Elizabeth II was not destined to reign.
However, she assumed the throne in 1952 and did so for more than 70 years to become the oldest in the more than 1,000 years of the British monarchy.
Camilo Egaña analyzes in his note for the day how, starting this Thursday, it will be difficult to imagine the United Kingdom without Elizabeth II.
It was a monarch who faced the most radical, most revolutionary and irreversible changes of modernity: from the end of the Second World War to the loss of the British colonies and Brexit, through the fall of the Berlin wall, the onslaught terrorist of recent years and the modernization of the 21st century that seems to be going at breakneck speed.