(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 14, 2019 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (R) leaves with Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (L) after delivering the Queen's Speech at the State Opening of Parliament in the Houses 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 Victoria Jones / POOL / AFP)