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Princess Elizabeth, who is Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, arrives at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London on June 1, 1947 to attend the...

Princess Elizabeth chats with 82-year-old Chelsea pensioner Arthur Witts, as she made an inspection of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, London on May 29...

Princess Elizabeth, making her first public appearance alone since the return of the Royal Family from its South African tour, arrives at the Drapers...

View of the side of the ship showing the crowded rails and name of the ship written on May 18, 1947 in Hebrew ?Hatikvah? on her superstructure. In the...

The 1200 ton steamer Trade Winds or Hatikvah as she was named by her more than 1000 illegal refugee passengers lies slightly listing at a Haifa Palest...

King George VI and the Royal Princesses, Elizabeth, left, and Margaret Rose, go for a ride in Windsor Great Park on May 17, 1947. (AP Photo)

On returning to the palace, their majesties were greeted by a family party and they soon appeared on the balcony to acknowledge the cheers of the dens...

The Royal family, waving greetings, ride a carriage through crowded streets and cheering people on their way to Buckingham Palace from Waterloo Statio...

Queen Elizabeth, (left center), shakes hands with an unidentified man, as King George VI (hands folded behind his back), and the Princess Elizabeth an...

Princess Elizabeth records birthday speech which she made from Cape Town, South Africa on April 21, 1947, her 21st birthday. In the radio speech, broa...

An unidentified British airborne soldier carries a small child from the ??sTheodore Herzl???, a refugee ship which arrived in Palestine waters on Apri...

Palestine police remove the body of a Jewish Refugee, allegedly slain when British Navy personnel boarded the refugee ship, ??sTheodore Herzl??? off H...

H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth, who is twenty-one posed specially for this photograph as a birthday release picture, during their majesties three day rest...

Soldier forcing the people to go back into their homes on March 3, 1947 as the three hours allowed for shopping is over. (AP Photo)

Soldier forcing the people to go back into their homes on March 3, 1947 as the three hours allowed for shopping is over. (AP Photo)

Long shots of the Jewish Refugee Ship ??sHeruth??? docking with 800 refugees at Haifa, Palestine, Israel, on Feb. 24, 1947. Armored car and soldiers a...

Refugees from the Jewish ship

Detective Ed Barrett showed this statement to newsmen here early today after a man who gave his name as Daniel S. Voorhees was booked on suspicion of...

A French soldier, wounded in fighting in and around Hanoi, Vietnam, on Jan. 24, 1947, between French Government Forces and Viet Namese in French Indo...

Mrs. Phoebe May Short (left) sits with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. West of Berkeley, Calif., at the inquest Jan. 22, 1947 int...

Princess Elizabeth pours empire champagne over the nose of the British Overseas Airways Corporation flagship,

Wearing a silver-blue hat, Princess Elizabeth attends her first millinery show at the Dorchester Hotel in London, England on Jan. 20, 1947, given by t...

Actress Shirley Temple on Jan. 17, 1947. No other information available. (AP Photo/ Ed Widdis)

Harry Coveleski, now 60 and pitching drinks over a bar in Shamokin, Pa., Jan. 5, 1947 instead of baseballs, declares Brooklyn Dodger Leo Durocher is ?...

Shown in photo is Chicago cubs Wrigley Field on opening day with not a seat empty, Jan. 1, 1947. (AP Photo)

Princess Elizabeth examines her collection of foreign postage stamps, in this recent photo taken in Buckingham Palace on Dec. 11, 1946 in London. Re...

Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain in her private sitting room in Buckingham Palace, London, England on Dec. 10, 1946. (AP Photo)

A young Jewish boy, wounded and bloody after the fight with British soldiers on board the refugee ship Knesset Israel, passes a line of soldiers to bo...

Among the Jewish Refugees who have battled British authorities in recent months, in resistance to British Refusal to allow them to enter Palestine, ar...

Ill refugees wait on the dock for ambulances to take them to a Government hospital on Dec. 4, 1946 in Haifa, after being removed from the Jewish Refug...

Undated photo of Times Square, New York City. (AP Photo)

Daytime view of Times Square, New York City in 1947. (AP Photo)

Princess Elizabeth of England, left, and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, right, attend a performance of Iolanthe at the Guildhall School of Music,...

Princess Margaret Rose and Elizabeth, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, (left to right), arrive at the Palladium, London, on Nov. 4, 1946 to attend...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth , with the two Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, attended the first Royal Command Film Show at the Empire, Leices...

The Hon. Patricia Mountbatten and the Lord Brabourne - seen arriving at Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, England on Oct. 26, 1946 for their marriage. (AP P...

King George VI (left) and members of the British Royal Family, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret Rose, and Queen Elizabeth (left to right) walk to...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth, her most recent picture, as made on the grounds of the Royal Lodge at Windsor, England, on August 26, 1946. (AP Photo)

Disheveled and disheartened, this group of Jewish Refugees is in the process of being transferred from the ship that brought them from Europe to a Bri...

Backed up by tanks, British troops keep a close guard over a transport docked, August 20, 1946 at Haifa, Palestine, as the port is turned into a forti...

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Green Chug into Los Angeles, on August 14, 1946 after a trip from Lambertville, N.J., in this 1904 one-cylinder Oldsmobile. (AP...

Princess Elizabeth of England (bareheaded) receives her Gorsedd title from Archdruid Orywys, admitting her to the Mystic Circle of Bards, as she is in...

British Princess Elizabeth, left, and her sister Princess Margaret, right, arrive at the stand for the performance of Harry Greens play, Fifty-Fifty,...

Col. Joachim Peiper, who ordered the SS troops to take no prisoners in the Battle of the Bulge, was sentenced to death by the U.S. military court at D...

The King and Queen, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, chat with two unidentified guests, on July 13, 1946 at the Royal Garden Party, the fir...

Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher (behind cross bearer), the Archbishop of Canterbury, precedes Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and King George VI as th...

Some of the 300 members of Jewish organizations and representives of labor unions who picketed the British consulate in San Francisco in protest again...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret Rose, directly behind princess Elizabeth, in a visit to the Ealing Film Studios and talk with actor De...

When Shirley Temple is shown with a camera on the set of

Princess Elizabeth salutes as A.T.S. cadets parade past her at the Imperial Services College, Windsor, England on June 13, 1946. (AP Photo)