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AP PHOTOS: Catching a glimpse of the queen over the decades
By The Related Press
LONDON (AP) — From a hoard of individuals huddled on a cold London sidewalk ready to catch a glimpse of Princess Elizabeth on her option to marry the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947, to a five-mile, 24-hour line of humanity ready patiently to file previous her coffin this week, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has all the time drawn big crowds.
Untold thousands and thousands will need to have seen her over her 70 globetrotting years on the throne. Schoolchildren maintain up a home made banner proclaiming “God Save the Queen” in Paris in 1972. A sea of humanity packed decrease Broadway throughout a whistle-stop go to to New York in 1957.
The monarch who died Sept. 8 at age 96 was a supply of fascination throughout the many years, throughout the globe.
Images taken all through her reign present the altering faces and fashions of the crowds who braved chilly nights and scorching days to see Elizabeth if just for a fleeting second.
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