Queen Elizabeth II

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What is a queue?

00:55

What did the Queen offer Barack's daughter?

1. A run through Buckingham Palace.
2. To stay in Buckingham Palace for two days.
3. A ride in the Golden Carriage on the grounds of Buckingham Palace
4. A ride through the city in her Rolls Royce.

02:09

What did the Queen do with Michelle's gift, the small brooche?

1. The Queen gave the brooche away.
2. The Queen wore the brooche the next day.
3. The Queen thanked Michelle for the brooche and put it in her bag.
4. The Obama's saw Kate wearing the brooch the next day.

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1926

1947

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1954

How many American Presidents has she known?

At what age did she become Queen?

When did the Queen get married?

When was the Queen born?

How many prime ministers has she met?

00:17

Why wasn't she supposed to become the queen?

02:13

Name one cause that made her reign turbulent.

The Queen had a passport.

1. True
2. False

She didn’t have a passport.

Despite being history’s most widely traveled head of state—she reportedly visited 116 countries during her reign—Elizabeth did not hold a passport. Since all British passports are issued in the queen’s name, she herself didn’t need one. She also didn’t require a driver’s license, though she was known to take joyrides around her various estates in her Range Rover.

She had driven a truck.

1. True
2. False

She drove a truck during World War II.

Elizabeth—then an 18-year-old princess—joined the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II. She donned a pair of coveralls and trained in London as a mechanic and military truck driver. The queen was the only female member of the royal family to have entered the armed forces and was the only living head of state who served in World War II.

When she married Philip she took his name.

1. True
2. False

She didn’t take her husband’s name.

Elizabeth’s father, George VI, was born into the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, but during World War I the family name was changed to Windsor amid anti-German sentiment. Similarly, her husband Prince Philip dropped his father’s Germanic surname, Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and adopted that of his maternal grandparents, Mountbatten, during their engagement.

She sent an e-mail in 1976

1. True
2. False

She sent an email in 1976.

On March 26, 1976, Queen Elizabeth sent her first email while taking part in a network technology demonstration. The message was transmitted over ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern internet. She is considered the first head of state to have used electronic mail.

She once talked for 10 minutes with somebody who broke into the palace.

1. True
2. False

She once woke up to find a stalker in her bedroom.

On July 9, 1982, Michael Fagan  broke into Buckingham Palace via the drainpipe and walked into Elizabeth’s chambers. The sleeping monarch awoke to find a strange man perched on the edge of her bed. Unable to reach the police, Elizabeth was said to have talked to Fagan for at least 10 minutes, listening to him chat about his personal problems and relationship with his four children. Finally, a footman woke up and seized the intruder.