(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 18, 2016 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks on in the House of Lords ahead of the Queen's Speech at the State Opening of Parliament in London. Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on September 8, 2022. Her eldest son, Charles, 73, succeeds as king immediately, according to centuries of protocol, beginning a new, less certain chapter for the royal family after the queen's record-breaking 70-year reign. (Photo by Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP)
