Here at Lebrecht we are getting ready for a marvellous Jubilee weekend, and we decided to go through some of our old-time favourite images of the Queen. Here is a brief selection:
Duke Ellington , American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader, meeting Queen Elizabeth II of England in 1959.
© NYPL Performing Arts/Lebrecht Music & Arts
King George VI – coronation, 12 May 1937, Buckingham Palace, London, UK.
© RA/Lebrecht Music & Arts
‘The King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Mr. Churchill on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day’. The end of World War II
© Lebrecht
Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the Royal sisters, as children, 1930s.
© Lebrecht
Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation procession, 2 June 1953. Photograph taken from the rooptop of Buckingham Palace, London. In the foreground, sailors of the Royal Navy followed by soldiers of the Guards Regiment. Marching through St James Park and through the gates of Buckingham Palace.
© Brian Seed/Lebrecht Music & Arts
Princess Elizabeth leaves Buckingham Palace in the royal coach on her way to Westminster Abbey to be crowned, becoming Queen Elizabeth ll. 2 June 1953.
© Brian Seed/Lebrecht Music & Arts
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Knights of the Garter ceremony, June 1957. They are wearing traditional black cloaks with the garter insignia & hats with white feathers.
© Brian Seed/Lebrecht Music & Arts
Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arriving in a carriage, Edinburgh, June 1977.
© Brian Seed/Lebrecht Music & Arts
