9 out of 10 residing Australians have by no means identified a sovereign aside from the late Queen Elizabeth II. What modifications to Australia will her passing usher in?
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, is lifeless. Buckingham Palace introduced that the queen died peacefully at Balmoral on Thursday afternoon. Her household had assembled on the Scottish fort to say their remaining farewells.
Her dying got here simply two days after she met with the brand new prime minister of the UK, Liz Truss, and invited her to type a authorities. Truss was the fifteenth British prime minister of the queen’s 70-year reign. Sixteen Australian prime ministers, from Sir Robert Menzies to Anthony Albanese, led her governments.
Elizabeth, who acceded to the throne at 25 years outdated, was the longest-serving monarch in English historical past, and second solely to Louis XIV of France in world historical past. 9 in 10 Australians have by no means identified one other sovereign.
