At age eighteen, Princess Elizabeth watching British parachutists before D-Day 1944: #IWM 
Sixteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth [right] and her family with Eleanor Roosevelt, Buckingham Palace, 1942, during World War II: #Beaton
Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with Prince Philip and President Eisenhower, Princess Anne and Prince Charles, 1959: #AP
Princess Elizabeth met at Washington National Airport, 1951, by President Truman: #HSTL
The Queen and Prince Philip with JFK and Jackie Kennedy, Buckingham Palace, June 1961: #Getty
And no, the version in “The Crown" of the JFK-Jackie visit to Buckingham Palace 1961 is not very close to what actualy happened.
“I’m afraid this isn’t my suit,” VP Nixon told the Queen when she arrived for dinner, 1957, at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence, London. Nixon had forgotten to bring black tie and in “desperation” borrowed the suit from another guest who was persuaded to dine alone upstairs.
Reagan and the Queen, San Francisco, 1983: #Walker
An American President breaks the rules by turning his back to the Queen, Windsor Castle, 2018:
“The talking hat” became the joking nickname for the Queen after she spoke from behind a too-tall Presidential lectern on the South Lawn at the White House of George H.W. Bush, 1991: #Getty
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