This Is Exactly Will Happen When Queen Elizabeth II Dies Nothing in life is as certain as death and taxes, so we must accept that Queen Elizabeth II will die at some point. However, as the world’s longest-reigning monarch, she has raised an entire generation who have never gone through life without her. So what will happen after she dies? When a reigning monarch dies, what protocol is followed? Queen Elizabeth II has been alive for the majority of people’s entire lives. Upon the death of her father, the young Elizabeth Alexandra May Windsor became Queen Elizabeth II. She is the longest-reigning British monarch at 94 years old, having ascended to the throne at the age of 25 in 1952. So it’s understandable that it’s difficult to imagine what will happen when she’s no longer with us. Her father died at the young age of 56, but her mother lived to the ripe old age of 101, proving that longevity runs in her family. But death is unafraid, and — as is customary in England — there are meticulo...