Elizabeth II succeeded her father, this man who died unexpectedly at age 56
... Elizabeth Bowles Lyons (1923), or the late Queen Mother as we 
know her,... [DOC] [TLE] Timeline of the Kings & Queens of England - Historic UK [PAR] A year before he died aged almost 70, he defeated a combined force of Danes 
and Cornish .... Canute became king of all England following the death of 
Edmund II.