The Queen through the decades
1952
his image is from the first series of photographs of the Queen as the new sovereign, just 20 days after her accession. Taken by Dorothy Wilding, the first female photographer to earn a Royal Warrant, the photographs were used as a basis for new coins, banknotes and stamps. Her Majesty is wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, supposedly her favourite, and affectionately known by her as ‘Granny’s tiara’, as it was a gift from Queen, in the State Rooms of Buckingham Palace (22 July to 2 October).
