Diamond Jubilee: The Stamp of Queen Elizabeth's Influence

Diamond Jubilee: 60 Years of Queen Elizabeth II
Hulton-Deutsch Collection / CORBIS

Blossoming Royal
Princess Elizabeth, age 15, poses amid Syringa flowers at Windsor in the summer of 1941. Even at a young age, friends and relatives uniformly say, the royal was responsible and sensible.

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