"Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen."
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.