Remembering the life of Queen Elizabeth II after the death of the longest-reigning British monarch

Steve Evans
Updated September 9 2022 - 11:28am, first published 5:30am

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in the early hours of April 21 in 1926, the daughter and first child of the Duke and Duchess of York who would later become King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (better known in our time as the Queen Mother).

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."