Queen Elizabeth II Turns 90: A Life In Pictures
Happy Birthday Your Majesty, blow out all those candles.
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 90th birthday today. To mark the occasion three new photos, shot by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, have been released.
In one of the images The Queen poses alongside her five great-grandchildren and her two youngest grandchildren in the Green Drawing Room, at Windsor Castle.
Queen Elizabeth II is photographed with James, Viscount Severn (left), 8, and Lady Louise (second left), 12, the children of The Earl and Countess of Wessex; Mia Tindall (holding The Queen's handbag), the two year-old-daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall; Savannah (third right), 5, and Isla Phillips (right), 3, daughters of The Queen's eldest grandson Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn; Prince George (second right), 2, and in The Queen's arms and in the tradition of Royal portraiture, the youngest great-grandchild, Princess Charlotte (11 months), children of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
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This relaxed photo was also released by Buckingham Palace, showing Queen Elizabeth II with her daughter Princess Anne.
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And this image of the Queen with her dogs Willow, Vulcan, Candy and Holly.
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