On her 21st birthday, in a speech broadcast from Cape Town, the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) made a heartfelt pledge: ‘I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service.’Over the following decades, true to those words, her sense of duty and her devotion to a life of service remained steadfast.
She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history, and the most celebrated.Here, we bring you 154 photographs that pay tribute to her remarkable life: from her marriage to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, for 73 years until his death in April 2021, to her relationships with her four children, as well as her work with more than 600 charities – and the people around the Commonwealth, and the world, whose lives she touched.‘A character.
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