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Queen Elizabeth 'never aspired' to become UK's longest-reigning monarch

(Agencies) Updated: 2015-09-09 22:33

Queen Elizabeth 'never aspired' to become UK's longest-reigning monarch

Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives at Newtongrange railway station, in Scotland, September 9, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

NO FUSS

Initially Elizabeth did not intend to mark the event publicly at all, believing it represented little more than the fact that her father King George VI died early and that she herself has lived a long time.

But she bowed to public pressure and agreed to officially open the railway in Scotland, where she traditionally spends her Summer holiday. Her second son Prince Andrew said that for her, it would be business as usual.

"It's a milestone in UK terms but as far as her consistency, leadership, it's the normal run of the mill sort of day," he told BBC TV.

"It's an extraordinary achievement in some respects but actually it's about the consistency and the leadership that she is showing and has shown throughout her reign that I think is probably the one thing that marks her out more than anything else," he added.

The admiration was shared by many in the crowd at Edinburgh's Waverley station where she took a journey on a steam train before the opening ceremony, accompanied by husband Prince Philip, who has been at her side throughout her reign.

"It's brilliant," said 58-year-old May Marshall, resplendent in jacket and hat covered in Union Jack flags. "No one else will ever do it. It's testimony to her stamina."

As a young princess, Elizabeth had not expected to become monarch as George VI only took the crown when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

She was 25 when she ascended to the throne on Feb. 6, 1952, following George's death.

That made her the 40th monarch in a royal line that traces its origin back to Norman King William the Conqueror who claimed the throne in 1066 with victory over Anglo-Saxon Harold II at the Battle of Hastings.

The year she became queen, the Korean War was raging, Joseph Stalin was leader of the Soviet Union and Britain announced it had the atom bomb.

Since becoming queen, she has seen 12 prime ministers, starting with Winston Churchill, and there have been 12 US Presidents, from Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama.

Not only has Elizabeth reigned the longest but according to a poll in the Sunday Times this week, Britons also think she is the country's greatest monarch, ahead of her Tudor namesake Elizabeth I and Victoria, who was queen for much of the 19th century when Britain built up its empire.

Now, Elizabeth is queen of just 16 realms, including Australia and Canada.

However, despite the torrent of tributes, not everyone was impressed.

Republicans said her silence on political matters was her finest achievement, and well-known British historian David Starkey remarked that she had never said or done anything memorable in all her years on the throne.

"She will not give her name to her age. Or, I suspect, to anything else," Starkey wrote in the Radio Times magazine.

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