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Official photograph of Princess Elizabeth, Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, and her family at the saluting point. Her Royal Highness was making her first visit to the Regimental Headquarters at the Guards Depot in Caterham, 27th May 1942. She had become Colonel of the regiment on her sixteenth birthday the previous month, and is seen wearing the regimental badge on her hat. Princess Elizabeth stands in between her parents (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) with her sister Princess Margaret at the end. 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.