7 Things You Haven’t Considered About the Queen 👑

The Queen is now with the angels. Pinterest.

Unless you have been literally living under a rock, by now you have heard about Queen Elizabeth’s passing.

Per Wikipedia, Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926–8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her life and served as monarch of 15 of them at the time of her death.[a] 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 in history.

You can read, watch, or hear about her until the cows come home, but here are seven things that you may not have previously thought of, cared about, or considered.

1. The Queen witnessed over one-third of U.S. history.
2. In the span of last week, the UK went from a female queen and male prime minister to a male king and a female prime minister.
3. The next James Bond film will be the first one where 007 officially serves a king.
4. The Queen’s birth was probably announced via a telegram, but her death was likely announced as a Tweet.
5. Maybe in hundreds of years, the Egyptian museum will steal the Queen’s corpse to display as an artifact.
6. Most of us will never see another Queen of England since the next three heirs to the throne are all male.
7. The first prime minister that Queen Elizabeth II worked with was born over a hundred years later than the last one that she worked with.

I’ll skip the obvious references to the Queen never making it to or spoiling the end of The Crown. It’s too low-brow!