Queen Elizabeth, the world’s longest-reigning living monarch, celebrated her Sapphire Jubilee on Monday, commemorating 65 years since she took the British throne.
Monday’s Sapphire Jubilee is being marked with a 41-gun royal salute in London’s Green Park and at the Tower of London.
The palace said the 90-year-old queen will spend the day quietly at her Sandringham estate in eastern England.
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Buckingham Palace also released a photo of the queen by David Bailey to mark the occasion. In the picture, taken in 2014, the monarch wears a suite of sapphire jewelry given to her by her father as a wedding gift in 1947.
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The Queen, 90, was ill over Christmas. The monarch missed church two weeks in a row due to a persistent, heavy cold.
She has generally been in good health in recent years. She has cut back on international tours but still regularly performs official duties around Britain as she enters her 10th decade.
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In December the Queen said she would reduce the number of her patronages, passing on her role at dozens of charities, academic institutions and sporting groups to other members of the royal family.
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She became monarch on the death of her father, King George VI, from lung cancer at age 56 on Feb. 6, 1952.
Elizabeth surpassed Queen Victoria as Britain’s longest-serving monarch in 2015.
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