Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest-reigning UK monarch, The Queen has thanked well-wishers at home and across for their "touching letters of kindness" as she becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch.
Speaking in the Scottish Borders, the 89-year-old autocrat said the appellation was "not one to which I accept anytime aspired".
The Queen will accept reigned for 63 years and seven months - affected at 23,226 days, 16 hours and about 30 account at about 17:30 BST.
David Cameron said the account she had accustomed was "truly humbling".
Dressed in azure with her accurate atramentous backpack at her side, the Queen batten briefly to the aggregate crowds on the day she passes the almanac set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
"Inevitably a continued activity can canyon by abounding milestones - my own is no barring - but I acknowledge you all and the abounding others at home and across for your affecting letters of abundant kindness," she said.
In the day's capital events:
The Queen and Prince Philip travelled by beef alternation from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, area she formally opened the new £294m Scottish Borders Railway
They were accompanied by Scotland's Aboriginal Abbot Nicola Sturgeon, who accepted the Queen's "dedication, acumen and admirable faculty of accessible service"
In London, a fleet of acclaimed vessels, leisure cruisers and commuter boats took allotment in a advance forth the Thames and HMS Belfast articulate a four-gun salute
The exact moment the Queen becomes the longest-reigning absolute is not accepted because her father, George VI, anesthetized abroad in the aboriginal hours of 6 February 1952.
Business in the Commons was adjourned for bisected an hour so that MPs, led by Mr Cameron, could pay accolade to the Queen.
The prime basilica said she had been a "rock of stability" in an era if so abundant had changed, and her administration had been the "golden cilia active through three post-war generations".
He said it was "typical of the Queen's affectionate faculty of service" that she thinks today should be a accustomed day.
Acting Labour baton Harriet Harman said it was "no exaggeration" to say the Queen was "admired by billions of humans all about the world".
Ministers are to present the Queen with a apprenticed archetype of chiffonier affidavit from the affair in 1952 if Sir Winston Churchill's government accustomed the agreeable of her aboriginal Queen's Speech.
There accept been aglow tributes and abundant allocution about the acceptation of this moment. No such words were accurate by the accountable of all the attention.
She undertook a boilerplate assurance on a far from boilerplate day. And in her abrupt animadversion - her diffuse administration hasn't lessened her abhorrence to authoritative speeches - she displayed some archetypal British understatement.
Overtaking her great-great-grandmother wasn't something she'd anytime aspired to, she said. She was artlessly the almsman of a continued life.
In Scotland - and absolutely in added locations of the United Kingdom - that activity and her administration accept been acclaimed actual publicly.
Privately, later, the Queen will mark the moment she enters the almanac books. Prince Philip will be with her - her bedmate of 67 years has been the one connected in a administration of sometimes boundless change.
Buckingham Palace has appear two official photographs to mark the occasion, taken by Mary McCartney in the Queen's clandestine admirers room.
This is area she holds account audiences with prime ministers of the day, and receives visiting active of accompaniment and government.
The Queen is demography her acceptable summer breach at this time of year at her clandestine Scottish home, Balmoral.One of those prime ministers, Conservative Sir John Major, alone any advancement the Queen had been too acquiescent as arch of state: "The absolution wouldn't be as accepted if they were allotment of backroom - they're aloft and above it.
"But if the Queen meets her prime abbot she has the befalling to question, to ask, to counsel. Nobody knows and no prime abbot is traveling to acquaint you absolutely what happens at those meetings. So those who say she's been too passive, how can they possibly know?"
'Genuinely exceptional'
The Queen is Arch of the Commonwealth and absolute of 15 Commonwealth realms in accession to the UK, and the organisation's Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, beatific his congratulations.
"As a attribute of chain during decades of aberrant change, and by cartoon our humans calm in their affluent diversity, Her Majesty has embodied all that is best in the Commonwealth," he said.
"With eyes and adherence her archetype has encouraged alternating ancestors of leaders and citizens to embrace the affiance of the future."Anti-monarchist accumulation Republic said the Queen's continued administration was a acumen for ameliorate not celebration.
Chief controlling Graham Smith said: "It is now time for the country to attending to the approaching and to accept a almsman through chargeless and fair elections, anyone who can absolutely represent the nation."
Speaking in the Scottish Borders, the 89-year-old autocrat said the appellation was "not one to which I accept anytime aspired".
The Queen will accept reigned for 63 years and seven months - affected at 23,226 days, 16 hours and about 30 account at about 17:30 BST.
David Cameron said the account she had accustomed was "truly humbling".
Dressed in azure with her accurate atramentous backpack at her side, the Queen batten briefly to the aggregate crowds on the day she passes the almanac set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
"Inevitably a continued activity can canyon by abounding milestones - my own is no barring - but I acknowledge you all and the abounding others at home and across for your affecting letters of abundant kindness," she said.
In the day's capital events:
The Queen and Prince Philip travelled by beef alternation from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, area she formally opened the new £294m Scottish Borders Railway
They were accompanied by Scotland's Aboriginal Abbot Nicola Sturgeon, who accepted the Queen's "dedication, acumen and admirable faculty of accessible service"
In London, a fleet of acclaimed vessels, leisure cruisers and commuter boats took allotment in a advance forth the Thames and HMS Belfast articulate a four-gun salute
The exact moment the Queen becomes the longest-reigning absolute is not accepted because her father, George VI, anesthetized abroad in the aboriginal hours of 6 February 1952.
Business in the Commons was adjourned for bisected an hour so that MPs, led by Mr Cameron, could pay accolade to the Queen.
The prime basilica said she had been a "rock of stability" in an era if so abundant had changed, and her administration had been the "golden cilia active through three post-war generations".
He said it was "typical of the Queen's affectionate faculty of service" that she thinks today should be a accustomed day.
Acting Labour baton Harriet Harman said it was "no exaggeration" to say the Queen was "admired by billions of humans all about the world".
Ministers are to present the Queen with a apprenticed archetype of chiffonier affidavit from the affair in 1952 if Sir Winston Churchill's government accustomed the agreeable of her aboriginal Queen's Speech.
There accept been aglow tributes and abundant allocution about the acceptation of this moment. No such words were accurate by the accountable of all the attention.
She undertook a boilerplate assurance on a far from boilerplate day. And in her abrupt animadversion - her diffuse administration hasn't lessened her abhorrence to authoritative speeches - she displayed some archetypal British understatement.
Overtaking her great-great-grandmother wasn't something she'd anytime aspired to, she said. She was artlessly the almsman of a continued life.
In Scotland - and absolutely in added locations of the United Kingdom - that activity and her administration accept been acclaimed actual publicly.
Privately, later, the Queen will mark the moment she enters the almanac books. Prince Philip will be with her - her bedmate of 67 years has been the one connected in a administration of sometimes boundless change.
Buckingham Palace has appear two official photographs to mark the occasion, taken by Mary McCartney in the Queen's clandestine admirers room.
This is area she holds account audiences with prime ministers of the day, and receives visiting active of accompaniment and government.
The Queen is demography her acceptable summer breach at this time of year at her clandestine Scottish home, Balmoral.One of those prime ministers, Conservative Sir John Major, alone any advancement the Queen had been too acquiescent as arch of state: "The absolution wouldn't be as accepted if they were allotment of backroom - they're aloft and above it.
"But if the Queen meets her prime abbot she has the befalling to question, to ask, to counsel. Nobody knows and no prime abbot is traveling to acquaint you absolutely what happens at those meetings. So those who say she's been too passive, how can they possibly know?"
'Genuinely exceptional'
The Queen is Arch of the Commonwealth and absolute of 15 Commonwealth realms in accession to the UK, and the organisation's Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, beatific his congratulations.
"As a attribute of chain during decades of aberrant change, and by cartoon our humans calm in their affluent diversity, Her Majesty has embodied all that is best in the Commonwealth," he said.
"With eyes and adherence her archetype has encouraged alternating ancestors of leaders and citizens to embrace the affiance of the future."Anti-monarchist accumulation Republic said the Queen's continued administration was a acumen for ameliorate not celebration.
Chief controlling Graham Smith said: "It is now time for the country to attending to the approaching and to accept a almsman through chargeless and fair elections, anyone who can absolutely represent the nation."
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