Photographic Insert

1. Elizabeth Bowes Lyon with her mother, Lady Strathmore.

2. Elizabeth and David Bowes Lyon with their older brother, Jock.

3. Elizabeth, aged about five.

4. A letter written by Elizabeth aged six, with grown-up help.

5. Beryl Poignand in 1915.

6. A letter from Elizabeth to Beryl Poignand, her ‘Dear Medusa’.

7. Jock, May (playing the piano) and Rose Bowes Lyon in the drawing room at Glamis.

8. Elizabeth with Prince Paul of Yugoslavia.

9. Elizabeth (third from left), with Doris Gordon-Lennox, Freddy Dalrymple Hamilton, Bruce Ogilvy, Geordie Haddington, Alix Cavendish and Diamond Hardinge.

10. Prince Albert in 1920.

11. Elizabeth in 1920.

12. At Bisham, Ascot week 1921. Back row, left to right: Jamie Balfour, James Stuart, the Duke of York, Lord Colum Stuart, Captain Coats, Charles Balfour. Middle row, left to right: Katherine McEwan, Elizabeth, Moyra Brodrick, Amy Coats, Mollie Cecil. Front row; left to right: Arthur Penn, Bay Smith, Doris Gordon-Lennox, Aurea Balfour.

13. Elizabeth with Princess Mary and Geordie Haddington.

14. Elizabeth at Glamis with her dogs, Peter and Biffin.

15. A house party, September 1921. Back row, left to right: Wisp Leveson-Gower, Michael Bowes Lyon, David Bowes Lyon, Lord Strathmore, James Stuart, Rose Leveson-Gower, Mrs Annand. Front row, left to right: Katie Hamilton, Doris Gordon-Lennox, the Duke of York, Elizabeth, Mida Scott.

16. The Duke and Duchess of York on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their wedding.

17. The bride and groom leaving for their honeymoon.