The longest-living queen in history died in the shortest prime minister’s term

After only 45 days of the start of her legislature, and with the death of Queen Elizabeth II in between, Liz Truss has resigned The monarch, who reigned for 70 years, saw no less than 15 prime ministers pass before her eyes chaos over the tax plan and controversy over the dismissal of some ministers have pushed Truss to resign. Elizabeth II’s reign lasted 70 years and 214 days. Liz Truss has barely spent 45 days at the head of the UK Government. The first she was the longest-lived monarch in the history of that country. Second, she has been Britain’s shortest prime minister. But the truth is that Elizabeth II died during Truss’s term. She even if she only went for two days. 48 hours later, on September 8, Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 in her summer residence. Witness and participant in the great historical events of recent decades, the monarch who reigned for 70 years saw the passing of no less than 15 prime ministers (from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss). Queen Elizabeth had had many mobility problems. Also, she had covid last February. In the last eight months he had missed some high-profile engagements, including the State Opening of Parliament, attended by Prince Charles for the first time, or the Concert in commemoration of his Platinum Jubilee. Winston Churchill was the head of the British Government when The queen took the throne in 1952, aged 25, after the untimely death of her father, King George VI. Later, 14 other leaders received the mandate to form a government from Elizabeth II: Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas, Harold Wilson (twice), Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. The political chaos that has drowned Tuss Six weeks after Liz Truss arrived at Downing Street and with the death of Queen Elizabeth II in between just two days after her appointment, the ‘premier’ has fallen victim to a political earthquake whose epicenter was a failed fiscal plan. This second change came hand in hand with the dismissal of Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng. His successor, Jeremy Hunt, practically finished dismantling the ‘mini budget’ this Monday, which led the opposition but also part of the ‘Tory’ deputies to question the current government’s management capacity and, in particular, its leader. “I am a fighter, not someone who gives up,” she proclaimed in the House of Commons, where she also admitted “mistakes” without hinting at a possible resignation. In fact, this week she had shown herself willing to lead the ‘Tories’ until the next elections, which in principle are not expected until January 2025. The exchange of reproaches, however, worsened on Wednesday, a day marked by the resignation of the Minister of the Interior and by a chaotic parliamentary vote on ‘fracking’ promoted by the Labor Party and which made it clear that unity within the Conservative Party was a utopia. Some 40 ‘Tories’ abstained or did not vote between doubts about the Government’s ‘road map’. The resignation requests followed one another, in public and without hot cloths, and finally Truss has appeared before Downing Street to assume that he does not have the capacity to fulfill the mandate given to him by his own peers. “It is the best decision to keep the United Kingdom in a stable economic condition,” she argued. Truss thus becomes the leader who has been in Downing Street for the least time. The current record was held by George Canning, who ruled for 118 days in 1827, although in his case because he died of health problems.