Rare, Previously Unseen Photos of Queen Elizabeth Were Just Released by Buckingham Palace

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at Westminster Abbey, Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was taken to Windsor Castle, processed up the Long Walk at Windsor Castle and received with a committal service at St George’s Chapel.

Then, following the pomp and ceremony of the day, the Royal Family were able to bid their matriarch a final farewell away from the public eye, as a private burial took place in the King George VI Memorial Chapel.To mark the milestone, the Palace shared two images of the late monarch: one showing her with her husband (then fiancé), sister, and parents as a young princess; and the other a previously unseen, candid snap of the monarch on her own, walking among the heather on her Balmoral estate.Posted to the official Royal Family social media accounts, the first photo is a striking black and white family portrait.

Taken during a photoshoot to mark her engagement to her late husband, , in 1947, it shows the Queen as a 21-year-old princess, wearing an elegant day dress and pearls.

The accompanying caption reads: “The Queen will be Laid to Rest with her late husband The Duke of Edinburgh, alongside her father King George VI, mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and sister Princess Margaret.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The subsequent image, shared on the evening following Her Majesty’s committal service, was taken in 1971 on the : the Queen’s beloved Scottish residence where she died on December 8, aged 96.