Elizabeth II thanks wellwishers for ‘touching messages of remarkable kindness on day she becomes longest reigning British monarchOn the day she out-reigned Queen Victoria,with a race longer even than The Mousetrap, the Queen was not in the House of Commons listening to the tributes to her staying power. The message was “business as usual”, or but for the crowds who turned out to see her officially open the original £294m Scottish Borders Railway,this was a chance to see the longest reigning monarch in 1000 years of British history.
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Source: theguardian.com