(Financial Times) -- Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch, has died, leaving her people in mourning but reflecting on a life of duty in which she bound the country together through 70 years of momentous change.
Her death, at the age of 96, was announced by Buckingham Palace at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. It marked a watershed moment in the life of the nation, leaving it without its "matriarch."
