1/35AS Queen Elizabeth 11 reaches a new milestone and becomes the longest serving monarch, we take a look at her life in pictures. A young Princess Elizabeth . Pic Studio Lisa/ Getty
The Queen’s life in pictures
AS Queen Elizabeth II reaches a new milestone and becomes the longest serving monarch, we take a look at her life in pictures.
2/35Queen Elizabeth II sits in the Regency Room at Buckingham Palace in London as she looks at some of the cards which have been sent to her for her 80th birthday. 19/04/2006. Picture: AFP
3/35Princess Elizabeth riding her pony in Winsor Great Park, 1930s. The future Queen Elizabeth II (b1926) of Great Britain as a child. Picture: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images
4/35Kate, Duchess of Cambridge,laughs as Queen Elizabeth II gestures while they watch part of a children’s sports event during a visit to Vernon Park in Nottingham, June 13, 2012. Picture: AP
5/35Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, conversing with her father King George VI (1895 - 1952) in a garden, 08 Jul 1946. Picture:Lisa Sheridan/Studio Lisa/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
6/35Queen Elizabeth II standing next to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex smiles from the royal balcony as she looks down on the winning horse in the Derby race on Derby Day, at Epsom in Surrey 02/06/2012 the first official day of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Picture: AFP
7/35The Queen shares a joke with Prince harry at the wedding of Prince Charles with Camilla Parker Bowles at Windsor Castle in England 09 Apr 2005. Picture: Getty
8/35Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip sit at Balmoral with their children Princess Anne (L), Prince Charles (R) and the new-born Prince Andrew (C) playing with a corgi on September 8, 1960 . Picture: AFP
9/3524/05/2005. Queen Elizabeth II leans down to pet a group of corgi dogs as she leaves the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. The Queen is in Alberta, Canada, to celebrate the province’s centennial. Picture: Getty
10/35Princess Elizabeth as a toddler, taken at her London home by Marcus Adams, July 1928. Picture: Hulton-Deutsch Collection
11/35Prince George of Cambridge with his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince George’s nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo leave the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham Estate for the Christening of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge on July 5, 2015 in King’s Lynn, England. Picture: Getty Images
12/35Duchess of York (later Elizabeth the Queen Mother) with her daughters Princess Elizabeth (l) and Princess Margaret in garden of the Royal Lodge at Windsor June 1936. Picture: Hulton Archive
13/35Huge crowds cheering with Britain’s Union flags crowd the Mall towards Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in London on June 5, 2012. Picture:AFP
14/35Queen Elizabeth II with her grandmother Queen Mary. Picture: Supplied
15/35Queen Elizabeth II arrives at St Georges Chapel, Windsor, 13 June 2005 before the Service for The Order of the Garter. Picture: AFP
16/35Queen Elizabeth ll receives flowers from waiting schoolchildren waving Australian flags after the Commonwealth Day Service in Sydney, Australia, 13/03/06. Picture: Supplied
17/35Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) after her Coronation with daughter Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), with the Koh-i-Noor diamond in centre of her State Crown. May 1937 Picture: Supplied
18/35Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee portrait. The Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other Commonwealth realms. 21/4/1977 Picture: Supplied
19/35A young Princess Elizabeth. Picture: Supplied
20/35Elizabeth II of England in February 1952. This is an official picture from the time when she acceded to the throne. Picture:Getty Images
21/35Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip on the royal train at Central Railway Station, Sydney 09/02/1954 Picture: NSW STATE RECORDS
22/35Queen Elizabeth II arriving for opening of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, during five-day royal visit to Australia 13 March 2006. Picture: Supplied
23/35Queen Elizabeth II in photograph by photographer Dorothy Wilding, 1952 and hand-tinted by Beatrice Johnson, at National Portrait Gallery in London. Picture: Supplied
24/35HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh on the Estate at Balmoral Castle, Scotland during the Royal Family’s annual summer holiday 22nd August 1972. Part of a series of photographs taken for use during the Silver Wedding Celebrations in 1972. This image was also used on an Australian post office stamp to commemorate the Silver Jubilee in 1977. Picture: Lichfield/Getty Images.
25/35June 1953. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Philip at her coronation. Picture: Supplied
26/35The first color photograph of Princess ANNE, taken in 1951, in the arms of her mother Queen ELIZABETH II while her father, Philip MOUNTBATTEN, holds her brother Prince CHARLES. Picture: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
27/35Prince Charles and his bride Diana, Princess of Wales, and his parents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London after their marriage at St. Paul’s Catheral. July 29, 1981 Picture: AP
28/352nd June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London. Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
29/35Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) holding baby daughter Anne with her mother Queen Elizabeth (r) and her grandmother Queen Mary Picture: Getty Images
30/35Queen Elizabeth II sheds a tear during the Field of Remembrance Service at Westminster Abbey, London. The Queen opened the ceremony the annual open air service in St Margaret’s churchyard, held in memory of Britain’s war heroes by laying down a small wooden cross bearing a scarlet poppy in the field. 07/11/2002 Picture: Supplied
31/35June 2, 1953 shows Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II posing with ther husband Prince Philip on the Queen’s Coronation day at Buckingham Palace, in London. Picture: AFP
32/35Undated photo of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II (Second,Two)). Pic copyright Studio Lisa Royals P/
33/35Undated photo of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II (Second,Two)). Pic copyright Studio Lisa Royals P/
34/35Undated photo of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II (Second,Two)). Pic copyright Studio Lisa Royals P/
35/35Undated photo of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II (Second,Two)). Pic copyright Studio Lisa Royals P/
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