On Wednesday, Queen Elizabeth II became Britain’s longest reigning monarch.
With a whopping 63 years under her belt, the 89-year-old beat the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria who, Buckingham Palace has calculated, reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes.
Elizabeth's lengthy reign is memorable for a raft of political and social factors – and these lesser known facts…