"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all."
Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 until her death in 2022. Her reign was the longest of any British monarch. She remained a central constitutional and symbolic figure through major postwar political and social transitions.