“There is no longer rivalry between the Crown and the papacy ... we have moved on from the sixteenth century.” Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its overseas territories, and of 14 other sovereign nations, who has died aged 96, was the longest-serving and perhaps best-loved British monarch. Though she took her vow to uphold the Protestant religion seriously, she did more than anybody else to bridge the divide between Anglicans and Catholics in all her realms.