Queen Elizabeth II passed away Thursday at the age of 96. Have you noticed newscasters having trouble saying King Charles (instead of Prince Charles), or even the word king? It's very new and strange to them because Elizabeth was always the monarch of the British Empire. At least it seemed that way.
Elizabeth was born in 1926 and became queen of the United Kingdom in 1952, when she was only 25 years old. Holding one job for 70 years is hard to wrap our heads around, but Laurence Brown (previously at Neatorama) is here to help. He gives us some mind-bending statistics to emphasize how long 70 years really is, and how much the world has changed.
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