A collection of photography from the life and reign of Britain’s longest serving monarch
There are few in Britain today who can remember a time before Queen Elizabeth II. Many of the events and people who are also in these photographs now seem as if they are from another, long-forgotten era: one image depicts Princess Elizabeth changing a car wheel while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the Second World War. In another she meets Marylin Monroe, a figure we now think of as belonging firmly in history but who was in fact the same age as the Queen, both born in 1926. She is captured here as a child with her grandfather King George V and father, George VI, who led Britain through the First and Second World Wars.
This collection of photographs shows her throughout her 96 years – an ever-present on the global stage for almost a century.
Photographs by Fox Photos, Topical Press, London Express, Lisa Sheridan, Hulton Archive, Keystone, UPI, Popperfoto, Hulton-Deutsch, Magnum, Central Press, Bettmann, Lichfield, Tim Graham, Fiona Hanson, Getty Images
