At 16, as World War II raged, Queen Elizabeth II asked her father if she could serve as a volunteer nurse in bombed-damaged London, but he though it was too dangerous. She persisted in asking, and when she was 18 he allowed her to volunteer with the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she was trained to drive and repair heavy transport vehicles, although she was not allowed to do much of the actual driving and repair work.
As a perk of royalty in the United Kingdom, she is head of state in all the Commonwealth Realms, meaning she is also Queen of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
The web site I found my information on is http://www.nndb.com/people/174/000023105/
Introduction
Queen Elizabeth was born April 21 1926. She was born to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. She became Queen at the age of 25 and has been Queen for more than fifty years. Her majesty is the 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. Queen Elizabeth is married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Together they have four children and eight grandchildren. She is a wonderful woman. And has done a lot to make England strive.
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This is plagarism, and would be an F for your paper.
You must SUMMARIZE the article:
This article discusses how Elizabeth became queen and how she fell in love with her husband. It briefly talks about her role during WWII, and links to her family and several other articles about her.
I want you to read this link and others:
http://www.answers.com/topic/
queen-elizabeth-ii
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