Queen Elizabeth II - BBC Bitesize (2024)

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Prince Phillip Kneels Before His Wife, Queen Elizabeth II

During the homage, senior bishops, princes, and senior peers swore their allegiance to their new queen. After the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh was second in line to kneel before his wife and swear allegiance to her.

After her first two children, Queen Elizabeth II waited more than a decade before having more—she was busy being Queen after all. She and Prince Philip welcomed their third child, Prince Andrew, in 1960, and their youngest, Prince Edward, in 1964.

The King and Queen Camilla spent an hour with her privately before she died and Princess Anne, a minister from a nearby church and the late Queen's senior dresser alternated at her bedside, the paper reports.

Elizabeth chose never to marry. If she had chosen a foreign prince, he would have drawn England into foreign policies for his own advantages (as in her sister Mary's marriage to Philip of Spain); marrying a fellow countryman could have drawn the Queen into factional infighting.

As the carriage carrying the late Princess of Wales' coffin was pulled past the royal family, Elizabeth dipped her head in a deep bow, an unprecedented sign of respect from a sitting monarch. It is thought to be the only time that Queen Elizabeth II ever bowed to anyone else during her time on the throne.

This marked the first time that the public was invited to pledge fealty to the king. In past coronations, the heir's homage was followed by pledges from royal dukes. Prince William was the only duke to kneel before Charles at the coronation.

Following the birth of Andrew, and then Edward, Anne was bumped back in the line of succession. Though she was older than her brothers, under the Act of Settlement 1701, the British crown passed down the line of succession according to male-preference primogeniture.

The images used show Elizabeth, who died after reigning for 70 years at the age of 96 in September, during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s while she was carrying her four children. King Charles III was born in 1948, Princess Anne in 1950, Prince Andrew in 1960, and Prince Edward in 1964.

But no one at any newsroom confessed to getting an official tip-off. At most organisations, journalists said they had just worked off what little had been provided: the announcement that the Queen's doctors were concerned for her health and the fact senior royals were suddenly descending on Balmoral.

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Only George I and Edward VIII were unmarried throughout their reigns. Since 1937, the sovereign's consort and the first four individuals in the line of succession who are over 21 may be appointed counsellors of state.

When Elizabeth was born she was third in line to the throne. At the time it was highly unlikely she would become Queen as her uncle Edward - then heir presumptive - was young and expected to have children that would precede her in the line of succession.

Prince Philip did not have the title of king because of British royal tradition whereby a man marrying into the royal family does not assume the male version of the title held by his wife. He became duke of Edinburgh prior to his marriage to Elizabeth in 1947, and she designated him a prince in 1957.

Netflix's upcoming royal drama 'The Crown' is claiming that Prince Philip was unhappy having to leave the Navy when Princess Elizabeth became Queen, and did not want to kneel before her at the Coronation in 1953.

The royal brother-sister duo knew exactly what to do when the moment came, and can be seen in the video below bowing whilst in the carriage with their younger brother, Prince Louis, Queen Camilla and their mother, Princess Kate.

And when Princess Margaret passed away in 2002, Queen Elizabeth openly cried at her funeral—one of the only times the monarch has shown emotion in a public setting.

In the show, Princess Margaret requests the Queen to allow her to marry Peter Townsend after the coronation and she is asked to wait two years. In reality she had asked before the coronation and was asked to wait for only one year. Is the Crown accurate? No.