Queen of the United Kingdom 6 February 1952 – present
Incumbent Heir apparent: Charles, Prince of Wales
Queen of Australia 6 February 1952 – present
Queen of Canada 6 February 1952 – present
Queen of New Zealand 6 February 1952 – present
Queen of Ceylon 6 February 1952 – 22 May 1972
Republics established
Queen of Pakistan 6 February 1952 – 23 March 1956
Queen of South Africa 6 February 1952 – 31 May 1961
New title
Independence from the United Kingdom
Queen of Ghana 6 March 1957 – 1 July 1960
Queen of Nigeria 1 October 1960 – 1 October 1963
Queen of Sierra Leone 27 April 1961 – 19 April 1971
Queen of Tanganyika 9 December 1961 – 9 December 1962
Queen of Trinidad and Tobago 31 August 1962 – 1 August 1976
Queen of Uganda 9 October 1962 – 9 October 1963
Queen of Kenya 12 December 1963 – 12 December 1964
Queen of Malawi 6 July 1964 – 6 July 1966
Queen of Malta 21 September 1964 – 13 December 1974
Queen of the Gambia 18 February 1965 – 24 April 1970
Queen of Guyana 26 May 1966 – 23 February 1970
Queen of Mauritius 12 March 1968 – 12 March 1992
Queen of Fiji 10 October 1970 – 6 October 1987
Queen of Jamaica 6 August 1962 – present
Incumbent Heir apparent: Charles, Prince of Wales
Queen of Barbados 30 November 1966 – present
Queen of the Bahamas 10 July 1973 – present
Queen of Grenada 7 February 1974 – present
New title
Independence from Australia
Queen of Papua New Guinea 16 September 1975 – present
New title
Independence from the United Kingdom
Queen of the Solomon Islands 7 July 1978 – present
Queen of Tuvalu 1 October 1978 – present
Queen of Saint Lucia 22 February 1979 – present
Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27 October 1979 – present
Queen of Belize 21 September 1981 – present
Queen of Antigua and Barbuda 1 November 1981 – present
Queen of Saint Kitts and Nevis 19 September 1983 – present
Preceded by George VI
Head of the Commonwealth 1952–present
Incumbent Nominated successor: Charles, Prince of Wales
Military offices
Preceded by The Earl Jellicoe as First Lord of the Admiralty
Lord High Admiral 1964–2011
Succeeded by The Duke of Edinburgh
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wedding
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Royal Journey (1951)
A Queen Is Crowned (1953)
The Queen in Australia (1954)
The Royal Tour of the Caribbean (1966)
Royal Family (1969)
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen (1992)
Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (2007)
The Queen (2009 TV serial)
The Diamond Queen (2012)
Elizabeth at 90: A Family Portrait (2016)
The Coronation (2018)
Film and television
A Question of Attribution (1992 TV)
Her Majesty (2001)
The Queen (2006)
Happy and Glorious (2012)
A Royal Night Out (2015)
The Crown (2016–)
The Queen's Corgi (2019)
Plays
A Question of Attribution (1988)
The Audience (2013)
Handbagged
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Pietro Annigoni's portraits
Reigning Queens
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – An 80th Birthday Portrait
The Queen
The Coronation Theatre: Portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II
Books
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The Uncommon Reader
Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen
Queen Camilla
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Elizabeth II's jewels
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Honi soit qui mal y pense
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Sir David Brewer
Lady Mary Fagan
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Lady Mary Peters
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Members of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece
Grand Master
King Felipe VI of Spain (1981)
Knights
King Emeritus Juan Carlos I of Spain (1941)
King Constantine II of Greece (1964)
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1983)
Emperor Emeritus Akihito of Japan (1985)
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands (1985)
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (1985)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1989)
King Albert II of Belgium (1994)
King Harald V of Norway (1995)
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (2004)
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (2007)
Javier Solana (2010)
Víctor García de la Concha (2010)
Nicolas Sarkozy (2011)
Enrique V. Iglesias (2014)
Leonor, Princess of Asturias (2015)
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British princesses
The generations indicate descent from George I, who formalised the use of the titles prince and princess for members of the British royal family. Where a princess may have been or is descended from George I more than once, her most senior descent, by which she bore or bears her title, is used.
1st generation
Sophia Dorothea, Queen in Prussia
2nd generation
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
Princess Amelia
Princess Caroline
Mary, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel
Louise, Queen of Denmark and Norway
3rd generation
Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Louisa
Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway
4th generation
Charlotte, Princess Royal and Queen of Württemberg
Princess Augusta Sophia
Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg
Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Princess Sophia
Princess Amelia
Princess Sophia of Gloucester
Princess Caroline of Gloucester
5th generation
Princess Charlotte, Princess Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Princess Elizabeth of Clarence
Queen Victoria
Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck
6th generation
Victoria, Princess Royal and German Empress
Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg
Princess Frederica, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen
Princess Marie of Hanover
7th generation
Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife
Princess Victoria
Maud, Queen of Norway
Marie, Queen of Romania
Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia
Princess Alexandra, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Princess Beatrice, Duchess of Galliera
Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden
Princess Patricia, Lady Patricia Ramsay
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Princess Marie Louise, Princess Maximilian of Baden
Alexandra, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Princess Olga of Hanover
8th generation
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk
Princess Sibylla, Duchess of Västerbotten
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Frederica, Queen of Greece
9th generation
Queen Elizabeth II
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
10th generation
Anne, Princess Royal
11th generation
Princess Beatrice of York
Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank
Lady Louise Windsor1
12th generation
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
1 Status debatable; see her article.
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Duchesses of Edinburgh
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha(1736–1751*)
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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia(1874–1900*)
Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom(1947–1952^)
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Time Persons of the Year
1927–1950
Charles Lindbergh (1927)
Walter Chrysler (1928)
Owen D. Young (1929)
Mohandas Gandhi (1930)
Pierre Laval (1931)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)
Hugh S. Johnson (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934)
Haile Selassie (1935)
Wallis Simpson (1936)
Chiang Kai-shek / Soong Mei-ling (1937)
Adolf Hitler (1938)
Joseph Stalin (1939)
Winston Churchill (1940)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
Joseph Stalin (1942)
George Marshall (1943)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944)
Harry S. Truman (1945)
James F. Byrnes (1946)
George Marshall (1947)
Harry S. Truman (1948)
Winston Churchill (1949)
The American Fighting-Man (1950)
1951–1975
Mohammed Mosaddeq (1951)
Elizabeth II (1952)
Konrad Adenauer (1953)
John Foster Dulles (1954)
Harlow Curtice (1955)
Hungarian Freedom Fighters (1956)
Nikita Khrushchev (1957)
Charles de Gaulle (1958)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)
U.S. Scientists: George Beadle / Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio Segrè / William Shockley / Edward Teller / Charles Townes / James Van Allen / Robert Woodward (1960)
John F. Kennedy (1961)
Pope John XXIII (1962)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)
William Westmoreland (1965)
The Generation Twenty-Five and Under (1966)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1967)
The Apollo 8 Astronauts: William Anders / Frank Borman / Jim Lovell (1968)
The Middle Americans (1969)
Willy Brandt (1970)
Richard Nixon (1971)
Henry Kissinger / Richard Nixon (1972)
John Sirica (1973)
King Faisal (1974)
American Women: Susan Brownmiller / Kathleen Byerly / Alison Cheek / Jill Conway / Betty Ford / Ella Grasso / Carla Hills / Barbara Jordan / Billie Jean King / Susie Sharp / Carol Sutton / Addie Wyatt (1975)
1976–2000
Jimmy Carter (1976)
Anwar Sadat (1977)
Deng Xiaoping (1978)
Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)
Ronald Reagan (1980)
Lech Wałęsa (1981)
The Computer (1982)
Ronald Reagan / Yuri Andropov (1983)
Peter Ueberroth (1984)
Deng Xiaoping (1985)
Corazon Aquino (1986)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1987)
The Endangered Earth (1988)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1989)
George H. W. Bush (1990)
Ted Turner (1991)
Bill Clinton (1992)
The Peacemakers: Yasser Arafat / F. W. de Klerk / Nelson Mandela / Yitzhak Rabin (1993)
Pope John Paul II (1994)
Newt Gingrich (1995)
David Ho (1996)
Andrew Grove (1997)
Bill Clinton / Ken Starr (1998)
Jeff Bezos (1999)
George W. Bush (2000)
2001–present
Rudolph Giuliani (2001)
The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper / Coleen Rowley / Sherron Watkins (2002)
The American Soldier (2003)
George W. Bush (2004)
The Good Samaritans: Bono / Bill Gates / Melinda Gates (2005)
You (2006)
Vladimir Putin (2007)
Barack Obama (2008)
Ben Bernanke (2009)
Mark Zuckerberg (2010)
The Protester (2011)
Barack Obama (2012)
Pope Francis (2013)
Ebola Fighters: Dr. Jerry Brown / Dr. Kent Brantly / Ella Watson-Stryker / Foday Gollah / Salome Karwah (2014)
Angela Merkel (2015)
Donald Trump (2016)
The Silence Breakers (2017)
The Guardians: Jamal Khashoggi / Maria Ressa / Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo / Staff of The Capital (2018)