01.jpg (93.72 KB. 611x404 - viewed 3 times.)Queen Elizabeth has been the focus of contrived photo ops since she was a young girl. Here the twelve-year- old Elizabeth, center, watches a traditional spinner at work in a Scottish Highland village in 1938.
02.jpg (88.6 KB. 611x404 - viewed 3 times.)Queen Elizabeth II receives a bag of sweets for her grandson from Santa Claus, played by Colour Sergeant Ken Jones, during her 1977 visit to the 1st Battalion the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Lucknow Barracks, Tidworth.
03.jpg (154.12 KB. 611x404 - viewed 3 times.)Her Royal Majesty is rowed ashore by Tuvalu Islanders on a tour of the South Pacific in 1982.
04.jpg (136.33 KB. 611x404 - viewed 3 times.)On a visit to Ghana, a woman greeted the Queen wearing a dress adorned with Her Majesty's likeness alongside that of President Jerry Rawlings in 1999.
05.jpg (91.12 KB. 611x404 - viewed 3 times.)The Queen meets Blueman Group members backstage after a show in the Welsh city of Cardiff.
06.jpg (135.47 KB. 611x404 - viewed 3 times.)Her Majesty meets members of the Mohegan tribe at Southwark Cathedral in London, where she attended a funeral blessing of the young Mohegan chieftain Mohamet Weyonomon, who died in 1736.
07.jpg (100.82 KB. 611x404 - viewed 2 times.)The Queen greets actress Una Stubbs, who portrayed her predecessor Queen Elizabeth I, and actor Robert Hardy, portraying Churchill, during the opening ceremony of the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.
08.jpg (139.02 KB. 611x404 - viewed 1 times.)The High Commissioner for Lesotho, HRH Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso, is greeted by the Queen upon his arrival as his government's representative in London.
09.jpg (99.25 KB. 611x404 - viewed 1 times.)Postman Pat and his cat Jess attend a Children's Party at Buckingham Palace celebrating Elizabeth's 80th birthday.
10.jpg (107.53 KB. 611x404 - viewed 1 times.)Queen Elizabeth II is ceremonially bound to wear her own costume signifying her role as head of state to the Opening of Parliament.
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