More past training : put the verbs in the past
Elizabeth II has been the queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland since February 6, 1952.
...
Elizabeth
(not be)expected to become queen.
It
(be) only when King Edward
VIII, ...... ...... (abdicate) the throne to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson that
Elizabeth's father........... (become) King George VI and Elizabeth........
(become) the heir presumptive.
After George VI's death in 1952, Elizabeth was declared queen. Her official coronation
(take) place June 2, 1953, after a period of mourning for her father ...
(have)
passed.
In some ways, Queen Elizabeth II
.... (try) to modernize the British monarchy:
she ................ (allow) the royal family's life to be televised, condoned the divorce of her
younger sister, Margaret, and she ...... (prefer) court life to be kept as simple as
possible.
On September 9, 2015, Elizabeth II .............. (become) the longest-reigning monarch
in British history, surpassing Queen Victoria's record of 63 years and 216 days.