Queen Elizabeth II: A life in pictures
Key photographs from her birth through the coronation to becoming Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. …
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In August 1979, Prince Philip’s uncle and a cousin of the Queen, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was killed by an IRA bomb while on his boat in Ireland. As well as being a close family member, Lord Mountbatten had held many senior military positions, and his funeral was held in Westminster Abbey
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