If Her Maj lives another ten days, she will have been on the throne for sixty years, which will make her the second British monarch to reach the Diamond jubilee. The only other was Queen Victoria. (George III fell short of his own Diamond Jubilee by about half a year but by then the dear old chap was blind and deaf and liked looking through a telescope from his home in Kew to see how things were going on in Hanover and holding days of mourning for his own death so it would have been wrong to have made him partake if he’d managed it.)
If Her Maj lives until 10th of September 2015, she will surpass Queen Victoria as the longest reigning British Monarch ever.
She is already the oldest reigning British Monarch and has been since surpassing Victoria on 21st December 2007 and George III five days before that.

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