Earlier Thursday, Buckingham Palace said that the queen had been placed under medical supervision and that her doctors were "concerned" about her health. The royal family later announced her death online
Queen Elizabeth arrives at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan on July 6, 2010, to lay a wreath in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001. Queen Elizabeth, who inherited the throne at age 25 in 1952 and became Britain’s longest-serving monarch, died on Sept. 8, 2022. She was 96. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
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