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Detail from showing paintings hanging on the wall of Buckingham House
Royal Portraiture

The Royal Collection holds royal portraits from visual works to decorative arts

    KING GEORGE VI, KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1895-1952)

    Princess Elizabeth (b.1926) with lilies, 1929

    1929

    RCIN 2999926

    The Royal Collection also holds a unique collection of private portraits. This photograph was taken in 1929 by King George VI (r.1936–52), then Duke of York, and shows his three-year-old daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth II, playing in the garden by a bed of Madonna lillies.

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