"I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim."
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.