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Photograph showing HM The Queen’s final inspection of the Grenadier Guards as the regiment’s Colonel, Windsor Castle, 21st April 1952. She then became Colonel-in-Chief. The Queen walks along a gravel path with three Grenadier Guards officers behind her wearing bearskin caps and with capes over their tunics. Their swords hang from their sword belts. In front of her stand three more Grenadier Guardsmen who wear the same uniform except the Quartermaster who wears a bicorn hat with white upright plume. Towards the back of the image a large crowd of members of the public can be seen sitting and standing. Taken by Fox Photos Ltd, London. From a photograph album containing 52 images relating to the Grenadier Guards, 1950-1959. Images include those of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions taken in places including Windsor, London, Guards Depot Caterham, Egypt, Cyprus, and Germany.