Sir Paul McCartney and best-selling creator Tina Brown mirror on Queen Elizabeth's unprecedented reign in "Her Majesty The Queen: A Gayle King Particular." The particular airs on the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Thursday, June 2 at 10 p.m. ET on CBS and can stream on the CBS Information app and Paramount+ on Friday, June 3.
London — As the UK and its Commonwealth nations have fun the Platinum Jubilee, marking Queen Elizabeth II's document 70 years on the throne, listed here are seven issues Buckingham Palace has shared that you could be not know in regards to the British monarch.
1. Longest reign in historical past
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II grew to become the longest reigning monarch in British historical past on September 9, 2015, surpassing the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
2. Presidential conferences
Queen Elizabeth has met 13 of the 14 Presidents of the USA who've served throughout her reign. She didn't meet President Lyndon Johnson.
3. Generations of corgis
Elizabeth was given a corgi pup named Susan on her 18th birthday in 1944. She has owned greater than 30 corgis and dorgis throughout her reign — most of them descendants of Susan.
4. Army service
Elizabeth joined the ladies's department of the British Military — the Auxiliary Territorial Service — throughout World Battle II, changing into the primary feminine member of the royal household to function a full-time, energetic member of the army. Throughout her service, she realized to drive and preserve automobiles.
5. Early emailer
Then-Princess Elizabeth despatched her first email correspondence on March 26, 1976. The message — which might later turn out to be generally known as an e mail — was despatched to the U.S. Secretary of Protection to formally open collaboration between the 2 nations on a army laptop programming language. She was the primary British royal, and among the many first folks exterior high secret army circles, to ever use the know-how.
6. Windsor Fort dwelling
The queen's present major residence, Windsor Fort, is the biggest and oldest palace on this planet nonetheless in use by a royal household. William the Conqueror ordered building to start in 1070, and the his fortress was prepared 16 years later. It has been a house to Britain's kings and queens ever since.
7. Historic broadcast
Elizabeth's formal coronation ceremony in 1953 — about 4 months after she truly took the throne upon the demise of her father, King George VI — was the primary to be broadcast on stay tv. Some 27 million folks watched it in the UK alone.
