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The story of how Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne—that she went up a tree a princess and climbed back down a queen—and the aborted tour of Australia and New Zealand by way of Kenya that had to be postponed is well-documented. But what of her first official tour as The Queen? In late 1953, The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh embarked on a Commonwealth Tour that would see them visiting…

Queen Elizabeth II passed numerous milestones throughout her historic 70-year reign. They have included milestones as a mother and wife and as a monarch. And for many of them, she found herself on a parallel path to her great, great grandmother, Queen Victoria. On 20 December 2007, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest living monarch in British history. Her great-great-grandmother, Queen…