'H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Colonel, Grenadier Guards. With the members of the staff at the Guards Depot, 8th July, 1949.'

Photograph by G and H Bunce, Caterham, Surrey, 1949.

Princess Elizabeth (1926-2022), daughter of King George VI, seated with officers and men of Grenadier Guards at the Guards Depot at Caterham in Surrey. The subjects are all named on the mount below.

Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, was appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in 1942 during World War Two (1939-1945).

From the personal album of Sergeant Biggenden, Grenadier Guards, 1930-1951, part of the Grenadier Guards Photograph Archive.