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Nearing Milestone, Queen Elizabeth Shows no Sign of Stepping Aside


After 63 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth next month becomes Britain’s longest-ruling monarch but there is little prospect of her stepping aside, as other aging European crowned heads have done, in favor of her son, Charles.

Those close to Elizabeth — who on Sept. 9 takes the long-service record from her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria — say the 89-year-old has no intention of succumbing to the European fashion for abdication.

That means Prince Charles, 66, already a record-holder himself as Britain’s longest-serving heir apparent, will have to wait longer still until he becomes king.

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Source: Voice of America

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