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Queen Elizabeth II has been the United Kingdom's reigning monarch since 1952. Elizabeth was proclaimed queen on 6 February 1952 following the death of her father, king-george-vi; she was formally crowned the next year, on 2 June 1953. Her husband, prince-philip, comes from the royal family of Greece and was created Duke of Edinburgh prior to their wedding on 20 November 1947. Elizabeth and Philip had four children: charles-prince-of-wales(b. 1948), Anne (b. 1950), Andrew (b. 1960) and Edward (b. 1964); as the eldest, charles-prince-of-walesis heir to the throne. Queen Elizabeth is the sister of the late princess-margaret, daughter of the late Queen Mother, mother-in-law to the late diana-princess-of-wales, and grandmother to the princes prince-williamand prince-harry. She also shares a name with a famous predecessor, elizabeth-i. The queen celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 2002, marking 50 years on the throne

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