A young Queen Elizabeth stands out on the cover of the British edition of Vogue for the April issue which will be released on March 29th.
A tribute from the magazine in view of the Jubilee of the sovereign who is about to celebrate the 70th anniversary of her reign.
The photo chosen, which is in black and white, is not just any shot.
It dates back to the early 1970s and was made by photographer Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, also known for being married to Princess Margaret, younger sister of Elizabeth II, between 1960 and 1978.
In the shot, the Queen wears the diamond-encrusted tiara - more than a thousand!
- of George IV.
The king had commissioned it to the court jeweler for his coronation in 1821. The crown depicts four crosses and the flowers representing the three countries of the United Kingdom: the thistle for Scotland, the rose for England and the clover for Ireland.
It is the first time that the sovereign appears on the front page of the fashion magazine.
And the homage of her that the royal family will pay her on her social networks is always photographic: a photo of Elizabeth II per day until the Jubilee weekend for a total of 70 shots that will retrace the years of her reign.
The first is the one taken on February 26, 1952, just 20 days after the accession to the throne, by Dorothy Wildin, and was also used as a "model" for stamps and coins dedicated to the sovereign.
Among the other shots chosen so far there is one dedicated to the longest ever Commonwealth tour: from November 1953 to May 1954 Elizabeth II visited 13 countries in the company of Prince Philip.
On the occasion of "Mother's Day", a photo of the sovereign with her mother and sister was posted.