Elizabeth II now Britain’s longest-reigning monarch

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Elizabeth II now Britain’s longest-reigning monarch

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Britain celebrated Queen Elizabeth II becoming the country’s longest-serving monarch on Wednesday, September 9, with a flotilla down the River Thames, a gun salute and the peal of Westminster Abbey’s bells. The queen herself opened a railway line in Scotland and was to host a private dinner at Balmoral Castle to mark the day she overtakes her great-great grandmother queen Victoria’s record. Dressed in a turquoise coat and hat and clutching a black handbag — one of her famously colourful outfits – the queen wore a diamond-studded brooch that belonged to Victoria in homage to her ancestor.

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