This book was published to celebrate the Queen's 60th birthday. No other person has been portrayed so many times, or in so many diverse ways, and "Elizabeth II" contains the finest representations of the sovereign from her earliest days to the present time. The book includes some of the most familiar images of the Queen; others are more unexpected, intriguing and controversial, among them images never seen before in public or reproduced, and, collected together in one volume, they make a considerable visual impact. Some of the most outstanding photographs of the Queen are reproduced: these are primarily the results of sittings rather than press shots, though some of the more classical informal images are included. This emphasis on the formal provides a fascinating insight into the way the image of Royalty and the Monarch has developed in the 20th century.