Queen Elizabeth's 70 years of service in pictures

Princess Elizabeth of York, the future Queen, pictured on 9 October 1926. She was delivered by caesarean section at 2.40am on 21 April 1926, at her maternal grandfather's house at 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London. (Getty Images)

The Duke and Duchess of York (the future King George VI and the Queen Mother) and their daughter Princess Elizabeth at her christening in May 1926. (PA Images via Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth at St Paul's Walden Bury country house in Hertfordshire, home of her mother's Bowes-Lyon family. (Getty Images)

The Duchess of York (later the Queen Mother) with her two daughters, Princess Elizabeth and the newly born Princess Margaret, in 1930. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth of York and her younger sister Princess Margaret with gifts presented to them by members of the Disabled Soldier's Embroidery Society in 1933. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth riding her pony in Windsor Great Park in 1934, the beginning of life-long love of horses. (Getty Images)

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret with their mother, the new Queen, left, and her father, the newly-crowned King George VI, right, on his coronation on 12 May 1937. Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, is in the centre. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth, right, and Princess Margaret sending a broadcast message from Windsor during the BBC's children programme, particularly to the children who were being evacuated because of the Second World War. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth out riding at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, in April 1940. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth, right, as Prince Florizel and Princess Margaret, left, as Cinderella with head teacher Hubert Tannar, centre, in costume for the Christmas pantomime production of Cinderella at Windsor Castle on 21 December 1941. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret, right, with their mother, the Queen by a syringa bush in the grounds of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, in 1941. (Getty Images)

Princesses Elizabeth, left, and Margaret wear Girl Guide uniforms at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, on 30 June 1942. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth, left, learns basic car maintenance as a Second Subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service on 12 April 1945, watched by her mother, the Queen, during the Second World War. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth, far left, her mother the Queen, prime minister Winston Churchill, centre, King George VI and Princess Margaret, wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day, 8 May 1945. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth arrives at Dungannon High School for Girls in County Tyrone during a trip to Northern Ireland on 21 March 1946. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Buckingham Palace after their wedding ceremony on 20 November 1947. They became the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. (Getty)

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, wave to a crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London, shortly after their wedding at Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947. (Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh look over Valetta from the roof of the Villa Guardamangia, Malta, where they lived in 1949-51. Philip was serving as a First Lieutenant aboard HMS Chequers. (PA Images via Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth with her son Charles on 16 December 1948. He was born on 14 November 1948 in Buckingham Palace. (AFP via Getty Images)

Elizabeth and Philip with eight-month-old Charles in the grounds of Windlesham Moor, Surrey, on 18 July 1949. (PA Images via Getty Images)

Elizabeth and Philip with their children, Charles and Anne, in 1951 in the grounds of Clarence House. Princess Anne was born there on 15 August 1950. (AFP via Getty Images)

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on a bridge in the grounds of Sagana Lodge, Kenya, on 5 February 1952. The following day, her father King George VI died and Elizabeth became Queen. (Getty Images)

The new queen, Elizabeth II, on the throne as the bishops pay homage during her coronation on 2 June 1953. (Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Imperial State Crown, and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, dressed in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, wave from the balcony to the onlooking crowds at the gates of Buckingham Palace after her coronation. (Getty Images)

The Queen is greeted by Lady Churchill and Sir Winston Churchill, as she arrives for a dinner party at No 10 Downing Street on 4 April 1955. (PA Images via Getty Images)

The Queen in the Long Library at Sandringham shortly after making the traditional Christmas Day broadcast to the nation in 1957, the first time the broadcast was televised. (Getty Images)

A portrait in 1958 of the Queen and Prince Philip, who was given that new title by Her Majesty the previous year. (Getty Images)

The Queen with her third child, Prince Andrew, at Balmoral in 1960. He was born on 19 February that year at Buckingham Palace. (PA Images via Getty Images)

The Queen and Prince Philip pose with US president John F Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at Buckingham Palace in London, on 5 June 1961. (Reuters)

The Queen with her fourth child, Prince Edward, leaving London's Liverpool Street Station for Sandringham in 1964. He was born on 10 March that year at Buckingham Palace. (Getty Images)

The Queen and Prince Philip with their four children, from left, Edward, Anne, Charles and Andrew, in 1964. (Getty Images)

The Queen presents the Jules Rimet trophy to England World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore at Wembley Stadium on 30 July 1966. (PA Images via Getty Images)

The Queen lays a wreath on 29 October 1966 in the Welsh village of Aberfan, where 116 children and 28 adults were killed after the collapse of a colliery spoil tip engulfed a school eight days earlier. The Queen's decision not to visit the village sooner is said to be her one big regret. (PA Images via Getty Images)

The Queen and Prince Philip with their four children on 21 April 1968, in the grounds of Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire. (Getty Images)

The Queen places the gold coronet on her son Charles's head as he officially becomes the Prince of Wales at his investiture on 1 July 1969 at Caernarfon Castle. (Getty Images)

The Queen receives Apollo 11 astronauts, left to right, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin at Buckingham Palace as part of their world tour. (Getty Images)

The Queen, an avid photographer, takes a picture of her daughter, Princess Anne, as she competes in horse trials at Burghley, Lincolnshire, where she became individual Three-Day Event Champion. (Getty Images)

The Queen at Prince Philip pose for a photo at Balmoral in 1972 to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. (PA Images via Getty Images)

The Queen and Prince Philip with Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, at the funeral of the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) on 5 June 1972. (Getty Images)

The Queen, far right, on the balcony at Buckingham Palace after the wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips on 14 November 1973. (Getty Images)

The Queen takes photographs with her gold Rollei camera during a visit to the Badminton Horse Trials with Prince Philip on 26 April 1974. (Getty Images)

The Queen dancing with US president Gerald Ford during a state dinner at the White House in Washington DC on 7 July 1976. (Reuters)

The Queen on a walkabout in Portsmouth during her Silver Jubilee tour of Great Britain in 1977. (Getty Images)

The Queen and prime minister Margaret Thatcher attend a ball to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting hosted on 1 August 1979 in Lusaka, Zambia. (Getty Images)

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh attend the funeral of Lord Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey on 5 September 1979. Mountbatten, Philip's uncle, was murdered by the IRA in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, Ireland, on 27 August 1979. (Getty Images)

The Queen and Prince Philip are shown with Pope John Paul II, during their visit to the Vatican in October 1980. (Getty Images)

The Queen riding sidesaddle on 'Burmese' during the Trooping the Colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade on 13 June 1981. Six blanks were fired from a starting gun as the Queen rode past. She brought the horse under control and was unharmed. Teenager Marcus Sarjeant, who fired the shots, spent three years in prison after being convicted of treason. (Getty Images)

The Queen laughs with Princess Diana on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after her wedding to Charles on 29 July 1981. (Getty Images)

The Queen on horseback with US president Ronald Reagan at Windsor Castle on 8 June 1982. (Reuters)

The Queen and Diana, Princess of Wales, who was pregnant with Prince William, attend a polo match at Guards Polo Club on 30 May 1982 in Windsor. (Getty Images)

The Queen resents the Order of Merit to Mother Teresa of Calcutta on 24 November 1983 in Delhi, India. (Getty Images)

The Queen with the prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her predecessors, from left to right, James Callaghan, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, at 10 Downing Street on 4 December 1985. (PA)

The Queen, far right, smiles as Andrew and Sarah, the Duke and Duchess of York, kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their wedding at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986. (Getty Images)

The Queen inspects the Terracotta Army Xi'an during an official state visit to China on 16 October 1986, when she became the first ever British monarch to visit the country. (Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)

The Queen in a Land Rover during the Royal Windsor Horse Show at Windsor Home Park, Berkshire, on 16 May 1987. (Getty Images)

The Queen and a firefighter survey the scene on 21 November 1992 after a blaze at Windsor Castle the previous day. (PA)

The Queen makes her famous 'annus horribilis' speech on 24 November 1992 at the Guildhall in London. That year saw her daughter Princess Anne get divorced, the breakdown of her sons Charles and Andrew's marriages and the devastating fire at her home, Windsor Castle. (Getty Images)

The Queen and US president Bill Clinton smile for the cameras at the Guildhall in London on 4 June 1994. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Queen, the Queen Mother and Prince William at Clarence House to celebrate the Queen Mother's 94th birthday on 4 August 1994. (Getty Images)

The Queen and Russian president Boris Yeltsin walk behind soldiers carrying wreaths at Piskarevskoye Cemetery in St Petersburg, where those who died during the siege of the city by Germans are buried. It was one of the most significant foreign visits of her reign. (PA Images via Getty Images)

The Queen with South African president Nelson Mandela before a banquet at the Dorchester Hotel in London 11 July 1996. (Reuters)

The Queen and Prince Philip view the thousands of flowers and tributes left outside Kensington Palace in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 5 September 1997. Diana died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August that year. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Queen meets the Spice Girls at the Royal Variety Performance on 1 December 1997. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Queen greets prime minister Tony Blair as he arrives at a reception for The Queen's Award for Enterprise at Buckingham Palace. (PA)

The Queen looks on after the wedding of her son Prince Edward to Sophie, Countess of Wessex at St George's Chapel in Windsor on 19 June 1999. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Queen stands for the two minutes silence in front of wreaths of poppies during the Remembrance Sunday parade at the Cenotaph in central London on 12 November 2000. (PA)

The Queen, right, at the funeral of her sister, Princess Margaret, at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, with Margaret's children, Lady Sarah Chatto, left, and Viscount Linley, centre, on 15 February 2002. (Reuters)

The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family at the funeral of the Queen Mother in Westminster Abbey on 9 April 2002. (PA)

The Queen gets a warm welcome from thousands of wellwishers as she tours the Golden Jubilee picnic in Bushy Park, south-west London, in 2002. (PA Images via Getty Images)

The Queen looks out to the crowd during her visit to Old Brunswick House in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on 11 October 2002. (PA)

The Queen with US president George W Bush before a dinner hosted by the president at Winfield House in London on 20 November 2003. (Reuters)

The Queen unveils a statue of herself on horseback in Great Windsor Park on 27 October, 2003. The statue, by Philip Jackson, is the first that the Queen has unveiled of herself and looks towards Windsor Castle. (Getty Images)

The Queen and Russian president Vladimir Putin in an open carriage after he was given a ceremonial welcome on Horse Guards Parade on 24 June 2003. (Reuters)

The Queen looks down during her official address at the opening of the Churchill Museum at The Cabinet War Rooms in London on 10 February 2005. (Reuters)

The Queen at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, on 9 April 2005 at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. (PA)

The Queen leaves after attending a service of commemoration to mark the end of combat operations in Iraq, at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 9 October 2009. (Reuters)

The Queen meets singer Lady Gaga at the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool on 7 December 2009. (AFP via Getty Images)

Elizabeth II addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 6 July 2010. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Kate Middleton, as they became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on 29 April 2011. (Getty Images)

The Queen plants a tree in the grounds of Áras An Uachtaráin in Dublin as Irish president Mary McAleese looks on at the start of a historic visit to Ireland on 17 May 2011. It was the first visit by a British monarch since 1911. (PA)

The Queen arrives during day three of the 2012 Royal Ascot meeting at Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire. (PA)

The Queen and James Bond, played by Daniel Craig, during a filmed segment for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (Olympics)

The Queen receives an honorary Bafta from actor and director Kenneth Branagh in recognition of a lifetime's support of British film and television at Windsor Castle in Windsor on 4 April 2013. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Queen takes a look at Prince George along with his parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at his christening at St James's Palace in London on 23 October 2013. (Reuters)

The Queen officially opened the 2014 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony at Celtic Park, Glasgow on 23 July 2014. (PA)

The Queen was in Tweedbank, Scotland, on 9 September 2015, the day she became the longest reigning monarch in British history, overtaking Queen Victoria. (Getty Images)

The Queen chats to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge after the christening of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England, on 5 July 2015. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Queen and US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in the Oak Room at Windsor Castle ahead of a private lunch. (PA)

The Queen welcomes prime minister Theresa May at the start of an audience in Buckingham Palace, London, where she invited her to form a new government on 13 July 2016. (PA)

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh alight from a train at King's Lynn station in Norfolk after travelling from London at the start of her traditional Christmas break to Sandringham. (PA)

The Queen laughs while recording her 2017 Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace. (PA)

The Queen and other members of the Royal Family celebrated the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex, on 19 May 2018. (PA)

The Queen and Prince Philip meet baby Archie, pictured with his mother Meghan and father Harry and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, at Windsor Castle on 8 May 2019. (PA)

Queen Elizabeth II welcomes prime minister Boris Johnson to form a new government on 24 July 2019. (PA)

The Queen and US president Donald Trump during commemorations for the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, at Southsea Common, Portsmouth, on 5 June 2019. (PA)

The Queen bestows a knighthood on Captain Sir Thomas Moore during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on 17 July 2020 for his fundraising efforts during the coronavirus pandemic. (PA)

The Queen appears on a screen by videolink from Windsor Castle during a virtual audience on 18 December 2020, as COVID-19 restrictions prevented her from meeting people in person. (Getty Images)

The Queen claps key workers on 8 December 2020 for their efforts during the coronavirus pandemic, alongside the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. (Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II recording her annual Christmas broadcast in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, in December 2020, when COVID restrictions meant family numbers were limited. (PA)

The Queen, wearing a face mask, takes her seat alone due to coronavirus restrictions for the funeral of her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 17 April 2021. He died on 9 April 2021 at the age of 99. (PA)

Images of Queen Elizabeth II are displayed on the lights in London's Piccadilly Circus to mark her Platinum Jubilee, on 6 February 2022 – 70 years to the day since she acceded to the throne on her father's death. (PA)

The Queen appears on a screen on 1 March 2022 via videolink from Windsor Castle, during a virtual audience, her first after she contracted COVID-19. (Getty Images)

The Queen receives Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau during an audience at Windsor Castle on 7 March 2022. It was her first face-to-face meeting since testing positive for coronavirus a few weeks earlier. (PA)

The Queen talks to Pamela Harper, centre, from British craftwork company, Halcyon Days as she views a display of artefacts to commemorate the company's 70th anniversary in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle on 23 March 2022.

The Queen joined other members of the Royal Family at a service of thanksgiving for the life of the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London on 29 March 2022. (PA)

The Queen appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after Trooping the Colour on the first day of the Platinum Jubilee weekend in June 2022. (PA)

Only senior royals joined the Queen on the balcony for the Platinum Jubilee flypast, with grandson Prince Louis stealing the show with his animated expressions. (Empics)

Projections displayed on the front of Buckingham Palace during The Lighting Of The Principal Beacon on day one of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. More than 3,000 towns, villages and cities throughout the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories, and each of the capital cities of Commonwealth countries lit beacons to mark the Jubilee. (PA)

The Queen arrives to symbolically lead the lighting of the principal Jubilee beacon at Windsor Castle, as part of a chain of more than 3,500 flaming tributes to her 70-year-reign. (PA)

A hologram of the Queen during her coronation was projected in the Gold State Coach during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in front of Buckingham Palace on the final day of celebrations. (PA)

The Queen appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the last day of the Platinum Jubilee weekend alongside the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children. (PA)

The Prince of Wales, known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland, and the Queen attend the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland (also known as the Royal Company of Archers) Reddendo Parade in the gardens of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, in June.

The Queen during a visit to officially open the new building at Thames Hospice, Maidenhead, Berkshire, in July.

The Queen welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become PM and form a new government after Boris Johnson resigned. It was her last public appearance.