Happy Diamond Anniversary, Queen Elizabeth II!

[lordofseas]

February 6, 1952. Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI, ascends to be Queen Regnant of seven countries, four of which she remains today as Monarch: the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Realm of New Zealand, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. For each of these sovereign states, it is her Diamond Jubilee, though the other countries, like Jamaica and Fiji, celebrate it as well. In any case, go Commonwealth! Wheeee!!!!

[Quizziard]

Yeah, happy thingy, yer Maj!

[Flyboy]

*salutes*

[Ben 'Teal'c would WIN!!' Noble]

Happy anniversary

[Skydiver]

Happy Anniversary

[Dazzle foot]

God save the queen!!!!

[discodiva]

Indeed...60 years is a great achievement...Well done Ma'am...

[DigiFluid]

To put it in perspective, during the Queen's tenure, the following heads of state have come and gone:


Chairmen of the Soviet Union

Spoiler:

Stalin
Malenkov
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Andropov
Chernenko
Gorbachev (last)

Presidents of the United States

Spoiler:

Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
JFK
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama (incumbent)

Prime Ministers of Canada

Spoiler:

Louis St. Laurent
John Diefenbaker
Lester B. Pearson
Joe Clark
John Turner
Brian Mulroney
Kim Campbell
Jean Cretien
Paul Martin
Stephen Harper (incumbent)

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

Spoiler:

Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Harold Wilson
Edward Heath
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron (incumbent)

[discodiva]

And she's in pretty good health and could live as long as her mother...

[Ukko]

Long live the queen! Well, longer live the queen.

[DigiFluid]

February 6, 1952. Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI, ascends to be Queen Regnant of seven countries, four of which she remains today as Monarch: the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Realm of New Zealand, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. For each of these sovereign states, it is her Diamond Jubilee, though the other countries, like Jamaica and Fiji, celebrate it as well. In any case, go Commonwealth! Wheeee!!!!

Sixteen:

1. Antigua and Barbuda
2. Australia
3. Bahamas
4. Barbados
5. Belize
6. Canada
7. Grenada
8. Jamaica
9. New Zealand
10. Papua New Guinea
11. Solomon Islands
12. Saint Kitts and Nevis
13. Saint Lucia
14. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
15. Tuvalu
16. United Kingdom

[Dazzle foot]

Sixteen:

1. Antigua and Barbuda
2. Australia
3. Bahamas
4. Barbados
5. Belize
6. Canada
7. Grenada
8. Jamaica
9. New Zealand
10. Papua New Guinea
11. Solomon Islands
12. Saint Kitts and Nevis
13. Saint Lucia
14. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
15. Tuvalu
16. United Kingdom

There's a few more than 16 mate!!!!
The commonwealth of Nations is an organization of 53 independent countries and most of them are former British Colonies. It was formed in 1931 with the initial members of United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State and Dominion of Newfoundland.* Member countries of the organization are bound to co-operate within a framework of common values and goals, as outlined in the Singapore Declaration.

Here is the List of Commonwealth Countries.

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Bostwana
Brunei
Cameroon
Canada
Cyprus
Dominica
Gambia
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Island
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Swaziland
Tanzania
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Kingdom
Vanuatu
zambia

[DigiFluid]

That's just the Commonwealth, she isn't monarch over every member state of the organization. She's reigning monarch over the 16 I listed.

[jeri]

I'll get my special tea cup out and drink to the anniversary!
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[Jedi_Master_Bra'tac]

She's head of the states in the Commonwealth Realm, the Commonwealth of Nations is a larger group that also includes countries that no longer have the British Monarch as Head of State