Dieu et mon Droit

There may always be an England even if they've lost their empire and world status because they still have had the same Queen for 60 years.



Queen Victoria was the last and to date the only other British Monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee. The Queen, who was aged 85 on anniversary of her Accession to the Throne on February 6, 2012, is the oldest monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee. Queen Victoria was 77 when she celebrated hers in 1897.



There have been only three Diamond Jubilees of Heads of State celebrated throughout the world during The Queen’s reign. King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrated 60 years on the throne in 2006; the former Sultan of Johor (now a part of Malaysia) celebrated his in 1955; and the late Emperor Hirohito of Japan celebrated his in 1986.



Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom who served QEII

Sir Winston Churchill *     1952–1955
Sir Anthony Eden             1955–1957
Harold Macmillan             1957–1963
Sir Alec Douglas-Home    1963–1964    
Harold Wilson                  1964–1970
Edward Heath                  1970–1974
Harold Wilson                  1974–1976
James Callaghan             1976–1979
Margaret Thatcher         1979–1990
John Major                      1990–1997
Tony Blair **                   1997–2007
Gordon Brown                 2007–2010
David Cameron  ***         current

*  Incredibly Churchill had the distinction of being the only MP to be elected under both Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II.
**  Tony Blair was the first Prime Minister to have been born during The Queen's reign. He was born in early May, 1953 - a month before the Coronation.
*** David Cameron was born in 1966; Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child was already 6 years old at the time.


Presidents of the United States during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II

(I believe he was able to keep it in his pants)

Harry S. Truman                     - 1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower    1953 - 1961
John F Kennedy             1961 - 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson         1963 - 1969
Richard Nixon                1969 - 1974
Gerald Ford                   1974 - 1977
James E. Carter              1977 - 1981
Ronald Reagan               1981 - 1989
George H. W. Bush        1989 - 1993
William Jefferson Clinton 1993 - 2001
George W. Bush             2001 - 2009
Barack Obama.jpg       current



Presidents of France during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II

Vincent Auriol                          - 1954
René Coty                       1954 - 1959
Charles de Gaulle            1959 - 1969
Alain Poher (interim)       1969 - 1969
Georges Pompidou         1969 - 1974
Alain Poher (interim)      1974 - 1974
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing  1974 - 1981
François Mitterrand         1981 - 1995
Jacques Chirac                1995 - 2007
Nicolas Sarkozy              2007 - 2012
François Hollande           current


Chancellors of Germany* (the good one, not the communist one, shhh, don't mention WW II) during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II

Konrad Adenauer                  - 1963  
Ludwig Erhard              1963 - 1966
Kurt Georg Kiesinger    1966 - 1969
Willy Brandt                  1969 - 1974
Walter Scheel (interim) 1974 - 1974
Helmut Schmidt            1974 - 1982
Helmut Kohl                1982 - 1998
Gerhard Schröder       1998 - 2005
Angela Merkel             current


Popes during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II



Pius XII                      - 1958  (shhh, don't mention WW II)   
John XXIII        1958 - 1963
Paul VI               1963 - 1978
John Paul I         1978 - 1978  (shhh, don't mention Godfather III)
John Paul II        1978 - 2005
Benedykt XVI     current           (shhh, don't mention WW II)



The Queen's reign is longer than those of her four immediate predecessors combined (Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI). She is the third longest reigning British or English monarch, the second-longest-serving current monarch of a sovereign state (after King Bhumibol of Thailand), and the oldest reigning British monarch.