The Platinum Queen: as much of the UK continues to celebrate the 70-year reign of Elizabeth II, we look back at seven decades of service in style.
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1. On the balcony of Government House, Melbourne, during HM’s tour of Australia, March 1954 | Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
2. Boarding a plane to fly to Scotland on a tour, 19th May 1969 | Ray Bellisario/Popperfoto via Getty Images
3. During her visit to New Zealand, 1977 | Serge Lemoine/Getty Images
4. Visiting the Royal Military Police Training Centre in Chichester, Sussex, England, 28th July 1982 | David Levenson/Getty Images | @davidlevenson
5. At the Royal Windor Horse Show, 10th May 1991 | Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
6. With Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, attending a reception for "A Celebration of Novia Scotia" at the Cunard Centre on 29th June 2010 in Halifax, Canada | Chris Jackson - Pool/Getty Images | @chrisjacksongetty
7. With Anna Wintour, Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, and royal dressmaker Angela Kelly, as they view Richard Quinn's runway show before presenting him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, 20th February 2018 in London | Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images
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This is one of the first X-ray photographs taken in the UK, showing a woman's hand with a ring, bracelet, and chain with keys.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, head of the physics institute in Wiirzburg, Bavaria, was the first to recognise that an electrical current passing through a vacuum produces invisible rays. He carried out the crucial experiments in the last three months of 1895, and on January 5, 1896, he announced the discovery of X-rays (electromagnetic radiation). Across Europe, enthusiastic amateurs experimented with Röntgen's discovery using fragile homemade apparatus to produce images such as this.
In 1901, Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery. While he accepted an honorary doctor of medicine degree from his own university, he never took out any patents on X-rays to ensure that the rest of the world could benefit from his work.
📷: Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images | circa 1896 | #GettyImages#PreservingThePast#GettyArchive
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The first generation to grow up in the reign of Elizabeth II; a group of children photographed in Liverpool, England, 1954. Swipe through for a further six images charting the decades in which the Queen has been on the throne, or follow our bio link for a comprehensive visual chronology.
1. John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
2. Mandy Rice-Davies (centre right) and Christine Keeler (behind) leave the Old Bailey during the trial of Dr Stephen Ward, at the height of the Profumo Affair | Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
3. The Sex Pistols with their manager Malcolm McLaren, signing a new contract with A&M Records after being dropped from EMI, outside Buckingham Palace, London, 10th March 1977. The contract was terminated after one week | Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
4. Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp peace demonstration at RAF Greenham Common, 28th May 1982 | Reed White/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images | @mirrorpix_archive
5. Labour party supporters in the bar at Trimdon Labour Club, Sedgefield, during Tony Blair's successful 1997 General Election campaign to become Britain's first Labour Prime Minister since 1979 | Tom Stoddart/Getty Images | @tomstoddphotos
6. Spectators watch proceedings from the roof of a house outside of the ground during day five of the fifth npower Ashes Test match between England and Australia at the Brit Oval on September 12, 2005, in London, England | Clive Rose/Getty Images | @clive_rose
7. A performer in the role of Queen Elizabeth II parachutes out of a helicopter hovering above the stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, 2012 in London, England | Lars Baron/Getty Images | @larsbaron1975
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The 'penny sit-up', one of the first homeless shelters to be created in Blackfriars, London. Operated by the Salvation Army during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was established in response to high rates of homelessness. The individuals could pay a penny to sit in the warm room all night, but lying down was not permitted.
The 'two-penny hangover' was an additional option; it was similar to the 'penny sit-up', except there was a rope in front of the bench to literally 'hang over'. The pieces of rope were cut early in the morning so that the shelter's clients would wake up and leave the premises. Other shelters in London offered the 'four penny coffin', in which clients were given a coffin-sized box in which to sleep lying down; for four pennies, a client could stay at a coffin house and be provided with shelter, food, and the opportunity to sleep lying flat on their back.
📷: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images | circa 1901 | #GettyImages#PreservingThePast#GettyArchive
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