Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch, turns
90 on Thursday 21 April 2016. She overtook her great-great-grandmother
Queen Victoria's record time on the throne in September 2015, and is
also Britain's oldest reigning monarch.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born at 2.40am at 17 Bruton
Street, Mayfair, on 21 April 1926, during the reign of her grandfather,
King George V. As a young princess, Elizabeth had not expected to become
monarch as her father only took the crown when his elder brother,
Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis
Simpson.
She was 25 when she
ascended to the throne on 6 February 1952, following the sudden death of
her father, King George VI, at the age of 56.
1926:
Family portrait of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI
and Queen Elizabeth) with the newborn princess (later Queen Elizabeth
II)
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1928: Princess Elizabeth, aged two, poses wearing a party dress
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July 1936: Princess Elizabeth hugs a corgi
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12 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth makes her first radio broadcast, accompanied by her younger sister Princess Margaret
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8 July 1941: Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose play with their pet chameleon in the grounds of Windsor Castle
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23 December 1944: Princess Elizabeth appearing in a production of Old Mother Red Riding Boots, a royal family pantomime
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18 April 1945: Princess Elizabeth changes the tyre of a vehicle as she trains as an ATS Officer during World War Two
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May 1945: (From left) Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, prime
minister Winston Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret Rose
wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace during VE Day celebrations
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July 1947: Princess Elizabeth, Philip Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth (the
future Queen Mother), King George VI and Princess Margaret pose in
Buckingham Palace on the day the engagement of Princess Elizabeth and
Philip Mountbatten was officially announced
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July 1947: Princess Elizabeth poses in the state apartments at Buckingham Palace upon her engagement to Prince Philip
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