As Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her remarkable platinum jubilee, contributing editor Robin Muir reflects on how seven decades of service was chronicled by Vogue and uncovers rarely seen royal imagery.
Princess Elizabeth & the Duke of Edinburgh . The couple married on 20 November, during another winter of rationing and austerity. Here, the happy couple are pictured returning from Westminster Abbey, she wearing the diamond fringe tiara lent by Queen Mary, he created a Duke the day before.’s coverage, which included a delicately illustrated souvenir cover, was in tune with the times, emphasising love and romance over pomp and ceremony.
Princess Elizabeth by Cecil Beaton. An unpublished portrait taken in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace against a backdrop made for the occasion. “I took many charming portraits of her in colour, against the grisaille background of a landscape by [Joachim] Patinir, wearing a slate-blue dress,” wrote Beaton, “the best colour in the picture provided by her pink cheeks and lips.
Queen Elizabeth II . Ascending the throne at 25, the same age as Elizabeth I, the new Queen took over her father’s position as head of the Commonwealth of Nations, promoting the tenets of the Commonwealth Charter. A second Elizabethan era had begun.
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