US President Joe Biden will want to follow the established conventions for his one-on-one with the 95-year-old.

Photographer Cecil Beaton was ready and waiting for Her Majesty at the Palace to begin the photography session which would produce her famous coronation portrait. A meeting with the monarch can be intimidating even if you are a world leader. The service will begin at 11am and last for two hours, with the. Once the ceremony had ended, the newly crowned Queen began the long procession through London in the Gold State Coach, before arriving back at Buckingham Palace. The King and Queen Consort’s procession will set off from Buckingham Palace at 10.20am and arrive at Westminster Abbey at 10.53am. His sister, Princess Anne, was only two years old at the time and was too young to attend. The King was given a special hand-painted invitation to the coronation and sat between his aunt, Princess Margaret, and his grandmother, The Queen Mother. Queen Elizabeth II was coronated on 2 June 1953 and the then four-year-old Prince Charles watched alongside 8,000 other guests, stewards, performers and members of the Royal Family as his mother was crowned at Westminster Abbey. One of our favourite anecdotes from the book involved a game played by The King and his sister, Princess Anne, with The Queen Mother after the coronation. Ernst first displayed the plaster version of this sculpture in The. The Queen Mother, a young King Charles and Princess Margaret at The Queen’s coronation. In this sculpture, a horned king towers over a conical queen and a sextet of infantry.

The king playing with the queen