If you live (or reign) long enough, you get to set many records.
Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926 and became monarch in 1952. She died in 2022.
Her reign has seen many US Presidents:
Truman (-1953)
Eisenhower (1953-61)
Kennedy (1961-63).
LB Johnson (1963-69)
Nixon (1969-74)
Ford (1974-77)
Carter (1977-81)
Reagan (1981-89)_
Bush Sr (1989-93)
Clinton (1993-2001)
Bush Jr (2001-09)
Obama (2009-17)
Trump (2017-2021)
Biden (2021- )
Or, every Indian PM from Nehru onward. And every Indian president since Prasad.
She also outlived Emperor Hirohito who ruled since 1926 (when she was born!) up to 1989. Fidel Castro and Robert Mugabe made determined efforts to outlast her, but did not succeed.
And a long list of 16 UK Prime Ministers (including Harold Wilson in two stretches):
Churchill (-1955)
Eden (1955-57)
Macmillan (1957-63)
Douglas-Home (1963-64); (arguably the most obscure of these PMs, but often figures in trivia quizzes as he is the only British PM to play first-class cricket. A puny record compared to that of Imran Khan, but he achieved more than Nawaz Sharif in his 1-match career).
Wilson (1964-70)
Heath (1970-74)
Wilson (1974-76)
Callaghan (1976-79)
Thatcher (1979-90)
Major (1990-97)
Blair (1997-2007)
Brown (2007-10)
Cameron (2010-16)
May (2016-19)
Johnson (2019-22)
Truss (2022- )
Did you want to bet that the Queen would still be around after Trump and Johnson depart? Yes, though she lived just long enough to hear of Johnson’s successor.
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