Queen Elizabeth II was one of the most ... and the Duchess of Kent as young women with their newborns is a highlight of the ...

The exhibition will present some of Cecil Beaton’s most memorable photographs, taken over 60 years, including original coronation portraits of Queen Elizabeth II – arguably the most ...

King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...

Only 25 years old when King George VI died, Queen Elizabeth began her reign in 1952. She ruled longer than any other British Monarch. Smithsonian collections reflect her influence on global history ...

click image for close-up When Elizabeth Freeman was nearly 70 years old, Susan Ridley Sedgewick painted a miniature portrait of her in watercolor on ivory. Sedgewick was the young wife of Theodore ...

Resources: a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken from our film. Elizabeth became Queen in 1952, aged 25, after the death of her father, King George VI. During the last 70 years the Queen has ...