In the title of the most long-ruling monarch 90-year-old governess replaced the king of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej, 89, who died on the 13-th of October. He came to the throne in 1946. The reason of death has not been implicated yet.
In September, 2015 it was reported that Elizabeth II officially became the most long-ruling monarch in the history of the Great Britain. She exceeded the record of her grand-grand-mother queen Victoria on the length of staying on the throne that made 23 thousand 226 days 16 hours and 23 minutes.
Elizabeth Alexandra Maria was born on the 21-st of April 1926 in London in the family of duke and duchess of York. She was pronounced as the queen of Great Britain on the 6-th of February 1952. This day her father, King George VI died. The official ceremony of crowning happened on the 2-nd of June 1953 in Westminster abbey in London.
According to the information provided by Guardian on the 6-th of December, the famous singer Lady Gaga visited the centre in New York where LGBT-youth reside who do not have a permanent accommodation.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
On the 7-th of December in international mass media the information appeared claiming that Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez sent the manuscripts of his own books to the approval of Fidel Castro.
The Patriarch of Rome arranged a meeting with the scientist Stephen Hawking in Papal Academy of science located in Vatican. It is reported by Radio Vaticana.
The lord Ivar Mountbatten, the cousin of queen of the Great Britain Elizabeth II has confessed that he is bisexual. It is the first case when a member of British royal family speaks about his untraditional sexual orientation in public, as it is reported on Sunday, on the 18-tyh of September, by Daily Mail.
Mark David Chapman who was 35 years ago convicted because of the murder of the leader of ‘The Beatles’ band John Lennon was not able to convince the profile commission in his deserving the early parole.
on the 21-st of August, the creator of the famous American band Backstreet Boys died. For now the reason of his death has not been defined yet. The edition Los Angeles Times reports about that.
The remains of Columbian laureate of Nobel Prize for literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez were buried in the repository of University of Cartagena. They had been moved from Mexico where the writer died two years ago at the age of 87.
Former Buddhist monk from British county Nottinghamshire has spent 35 years for creation of traditional Japanese garden at the place of wasteland. The man refined two acres of land.
In London district Shoreditch the temporary bar made from chocolate has been opened. As The Mirror reports, it received the name ‘If Carlsberg Did Chocolate Bars’. There beer is poured in the edible glasses made from milk chocolate.
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London identified the personality of street artist who hides under the nickname Banksy, as The Independent writes.
The founders reported that, gradually, after fifteen years of planning, this spring the museum of Charlie Chaplin is to be opened. The opening date is the 17-th of April.
The monk of the temple Southern Shaolin Shi Liliang has run nearly 125 meters on water. As the equipment he used 200 floating plywood planks on the surface of reservoir, as it is written on Wednesday.
Several celebrities may boast of their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Spanish people conjured the project considered as more majestic for their literal star.
