The baby the late Queen is holding is her fourth child Prince Edward ... unreleased wartime pictures by Cecil Beaton ...

The Queen's extraordinary ... her early years as Princess Elizabeth with her father King George VI all the way through to her own - sometimes controversial - children and grandchildren and their ...

Queen Elizabeth was the eldest child of King George VI, who became monarch in 1936 after his brother King Edward VIII abdicated the Throne. During the final years of King George VI's life ...

But like many Brits of my generation (I was born the year before the coronation) my life has been bookended by the reign of Queen Elizabeth ... when her children’s marriages fell apart and ...

Although Elizabeth is made next in line to the throne, the King prays his next child will be male – superseding ... s older sister Mary I becomes queen. Mary returns the country to Catholicism ...