Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth was born in 1926 to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. She became Queen at the age of 25 and has been Queen through more than five decades of enormous social change and development. Her Majesty is 38th in direct line of descent from Egbert (c. 775-839); King of Wessex from 802 and of England 827 to 839.She is the fortieth monarch since William I (William the Conqueror), and also the great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The Queen is married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and has four children and eight grandchildren. She is a wonderful woman. And has done a lot to make England strive.