Queen Elizabeth live updates: Queen's coffin greeted by massive crowds in Edinburgh

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II "died peacefully" on Thursday, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. She was 96.

The news of her death came just hours after the palace announced that the queen's doctors were "concerned" about her health and were keeping her under "medical supervision" at Balmoral Castle, the British royal family's estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where she has been vacationing this summer.