Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.
She died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, therefore where she had spent much of the summer.
King Charles will be officially proclaimed Britain’s new monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council at St James’s Palace on Saturday
India has declared one-day state mourning on September 11 as a mark of respect on Queen Elizabeth’s demise.
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Elizabeth was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 8 September 2022.
She was queen regnant of 32 different sovereign states in the course of her reign, however served as monarch of 15 of them at the time of her death.
Her reign of 70 years and 214 days is the longest of any British monarch and the longest recorded of any female head of state.
Queen Elizabeth II, who was also the world’s oldest and longest-serving head of state, came to the throne following the death of her father King George VI on February 6, 1952.
