Agency: Hulton Picture Library

Queen Elizabeth II, Duke of Edinburgh with Prince Charles and Princess Anne at Balmoral Castle. Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle, July 1969. Series of pictures from stock

Agency: Central Press Photos

Royal Family at Eastbourne. His Majesty King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (taken when Duke and Duchess of York) with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret entering the Parish Church, Eastbourne to attend morning service

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Central Press Photos

London. Prince Charles arm in arm with his bride to be Lady Diana Spencer with the Queen at Buckingham Palace today after a meeting of the Privy Council

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/145

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [Press Association Court Photographer]

London. The Queen with Prince Charles and his bride to be, Lady Diana Spencer, at Buckingham Palace today after a Privy Council meeting

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/144

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [Press Association Court Photographer]

Carnarvon, Wales. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Prince Philip sit on dais during solemn Investiture ceremonies in Caernarvon Castle

Agency: BIPPA

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/185

Agency: Associated Press

London. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and their children Prince Edward (left) and Prince Andrew drive away from Kings Cross railway station after returning from weekend at Balmoral. Travelling with them were Princess Anne and Lieutenant Mark Phillips who announced their engagement on 29 May

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: UPI

The Queen and her family at Windsor Castle. Picture shows the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh walking near the George IV Gateway, with Sugar, the Queen's corgi

Broadcast Date: 5 June 1959

ITN Reference: 16/ELI/25

Agency: The Times

The Pope receives the Queen. Prince Philip listens as Pope John XXIII talks with Queen Elizabeth II during the private audience with the supreme pontif of the Roman Catholic Church in the Throne Hall of the Vatican Palace today. The Pontiff sat on his throne and the Queen and the Duke sat on two armchairs drawn close to the throne during the audience. The Queen wore a full length black gown and a hip length veil and Prince Philip wore the full dress uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet

Broadcast Date: 28 May 1982

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/44

Agency: Associated Press

The Queen's 50th Birthday. Windsor, Berkshire. A special 50th birthday photograph of the Queen with Prince Philip and their youngest son, Prince Edward, 12, in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The Queen, who will next year have been on the Throne for 25 years, celebrates her 50th birthday today

Agency: Press Association

Royal Birthday Group. A special 50th birthday photograph of the Queen with Prince Philip and their youngest son, Prince Edward, 12, in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The Queen, who will next year have been on the Throne for 25 years, celebrates her 50th birthday today

Agency: Press Association

London. His Royal Highness Prince Edward, 6 (left) watches as his parents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip wave to the crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony marking the Queen's Official Birthday today

Broadcast Date: 9 June 1977

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/114

Agency: Associated Press

Royal Half Century. A special 50th birthday photograph of the Queen with Prince Philip and their youngest son, Prince Edward, 12, in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The Queen, who will next year have been on the Throne for 25 years, celebrates her 50th birthday today

Agency: Press Association

Birthday "Walkabout". Windsor, Berkshire. A special 50th birthday photograph of the Queen with Prince Philip and their youngest son, Prince Edward, 12, in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The Queen, who will next year have been on the Throne for 25 years, celebrates her 50th birthday today

Agency: Press Association

Royal Half Century. A special 50th birthday photograph of the Queen with Prince Philip and their youngest son, Prince Edward, 12, in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The Queen, who will next year have been on the Throne for 25 years, celebrates her 50th birthday today

Agency: Press Association

Windsor. Queen Elizabeth who celebrates her 50th birthday, pictured at Windsor Castle with Prince Philip, 54, and their son Prince Edward, 12

Agency: UPI

The Queen accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Edward, photographed in the gardens of Windsor Castle to mark her Majesty's 50th birthday on 21 April

Agency: The Times

Family Moment. The ceremonial temporarily forgotten for a very human little gesture, the Duke of Edinburgh takes the tiny hand of his son, Prince Edward, who made a surprise appearance in the arms of the Queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palace today (Saturday). The Queen brought out the baby, to the cheers of the crowd, when she came on to the balcony with other members of the Royal family to watch the RAF fly past in honour of her official birthday. Earlier, she had taken the salute at the Trooping the Colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/98

Agency: BIPPA

Broadcast Date: 16 September 1963

Agency: Archie Parker

The Royal family at Windsor. Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip are seen with their two younger sons His Royal Highness Prince Andrew (born 1960) and Prince Edward (born 1964) in this family portrait taken at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty the Queen wears a heather tweed dress with pearl necklace and earrings and a diamond gold brooch

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/130

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Peter Grugeon

Smiles at Buckingham Palace. Photographed in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Queen and Prince Philip with their two younger sons, Prince Edward (born 10 March 1964) and Prince Andrew (born 19 February 1960)

Broadcast Date: 24 December 1974

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/126

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Godfrey Argent

London. Royal Birthday Surprise. The balcony of Buckingham Palace, with the Queen, who celebrated her 60th birthday today, waving to thousands of children who sang to her. Her birthday surprise to the Nation, was bringing future daughter in law Sarah Ferguson onto the balcony. With them, Sarah's fiancé, Prince Andrew and the Duke of Edinburgh

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [Press Association Court Photographer]

Royal Family Leave for Archers Ball. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with Princess Margaret (second left) and Princess Anne (left) at the palace of Holyroodhouse before they left to attend the Royal Company of Archers Ball at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh

Broadcast Date: 8 December 1976

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

London. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip ad Prince Charles arriving in Hyde Park for the firework display and lighting of the beacon that signaled the ignition of Royal Wedding beacons all over Britain. Lady Diana did not attend

Agency: BIPNA

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the time of their 32nd Wedding anniversary. With them in this picture at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, their grandson, Master Peter Phillips, and their children, Peter's mother, the Princess Anne, and Prince Edward, The Prince of Wales and Prince Andrew

Agency: Unknown

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the time of their 32nd Wedding anniversary. With them in this picture at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, their grandson, Master Peter Phillips, and their children, Peter's mother, the Princess Anne, and (2nd left to right), Prince Edward, The Prince of Wales and Prince Andrew

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

The Happy Family Windsor. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the time of their 32nd Wedding anniversary. With them in this picture at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, their grandson, Master Peter Phillips, and their children, Peter's mother, the Princess Anne, and Prince Edward, The Prince of Wales and Prince Andrew

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the time of their 32nd Wedding anniversary. With them in this picture at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, their grandson, Master Peter Phillips, and their children, Peter's mother, the Princess Anne, and (2nd left to right), Prince Edward, The Prince of Wales and Prince Andrew

Broadcast Date: 5 March 1986

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Ron Bell [Press Association Court Photographer]

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/143

Agency: Press Association

The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace: Her Majesty The Queen and her family photographed in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace. The group stands in the doorway of the Music Room. Prince Philip wears the full dress uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet with the green sash of the Order of the Thistle and the Stars of both the Garter and the Thistle, together with the Garter chain at the throat. On the left are Prince Charles (born 14 November 1948), Princess Anne (born 15 August 1950), Prince Andrew (born 19 February, 1960) and Prince Edward (born 10 March 1964). This is the first formal group of Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip with all their children to have been taken at Buckingham Palace

Broadcast Date: 24 December 1967

ITN Reference: ROYAL/3

Agency: Camera Press

Photographer: Patrick Lichfield

Before Dinner Photo. Just about to enter for the evenings gala dinner at the Royal Palace here, Britain's and Sweden's Royal Couples lined up to give the photographers a chance to immortalize. Left to right Prince Philip, Queen Silvia, Queen Elizabeth II and King Carl Gustaf in their ceremonial clothes

Agency: Associated Press

Lined up for the Official. The Swedish and British Royal Couples lined up here today at the Royal Palace for the official picture on Queen Elizabeth's and Prince Philip's first day of their state visit to Sweden. Left to right Swedish King Carl Gustaf, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Silvia and Prince Philip

Agency: Associated Press

Meeting for Lunch. President Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Mrs Reagan and Duke of Edinburgh brave (text faded) winds and rain outside the Reagan ranch Tuesday afternoon in California, prior to having lunch at the ranch

Agency: Associated Press

Ceremonial Stance. President and Mrs Ronald Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, stand as the national anthem of the United States is played Tuesday in Santa Barbara, California. President Reagan departed his mountain top retreat to meet the Queen is touring the Western United States

Agency: Associated Press

State Dinner. President Reagan and wife Nancy pose for photographers with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at a formal state dinner Thursday night at the M H de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park

Agency: Associated Press

Ascot. Winning Princess. A proud looking Queen and jovial Queen Mother in the winner's enclosure at Ascot today with the Princess Royal, after Princess Anne had won the most valuable race for lady amateur riders, the Dresden Diamond Stakes today on Ten No Trumps. The jockey princess beat the favourite Tahilla by four lengths

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

Royal Visitors for West Newton Women's Institute. The Queen with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret when they arrived to attend a Women's Institute meeting at the Parish Room in West Newton today. They had driven from nearby Sandringham and were met by Mrs Doris Parsons (second right), chairman of West Newton W omen's Institute

Agency: Press Association

The Queen's 39th birthday calls for a picture session at Frogmore, Windsor. Left to right: Prince Andrew, 4 ; Princess Anne, Prince Edward, 1, held by the Queen, the Prince of Wales and Prince Philip. Queen and Prince Philip's Silver Wedding: Press Association library photo from a collection reissued to mark the silver wedding of the Queen and Prince Philip, who will have been married 25 years on 20 November

Broadcast Date: August 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth's "Monaveen" (A Grantham up) taking the last fence to finish 5th steeple chasing the Grand National Steeplechase at Liverpool

Agency: S & G Press Agency

Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth's "Monoveen" (A Grantham up) taking the last fence alone to win the big Queen Elizabeth Chase at Hurst Park today

Agency: Central Press

Queen Mary, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret today visited the afternoon performance of the Royal Tournament at Olympia (London)

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Radio Times Hulton Picture Library

Christening of Prince Charles, London, Friday. A library picture of Prince Charles at his christening at Buckingham Palace, London. Holding him, is his maternal great grandmother Queen Mary, widow of George V. Queen Mary died at the age of 85, on March 24 1953

Broadcast date: 23 July 1982

Agency: Press Association

The Queen Mother aboard Concorde today strapped in behind the pilot, Captain Brian Walpole, during her supersonic flight around the coastline of Britain

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Adrian Meredith

The Queen Mother aboard Concorde today strapped in behind the pilot, Captain Brian Walpole, during her supersonic flight around the coastline of Britain

Broadcast Date: 26 November 1986

Agency: Press Association

Photographer: Adrian Meredith

A corgi puppy is carried off the train after the Queen Mother surrounded by more of the family pets at Liverpool Street railway station, London. She had travelled back from Sandringham after her traditional New Year visit to her Norfolk estate and was beating the cold weather in January 1966 in an astrakhan coat and warm hat

Broadcast Date: 27 November 1986

Agency: Press Association

On 4 August 1980, the Queen Mother celebrates her 80th birthday. In this 6 February 1967 library picture, she returns to London after a visit to Sandringham, accompanied by Royal corgis, a breed of dogs long associated with the Royal Family. That day was the 15th anniversary of her widowhood

Broadcast Date: 3 April 1980

Agency: Press Association

(Composite picture) Left, the Queen Mother aged 4 years old with her brother the Honourable David Bowes-Lyon aged three years old. Right, the Queen Mother as a young woman

Agency: Press Association