<div><p>Queen Elizabeth II celebrated a landmark achievement today: she is the officially the longest reigning monarch in British history.</p><p>February 6 is the anniversary of the day she officially became Queen. Although she greeted well-wishers on a walk about after church, and was celebrated with royal gun salutes to mark the historic occasion, the Queen <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/06/queen-makes-history-reaches-sapphire-jubilee/">plans</a> to commemorate the landmark date privately at her Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. </p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-1.jpg" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>A 41-gun salute was fired by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Green Park, London.</p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-2.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-2_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-2_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-2_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-2_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-2_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-3.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-3_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-3_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-3_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-3_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-3_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p>The Band of The Royal Regiment of Scotland played before a 21-gun salute at Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh.</p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-4.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-4_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-4_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-4_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-4_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-4_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>A new coin was designed to celebrate the Queen's Sapphire Jubilee:</p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-5.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-5_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p>The Royal Mail marked the 65th anniversary with a Sapphire Blue £5 stamp:</p><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-6.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-6_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-6_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-6_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/02/2243283600-3-6_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p>Watch here as the Queen greets well-wishers after church:</p><div><amp-youtube height="9" width="16" layout="responsive" data-videoid="EfYjL_FwLgI"></amp-youtube></div><h3>Congratulations, ma'am! </h3></div>