Elizabeth gave birth to her third child, Prince Andrew, in February 1960, which was the first birth to a reigning British monarch since 1857.

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It was reported, most notably in The Sunday Times of 20July 1986, that Elizabeth was worried that Margaret Thatcher's economic policies fostered social divisions and was alarmed by high unemployment, a series of riots, the violence of a miners' strike, and Thatcher's refusal to apply sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa.The generations indicate descent from George I, who formalised the use of the titles prince and princess for members of the British royal family. That November, Elizabeth and her husband held a reception at Banqueting House to mark their golden wedding anniversary. From the moment of her accession to the throne, comparisons were made with her Tudor namesake; particularly in the assumption that the country’s fortunes were, as in 1558, at a low ebb and that its one hope lay in the character of the new Queen.

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She later became the longest-reigning current monarch and the longest-serving current head of state following the death of King Bhumibol of Thailand on 13October 2016, [205] and the oldest current head of state on the resignation of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on 21November 2017. Altrincham was denounced by public figures and slapped by a member of the public appalled by his comments. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. On 4November, she appeared masked for the first time in public, during a private pilgrimage to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, to mark the centenary of his burial. Criticism was focused on the institution of the monarchy itself, and the conduct of Elizabeth's wider family, rather than her own behaviour and actions.This marked the only time she did not receive a new prime minister at Buckingham Palace during her reign. In March, her second son, Prince Andrew, separated from his wife, Sarah; her daughter, Princess Anne, divorced Captain Mark Phillips in April; [146] angry demonstrators in Dresden threw eggs at Elizabeth during a state visit to Germany in October; [147] and a large fire broke out at Windsor Castle, one of her official residences, in November. Afterwards, for five days, the royal couple shielded their grandsons from the intense press interest by keeping them at Balmoral where they could grieve in private, [163] but the royal family's silence and seclusion, and the failure to fly a flag at half-mast over Buckingham Palace, caused public dismay. In early 1952, Elizabeth and Philip set out for a tour of Australia and New Zealand by way of the British colony of Kenya. Nearly a hundred years earlier, the young Queen Victoria had emerged less well from just such an encounter.