Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Britain’s 10 best palaces

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The Library In pictures: Queen Elizabeth II through the decades

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Life of the Week: Queen Elizabeth II

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The ultimate guide to royal women

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In profile: Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II in a garden with one of her dogs, March 1953. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Elizabeth II: the queen who saved the royals

Debating British monarchy

Queen Victoria. (Getty Images)

History quiz – Queens of England

In 1926, a time of social and political strife, the country unified in celebrating the birth of Princess Elizabeth. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

5 royal births that rocked a nation

Members of the royal family on board the royal barge 'Spirit of Chartwell'. (Rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

The Library The Thames triumphant: royal parties on London’s grandest street

Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, his deeply supportive wife to be, pictured in January 1923. (The Print Collector/Getty Images)

George VI: the everyman king

Press photographers were invited to Buckingham Palace on the day that the royal engagement between Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten and Princess Elizabeth, elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, was announced, in July 1947. Image: The Royal Collection. (© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2011)

Prince Philip at 90

When Victoria wed, she wore white so the crowds could see her from afar. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman

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You’d be a mug to sneer at royal wedding souvenirs