As Queen of 15 realms and Head of the Commonwealth Elizabeth II, was the most travelled monarch in British history.
She visited more than 120 countries across the globe on more than 271 overseas trips and she famously began her reign while on tour in Kenya when her father George VI died.
As well as travelling to 51 of 54 Commonwealth countries on more than 200 trips, she visited dozens more at the request of the Government, including Libya, Iran, Nepal, Thailand, Chile, Mexico, Russia and China.
By the time she gave up overseas travel in 2015 after a last state visit to Germany and a trip to Malta, she had flown some 1,032,513 miles – the equivalent of 42