Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has passed away at 96, it was announced within the past half hour.
According to ABC News:
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II "died peacefully" on Thursday, according to the royal family. She was 96.
The news of her death came just hours after Buckingham Palace announced that the queen's doctors were "concerned" about her health and were keeping her under "medical supervision" at Balmoral Castle, the British royal family's estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where she has been vacationing this summer.
She was the longest reigning monarch in British history. She had reigned so long that her image appeared on a magazine cover in a 1953 episode of the Adventures of Superman, "A Ghost For Scotland Yard".
Prince Charles automatically became King upon his mother's death. The date of his coronation is yet to be determined.
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