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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet Charles Roxburgh, permanent secretary of HM Treasury of United Kingdom, right, and British ambassador Karen Pierce, obscured, before signing a condolence book at the British Embassy in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 8, for Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, who died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.