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Климонова Ольга Борисовна
Queen Elizabeth’s full name is
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. As a child
she called herself “Lilibet’, a name
that members of her family still use.
The Queen’s surname is Windsor.
The British royal family changed
their last name – Saxe-CoburgGotha during the First World War
because it sounded too ‘German’.
Anti-German feeling in the county
was so strong that King George V
dropped all his German titles and
changed the family name to
Windsor – after his castle of the
same name.
Until she was 10 years old Elizabeth
didn’t know that one day she would
be queen. It was only when her uncle,
King Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936
that her father became King George
VI and Elizabeth became heiress to
the throne.
Elizabeth was educated at home
with Princess Margaret, her
younger sister. She studied
French, history, art and music,
learned to ride and swim.
Just before World War II in 1939,
Elizabeth met a young sailor at a
Royal Naval College. He was Prince
Philip of Greece. They married in
Westminster Abbey when she was
21 and now have 4 children (Prince
Charles, Prince Andrew, Prince
Edward and Princess Anne) and 8
grandchildren (including Prince
William and Prince Harry).
The Queen has 2 birthdays – her
real one, on the 26th of April,
and an official one, on the
second Saturday of June each
year.
Being Queen is a real busy job.
Elizabeth II gets up early (she
wakes to the sound of her
personal bagpiper) and begins
the day by looking through the
newspapers and reading letters
from the public. Later in the
morning
she usually sees
important visitors. After lunch,
she often goes out on a public
visit – she gets thousands of
invitations each year. She opens
new hospitals, bridges and
factories. Once a week, the
Queen meets the Prime Minister.
They
discuss
government
business and important things
that are happening in the
country.
The British royal family goes back
more than a thousand years.
Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s
40th monarch.
Elizabeth II is a ‘constitutional
monarch’. This means that the
country is actually run by the
government, led by the Prime
Minister. So she isn’t a
political force. She is a symbol
of Britain’s long history and
traditions.
In the 60 years of her reign, the
country has had 12 prime
ministers. She became Queen
so long ago, David Cameron
hadn’t even been born!
In the past 60 years, Elizabeth
II has been on 261 official visits
to 116 different countries.
The Queen in the only person
in Great Britain who doesn’t
have a passport! She is also
the only person in the country
who can drive without a
licence or number plate on
her state car.
The
Queen’s
hobby
is
photography. She also enjoys
horse racing, fishing and
walking in the countryside.
Elizabeth’s favourite dogs are
corgis. She has owned more than
30 corgis during her reign. She
has also introduced a new breed
of dog known as the dorgi
(dachshund + corgi).
Queen
Elizabeth
joined
Facebook in November 2010,
with a page called the British
Monarchy. She joined Twitter in
2009, and now teams at
Buckingham Palace tweet daily
updates.
The Queen has many hats,
because she always wears one
when she is out on royal visits.
She has worn more than 5,000
different hats over the past 60
years.
She speaks French very well and
often uses the language during
her state visits. She doesn’t need
an interpreter.
The Queen has been given lots
of unusual presents during
her reign, including animals:
jaguars and sloths from Brazil,
black beavers from Canada
and an elephant called Jumbo
from Cameroon. They were
given good homes at London
Zoo.