DTN News - ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: 60th Anniversary of Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 2, 2013: Undated official portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II, taken in an unknown location.
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth realms, and their territories and dependencies, and head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations.
A year after her 60th diamond jubilee, the 87-year-old queen is showing signs of slowing down. HRH was hospitalized briefly for a stomach ailment in March, and this November she will skip the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka for the first time since 1973. Elizabeth will send son and heir Prince Charles in her stead and expects to spend her first months as a great-grandmother (grandson Prince William and wife Kate will give birth to the next royal heir in July) at home. FORBES estimates her personal net worth around $500 million but as a royal she's able to live well beyond her means -- her main residence is valued at roughly $5 billion. 2013 SPOTLIGHT: Still on-track to becoming the longest reigning monarch in over 1,200 years of British history (her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years and 216 days) in September, 2015.
