"At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child."
Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 until her death in 2022. Her reign was the longest of any British monarch. She remained a central constitutional and symbolic figure through major postwar political and social transitions.