AP Photos: From shy princess to diamond queen
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FILE - In this Sept. 8 1932 file photo, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, front right, stands with her mother and father, Duke and Duchess of York , fourth and fifth from right, at the Braemar Highland Gathering. Starting Saturday, June 2, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II begins a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 8 1932 file photo, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, front right, stands with her mother and father, Duke and Duchess of York , fourth and fifth from right, at the Braemar Highland Gathering. Starting Saturday, June 2, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II begins a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this 1937 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, poses with her husband, King George VI, and their two daughters, Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, center, and Princess Margaret. Starting Saturday, June 2, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II begins a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this April 21, 1947 file photo, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, sits at Natal National Park in South Africa, on her 21st birthday. Starting Saturday, June 2, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II begins a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth, File)
FILE - In this June 2, 1953 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, seated on the throne, receives the fealty of the Archbishop of Canterbury, back to camera at center, the Bishop of Durham, left and the Bishop of Bath and Wells, during her coronation in Westminster Abbey, London. Starting Saturday, June 2, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II begins a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In this July 29, 1981 file photo, Prince Charles and his bride Diana, Princess of Wales, and his parents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London after their marriage at St. Paul's Catheral. Starting Saturday, June 2, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II begins a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo, File)
LONDON (AP) ? She wasn't born to be queen, but many Britons can't remember a time without her.
Queen Elizabeth II ? once a shy princess ? was thrust onto the throne by the abdication of her uncle and then the death of her father. She has now been Britain's head of state for 60 years, and matriarch of a royal family that has been riven by divorce, death and scandal
At 86 years old, she is a monarch whose longevity and devotion to duty have won her a firm place in her subjects' hearts.
As Britain celebrates the queen's Diamond Jubilee with four days of parties, processions and pomp, here's a gallery of AP photos from across the eight decades of Elizabeth's life.
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