The death of Queen Elizabeth II puts her eldest son, now King Charles III, on the throne. He became king because he was first in the royal line of succession, a snaking lineage that weaves through the ...

Queen Elizabeth II is the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, having started her reign in 1952. Currently, she has more than 20 successors, all of whom have been born at different times during ...

Elizabeth was the first-born child of her father, King George VI, who was the second-born son of King George V. As the second-born son, it was not expected that her father, known in his early life as ...