The first official photo session of the new Queen was taken just twenty days after Her accession to the English throne. On February 26, 1952, Dorothy Wilding, the first female photographer at court, took a total of fifty-nine photographs showing the Queen in various dresses by designer Norman Hartnell and exquisite jewelry.

The photographs taken during this session were used as the basis for depicting the Queen on postage stamps up to 1971. The portrait you see on the banknote became the official portrait of 26-year-old Elizabeth II, sent to every British embassy around the world.

The Queen is wearing the state diamond tiara of George IV. It is an exceptionally beautiful diadem, the ornament of which consists of the national emblems of England, Scotland and Ireland, probably the most famous item in the jewelry collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Made in 1820 for King George IV by Rundell, Bridge & Co. There are 1333 diamonds in the diadem. It contains images of a rose, a thistle and a shamrock (symbols of England, Scotland and Ireland).


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