Isabel II
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor
London England
Family: Father: Duke of York, later King George VI
Mother: Isabel Bowes-Lyon
Biography:
Elizabeth II, that is how she is better known, but her real name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, and she was born on April 21, 1928, in London. She has become known when she takes the throne and becomes Queen and Head of State of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Elizabeth II was born in London as Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth of York, being the first daughter of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and the Duke of York, later King George VI. Together with her sister they have been educated at home under the supervision of their mother, and it was in 1936 when her father assumed the throne after the abdication of her brother, King Edward VIII, and Elizabeth became the heir to the throne.
Later, during the Second World War, Isabel made her first radio appearance referring to children affected by the war, and in 1947 her first foreign visit to South Africa with her parents, and there her famous radio speech addressed to the British Commonwealth of Nations when he promises his life in the service of the people. Then, in November of that year, the Princess marries Lieutenant Phillip Mountbatten, a British military officer and relative of the Greek royal family, and it is the King himself named Duke of Edinburgh before the wedding.
After some years, while Elizabeth was on a state visit to Kenya, she was informed of her father’s death and his accession to the throne, and after a period of mourning, her coronation took place at Westminster Abbey in London on June 2, 1956. Here begins a new stage in this woman’s life, she begins to travel to more places and has met more people than any other head of state in world history. Along with other members of the British royal family they frequently visit the many nations of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and also make state visits to other countries.