Flashback to July 1936, when Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, then the Duchess of York, and accompanied by her husband, the Duke of York, later King George VI, opened the coal shipping terminal, Jarrow Staith, on the Tyne. When she opens the new Tyne terminal on Thursday 7 November she will operate the same switch as used at the previous ceremony 49 years ago. Obit

Broadcast Date: 7 November 1985

Agency: Press Association

Agency: Press Association

Agency: Press Association

The Duchess of York (the Queen Mother) is amused when a little boy hands her his purse then shyly runs away during her visit to the House of Wonder and Utility

Broadcast Date: 28 November 1986

Agency: Press Association

Agency: Press Association

Broadcast Date: 30 March 2002

Agency: Press Association

This new portrait of His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was taken in the White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, by Canadian photographer Donald McKague. The Duke is wearing the uniform of the Royal Canadian Regiment, with the rank of Honorary Colonel-in-Chief. On the Garter Sash, with Star, is the badge of the Grand Master of the Order of the British Empire

Broadcast Date: 28 April 1959

ITN Reference: 16/EDI/10

Agency: Camera Press

Photographer: Donald McKague of Toronto

Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth presents to Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh with the rosette for attaining 4th place in the International Driving Grand Prix at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. The Duke was handling a team of Bays in class three horse teams

Agency: UPI

Photographer: R Letkey

Even though hot sun prevailed at Windsor today, the Duke of Edinburgh was well wrapped up for the Knigh, Frank & Rutley International Grand Prix, in which he was placed second at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. The Duke drove a team of Bays, exhibited by the Queen

Agency: Press Association

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, watches the 2nd Battalion march at ceremony in Gagetown, Monday. The Prince is in Canada to present new colours to the 2nd Battalion

Agency: Unknown

Britain's Duke of Edinburgh closes his hands in a traditional Nepalese greeting during a meeting wit the members of the 7th Gurkha Rifles Regiment and their families today at Lyemun Barracks in Hong Kong

Agency: Reuter

Photographer: Andrew Wong

These photographs were taken during the Mediterranean Fleet's summer cruise, Prince Philip's last cruise in HMS Magpie before he returned to the United Kingdom in August. The Duke of Edinburgh awaits the next raid during air defence exercises. By a private photographer by permission of the Duke of Edinburgh. Obit

Broadcast Date: 6 August 1951

Agency: Camera Press

A previously unissued picture of the Duke of Gloucester. It was revealed to-day that he had a partial loss of speech since suffering a slight stroke at his home about a year ago

Broadcast Date: 16 April 1971

ITN Reference: ROYAL/GLOU/8

Agency: Press Association

Died 10 June 1974

Broadcast Date: 7 June 1974

ITN Reference: ROYAL/GLOU/5

Agency: Central Press Photos

A special serviceman pictured with the controversial German-made Heckler & Kosh MP5K during a visit by the Duke of Gloucester to Northern Ireland recently. The Home Secretary Leon Brittan is under pressure regarding the issue of the sub-machine gun to British policemen

Broadcast Date: 3 April 1984

Agency: Unknown

Broadcast Date: 4 May 1969

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/56

Agency: Universal Pictoral Press

The Kents at Home. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent are to attend a British trade drive in Copenhagen 1 - 4 May 1972

Broadcast Date: 26 April 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/65

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Barry Lategan

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/1

Agency: Press Association/ Reuter

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/12

Agency: Camera Press London

Obit

Agency: Camera Press London

This new study by Cecil Beaton shows the Duke of Kent with his fiancée, Miss Katharine Worsley. They are to be married in York Minster on 8 June 1961. Miss Worsley is wearing a bright pink check soft wool dress and double row of pearls

Broadcast Date: 5 June 1961

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/23

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Cecil Beaton

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT

Agency: Associated Newspapers

Royal Aviator. Air enthusiast the Duke of Kent prepares for the trip of a lifetime in the rear seat of one of the Red Arrows aerobatic team's Hawk advanced aircraft, at Royal Air Force [RAF] Scampton, Lincolnshire, today. The Duke, who was on a one day private visit to the Royal Air Force's Central Flying School, spent some 50 minutes airborne on a familiarisation sortie in the Hawk, piloted by Wing Commander Gavin Mackay

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Kent leaving the Kind Edward VII hospital for Officers in London last night after visiting his wife who had been suffering complications in her four-month pregnancy. He was asked by waiting reporters how the Duchess was and replied quietly: "She's lost the baby"

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Kent on his visit to the army base in Bessbrook, County Armagh, talks to some of the soldiers who were involved in a shoot-out with IRA gunmen after an ambush last night

Agency: Pacemaker Limited

The Duke of Kent lays a wreath at Singapore's Kranji War Memorial, in a ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

Agency: Reuter

Photographer: Dominic Wong

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/2

Agency: Associated Newspapers

Uniformed. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, 35 year old cousin of the Queen, on duty in Belfast. The Duke, a Major in the Scots Greys, was among 600 troops rushed to Northern Island on 4 February after the latest outbreaks of violence in Belfast

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/63

Agency: United Press International

Chief Constable Sir John Hermon accompanies the Duke of Kent on his tour of inspection at Garnerville RUC [Royal Ulster Constabulary] training college today

Agency: Pacemaker Limited

Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng meeting in Beijing on 7 June with his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent of Britain

Agency: Xinhua Radiophoto

Duke of Kent to Wed. For three months past the 25 year old Duke of Kent, cousin of the Queen and eighth in succession to the throne, has been engaged to 28 year old Katharine Worsley, daughter of Sir William Worsley, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire. The announcement was put off until last night owing to the Queen's absence on her tour of India and Pakistan. The couple first met four years ago when the Duke was with the Royal Scots Greys at Catterick, and the wedding is expected to take place at York Minster in June. Photograph shows: In the gardens of the Duchess of Kent's London home at Kensington Palace, are seen: Left to right: The Duchess of Kent; the father and mother of Katharine, Sir William and Lady William Worsley; the Duke of Kent and his fiancée, Katharine Worsley

ITN Reference: ROYAL/KENT/7

Agency: Fox Photos

Duke of Kent (Right), who is one of the "new boys" at Eton, seen with his friend the young Marquis Of Waterford on the playing fields of the famous school. Obit

Agency: Keystone

ITN Reference: ROYAL/WIND/5

Agency: Universal

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographs, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. Above: A picture, taken at Balmoral in 1910, of the Duke (then Prince of Wales) with his brothers and sister. From left, Prince George, later Duke of Kent; Prince Albert, who was to become Duke of York and King George VI; Princess Mary, later Princess Royal; and Prince Henry, now Duke of Gloucester. Below: A man is seized by police after a revolver had been thrown near the Duke when, as King Edward VIII, he rode on Constitution Hill at the head of the Guards in July 1936

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographers, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. The man of parts. In 1922, as Prince of Wales, the Duke made an Eastern tour including Japan. At Delhi (left) he wears the uniform of the 35th and 36th Jacobs Horse, of which he was Colonel in Chief, and aboard HMS Renown (centre) he dons a Japanese coolie costume. On right, the golfing Prince in plus fours, at Muirfield in 1927

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographers, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. The Prince of Wales, a fearless horseman, is seen in the hunting field in April 1923; 24 years later, and now the Duke of Windsor, he is pictured with the Duchess on board the liner Queen Elizabeth. They were crossing from New York to Southampton in May 1947 [half image missing]

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographers, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. The Prince of Wales who found the way to the nation's heart. Left: Trudging through the snow behind a woman and her baby during a tour of the Northumberland and Durham coalfields in January 1929. Right: Sharing in a town's big day at Weymouth to open the harbour and pier in July 1933

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographs, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. As King Edward VIII, he is seen (centre) at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day 1936. As Duke of Windsor, he is pictured (left) in Paris at the time of his 63rd birthday in 1957 and (right) leaving the London Clinic in March 1965 after undergoing and eye operation

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographs, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. The Prince of Wales, a fearless horseman, is seen in the hunting field in April 1923; 24 years later, and now the Duke of Windsor, is pictured with the Duchess on board the liner Queen Elizabeth. They were crossing from New York to Southampton in May 1947

Broadcast Date: 22 March 1979

ITN Reference: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographers, many of them historic, illustrate a Royal life and career crowded with incident. Left: As the young Prince of Wales, he is presented to his people by his parents, King George V and Queen Mary, at Caernarvon Castle 1911. Right: As King Edward VIII, he shows concern for his people. Grace-faced he is seen at the Pontypool housing estate during a visit to the South Wales distressed areas in 1936

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor celebrates his 78th birthday on 23 June. These photographs, many of them historic, illustrates a Royal life and career crowded with incident. He is seen here as Prince of Wales, and everyone's idea of a dashing young Prince. Left: Setting off for a colonial tour in March 1920, he is shown with his brother Prince Albert (later Duke of York) who, after the abdication, was to succeed him as King George VI. Centre: With his parents, King George V and Queen Mary, at Aldershot in June 1924. Right: In Welsh Guard's Colonel's uniform in June 1921, handsome, smiling, the nation's idol

Agency: Press Association

The Duke of Windsor kisses Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother after the unveiling by Queen Elizabeth II of a memorial Plaque to Queen Mary at Marlborough House, London

Agency: Bippa Photos

Seen with Dr Robert Ley and other Nazis

Agency: Keystone Press Agency Limited

Agency: Popperfoto

ITN Reference: ROYAL/WIND/26

Agency: Reuters

ITN Reference: ROYAL/WIND/4

Agency: Reuters

Death 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/WIND/19

Agency: United Press International

A general view of the scene in St George's Chapel at Windsor today 2 June as the body of the Duke of Windsor lies in state, guarded by members of the Brigade of Guards. The public lying of state in the historic chapel will continue today and tomorrow. The Duke's funeral will take place in private at Windsor on Monday 5 June

Agency: Bippa Photos

There were queues outside Windsor Castle today for the lying in state of the Duke of Windsor in St George's Chapel. The Duke's coffin wrapped in his personal standard, is guarded by four officers of the Household Cavalry and Grenadier Guards in alternating Vigils of 20 minutes. Photo shows: Members of the public file into Windsor Castle, on their way to St George's Chapel, to pay their last respects to the Duke

Agency: Central Press Photos

ITN Reference: WIND/18

Agency: Associated Press