Official photograph of Princess Elizabeth, Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, making her first visit to the Regimental Headquarters at the Guards Depot in Caterham, 27th May 1942. She can be seen walking through the lines of soldiers who stand to attention, accompanied by an officer. The Princess, who became Colonel of the regiment on her sixteenth birthday the previous month, wears the regimental badge on her hat. Taken by Lt W T Lockeyear.

From an album of 96 photographs entitled: ‘The Regiment 1940s’; with images taken between 1940 and 1949 in places such as Windsor, the Guards Depot, Germany, Belgium and Tunisia.