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Inside Queen Elizabeth II's Remarkable Life: Why She's a Monarch and Matriarch Like No Other
BY NATALIE FINN

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It's an inarguable fact: Queen Elizabeth II has lived a remarkable life.

And never was there before, nor ever will there be, another royal quite like her.

The reigning queen of the United Kingdom (and Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and Head of the Commonwealth turns 90 on Thursday—though, as always, the official celebration will come in June—and impossible is the only fair word to describe the task of encapsulating her inimitable legacy in a few paragraphs.

But we'd be remiss if we didn't try!

Not only has her range of experience as a monarch been one for the books, but she also happens to be one badass family matriarch.

PHOTOS: Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Style Through the Years


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And not just because the world's most famous corgi and Land Rover enthusiast has launched nearly two dozen ships and her face is on all the money.

Even the most pedestrian things the queen has ever done, from riding the subway to sending an email, are rendered extraordinary when you consider that her life has bridged not only two centuries, but practically two separate worlds.


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The queen, who last year surpassed the tenure of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria to become the longest-reigning queen regnant of all time, survived the London Blitz as a teenager, rationed fabric coupons for her wedding dress, ascended the throne in 1952 at the age of 25 in the first coronation to be televised, sent her first email in 1976, joined Facebook in 2010 (but you are*not allowed to poke her) and now Skypes with her grandchildren and has visited the set of Game of Thrones.


Anyone would be hard-pressed to find many more examples of a life that has embodied such a range of the human experience. The queen is the consummate survivor, having balanced not just work with family for the past 65 years, but rather balanced being the face of a nation with the sort of scrutiny—of both her professional and personal lives, as well as the personal and professional lives of her sprawling family—that not too many characters are emotionally or mentally equipped to not only survive but thrive under.

While the crown has always had its critics, some more biting than others, Elizabeth II's reign has encompassed both the era of a citizenry that still looked to the queen (and her father, King George VI, before her and so on) for guidance when global affairs threatened national security or its identity and the more recent decades in which the question of whether the monarchy shouldn't be dissolved once and for all is asked increasingly frequently.


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