Official portraits of the late Queen Elizabeth II have been hanging in public buildings for 70 years, but what should happen to them now that King Charles III has taken the throne? That question ...

Victoria was a young queen in the early days of photography ... recalled that one client objected to the extent of alterations on her portrait: Queen Elizabeth II’s mother, widely known as ...

King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...

Only 25 years old when King George VI died, Queen Elizabeth began her reign in 1952. She ruled longer than any other British Monarch. Smithsonian collections reflect her influence on global history ...

Queen Elizabeth II was just 25 when she acceded to the throne ... the story of the Queen’s happy childhood and her life as a young woman. He traces her life from her birth in 1926 until the ...

Resources: a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken from our film. Elizabeth became Queen in 1952, aged 25, after the death of her father, King George VI. During the last 70 years the Queen has ...