IN A NEW BUCKINGHAM PALACE EXHIBITION THE QUEEN ICONIC IMAGES OF THE YOUNG MONARCH GO ON DISPLAY FOR THE FIRST TIME
Following the death of George VI on 6 February 1952, the young Queen Elizabeth returned from Kenya with the Duke of Edinburgh and, while still in mourning for her father, 20 days after the accession, a portrait sitting was arranged.
This was necessary in order to capture the first official images of the new sovereign and these portraits would become the most significant and enduring taken of the Queen for more than a quarter of a century.
Dorothy Wilding, a leading portrait photographer, was commissioned to take the portraits. Today, Dorothy is not as well-known as she deserves to
