Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died at Balmoral, aged 96, after seventy years on the throne — the longest reign in British history. Bells tolled across the UK within the hour, and people began gathering outside palaces in London and Edinburgh before the official announcement had even finished being read out. Her death ended a reign that had spanned fifteen prime ministers and most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and for many people who had genuinely never known another monarch, it landed as a stranger kind of historic than most.
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