Elizabeth II Outlives Victoria Today

Posted by Dennis G. Jerz on December 20, 2007 10:57 AM | No Comments | Link to here ∴
NY Times
Elizabeth has nearly eight years to go yet before she would overtake Victoria's other noteworthy place in the monarchical record books, the length of her reign -- 64 hugely eventful years, from the abolition of slavery to the Boer War. But the chances look pretty good: Elizabeth is thought to be fairly healthy, as octogenerians go, and her mother lived to be 101.

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