Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
State Visit to America
 Princess Elizabeth aged two, in 1928.  The Queen on the day of her Coronation, 2 June 1953.  The Queen in 1954 with Prince Charles and Princess Anne.  Portrait of The Queen by Cecil Beaton in 1968.  The Queen meets veterans of World War II in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the end of the war.  The Queen travels in the Gold State Coach in her Golden Jubilee year, 2002.  The Queen celebrates her 80th birthday in Windsor in 2006.
The Queen is the fortieth monarch since William the Conqueror, and is also the great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The Queen is Head of State of the UK and 15 other Commonwealth realms. The elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, she was born in 1926. She became Queen at the age of 25, and has reigned through more than five decades of enormous social change and development. The Queen is married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and has four children and seven grandchildren. Her Majesty is 38th in direct line of descent from Egbert (c. 775-839), King of Wessex from 802 and of England 827 to 839. She is the fortieth monarch since William I (William the Conqueror), and also the great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. |
