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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