Elizabeth II (T&F)

Elizabeth II (born as Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor) was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022.

Thomas & Friends
Elizabeth II first came to meet the residents of Sodor. Gordon was honoured by pulling her train and Thomas sorted the coaches for it, while Edward cleared the line ahead. She was greeted and honoured by Sir Topham Hatt at Knapford, and told the controller that she had a splendid run and wanted to meet the engines. She returned to the Mainland the next day, after speaking specially to the engines that had prepared the Royal Train.

When Emily asked Gordon what kind of specials he took, he mentioned the time he pulled Elizabeth II's Royal Train.

Once, while finishing off a world tour, Thomas had to collect Elizabeth II in London; but he did not realise this when she boarded the train, as he was so bowled over by all his other important-looking passengers.

In 2016, the Queen invited Sir Topham and Lady Hatt to her ninteeith birthday celebrations in London. Sir Topham chose Thomas and Annie to take them there, and Thomas was very excited to meet the Queen again. When the Sodor party arrived at the celebrations in Westminster, the Queen thanked Sir Topham for running a fine railway.

The Queen invited the Fat Controller, accompanied by Thomas, to London to give him an award.

Queen Elizabeth passed away on the 8th of September 2022 at the age of 96. Her son, Prince Charles, succeeded her as the next monarch and became King Charles III. After lying in state for several days at the Palace of Westminster being watched over by her family and the Royal Guard, the Queen was given a full state funeral at Westminster Abbey before being taken to Windsor Castle for another service where she was lowered into the Royal Vault at St. George's Chapel for later internment alongside her husband, Prince Philip, to join her sister, Princess Margaret, and her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Appearances
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Thomas & Friends

 * Series 4 - Thomas and the Special Letter and Paint Pots and Queens
 * Series 18 - Emily Saves the World
 * Series 24 - Thomas and the Royal Engine

Music Videos

 * Series 5 - Donald's Duck and Sir Topham Hatt

Videos
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 * Really Useful Around the World - Thomas Picks Up a Special Passenger in London
 * 2019 - Meet Gordon
 * 2020 - Meet Duchess of England!

Annual Stories

 * 1992 - Thomas and the Swans

Books

 * 2016 - A Visit to London for Thomas the Tank Engine
 * 2020 - The Royal Engine and Marvelous Machinery/The Royal Engine

Voice Actors

 * Sharon Miller
 * Rocío Garcel
 * Olga Kuznetsova
 * Keiko Nemoto

Trivia

 * Rev. W. Awdry sent The Railway Series to the royal family in 1950, to read to the young Prince Charles and Princess Anne. This was acknowledged in The Railway Series book, Thomas and his Friends and the twenty-fourth series episode, Thomas and the Royal Engine.
 * The Queen is one of the few human characters in the television series to physically age, the others being Little Thomas and Jem Cole.
 * The fifth series episode, Gordon and the Gremlin was based on an incident that happened to the Queen when David Maidment was Chief Operating Manager of the London Midland Region: Once when he was responsible for the Royal Train, an incident caused the Queen's bathwater to spill onto the ceiling of a coach.
 * Thomas' live tour model was used for the Queen's Party at Buckingham Palace in 2006 with Jonathan Ross playing the Fat Controller.
 * The head and body of Elizabeth II's Gauge 1 figure were used many times in later series:
 * In the fifth series, her body became The Storyteller's.
 * In Bye George! her head was used on Mrs. Kyndley's body.
 * In Baa! her head was used on Lady Hatt's third series body.
 * From the seventh series to the twelfth her head was used for the Refreshment Lady.
 * Elizabeth II is Sharon Miller's only voice role in the series.
 * Lucy Montgomery originally voiced her, however Ian McCue didn't like her performance and asked Sharon Miller to re-record the Queen's lines.
 * Elizabeth II is the last human character to be re-introduced in the CGI series after a period of absense.