IN uniform during the war. Then Princess Elizabeth, sho joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service about a month before her 19th birthday. (Reuterphoto).:

AN Informal picture of the new Queen taken during her visit, to the Eaton Hall officer cadet school, Cheater, last year.

GEORGE THE SIXTH, THE HUMAN KING ·

THE Queen as she looked at four years of age. She was snapped on her way to a children's party, at-

(Reuterphoto).. tended by her nurse.

A scene in London just after announcement of the death of King George VI. A newspaper queue in Sloan Square.

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Reading the Proclamation

WITH brilliant pageantry, the Accession of Queen - Elizabeth I was proclaim- ed in London on Friday, February 8. In picture on the left, the Garter King of Arms, Sir George Bel- lew, is seen reading the first proclamation in Friary Court, St. James's Palace. On the right is the Earl Marshal of England, the Duke of Norfolk.

:Below: The Clarenceux King of Arms reading the proclamation on the steps of the Royal Exchange,

THE late King and his Queen on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their wedding on April 26, 1923. (Reuterphoto).

Great Chief

KING George pictured aboard the warship Colling. wood, in which he served as a midshipman during the Battle of Jutland in the first World War. (Reuter- photo),

THE late King leaving his hat during his 1927 annual camp for boys at New Romndy, Hampshire, one of his favourite social schemes. (Reuterphoto).

The

democratie monarch as a soccer fan. shaking hands with players at the 1950 Arm

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