Mine begin with...
https://www.rct.uk/sites/default/fil...?itok=rP98S-Fx
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I've never seen that first one PC. Here's the one I've selected.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6e92cba135.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by pacifichrono
Wasn't the last one the Queen's favourite photo? It was taken by Sophie Countess of Wessex at Balmoral. It's a nice reminder that they had family day outs like all of us.
Spotted this one in the Toronto Star paper.
Square dancing 1951. Tour of Canada 4 years after marriage
https://i.insider.com/6075fb4b3e3fe7...jpeg&auto=webp
DON
Any photo of her laughing. RustyBin5’s choice above is a stand outhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8dffe76e41.gif
This is my favourite, mainly because I took it myselfhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a22e8d15db.jpg
Wasn't she a truck mechanic during WWII? Maybe SHE is instructing HIM.Quote:
Originally Posted by SimonK
Indeed. See the eighth one down in this collection on the BBC website.Quote:
Originally Posted by pacifichrono
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-61645231
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The queen photobombing at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow always tickles me
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Being I'm a vintage motorcycle nut...
https://thewatchbloke.files.wordpres...-on-a-bsa.jpeg
I always liked her driving, I just found it amusing that she drove round in Range/Land Rovers with confidence..
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/asset...restricted.jpg
https://static.independent.co.uk/202...=726&auto=webp
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img...een-709987.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/76...3cd689d084.jpg
I think it’s definitely this one. Firstly because she has signed it and secondly because it relates to a building that I had a hand in designing and which she opened.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9d402c54b4.jpg
It hangs above the khazi.
RIP
She looks happiest in the Defender!Quote:
Originally Posted by murkeywaters
Nice image of the Queen on Sydney Opera House.
RIP https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...55471a3abb.jpg
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This is a lovely montage of QE2's lighter moments captured on video and set to music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejRJXR92B7g
Wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Halitosis
Didn’t she have a lovely, warm smile…🙂
Great idea for a thread and great photos so far :-)
Has to be the winner. Given who the soldier is too. Great picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by RustyBin5
This is my favourite. Cecil Beaton knew how to take an atmospheric photo.
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This one. For me the same look and feel as the iconic pic of Connery next to the Aston.
https://scontent-ams2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...Aw&oe=6345194C
That for me is perfection itself. :smile-new:Quote:
Originally Posted by watch-nut
It's things like that which show her true nature, despite the position she found herself in from birth and the commitments she had to maintain.
Does this one count?...
https://i.ibb.co/BVL14LD/BB6-FDF29-A...395595-DCB.jpg
I can see her watching Naked Gun and having a good laugh - I think that was her personality.
I'm no royalist, but that' the one for me, too. There are some B&W from the same date, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by thieuster
https://i.imgur.com/oBC3GId.jpg
My favourites are always the corgi or mischief related ones.
https://i.ibb.co/VSXgxTg/Screenshot-...t-10-52-23.png
https://i.ibb.co/znJb5bs/Screenshot-...t-10-51-54.png
https://i.ibb.co/StC19Q2/Screenshot-...t-10-53-39.png
Love the ones from her war time service -
https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/imag...8_fpy64.29.jpg
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Originally Posted by SimonK
Nick Mason’s man cave.