Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Elizabeth I were related by blood.
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Queen Elizabeth II was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth).
Queen Elizabeth I known as Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from December 11, 1936 to February 6, 1952 as the wife of King George VI.
She was the last Empress of India from her husband’s accession as King-Emperor in 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947.
After her husband died, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
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Elizabeth—then 25 years old—became queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (known today as Sri Lanka), as well as Head of the Commonwealth following the death of her father King George VI in February 1952.
Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the second-longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country.
Queen Elizabeth II’s younger sister was the late Princess Margaret.
Her mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother died on March 30, 2002, at age 101 in Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth II also died on September 8, 2022, at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom.
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