Photos: The private life of the Queen from the 40s, 50s and 60s

Flying Highness: The Queen and Philip prepare to board a plane during their visit to the West Indies in 1957

Coronation: Elizabeth II moments after she is crowned Queen on June 2, 1953

The Queen arrives in Suva, Fiji, on board the Royal yacht and is presented a bouquet of flowers by Fijian girl Adi Kaunilotuma during a visit in February 1963

The Queen and Prince Philip visit the coal mining village of Aberfan in Wales after a landslide claimed the lives of 144 people in 1966

Growing older gracefully: Princess Elizabeth, aged 20, in her sitting room at Buckingham Palace on July 19, 1946

Queen at the Banquet and Ball of the 16th/5th Royal Lancers Regiment of which the she is Colonel-in-Chief at London’s Hyde Park Hotel

A night with the stars: Marilyn Monroe, pictured far right in a shimmering gown and elbow-length gloves, waits her tun to meet Queen Elizabeth at the premiere of The Battle of the River Plate in Leicester Square in 1956

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