Queen Becomes Britain's Longest-Serving Monarch

Her Majesty made a short speech acknowledging the milestone as she opened a new railway in Scotland, on what the Royal Family describe as a day like any other. The Queen broke the record previously held by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria whose reign, according to Buckingham Palace, lasted for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes - or around 63 years and 216 days. Earlier in the day, she arrived in Tweedbank station after spending the last few hours travelling on a steam train on the n