, so here are some charts

Queen Elizabeth II is about to become Britain's longest reigning monarch, so here are some charts

 

[MHz]

You guys ever going to go for 'best reigning' ___________ ever?

 

[Blackleaf]

Here were are. It's 17:32 and now, officially, Elizabeth II is Britain and Canada's longest-reigning monarch.

 

[AnnaG]

so she's the antiquiest of the antiques?
fascinating

 

[Locutus]

Blackleaf: I sent you a polite pm about these excessively long posts as well as a thread about the same. I'll see you in a week maybe.

 

[MHz]

Long live the Queen, now back to your regular programming.

 

[spaminator]

congrats on being the longest serving monarch on the throne.

 

[taxslave]

What amazes me is briddish are actually proud of being oppressed by an unelected ruler.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

What amazes me is briddish are actually proud of being oppressed by an unelected ruler.

As are the canucks.

 

[EagleSmack]

Blackleaf is enjoying the Queen's Jubilee this week and will not be available...


...please leave a message.

 

[taxslave]

as are the canucks.

no we are not.we do not recognize her rule.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

no we are not.we do not recognize her rule.

By "we" I take it you mean you and the voices in your head? Or do you purport to speak for Canada? If so, who elected you? The aforementioned voices in your head?

 

[taxslave]

You know about the voices? What language are they speaking? I know it isn't english.

 

[SLM]

Blackleaf is enjoying the Queen's Jubilee this week and will not be available...


...please leave a message.

But fer gawd sakes not a long message.........

 

[EagleSmack]

But fer gawd sakes not a long message.........

Please cut and paste full pages of The Daily Mail Online on all things Britain...


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