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Queen Elizabeth II pictured in 2012. Eddie Mulholland /WPA Pool/Getty Images The queen "died peacefully" on Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands, royal family officials announced. Her son Charles, 73, is now king and will be known as King Charles III. Officials said he remains at Balmoral and will return to London on Friday. The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow. "The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family," the king Camilla, his second wife, will be known as queen consort. Elizabeth had been placed Other members of the royal family had also traveled to Balmoral, including her grandson Prince William, who is now the heir apparent. Prince Harry, who was already in the country for a charity event, was also reportedly en route. World leaders and mourners pay tribute After Thursday's announcement, a flood of condolences came in from all corners of the globe: world officials, cultural icons and everyday people alike. "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II embodied the British nation's continuity and unity for over 70 years," said In recent years, the queen had taken on fewer public duties, occasionally canceling appearances in which her attendance was once tradition. Mobility issues had troubled her in recent months, and she had taken to spending ...

• Queen Elizabeth I inherited several issues from the reign of her predecessor, Queen • The threat posed by the former subsided with the 1562 outbreak of the • An issue that troubled her reign for its entirety was her lack of a husband and heir, a situation which she and others realized could potentially ignite a successional crisis upon her death. Still, she never married, perhaps because she preferred to keep power to herself. • One of her biggest trials—at least in the foreign policy realm—came when Spain tried to invade England in 1588. The ensuing naval battle would go down as one of the most famous ones ever and ended with England’s defeat of the For the most part, Elizabeth I was a popular queen, both during and after her lifetime. This is evident from the affectionate monikers she earned, her often (although not always) cordial relationship with The Faerie Queene being best known of these. The admiration Elizabeth I garnered had a lot to do with her skills as a rhetorician and an image-maker, which she used to style herself as a magnificent female authority figure devoted to the well-being of England and its subjects above all else. She wasn’t popular with everyone, however. The Faerie QueeneRead more about Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Elizabeth I, bynames the Virgin Queen and Good Queen Bess, (born September 7, 1533, Although her small kingdom was threatened by grave internal divisions, Elizabeth’s blend of shrewdness, courage, and majestic self-display ins...