Broadcast Date: 2 July 1990

Agency: Press Association

Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrates her birthday on 4 August. In this 1945 photograph from files the Queen Mother (2nd left), Queen Elizabeth II (left), Princess Margaret (right), King George VI and Winston Churchill stand on the Balcony at Buckingham Palace in London to acknowledge the crowds outside the palace on 8 May, VE Day. Approximately twenty thousand people waited for the party to step out early on that morning

Broadcast Date: 1985

Agency: Associated Press

Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Mr Winston Churchill, King George VI, Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, acknowledging the crowds on VE Day. Obit

Broadcast Day: 9 June 1977

Agency: Fox Photos Limited

Broadcast Date: 8 March 1985

Agency: Hulton Picture Library

A picture of Princess Alexandra (right), who is to marry Mr Angus Ogilvy in April, talking to Queen Mary when she was a bridesmaid at a wedding in November 1946. Next to the Princess is her younger brother Prince Michael

Agency: Central Press

The Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) shortly before she celebrated her twenty first birthday

Broadcast Date: 9 April 1976

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

Princess Elizabeth, who celebrated her 21st birthday at Capetown today, broadcast a speech to the youth of the Empire from the Gardens of Government House at Capetown this evening

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Popperfoto

Agency: Press Association

A November 1947 library picture of the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip as they leave Westminster Abbey after their wedding

Broadcast Date: 9 April 1976

Agency: Press Association

Peter Townsend at Morning Service with the Royal Family. Group Captain Peter Townsend, then an Equerry to the King, leaving St Paul's Cathedral, London with the Royal Family after attending morning service on a National Day of Prayer in 1947

Broadcast Date: 10 November 1988

Agency: Unknown

On 4 August 1980, the Queen Mother celebrates her 80th birthday. The Queen Mother has always been famous for her millinery and in this July 1947 library picture she wears a striking toque, in grey felt, decorated all round the high brim with clipped ostrich feathers, finished off with a felt bow on the right side. The occasion was as Queen Elizabeth she attended a St James's Palace garden party in aid of the British Empire Nurses War Memorial Fund

Broadcast Date: 3 April 1980

Agency: Press Association

A November 1947 library picture of the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip as they leave Westminster Abbey after their wedding

Agency: Press Association

Queen Elizabeth OBIT

Broadcast Date: 9 June 1977

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Fox Photos

The engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, Royal Navy, is announced, and the happy young couple are pictured together at Buckingham Palace. Queen and Prince Philip's Silver Wedding. Press Association library photo from a collection re-issued 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

The Royal Silver Wedding. The scene in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947 during the wedding ceremony of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The ceremony was conducted by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Lord Fisher. Flanking the royal couple are King George VI and the groomsman, the Marquess of Milford Haven, Queen Elizabeth, now the Queen Mother, is seen on the right

Broadcast Date: 26 October 1972

Agency: Central Press Photos

A November 1947 library picture of the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip as they leave Westminster Abbey after their wedding

Agency: Press Association

The first appearance of Princess Elizabeth on horseback at an official ceremony. Her Royal Highness, seen with His Majesty the King, at the Trooping the Colour Ceremony on the Horse Guards Parade

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: The Illustrated London News Picture Library

The Royal Silver Wedding. The scene in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947 during the wedding ceremony of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The ceremony was conducted by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Lord Fisher. Flanking the royal couple are King George VI and the groomsman, the Marquess of Milford Haven, Queen Elizabeth, now the Queen Mother, is seen on the right

Broadcast Date: 26 October 1972

Agency: Central Press Photos

On 4 August 1980, the Queen Mother (second right) celebrates her 80th birthday. On the day this library picture of 20 November 1947 was taken she became a mother-in-law and after the Westminster Abbey ceremony, the Royal wedding party appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. They include King George VI (left), Princess Margaret (second left), the bride Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II), the groom, newly-created the Duke of Edinburgh, and Queen Mary, widow of George V

Broadcast Date: 3 April 1980

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

Baby Prince Charming. London, Monday. Four Royal generations are shown in this library picture, after the Buckingham Palace christening ceremony of the baby Prince Charles, future Prince of Wales, in the arms of his mother Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II. Alongside them, Queen Mary, the child's great grandmother, and behind her son, King George VI

Agency: Press Association

'The Prince of Wales turns 40'. Charles, the heir, on his mother's lap, Princess Elizabeth, at his christening in 1948 at Buckingham Palace, with his great grandmother Queen Mary and grandfather, George VI

Broadcast Date: 26 October 1988

Agency: Press Association

'The Prince of Wales turns 40'. Charles, the infant, at his christening on 15 December 1948, at Buckingham Palace

Broadcast Date: 26 October 1988

Agency: Press Association

On 4 August 1982, the Queen Mother celebrates her 82nd birthday. On that day, Prince William of Wales will be christened in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace, London. In this December 1948 library picture, as Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, she holds her first grandson, Prince Charles, on the occasion of his christening

Broadcast Date: 23 July 1982

Agency: Press Association

The Queen Mother holds her first grandchild Prince Charles, at his christening at Buckingham Palace on 15 December 1948

Broadcast Date: 3 July 1990

Agency: Press Association

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

On 4 August 1980, the Queen Mother celebrates her 80th birthday. In this December 1948 library picture, as Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, she holds her first grandson, Prince Charles, on the occasion of his Buckingham Palace christening

Broadcast Date: 3 April 1980

Agency: Press Association

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

Prince Charles in the arms of his mother Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth after his christening at Buckingham Palace

Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle, July 1969. Series of pictures from stock

Broadcast date: 14 November 1978

Agency: Central Press Photos

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

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Camera Press London

Photographer: Karsh

Agency: Unknown

In this library picture of 21 October 1950, she attends the Christening of her second grandchild and first grand daughter, Princess Anne, held by the then Princess Elizabeth, who is now the Queen. Others in this picture are King George VI, the baby's father The Duke of Edinburgh, and Queen Mary, the baby's great grandmother. The Queen Mother holds Prince Charles. On 4 August 1980, The Queen Mother (right) celebrates her 80th birthday

Broadcast Date: 3 August 1980

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

ITN Reference: ROYAL/EDIN/1

Agency: Camera Press

Prince Charles, arriving at Ballater Station, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle, July 1969. Series of pictures from stock

Agency: Central Press Photos

Princess Elizabeth, holding Prince Charles' hand with Mabel Anderson carrying Princess Anne

Agency: Popperfoto

Agency: Unknown

Agency: Unknown

A library picture of The Queen, as Princess Elizabeth, with her baby daughter Princess Anne, at Buckingham Palace in 1950, after the baby was christened. Princess Anne, who wed Captain Mark Phillips on 14 November 1973, has a son and daughter

Broadcast Date: 23 July 1982

Agency: Press Association

Agency: Unknown

A family occasion after the christening in Buckingham Palace of Princess Anne, daughter of the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip (then the Duke of Edinburgh). King George VI leans over to look at his grand daughter, held by her mother, with Queen Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) holding Prince Charles. On extreme left is the baby's great grandmother, Queen Mary

Broadcast Date: August 1972

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

Obit

Agency: Pathé

Agency: Associated Press

Agency: Unknown

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

New Pictures of a Royal Family. New pictures of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, with Prince Charles, born 14 November 1948, and Princess Anne, born 15 August 1950, taken in the grounds of Clarence House, their London residence

Agency: Central Press Photos

Agency: Hulton Picture Library

Happy family at Clarence House. These photos of Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth with her husband, The Duke of Edinburgh and their children, Prince Charles, (born 14 November 1948) and Princess Anne, (born 15 August 1950) were made recently in the garden of the Royal Couple's London residence at Clarence House

Agency: Unknown

The young Prince Charles standing on the garden wall of Clarence House. Seated on the wall is Prince Richard

Agency: Central Press Photos

The Princess, at the age of 15 months, is proudly held by her grandmother, The Queen Mother, at Buckingham Palace on the occasion of the third birthday of Prince Charles in 1951. King George keeps an eye on the Prince. Princess Anne wedding series: this is one of a series of photographs of Her Royal Highness Princess Anne issued for publication in connection with her forthcoming marriage to Captain Mark Phillips

Broadcast Date: September 1973

Agency: Central Press Photos