Happy 94th birthday to Queen Elizabeth II! Here she is holding up a beloved pet for her younger sister Margaret. (📷Pictures Inc, 1936/LIFE Picture Collection) For more rare photos of the longest-reigning British monarch, check out:
Princess Margaret , the future Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother with the Grenadier guards on the occasion of Princess Elizabeth's birthday, 1942.Elizabeth II: Rare and Classic Photos of the QueenLoomis Dean The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesElizabeth II has enjoyed a remarkably long reign, ascending to the throne in 1952.
TIME’s Belinda Luscombe once noted, deep into Her Majesty’s rule, that this particular Queen of England “is very likely the most portrayed woman on the planet. Billions of stamps, millions of coins and notes and hundreds of thousands of postcards bear her likeness. Her face, especially in profile, is recognized in every English-speaking land and is ubiquitous in several. Hers is not the exotic, come-hither face of a Marilyn or an Angelina. It’s the face of distant historic authority, a literal figurehead, having no real power but oodles of symbolic supremacy.
Princess Margaret , the future Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother with the Grenadier guards on the occasion of Princess Elizabeth’s birthday, 1942.Queen Elizabeth II prepared to speak at University of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1953.Queen Elizabeth II watched Maryland vs. North Carolina college football game at Maryland’s Byrd Stadium during her 1957 official visit to the United States.
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