Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with England defender George Cohen as she was introduced the England team before the start of the Football World Cup match between England and Uruguay at Wembley Stadium, London, on July 11, 1966. George Cohen, the right-back for England World Cup-winning team of 1966, has died aged 83, his former club Fulham have announced on Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. - AP

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was the only monarch they had ever known.