Elizabeth II
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Queen Elizabeth II riding with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, courtesy Ronald Reagan Library
Queen Elizabeth II (1926- ) is the current monarch of United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, and the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. She ascended to the throne in 1952, and her predecessor was George VI, her father. She married Philip Mountbatten, now Duke of Edinburgh, in 1947. They have four children. Her son Charles is her future successor.